I first came across Mark Byrne playing one Thursday night in the Twisted Pepper. At what is a predominantly student night, he brought the crowd with him on the harder, less hook driven parts of his set. He dropped out of deep rhythms into vocal grime tracks with a confidence bordering on arrogance. All the...
It’s nice when there is something on the local scene that is worth getting behind for more than the music. Ruckus is just such an event. Always sporting a top notch line up of locals misfits and with the cash that ends up in the coffers going towards the printing costs of the sublime Rabble....
Richie (sound chap) of the !Kaboogie crew has been on the buttons in the run up to the !Kaboogie 6th Birthday party. The party itself is happening on the 10th of Feb in The Twisted Pepper and in fine !Kaboogie tradition it’s a pretty stacked night with Ms Dynamite providing the cherry on top. For...
mynameisOhn hates money. I assume. Around this time last year he gave away “There Is a Policeman In All Our Heads…” and now he is back with another free EP, “The Thinker & The Prover EP” and it’s well worth buying…let alone downloading for free. His modus operandi is sample rich, deftly constructed hip-hop flavours...
Well, it’s been a year to day and being honest i am amazed that Stompmag is still going. It’s not just that being ill makes keeping it ticking over awkward, it’s also the fact that things tend to just fizzle out and fade away. Thankfully StompMag didn’t. First up the thanks, specifically to Liam “Deletia”...
As a producer, a lot of time can be spent trying to overcome your inspirations. You strive for something new and something different…but sometimes you just want to sit back and write a tune that pays tribute to those who birthed your passion for music. SertOne has done just that, dropping a 4 tracker called...
There has been a lot of talk lately about Minister Sean Sherlock’s attempt to sneak (yes, sneak) in legislation in Ireland that is remarkably similar in intent to the recent SOPA and PIPA acts which died on their feet in America. The music industry seems absolutely intent on blaming all their woes on piracy and...
Yeah. I bitch about lists. A lot. The last month of the year is like hell for me as every blog, website and magazine going posts endless lists. I wouldn’t mind so much if the lists were backed up. If we got an explanation as to why No.1 was the obvious choice and why everything...
Nouveaunoise have been making just that on the Irish electronica scene for some time now. Pushers of delightfully inventive and engagingly off kilter music they recently came very much correct with their latest release “Sequence Consequence”. I caught up with Conor to have a quick chat about things in the world of Nouveaunoise. Your most...
It’s been a weird couple of years for Dubstep. There have been highs and lows and depending on what’s important to you and how you measure them you can pretty much just switch them around. Need an example? Let’s take Magnetic Man. Pretty cool project from the outside. You’ve got scene stalwarts Skream, Benga and...
Graffiti is probably something that is going to sneak on to StompMag more and more. It’s something which has always interested me and a passion for it was fostered by my girlfriend to the point where I walked into All City one day and dropped as much on spray cans as i normally would on...
Somewhere in the West of Ireland is Owsey, seeming to churn out incredible music at a pace which is simply stunning. With a massive emotional content and an incredible sense of tension and the cinematic (on some of the songs you will notice snippets of soundtracks from cinema, computer games and other sources) and a...
