Decades of political activism are funneled into a fusion of traditional Southern African music, free jazz, and avant-garde composition. Bandcamp Album of the Day Apr 24, 2024
Former member of Fela Kuti’s Egypt 80 unveils a rich, swinging new record that pulls from jazz and soul in its high-wattage songs. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 24, 2024
Hold onto your hats, in fact nail them down. "Sewing Machine" is a grievously unsubtle paroxysm of vicious, minus-fi noise techno so unruly it makes Perc sound like Efdemin. I don't know what Philippe Hallais (aka Low Jack) has for breakfast (probably a bowl of six-inch nails washed down with petrol) but it's easy to imagine him stomping into his studio at 9am, subjecting his synth and drum machine to all kinds of hellish torture for half an hour then stomping out again. The techno equivalent of thermonuclear warfare. Nic Brown