Author Archives: bobbykins

About bobbykins

Tea-drinking, olive-munching electronic music enthusiast from the United Kingdom.

Instra:Mental – Let’s Talk / Vicodin

Posted on March 4, 2010 by bobbykins

Hot on the heels of their mix for the now legendary Fabric Live mix series, Instra:Mental return to the [Naked Lunch] label with their next single “Let’s Talk / “Vicodin”… “Let’s Talk” is the follow up to last year’s excellent … Continue reading →

Posted in music | Tagged autonomic, deep house, dubstep, instra:mental, let's talk, naked lunch, techno, vicodin | 1 Comment

Session 020 February 2010

Posted on February 13, 2010 by bobbykins

This month, a special thanks must go to DJ Haynes, who has provided me with a copy of Vicious Circles, an incredibly rare Promo CD which emerged briefly, back in 1998, and contained tracks from Alex Reece’s ill fated second … Continue reading →

Posted in My Podcast | Tagged Alex O Smith, alex reece, bjork, floating points, jazz, Kira Neris, los hermanos, Matthew Halsall, nujazz, omar s, Pat Metheny, photek, podcast, Sigur Ros, Steve Reich, The Cinematic Orchestra, THX-1138 | 2 Comments

Session 019 January 2010

Posted on January 1, 2010 by bobbykins

It’s a specially extended edition of the podcast this month….I’ve bought so much new music in this last couple of weeks that an hour was just too short!! As usual, this mix really goes round the houses genre-wise, kicking of … Continue reading →

Posted in free download, music, My Podcast | Tagged bent, blu mar ten, cinematic orchestra, consequence, fanu, floating points, free download, inland empire, moses, need for mirrors, new world aquarium, omar s, pheonix, podcast, portico quartet, royksopp, seba, sebastien tellier, stevie wonder, the sundays, vangelis, whitest boy alive | 2 Comments

Favourite Records of 2009

Posted on December 13, 2009 by bobbykins

1. Floating Points – Love Me Like This – R2 Records I’m racking my brains trying to remember how I came across Floating Points, but I just can’t really remember. It may well have been on Gilles Peterson’s excellent Radio … Continue reading →

Posted in album, deep house, drum and bass, music, recommended, single | Tagged 2009, alix perez, bat for lashes, best of 2009, blu mar ten, Break, d-bridge, empire of the sun, floating points, gilles peterson, instra:mental, mary anne hobbs, Mr Sizef, spectrasoul, Unquote, whitest boy alive | 4 Comments

Session 018 December 2009

Posted on November 24, 2009 by bobbykins

Ok, so here is the final session of 2009…. As usual, there’s a good slab of fresh drum & bass, this month from artists such as Spectrasoul, Blu Mar Ten, Rockwell and more. Following on from last month, there’s a … Continue reading →

Posted in free download, music, My Podcast | Tagged blu mar ten, craig armstrong, disco, drum and bass, Edu Lobo, electro, free download, Gil Scott Heron, Heinrich Mueller, instra:mental, itunes, M83, mixtape, modern classical, mp3, Mr Sizef, music, podcast, robert graff, Rockwell, spectrasoul, Stray, Two Man Sound, Unquote | 4 Comments

Twitter in pretend DJ Shocker (and why DJs are not cool)

Posted on November 19, 2009 by bobbykins

It made me laugh earlier that, in a photoshoot at Twitter’s swanky new offices, they chose to include a very unconvincing photograph of a woman doing a bit of DJ-ing, supposedly because all hip & happening internet corperations like Twitter … Continue reading →

Posted in music | Tagged DJ, DJ Culture, turntables, twitter | 1 Comment

Sabre – One Man Jettison – Darkestral Excursions

Posted on November 13, 2009 by bobbykins

DARKESTRALEX 001 (DARKESTRAL EXCURSIONS) SABRE ‘ONE MAN JETTISON’ / ‘BOUNDARY PT.1 (AFTERTHOUGHT)’ / ‘DECORUM’ 2009 USHERS IN A NEW PROJECT FOR THE DARKESTRAL OPERATION WITH THE CREATION OF AN IMPRINT SPLICED FROM THE MOTHERSHIP LABEL DNA, WITH THE INTENT OF … Continue reading →

Posted in drum and bass, music, recommended, single | Tagged darkestral, darkestral excursions, drum & bass, drum and bass, sabre, st holdings | Leave a comment

ASC – Fabric Promo Mix – November 2009

Posted on November 9, 2009 by bobbykins

ASC has very kindly put together a superb autonomic-themed drum & bass mix. It’s an excellent selection of forthcoming tracks from the Exit / NonPlus+ stable and features music from the likes of D-Bridge, Instra:Mental, Consequence and ASC himself. ASC’s … Continue reading →

Posted in drum and bass, mixtapes, music | Tagged asc, autonomic, black pocket, consequence, d-bridge, dbridge, dnb, drum & bass, drum and bass, instra:mental, jungle, minimal, nonplus, resound | Leave a comment

Session 017 November 2009

Posted on November 3, 2009 by bobbykins

DAVID BOWIE – TELLING LIES (ADAM F REMIX) BRIAN ENO – IN DARK TREES D-BRIDGE – MEMORY PARK BLU MAR TEN – BY THE TIME MY LIGHT REACHES YOU I’LL BE GONE DEEP BLUE & BLAME – DE-TRANSITIONS LTJ BUKEM … Continue reading →

Posted in music, My Podcast | Tagged a number of names, adam f, bat for lashes, blame, blu mar ten, brian eno, d-bridge, david bowie, deep blue, fink, floating points, instra:mental, joy orbison, koen haltkamp, ltj bukem, money mark, podcast, robert graff, robert manos, unkle | Leave a comment

Podcast Now Available via MixCloud

Posted on October 27, 2009 by bobbykins

Mixcloud helps connect radio content to listeners more effectively. Mixcloud is re-thinking radio by joining the dots between radio shows, Podcasts and DJ mixes. We refer to them as Cloudcasts – audio shows that are stored in the “cloud” and … Continue reading →

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