DON FROTH - Dummy

Yes, that's right, the DON FROTH fan club is back to let you know of the main man's latest guest mix and interview, this time for DUMMY magazine...

Meanwhile, there's some fine praise for his recent SONIC ROUTER mixtape over at TRUANTS

... and check out the review of his REflex EP on UNO over at RESIDENT ADVISOR

JUNO PLUS - Best Sleeves

JUNO PLUS squeeze in a mention for the WNCL011 cover artwork in their recent round up of Best Record Sleeves...

... the first 12″ on West Norwood Cassette Library 2.0 was an exercise in stylistic simplicity

BOBBY CHAMPS - Urb Mix

BOBBY CHAMPS - a firm favourite over at Cassette Library HQ is on mixtape duty this week for URB magazine. You'll find the latest WNCL offering from KEVIN McPHEE in amongst the impeccable track list.

Watch this space for more news on future Champs / WNCL business in 2013. Oh yes.

WNCL005VIP - Milyoo

Once upon a time, Kentucky's finest, MILYOO, released the mighty fine BIOGRAM v2 on WNCL Recordings.

As part of the press campaign, we forced him to grow a moustache, pack up his most exclusive reel to reels and perform to an imaginary room of thousands at the Cassette Library.

The recording was once available as a free download from FACT magazine but it looks like the original link died as a result of the website's recent update.

But don't worry if you missed out the first time round as you can now download MILYOO - L!VE AT THE CASSETTE LIBRARY from the KNOW YOUR OWN site

LEISUREWARE

LEISUREWARE - DJ, promoter, blogger and part of the FILL YER BOOTS crew (a regular 'go to' site here at Cassette Library HQ) comes correct with this guest mix over at FEEL MY BICEP this week.

BEN UFO - Versions 1

I completely missed this interview with BEN UFO from earlier in the year.

An eagle-eyed Cassette Library trainspotter (obviously after my own heart) pointed out the WNCL headed notepaper on Mr. UFO's bedroom wall! Fame at last...



VERSIONS 1: BEN UFO from Rollo Jackson on Vimeo.

WNCL012 - Truants

TRUANTS have some nice things to say about the return of Kevin McPhee and his new release on WNCL

WNCL012 - In Shops Now

WNCL012 is in your shops now. Kevin McPhee's 4-track EP is available on 12" vinyl, housed in the new WNCL disco bag.

Vinyl purchases come with free mp3 digital downloads only at SURUS


 

IBIZA VOICE - Motion, Bristol

IBIZA VOICE review the recent Trouble Vision gig at Motion in Bristol...

Some people really like a good packed and sweaty dancefloor ... but this was far too chaotic and intense...

That pretty much sums it up for me. Luckily, I was in the slightly more sociable Tunnel. Jamie Hypercolour's excellent curating skills meant I had the pleasure of playing alongside Throwing Snow, Bass Clef and Paul Woolford (pictured).

GROOVE ARMADA - Pull Up Vinyl

GROOVE ARMADA featuring SLARTA JOHN - "Pull Up", is now available on green vinyl via Hypercolour, featuring the original, Alex Jones and WNCL mixes.

BUY IT HERE
BM-SOHO
BOOMKAT
CHEMICAL
JUNO
PHONICA

CHECK THE CLIPS

KEVIN McPHEE - Phonica Top 10

WNCL012 star, KEVIN McPHEE, provides his Top 10 picks for PHONICA

FACT - 50 Best Sleeves 2012

WE ARE FAMILY (WNCL011) scrapes into the 50 Best Record Sleeves of 2012 over at FACT

WNCL012 - XLR8R

  
XLR8R come with a nice review of the forthcoming KEVIN McPHEE release on WNCL

DON FROTH - Sonic Router

DON FROTH and SONIC ROUTER - these are a few of my favourite things. The Don is in the mix for our good friends over at SR today.

Check the INTERVIEW
Download the MIXTAPE

PARIAH - Self-Titled

PARIAH talks to SELF-TITLED magazine about the KARENN project and the forthcoming double pack 12" on the SHEWORKS label

CLASSICWORKS

CLASSICWORKS, the label run by CARDOPUSHER and NEHUEN, turn in a great mix for ELECTRONIC EXPLORATIONS featuring a clip of The Blind Whirring of Machinery from the forthcoming KEVIN McPHEE EP on WNCL Recordings.

Cardopusher is also responsible for the second and latest release on the Classicworks label. The "So What U Want Me To Do" EP features the Cassette Library favourite, I Know You Will

P MAN - Sub FM

P MAN, long time supporter of the WNCL cause and a regular DJ on SUB FM,  recently broadcast a special show paying tribute to Todd Edwards and the WNCL Recordings imprint. Wow. Big thanks Mr P Man!

Check the show out over at MIXCLOUD

DON FROTH - REflex EP

Cassette Library favourite, DON FROTH, makes the headlines again today. FACT magazine announce details of The Don's new EP for UNO - 4 new Froth tracks plus a remix from the legendary ANTHONY 'SHAKE' SHAKIR...

Read more over at FACT
Download at XLR8R
Pre-order the EP at UNO
Check the Shakir Remix at SOUNDCLOUD

WNCL012

LABEL: WNCL Recordings
CAT NO: WNCL012
ARTIST: Kevin McPhee
FORMAT: 12" vinyl / Digital
RELEASE DATE: Monday 26th November 2012

TRACKLIST
A1: In Circles
A2: Do
B1: Pumpkin
B2: The Blind Whirring of Machinery

WNCL Recordings and Kevin McPhee have spent many a moon discussing a shared love of Mood II Swing, dubplate culture and Bobby Champs, amongst other things.

In between times, the Canadian young-gun has been honing 4 tracks to present WNCL012 - a finely crafted Extended Play in which McPhee gets his clonk on...

"...in keeping with WNCL's hard jacking groove tendencies, McPhee produces four slices of brick hard House that you'll be hard pressed to even try and overlook." Sonic Router

TROUBLE VISION

Tonight!

EVENT: Trouble Vision
DATE: Friday 9th November
VENUE: Motion, Avon St, Bristol
TIME: 10pm - Late
PRICE: £17.50
DJ's: Loads...

I'll be playing for the Sneaker Social Club crew in the Tunnel at 2am

IN: MOTION
RESIDENT ADVISOR

GUEST MIX - Dazed Digital

I know, I know - enough of the guest mixtapes already. This will be the last one for a while. This month for Dazed & Confused's website, DAZED DIGITAL, I've submitted a half hour WNCL Recordings label showcase.

Check the INTERVIEW and stream the MIXTAPE

TRACKLIST

1.     WNCL001: WEST NORWOOD CASSETTE LIBRARY . What It Is

2.     WNCL009: KNOWING LOOKS . Ghost Baby

3.     WNCL007: DON FROTH . Balboa

4.     WNCL008: ULTRAMARINE . Butch

5.     WNCL003: WEST NORWOOD CASSETTE LIBRARY . Mrs Fingers

6.     WNCL002: DJ C . Jump Up and Bounce

7.     WNCL004: KNOWING LOOKS . Abandoned Skip

8.     WNCL010: WEST NORWOOD CASSETTE LIBRARY . Coming On Strong (Pangaea Remix)

9.     WNCL006: WEST NORWOOD CASSETTE LIBRARY . Get Lifted (Karenn Remix)

10.   WNCL012: KEVIN McPHEE . In Circles

11.   WNCL0??: SPATIAL . Untitled

12.   WNCL005: MILYOO . Biogam v2 (West Norwood Cassette Library Remix)

13.   WNCL011: MILYOO . Pancake (from the “We Are Family” EP)

14.   WNCL009: KNOWING LOOKS . Listen To My 45

 

PENTAGON

SONIC ROUTER have started a new mini-podcast series. "Do" - a track from the forthcoming KEVIN McPHEE EP on WNCL - features on Episode 3 of PENTAGON

DEXTER

DEXTER from Clone features DON FROTH's Liftin Weights cut from the We Are Family EP (WNCL011) on his latest mixtape for DJBROADCAST in Holland

OBEY!

EVENT: Obey! 2nd Birthday
DATE: Friday 2nd November
VENUE: Undertone, underneath 10 Feet Tall, Church St, Cardiff
TIME: 10pm - 4am
PRICE: £5 b4 midnight
DJ's: Obey! Residents, Clare James, WNCL

FACEBOOK
UNDERTONE
RESIDENT ADVISOR

SPATIAL

SPATIAL, head of the wonderful INFRASONICS imprint, is currently under lock and key in the Cassette Library dungeons, working hard on his forthcoming 4 track E.P for the WNCL Recordings label. We gave him a little time off for good behaviour, in which he chose to talk to SYNTH GLASGOW and record a podcast for EASTERN BLOC - the latter displaying his fine taste with the inclusion of DON FROTH's Liftin' Weights...

WNCL011 - Trap Magazine

TRAP magazine also have some kind words to say about the latest WNCL release ... although in the interests of maintaining good international relations, I should point out that Knowing Looks is Canadian, not American! Still, it's a nice review...

WNCL011 - Mixmag

I've said it before and I'll say it again. They don't call him the Don for nuffink... MIXMAG quite rightly award DON FROTH's contribution to the WE ARE FAMILY E.P, Liftin' Weights, tune of the month in this month's printed edition of the magazine.

DATA 70 - Doppler Shift

WORKING THE DOPPLER SHIFT is a "... new music and culture site, begun by ‘The Steves’, Steve Hanson and Steve Pescott, in order to carry on the musical conversation (they) began at Ptolemaic Terrascope, and to invite music writers to continue that discourse as well ..."

They've also written a rather nice review of this year's DATA 70 double 7" release, "Space Loops Volume 3". You can check it here

GROOVE ARMADA - Pulse Radio

GROOVE ARMADA interview and mix over at PULSE RADIO, including a little nod to the recent WNCL remix of "Pull Up" (also featured in their autumn Beatport chart)

FATBOY SLIM AT ADE

An unlikely feature on the WNCL blog perhaps but there you have it.

Mr. Slim has recently featured the WNCL remix of Groove Armada featuring Slarta John "Pull Up" in his Beatport Top Ten and during his set at ADE recently.

Stream it over at the BBC

FILL YER BOOTS

Tonight is the night to fill yer boots...

EVENT: Fill Yer Boots
DATE: Saturday 20th October
VENUE: The White Horse, Hoxton, London
TIME: 9pm-2am
PRICE: Free!
DJ's: Leisureware, Daniel Ghazvinie, WNCL

FACEBOOK
RESIDENT ADVISOR
INTERVIEW
MIXTAPE

INTERVIEW - Ransom Note

Ahead of tonight's FILL YER BOOTS gig, there's a quick little Q&A with me over at THE RANSOM NOTE...

GUEST MIX - Fill Yer Boots

Another month, another mixtape. The latest one is for the bloggers / promoters, FILL YER BOOTS, ahead of a set that I'll be doing for them at The White Horse on Saturday 20th October.

The Mixtape Trilogy is comprised of 3 mini-mixes - Take Me Out, Take Me Home and Take Me Down...

TRACKLIST
PART 1: TAKE ME OUT
1. WEST NORWOOD CASSETTE LIBRARY . Acid Jazz (Dubplate)
2. BOBBY CHAMPS . Unknown (Dubplate)
3. ANDREA DI ROCCO . The Past Present (IWW)
4. SCHATRAX . Champagne Dancer (Remix) (Fear of Flying)
5. LAKOSA . Nubian Minds (WNCL Remix) (Shifting Peaks)
6. EINZELKIND . Peitsch (Cecille)
7. ZOE ZOE . Church (Sneaker Social Club)
8. MARK HENNING . The Right Time (Remix) (Hypercolour)
9. WEST NORWOOD CASSETTE LIBRARY . We Have to Live in the Future (Dubplate)

PART 2: TAKE ME HOME
1. ADONIS . The Invite (Mathematics)
2. LOWTEC . Use Me (Laid Mix) (Laid)
3. JUS ED . Kick It Up Pt. 4 (Underground Quality)
4. ANDRES . Ribena (Sounds of the Universe)
5. EARL JEFFERS . Surely Not? (Catapult Promo)
6. OPT . Street (Tartelet)
7. TOM ESSELLE . Garibaldi (Dubplate)
8. WEST NORWOOD CASSETTE LIBRARY . Time Loops (Dubplate)
9. ELEANOR MILLS . Same Routine (Al Tones Edits)

PART 3: TAKE ME DOWN
1. JOE . MB (Hemlock)
2. WEST NORWOOD CASSETTE LIBRARY . Body Rock (Dubplate)
3. DATA 70 . Part Two (Enraptured)
4. ELGATO . Zone (Hessle Audio)
5. RON TRENT . Morning Fever (Prescription)
6. PAPERMUSIC . Downtime (Paper Recordings)
7. ROGER GERRESSEN . Somebody Should Have Told You (Wolfskull)
8. MODEL 500 . Got To Be Brave (R&S)
9. MOODY MAN . Track 4 (Planet E)
10. UNFORSCENE ft CECILIA STALIN . Dark Souls (Sonar Kollektiv)

STREAM



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FYB MIX 

PRESS
West Norwood Cassette Library has dropped a typically bumping mix 
JUNO PLUS

A cracking tripartite mix selection ... showcases the breadth of Bhamra’s taste
FACT

LAKOSA & iO - Vinyl

LAKOSA & iO's recent Home Early release, featuring the original mix alongside remixes by Pedro 123 and myself, has been available on digital for a bit. Now it hits the stores on vinyl, courtesy of Kerri Chandler's Madtech imprint. Proper.

WNCL011 - Digital

Whoops. I forgot to mention that WNCL011, the Various Artists We Are Family EP is now available in digital format from all the usual sources plus, of course, the WNCL SURUS store.

There's been some nice press too...
 
WNCL Recordings call up their top boys for a smart dance-off 
Boomkat

Solidifies our opinion of WNCL as a buy on sight label 
Inhabit


Peerless, and as such comes highly recommended 
Juno

Sporting some raucous contributions from the label’s principal artists 
JunoPlus
 
Evidence, if ever it was needed, that brilliant ideas will trump a crystal clear mixdown any day of the week 
Resident Advisor
 
The fact that all the tracks work together as well as they do is a testament to this one dude’s vision. You go, girl 
Sonic Router

It's a family affair and, as with most, it's a disfunctional, lovable one 
Sounds of the Universe

ULTRAMARINE - Tumblr

ULTRAMARINE are now on TUMBLR.

Dig into their archive for all sorts of bits and pieces, including this extract from my NO.1 ASTRONAUT project, INSTANT DIGEST

“ '...a monstrously compressed synopsis of the history of pop that crams five decades into just twenty minutes'. Each year from 1960-2009 is represented by an extreme, but carefully structured, 30-second cut-up of a classic album from that year. Bhamra shows impeccible taste in selecting Ultramarine’s ‘Every Man and Woman is a Star’ to represent 1992." Simon Reynolds

BOBBY CHAMPS

BOBBY CHAMPS can often be found on the WNCL stereogram.

This week, he can also be found over at THE FAT CLUB where he answers some questions, supplies a techno mix and manages to crowbar in a big up for WNCL Recordings, god bless him!
 
"I’m loving a lot of the stuff coming out on Aus and Simple, Sheworks is releasing some really power music and there’s a few really decent releases coming out on West Norwood Cassette Library..."

Also check the recent WNCL mixtape for FILL YER BOOTS, featuring an untitled dubplate by Mr. Champs

GUEST MIX - DJBroadcast

DJBROADCAST in Holland invited me to contribute a mixtape to their illustrious podcast series, so here's what I turned in:

TRACKLIST
01. DATA 70 – ‘Interlaken’ (Enraptured)
02. DATA ROMANCE – ‘Caves’ (Benjamin Damage VIP) (Dubplate)
03. MIDLAND & PARIAH – ‘Untitled 2’ (Sheworks)
04. KAMIKAZE SPACE PROGRAMME – ‘Battery’ (WNCL Dubplate)
05. BOK BOK & TOM TRAGO - ‘Pom Crash’ (Night Voyage Tool Kit)
06. KEVIN McPHEE – ‘In Circles’ (forthcoming WNCL Recordings)
07. SPATIAL – ‘Untitled’ (WNCL Dubplate)
08. KING THING - ‘Cold Diss’ (Infrasonics)
09. DON FROTH - ‘Dip Dive’ (WNCL Dubplate)
10. HELIX - ‘Stacks Riddim’ (All Caps)
11. HELIX – ‘Drum Track’ (Night Slugs)
12. GEIOM – ‘Dugout’ (WNCL Dubplate)
13. WATTVILLE – ‘We Jostle’ (Sonic Router)
14. KNOWING LOOKS – ‘Cytal Fink’ (WNCL Recordings)
15. SOUNDHACK – ‘Vintage’ (Sound Sampler)
16. PERC – ‘Pure & Simple’ (Perc RZ Dub) (Sleaze)
17. FORWARD STRATEGY GROUP - ‘Nihil Novi’ (Perc Trax)
18. MARTIN KEMP – ‘Closer’ (Frijsfo Beats)
19. STERLING VOID – ‘It’s All Right’ (Acapella) (DJ International)
20. DENNIS BUSCH – ‘Black Hole’ (forthcoming Real Soon)

You can download the mixtape and check the interview (depending on how good your Dutch is) over at the DJBROADCAST website

WNCL011 - In Shops Now

WNCL011 has been released into the world. A 4-track 12" EP showcasing the wares of label mates Don Froth, Milyoo and Knowing looks alongside West Norwood Cassette Library, is now available for purchase.

RELEASE DATES
12" + Free mp3 bundle exclusive to SURUS: 24th September
12" / digital general release: 1st October

LAKOSA & iO - Resident Advisor

LAKOSA & iO's "Home Early" on Kerri Chandler's Madtech imprint gets the review treatment over at RESIDENT ADVISOR

TRUANTS - Don Froth

Some-time honorary Cassette Librarian and full time bad-boy, DON FROTH gets the interview treatment over at TRUANTS

WNCL011 - Test Press

Test Plate pressure for the heads. A handful of white label, 12" TP's of the forthcoming WE ARE FAMILY VOL.1 4-track EP are available now exclusively from the WNCL SURUS STORE....

000LAET - Teal Recordings

TEAL RECORDINGS, have just released a 3-track, vinyl-only, white label 12" EP of exclusive remixes, including my own refix of SOUTH LONDON ORDNANCE "Witch Hunt"...

TRACKLIST

A1: BEASTIE RESPOND_Be Quiet (Jared Wilson Remix)
B1: S.L.O_Witch Scene (Northern Structures H2SO4 Remix)
B2: S.L.O_Witch Hunt (West Norwood Cassette Library Remix)

CLIPS

BUY 
Available now from the Teal store on SURUS

GROOVE ARMADA - Pull Up

GROOVE ARMADA return to Hypercolour with their next release, "Pull Up", featuring vocals from Slarta John (of Basement Jaxx "Jump and Shout" fame") and a remix from the Cassette Library.

Check clips of the original, WNCL remix and 2 remixes from Hypercolour's own Alex Jones over at Soundcloud:



WNCL remix also featured here:
BEATPORT - 10 Must Hear House Trax
TODDLA T - Radio 1 show (Stream now)
ANNIE MAC - Radio 1 show (Stream now)

DIGITAL: Out Now
VINYL: September TBC

EVARISTE MAIGA - Pain & Joy

EVARISTE MAIGA of Goldsmith's University presents his latest video piece - Improvisation, Pain and Joy - which shows the artist 'performing' to the sounds of KNOWING LOOKS "Ghost Baby".

Check the video HERE
Buy the track HERE

WNCL011 - Juno Plus

Poor old Oli Warwick gets his ears chewed off by yours truly over at JUNO PLUS today....

WNCL011

LABEL: WNCL Recordings
CAT. NO: WNCL011
FORMAT: 12" vinyl / digital
RELEASE DATE: 24th September 2012

WNCL Recordings enters the next phase of its release programme. Having issued a neat collection of ten 10” singles, the label now launches a series of 4 track 12” EPs. First up is a showcase featuring 4 new cuts by 4 of the label’s cornerstone artists.

L.A’s DON FROTH comes out fighting with the hard-as-nails LIFTIN’ WEIGHTS, while MILYOO from Kentucky gets frantic on the raucous PANCAKE.

SE27’s own WEST NORWOOD CASSETTE LIBRARY offers up WHAT IT IS (MAH VIP), originally created for Mz. Hobbs’ Radio 1 show. Rounding things off from Toronto, KNOWING LOOKS gives us CYTAL FINK, angular funk for all discerning discotheques.

We hope you will enjoy our show.

LAKOSA & iO - Home Early

LAKOSA & iO have their collaborative effort, HOME EARLY, released on Kerri Chandler's new MADTECH imprint this week.

The vinyl hits the shops on 17th September although digital files are available now, exclusively from BEATPORT.

Check the clips of the Original Mix / Pedro 123 / WNCL over at SoundCloud or stream the WNCL remix over at DUMMY now