Northern Irish label Acroplane Recordings has been filling our ears with some seriously impressive electronic releases over the years. Myles Ni Gangstaleen catches up with head honcho Paul Acroplane for a chat. We even got a wee present for yiz all too. An exclusive track by Pat Hime from their most recent release, which you can stream / download below. Their roster has included international acts such as Somatic Responses, Mad EP, … Read More
Remember The Stardust
33 years later, are there new hope of answers in the Stardust tragedy? Ronan Lynch examines the evidence. Gardaí in Coolock are investigating allegations that witnesses to the Stardust Tribunal deliberately misled the inquiry. The investigation follows a complaint by researcher Geraldine Foy, who has been working on behalf of the victims’ families for the last ten years. The original Tribunal report had glaring inconsistencies that required the Tribunal to … Read More
#rabbleChoons: Fresh Tunes For Rotting Vegetables
Myles Ni Gangstaleen is back with another roundup of some Irish electronic activity of late….. LAKKER – ‘Containing A Thousand EP’. Dublin duo Lakker have been slogging it out since the early 00’s and been getting some serious payoff the last few years with the likes Aphex Twin being quite the fan, and often playing their tunes in his sets. Numerous well-received EPs over the past 3 years have upped their … Read More
#ruckusAlert: !Kaboogie 8th Birthday
Wowzerz. Seems like only yesterday when we were at those early !Kaboogie gigs, sweating a few pounds off to bass-heavy punky mashup BADMANISMS in the likes of Kennedy’s Basement and the Ice Bar (remember?). Well, it’s 8 years later so make like a cake and GET SLICEY to this lineup tomorrow night in the Twisted Pepper: YOUNG FATHERS (big dada / anticon). JAM CITY (night slugs – check this mix!). … Read More
#spareChange: Set Phasers To Fund
We came across the Phase One lot last year when we were in the middle of our own torturous Fund:it run. Now it’s their turn to bite their nails to the quick. The festival is of an electronica bent and houses itself in the Dock, a 19th Century former Courthouse building taken over by Leitrim’s raggle-taggle bands of artists to become an integrated arts centre. The festival which runs on … Read More
Some Fresh Tunes For A Rainy Day
Soundcloud junkie Myles Ni Gangstaleen is back with a lunch box full of musical treats. Fire up that coffee pot, turn them speakers up and day dream your way through the working day with this prime selection of fresh Irish bits and bobs.
#thatFriday Feeling: Good Music Is…
DJ Cleo probably doesn’t ring many bells with you. Yet the South African producers lies behind many of the country’s successful chart acts (least the net sez so). On the back of the whole Shangaan Electro buzz and tracks like DJ Mujava’s Township Funk, his wena Ng’hamba nawe saw a decent amount of blog action this far west, but after that little else. There’s a tonne of stuff to root … Read More
#rabbleReels: 80 Blocks From Tiffanys
Tonight’s fare is a firm favorite in rabble land. Capturing as it does the bombed out story of the Bronx in the mid-1970s and the gangs that ruled the roost. You’ve oft heard how New York in the ’70s was a rough looking place, nowhere more so than the South Bronx. Gary Weis’ 80 Blocks From Tiffanys is based on a long piece of prose from Esquire magazine about the two gangs … Read More
#lookUp: The Limerick Go-Go Club
In Limerick The Post Office Lane passageway is one of the arteries in which trade coursed through the i9th century City. Over decades the paths have settled into anonymity as the storehouses they once serviced disappeared. Paul Tarpey explores one of the dramatic and quietly significant stories they hold. One well known one surrounds the famed Hanging Gardens, adjacent to the lane from Henry St. This was an exotic … Read More
#rabbleRecommends: Goblin At JDIFF
Italy’s prog metal masters of menace to perform live score at JDIFF. Goblin are great. Great to read to, great at scoring films, and absolutely fantastic to stick on at parties when your mates are tripping on weird internet drugs. The group behind such classic horror soundtracks such as Suspiria and Profondo Rosso will do an accompaniment to George A. Romero’s zombie classic Dawn Of The Dead in the Sugar Club. Those revivalist freaks … Read More