North/South/East/West

North/South/East/West is a new project from photographer Shaun Bloodworth, designer Stuart Hammersley and Bleep.com. A photographic and musical document focusing on the music of four different regions of the world — North and South UK and East and West coast USA.

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Future Banger: Hyetal & Shortstuff – Ice Cream/Don’t Sleep (Punch Drunk)

Hyetal and Shortstuff come together to kick off an exciting year of releases coming from Bristol’s Punch Drunk record label. This 12″ is the label’s first collaborative release, whilst it also welcomes an out of town producer, Shortstuff from Hertforshire. Ice Cream (no it isn’t buffering, let it play) and Don’t Sleep are well worth adding to the crate for 2010.

Illum Sphere – Chasing The Midnight Moth

A track by Illum Sphere taken from the Long Live The Plan EP 12″ coming out on Fat City. Visuals animated live by EMN.

Compilation Preview: Mary Anne Hobbs – Wild Angels

The slightly trippy video is in promotion of Mary Anne Hobbs’ forthcoming compilation, Wild Angels. The BBC Radio 1 host has once again put together a great selection of bass driven music, but expect a substantial serving of Dubstep on this one. Released via Planet Mu on 7 September, in the meantime you can check out the tracklist over the jump.

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Kode 9 on XLR8R TV | Dubstep | Hyperdub

Kode 9, Hyperdub’s founder, speaks about the “branching out” of music from the Dubstep scene in the past year. An international perspective mentioning our Scottish neighbours as well as artists from across the pond. The University of East London professor goes on to describe his book Sonic Warfare which will be released later this year. Plus details on the greatly anticipated Hyperdub 5 year CD compilation.

Source: Sonic Router & XLR8R