Kid Chameleon breaks down some shows he’s been involved with lately, including Meat Beat Manifesto, Plasticman, Vex’d and Joe Nice, but the most interesting one as far as I’m concerned is a profile of Al Haca and their label Klein. It’ s gotta be one of the most criminally underrated imprints, at least here in Australia, where their junglist dancehall and broken hip hop should be massive. Like, it’s really pop music, but killer pop music. You might know the label for Seelenluft’s Manila, the quirky house tune that crossed over big time into the electro/house scene, but names like Stereotyp, the Bug, Sofa Surfers and the increasingly wide Sofa family need investigating.
Not being a hardcore digger of drum’n'bass Pieter K was a new name to me, but Kid Chameleon’s piece on Riddim Method has my interest piqued. Check out his Pieter K tribute mix.