Fine US music and movie site Gather Round the Mic just published a kind review of Ephedra, along with some general thoughs on netlabelism and microcultures as subdivisions of subcultures. Thought I’d pass it on, read it here.

Late note, but this should be fun tonight. Socket Science and Mattias Edholm will be spinning records at club Bombardier in Stockholm. Expect feelgood techno served to accompany the lovely summer night!

More info on the FB-event here.

Slightly more than a year after their debut on Astor Bell, Wunderblock returns. This time on greek label Erase, with a five track release entitled Rio EP. You’ll definitely recognise that jazzy minimal sound from Act!, but here it’s even more like a floating jam session, headlined by a Fender Rhodes piano and backed up by an armada of percussion rhythms. It’s lovely music of course.

This time you’re gonna have to pay a few cents to get the tunes – pick’em up at the usual outlets, ie Beatport,  Juno or Track it Down.

As we made clear, picking those eleven tracks for the Anniversary compilation was tough! Some tracks were left out merely cause we couldn’t fit more takes on the same original, some because we intended not to have more than ten tunes on the release (oh well, one forced its way in…).

Hence, we intend to post some of our missing favourites here on the blog. They surely deserve to get out to the public, even though they couldn’t make it on to ASTOR014.

This first one out doesn’t fit in the catagories mentioned above. It was left out due to it not fitting the album format. And maybe it’s not the best track ever made, but it sure is an effort worthy some attention. Ed Sprake aka Moose downloaded all our remix stems, chose some from each track and mixed’em all up into one eight minute mash-up. You’d expect that to be some sort of dissonant hotchpotch of mismatching sounds, but no! If you’ve been following us through our first year this is very amusing. If you haven’t, well, it still is. Enjoy!

Ed Moose – This & That