Review /\ Gottwood festival 2015
Located right at the furthest most northern tip of Wales is a festival like no other, and last weekend reminded us of why Gottwood is revered as one of the best underground festivals in the UK. A festival is a journey. You arrive still hard-wired to a 9-5 monotonous existence. As we’re now only at the start […]
Speaker Cone /\ Kruse & Nuernberg
For the latest instalment of Speaker Cone – a series of talks with heads from the music industry – we catch up with German production duo Kruse & Nuernberg. Speaker Cone /\ Kruse & Nuernberg by Cone_Magazine on Mixcloud Florian Kruse & Nils Nuernberg both grew up in rural areas of Germany. After meeting each […]
Cone Cast /\ Kruse & Nuernberg // Exclusive mixtape
Kruse & Nuernberg have been producing freshly polished dance music since the early 2000’s when they first met each other at a party in Germany. Since that time the pair have been honing in their skill, hunched over their remote home studio setups, and surely enough their productions were picked up by the right people. […]
Review /\ Weather Festival 2015, Paris
The third outing of Weather Festival transcended a spectrum of expertly curated techno and house, scattered with a number of eclectic musical surprises along the way. Highlights included an awe-inspiring cinematic opener from Derrick May ft. Francesco Tristano and the Lamoureux Orchestra, stellar Chicago dance music from Lil Louis and a deep and meditative, modular […]
Review: Hidden Orchestra – Reorchestrations
Multi-instrumentalist composer Joe Acheson returns with his solo studio project Hidden Orchestra, to release a forthcoming album entitled Reorchestrations. It has been three years since we last heard from the four-piece collective led by frontman Joe Acheson, with their 2012 release Archipelago receiving rather deprecatory reviews from certain critics. With releases on Tru Thoughts & Denovali, as well as […]
Derrick May & Francesco Tristano talk with Weather festival
With only two weeks until the start of Weather Festival in Paris, Derrick May & Francesco Tristano chat to Weather about their upcoming festival performance. The festival, cultivated around concepts of nature, will run for two weeks, both Off & On. With symphony orchestras, family friendly festivities and workshops running in the first week, followed by a […]
Speaker Cone /\ Eskimo Recordings Label Manager Nadiem Shah
In our latest episode of Speaker Cone, we catch up with A&R / label manager for one of Belgium’s landmark record labels, Eskimo Recordings, to talk about the music scene in Belgium and the challenges in running a record label in 2015. Speaker Cone /\ Eskimo Recordings Label Manager Nadiem Shah by Cone_Magazine on Mixcloud Since […]
Review: Monki Fabriclive 81
Few DJ’s get the chance to enter into a position of reputable acknowledgement without first slogging the arduous trail of long working hours, for very little money and poor exposure of their talents. Monki (born Lucy Monkman) into London’s hotbed of creative minds, had always had a strong affiliation towards pirate radio. Her passions became a a career path […]
Riverside festival @ Glasgow Riverside Museum
In two weeks time, the largest underground electronic music festival in Scotland launches at the awe-inspiring Glaswegian Riverside Museum. Riverside Festival organiser’s Electric Frog join the infamous local club night Pressure, which has been hosting events at The Arches for over a decade. Now, to initiate the 2015 summer festivities, the pair return with a jaw dropping […]
Nozstock The Hidden Valley announces Wu Tang Clan, Fuse ODG, Neville Staple Band & more
Entering its 17th year this summer, Nozstock is one of the UK’s longest running festivals. A charming and inherently grass roots affair set on a beautiful working farm in Herefordshire. Nozstock has just announced it’s next round of acts, covering a wide spectrum of music styles from ska, soul, psytrance, house and more. Festival founder Ella Nosworthy said “We are […]