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Public Podcast from The Great Escape
We’re bringing you the big buzz bands from The Great Escape this week. And man, there were a lot of buzz bands. Luckily they were also really good. Here’s our pick from the weekend.
May 17, 2012 – 11:31 am
Public Podcast #7
We’re taking a bit more of an electronic turn this week for our 7th installment of the podcast.
May 4, 2012 – 11:05 am
Public Podcast #6
Another stella batch of new music this week, and some of the best upcoming releases to keep tabs on.
April 27, 2012 – 10:15 am
Public Podcast #5
Sorry for the delay, but we promise it was worth it! Packed to the brim this week with some of the best artists we’ve seen recently, and some we wish we had.
April 19, 2012 – 4:29 pm
Public Podcast#4
Week four brings with it Public Podcast #4, and we’re not letting up on the ace new music. This week, Clash mag, Mixcloud themselves and a couple of the artists all join in with introducing the songs, so British public, take it away!
March 29, 2012 – 11:24 am
Public Podcast #3
We’re back! Again! Somehow! For a third week running we have the best upcoming artists as presented by some people on the street. Walk around Old Street Thursday night and look out for two blokes approaching people with a bit of paper and a Dictaphone to get involved in the next one…
March 23, 2012 – 12:15 pm
The-Monitors Public Podcast #2
Once again we hit the streets of London to get some lonely souls to introduce songs for our Public Podcast. In accordance with International Woman’s Day we picked a selection of tracks from some the best rising female stars out there.
March 16, 2012 – 12:12 pm
The Monitors Public Podcast #1
Welcome to the first Monitors Public Podcast. We had a load of great new music from bands we’ve either covered on The Monitors blog or seen out and live, and wanted to present it as one long stream… unfortunately mother nature didn’t bless us with voices worth talking with so we took to the streets and got some of the [..]
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March 2, 2012 – 1:48 pm
Scuba – Personality
Scuba – Personality @ soundcloud
Not technically a mix, but this recent album from Hotflush’s main guy is neither dubstep, techno or electro. It is, simply, too easy to groove to and if it’s not the soundtrack to the summer’s late night parties we’ll eat our hats.
February 24, 2012 – 12:59 pm
Graphics
Graphics @ soundcloud
Graphics is headlining the Old Blue Last next Friday at a 44 Presents night which promises a lot of deep, tribal house to get you moving through the night. Graphics’ recent tracks and remixes have been picking up support from the likes of Jamie xx, Mary Anne Hobbs, Diplo, Switch, Rob Da Bank and with his an EP release on [..]
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February 17, 2012 – 12:17 pm
The Monitors are the DJ wing of this music blog – an eight-armed musical maelstrom, a beat-hungry party octopus, and the answer to all your dancing needs. Whether you want to nice up the dance, do the cissy strut, moonwalk, or just jump around, The Monitors have got it covered. [..]
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As ever, we’ll be DJing at our monthly residency at the Big Chill Bar in Bricklane (the last Wednesday of every month). On May 18th we’ll be hitting up London’s newest night Peckish which is sure to be a great party and on top of that we’re also going to be making an appearance at the brand new Golden Down [..]
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