outsider pop

The Space Between: May 2020

A bumper bunker report featuring reviews of Dalham, 24-Carat Black, Spirit Fest and the Minna Miteru compilation, plus a Martin Jensen hip hop mix

Find the Abstract: Tracks Played and a Hip Hop Introduction

Stewart Gardiner shares the records he played out at the end of January and discusses bringing hip hop into the world of Concrete Islands

Billy Coté (Madder Rose): Things You (Just) Can’t Let Go Of Mixtape

Having recently brought us the first Madder Rose LP in twenty years, Billy Coté serves-up an equally reflective and deep-sounds-mining mixtape

Everything is Possible: Alien Transistor Interview

Stewart Gardiner spoke with Alien Transistor’s Markus Acher about DIY community spirit, working with Tenniscoats and putting on an Alien Disko

Fernando Falcão – Memória das Águas / Barracas Barrocas (Optimo Music / Selva Discos)

Love your ears with these reissues of Brazilian avant-garde multi-instrumentalist Fernando Falcão’s revelatory albums from 1981 and 1987

Jane Weaver – Loops in the Secret Society (Fire)

Jane Weaver’s Loops in the Secret Society is an emotive tapestry of charged library music and into the night dancefloor anthems

The Space Between: June 2019

Stewart Gardiner’s The Space Between column is intended to pull together reviews that almost never were, preventing them from falling through the cracks

Aidan Moffat and RM Hubbert – Ghost Stories for Christmas (Rock Action)

Aidan Moffat and RM Hubbert channel Charles Dickens and MR James in an unheimlich album to be played under the plastic mistletoe

Robert Sotelo – Botanical (Nicey Music)

Robert Sotelo’s DIY pop comes off like Robert Rental remaking Paul Simon’s Graceland in a Glasgow basement