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It has been a while since our last party, but Sound Garden is happening again this Sunday 3 June at Orbit. Our special guest is one of the resident DJs of The Labyrinth, Hiyoshi. He perfectly embodies what our chill out party is about, and we are really...

After approximately 4 years of doing mixes we will shortly be bringing them to an end. It is time. When we did our first mix with Bvdub in April 2008, we announced our intentions in the following terms:
"What we are trying to do is to showcase artists that are really exciting and interesting us. The point is not just to slap a mix up, but for this series (like the blog as a whole) to be a medium for promoting DJs and producers that we feel people should...

This may sound strangeto readers in the northern hemisphere, but every year in June I go to ground.It’s the log cabin feeling, a desire not so much to hibernate as to reallyhunker in my bunker, settle in my own private log cabin.
Over the past threeyears or so, this yearly inclination has been cast in relation to music ingeneral, and house and techno in particular. I keep wanting to get back beyondthe contemporary, behind what I’d taken my archive to be: somehow theinclination...

Ssgs have been blessed over the years with some incredible generosity of spirit: on the part of the listeners and readers, who have indulged my (PC's) word play and manic punctuation, as well as really given the many great mixes their due. And, of course...