Steal Of A Deal

Covert Operations has an amazing deal going at the moment. For the extreme low price of £1, you can buy the latest installment of the well respected Global Connections series (now on volume 6)!

I shit you not, ASC and the team are selling this album, ten tracks, for 1 British Pound!

Hit the Cov Ops Store and capitalize on this one of a kind deal. Get some and big up ASC!

More Fanu For You

Here it is in all is 'preview' glory, the new Fanu longplayer entitled, 'Homefree'.

Amok
And I Find Her There
Where It Rains Blood
Bringing Out The Evil
Burning The Bridge
Cry 4 U (feat. Swervez/BBA)
End Of An Era
For Those Who Dream (Vector Burn Remix)
Homefree
Silentium - Hangman's Lullaby (Fanu Remix)
Killer Boys and Black Balloons
The New Law - Showdown (feat. Fanu)
Sleeping Beauty
You May Fall But Don't Hide Your Face
Vector Burn - 1000 Thrones (Fanu Remix)

With a tentative release planned for early 2009, the album will see an all formats release, 3 x 12'' Vinyl / CD / mp3's.

In 'Homefree', Janne says this album has been a detailed culmination of dedication, determination and perseverance to the fullest,

"Making music's never been the easiest job for me, and I throw a lot of the songs I try to write into the bin, and I must say writing this album's been a pretty damn long road as well, but here it finally is.
I'm more proud of this album than any other Fanu music package ever released before."

and from following the early workings on part of this project, it's nice to see that after 2 years of tracking down Vector Burn the effort will finally be rewarded with this release.

Well done Fanu!

Solar Empire

With the over abundance of new music circulating my head these days, I almost forgot about the stellar release of Solar Empire's debut album, The Secrets Of Time.

The release of the ASC : Ezeekil collaborative effort has been a long time coming, originally signed 2 years ago to Thermal Recordings, the label encountered numerous distribution problems and ultimately went defunct, so the team at Covert Operations took formidable matters into their own hands and released the damn thing themselves!

This album is pure quality at it's finest. 12 stunning soundscapes drawing on multiple angles of dance floor damage to beard stroking reclinement. This album is an absolute must and available only from the Covert Operations Store.


For audio previews, click the links below.

1 Atoms
2 Curvature
3 Space Device
4 All In The Mind
5 Gravity Shift
6 Inside
7 Flatline
8 Mobius Ring
9 The Breach
10 Nova Scotia
11 Relay
12 Arctic Circle

Love it!

Polar - In The End

Polar - In Th End [Warm Communications]

WARMLPS001 12''
A. High Voltage
AA1. Almost And Beyond (Sampler Version)
AA2. In The Middle Of Somewhere

WARMPLP001 2x12''
A. I Don't Remember
B1. Uneven
B2. Stepping Out
C. Nothing Personal
D1. Another Time
D2. End Of The Story

WARMCD001
1. Almost And Beyond
2. End Of The Story
3. Another Time
4. Nothing Personal
5. I Don't Remember
6. Rendition
7. High Voltage
8. In The Middle of Somewhere
9. 3 Liter
10. Static
11. Stepping Out
12. Uneven
13. Lo-fi Epilogue

12'' Sampler available October 27/2008
2x12'' LP and CD available November 2008

For more info and audio, check the following links:
Warm Communications Myspace
Polar Myspace

Artwork by Khoma
Distributed worldwide by S.T. Holdings LTD

New TVOTR Album

(I don;t know why I lack on posts, it just happens that way...)

Last week, Pitchfork Media had the first details on TV On The Radio's upcoming album, Dear Science,. It got me rather excited, as 'Return To Cookie Mountain' was quite possibly my favorite album from 2006. Then today, I catch this stellar review over at Rolling Stone, and I'm doing fucking headspins on my desk!!1

So they touring in September, but no stop in Toronto. Do us a favour? Check their show and tell me how it was. Cheers.

Album is out Sept. 23rd, GIT IT!

ASC Announces New Album

Big news today on a new album project by the Covert boss, ASC. Forthcoming this September (yes that soon!) on Horizons Music out of the UK, a 6 track triple vinyl + 10 track CD release of the yet to be named drum and bass LP.

Originally signed as a 12'' single (Lightyears b/w Logical Regression) things have rapidly transformed into a full out artist album. Six of the ten tracks are already complete and posted on the myspace as previews. Check 'em out!

This will be the second album of 2008 for James, with the breathtaking ambient techno soundscapes of 'The Aeon Expanse' already released in March under the Mindspan moniker. (I highly recommend picking this up!)

Nothing but sheer brilliance defining cutting edge.

Mayhem Forthcoming Debut LP

Atlanta's first son, Mayhem, recently spilled the beans on his forthcoming debut album, Into Oblivion.

Due out in September of this year on SLR, the release will be available in all formats (3 x 12'' vinyl, CD and mp3) and features solo works as well as some promising collabs with long time friends, Phace and Psidream, separately. There is also a Noisia remix included, so keep an eye on their Remix Page for a possible preview.

I'm expecting big things from this project, and you should too! Anthony has been long overdue for a release of this nature and we all know the amount of attention albums receive. So prepare yourself for nothing but the best in forward thinking, funk fuzed, southern fried drum and bass!

What Zombies Listen To

Mindspan - The Aeon Expanse
Portishead - Third
Clever - All Offshore Mix
Vaccine - HFMX001
N.Phect - GRAM Promo Mix
Break - Passion Radio
Human Bell - Human Bell
NIN - Ghosts I-IV
Intex Systems - Showcase
Polska - Skeptic
Misspent Music



(it's a good thing.)

Tokyo Police Club - Debut LP

Tokyo Police Club drops their highly anticipated debut long player, Elephant Shell, today!

This little band from Newmarket, Ontario has rocketed to Indie fame with 2 hugely successfull EPs (A Lesson In Crime from 2006 and Smith EP from 2007) selling over 30,00 copies and recieving multiple amounts of praise and accolades along the way from such outlets as Rolling Stone, Blender, Entertainment Weekly, Interview, and The New York Times.

They're playing Letterman tomorrow [Wednesday the 23rd] and about to embark on a big Spring/Summer tour.

Get the album and catch them live!

Telemetrik - My Light Year

I have a strong feeling the new Telemetrik album will be one of if not THEE highlight of the year for drum and bass.

'My Lightyear' is due out later this year on Black Sun Empire Recordings. The 12'' sampler drops soon and features the monsterly epic 'Cosmos' and the brooding moody stepper, 'R.U.R.', an old collab with former partner Impulse, from Corrupt Souls fame.

Marcio is on some next level shit and again, this should be one of the brightest highlights for drum and bass this year and beyond. For more info, keep an eye on the Virb and Myspace pages, aswell as the DOA thread.

GO SPACEMAN!