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Leanne Harte has announced that a new EP called Restless Sleepers will be launched on 3 July with a gig at the Peacock Theatre in Dublin, with support from Elaine Mai. The video above shows a performance of the title track from a few months back, recorded in a cupboard at Tamp & Stitch. Restless [...]
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A few weeks ago !Kaboogie‘s Declan Carey aka Sixfoot Apprentice put together a mix of Irish electronic tracks for a guest stint on Sub FM’s Mad EP Tasty Cyanide show. And it is a belter. No frippery, no filler, just 25 tracks at just under an hour. I’m hearing loads of brilliant new stuff here [...]
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This Friday 21 June, after wrapping up a mentorship programme as well as the final session in the studio for his third album 1988, Lethal Dialect will perform a very special show in the Axis Arts Centre in Ballymun. Tickets are just €5 and I’m shouting about this gig one last time because there are [...]
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KaraKara, who not only makes his own tracks but is also one of the most enthusiastic supporters of independent Irish music that I’ve come across in the years of doing this bloglark, dropped a huge mixtape over the weekend called Ill Eagle. Having last heard him on Break Bread, the 30-track collection is available to [...]
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Last night Deviant propped up this new release from epigon A.D.M. (who was known as Troubled Soul at the time), 1996 Shoebox Perspectivs, a 24-minute continuous play from a Nineties beat tape. Free to download from Narcorpses, I put it on this morning and the cans started rattling against my head almost at once. Side [...]
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Been listening to this Wicklow producer Sliab Cuinciu this morning and I’m really feeling these tracks, mixing up Eighties disco vibes with hip hop beats. I can’t quite pinpoint whether they’d sound better on a club soundsystem or a poolside radio. Have a listen below – it’s like a synth popstar decided to get down’n’dirty. [...]
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From Galway, Majia Sofia makes up her own constellations, and her own music, too. This is the Dust EP, a collection of demos that features instruments such as violin, harp and guitar by Majia Sofia, who also sings, as well as drums, piano and bass by Mark Connolly. While opening number Weapons is an excellent [...]
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It’s June, summer, and there seemed no better track to share this month than the aptly-named Solar from The Violet Roadkills. Here’s a free download of their excellent electronic-instrumental hybrid of sound. It’s taken from the new album Lead Kindly Light which you can stream and read about here. Click the play button icon to [...]
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Launching their second EP We Still Build Forts at Whelan’s this Saturday 15 June, Red Sail are in flying form. 2013 has seen the trio on the go practically all year, with plenty more gigs to come. In We Still Build Forts, Red Sail have a very strong-willed collection of five tracks that hears changing [...]
