Tag: Crosstown Rebels

  • Rowee aka Leonardo Gonnelli Q&A

    2017 sees the launch of your new alias: Rowee with a single for Rebellion. What’s the story behind the name and why have you chosen to use an alias? Rowee comes from a story based on a profound feeling for music, representing an alter ego; it is the darkest part of me, and at the…

  • Dance Spirit Q&A

    Your new single: One for the Heads EP is coming out soon on Rebellion. Each track connects between the transcendent power of the dancefloor and an inner spiritual quest. Can you tell us about how you discovered these ideas and what they mean to you in practice? A lot of our inner spiritual quest has…

  • Reviews: 182

    Stellar Wind/ DSC ‘Lovers Fall’ EP Planetary Notions This is a killer release, hopefully by anyone’s standards. Two tracks plus two artists grace the pages with Search The Skies from Stellar Wind opening care of a succession of beautifully succinct beats alongside a series of percussive keyboard and drum flourishes on this excellent, no compromise…

  • Reviews: 12/01/16 (163)

    Kevin Yost Don’t Give In Leena Music Kicking off the New Year Mobilee sister imprint Leena has Kevin Yost supply another killer production. This deceptively uncomplicated number shoots straight to the heart of the matter with heavy-duty bass providing an irresistible lesson in low down theory. Accompanied by layers of haunting vocals and tough drumming…

  • Dino Lenny Q&A

    Your latest single ‘Don’t Believe’ EP for Crosstown Rebels offshoot Rebellion feels like Dance music of the future. Can you talk us through how you produced the title track? I was in the studio with my mate Joshi and we started playing around with some synths, it was quite abstract and moody at the beginning.…

  • Reviews:112

    Psychemagik feat. Renegade Black Noir Schwarz Crosstown Rebels Don’t quite know why it took me a second listen but in love with this now. Psychemagik are producer’s you clearly pay attention too while having set the world alight with their diverse approach to music making that always keeps you second guessing. In this instance devilish…

  • Danny Moodymanc (DubbleD/ Crosstown Rebels/ 2020 Soundsystem)

    Can you tell us about your early musical memories and later on about the first clubs you went to in Manchester and the DJ’s that inspired you? My earliest memories are of listening to my mum and dads’ jazz and soul records, bashing away at a pair of bongos I nagged them to get me…

  • Him_Self_Her Q&A

    Tell us about how you teamed up to form Him_Self_Her? We had been working in the industry for more than 10 years individually before we decided to form a duo. We both started out playing vinyl, and spent over a decade playing a range of different styles and working really hard on the Midlands house…

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    Rouge Mécanique Witches Pyramid Of Mars This hot blast of super psychedelic funk has just about everything going for it, not least of because it was the last thing I expected to hear today in amongst all the tedium. Witches blends – if that’s the correct word – crazed Adrian Below styled guitar together with…