UK

One of last year’s best kept secrets was Mancunian trumpeter Matthew Halsall’s sophomore album Colour Yes on Gondwana.

Can’t stop mouth-guitaring the beginning of this unforgettable Buzzcocks classic today.

Jonny Trunk is the man behind Trunk Records, home to the amazing Moon Wiring Club and in the general direction of the Ghost Box clique. He has also been the broadcaster of Resonance.fm’s OST for the past 6 years, which is a heaven for all diggers of soundtracks and library music.

Harmful elements in the air
symbols crashing everywhere
Hong Kong Garden takeaway
Hong Kong Garden

Shelled the first ₤1 of our lunch money to our English goldenboy Bullion. Say Goodbye to What was released as an edition of 40 7”, and of course it’s already sold out, but thanks to bandcamp you can get the digital.

Just received this one from Bear Funk. Soirée, labelowner Stevie Kotey’s new project with Max Essa is a real beast that fuses all the good bits from balearic house, disco, funk and anything soulful.

UK beatfreak Paul White has just released a free download beats EP on Bandcamp (can’t say how much I love this site!). The second side coming next week will also be free download. Don’t miss this one if you’re into the UK psychbeats stuff like Bullion, Lukid, Lone etc. And somebody tell me which classical piece was Ultra Violet was sampled off.

Lead by Portishead’s Geoff Barlow, Matt Williams on keys and Billy Fuller on bass Beak> is a new trio from Bristol who just released their debut on Ipecac Records.