A foley room is a place where sound effects are created for films. Foley artists use only their imagination and ingenuity to make the right noise for the right situation. These artists and their work served as inspiration for Amon Tobins new album. To create the foley style, Amon and his team of assistants headed out into the streets with high sensitivity microphones and recorded found sounds from tigers roaring to cats eating rats, from wasps to falling chickpeas, kitchen utensils to motorbikes to water dripping from a tap. more »

It’s all about melody. And on Dial M for Monkey, Bonobo, the monkey king himself, is back with nine perfectly formed melodies on a perfectly formed album. Not an overblown or conceptualised one – just simple, plain and truely genious. more »

Ninja Tune’s most prominent hip hop collective with their seventh release. And it’s by far their best album yet. Jake Wherry and Ollie Teeba’s innovative mixture of soul, jazz, funk and hip hop influences creates a sound that is a class of it’s own. Over the last decade, the duo has established themselves as a reliable constant in the UKs electronic and hip hop scene. more »

One of the latest releases of the london based electronic label ninja tune. DJ Vadim on an exerimental hip-hop flight, featuring the Swedish-Brazilian MC Yarah Bravo and American MC Blu Rum 13 as One Self. As a producers to straddle the divide between independent hip hop and more leftfield instrumental music Vadim formed this project to create an ethical mixture of words and sound. more »