UNTHANK007 Fur - Pulp (Mp3 Clip)

Available Summer 2011 (12"). Distributed worldwide exclusively by Rubudub Ltd.

SHEVC001A Vakula - Mama Said Go Slow (Clip)

Latest offering to the gods of The Living Mountain. Dusty, far-flung and dubwise selection from Glasgow's Fergus Clark.

TLM#003 Fergus Clark

Fudge Fingas - Gettin' Togetha

Linkwood - What's Up With The Underground?

Ah, yes! Finally some real flavors to sink our teeth into.

The nose is truly a work of art. First the classic peaty smoke but so distinctly understated. Confident in it's maturity. The salty pineapple citrus is next coupled with a refined lemon-lime toffee tartness. And finally a whiff of fresh cucumber sprinkled with the loveliest of white pepper. Oh, yes. This is what we’ve been waiting for!

The creamy mouthfeel is laced with intense black peppers but then mellows out to give you honey, lemon and chocolate with a dash of tobacco.

The long peppery finish is fruity with a hint of limestone.

These are the classic flavours that made Linkwood one of the top distilleries and Expressions should be on your list of malts to try before you die.


FIREC013LP Linkwood - Expressions

Linkwood Family - Piece of Mind

Linkwood - Hear The Sun

Originally released on cassette by Vancouver's 1080p label. Remastered for double vinyl and includes new track 'Kendal In Kalusia'. Released by Firecracker, Jan '15. Distributed exclusively worldwide by Rubadub. Artwork to follow ...

FIREC014LP Lnrdcroy - Much Less Normal (Clips)

Preview!! Coming May 2015 .... Distribution exclusively by Rubadub worldwide.
Vinyl, FLAC and 320k mp3 downloads from the source ---> firecrackerrecordings.bandcamp.com/

UNTHANK008 Lnrdcroy (Clips)

Released by Firecracker, Sept '15. Distributed exclusively worldwide by Rubadub.

B1 Linkwood - Love Lost (Nummer Remix) {{CLIP}}

Available Autumn 2011 (12"). Distributed worldwide exclusively by Rubudub Ltd.

SHEVC004A Linkwood - Secret Value (Clip)

Coming Late September on Firecracker Recordings.

Distributed exclusively worldwide by Rubadub.

A1. Sunrise 89
A2. Beatha
A3. An Stuc
B1. Bryte
B2. Tocpe 28
B3. Parabolas Of Neon


FIREC021 Lord Of The Isles - Parabolas Of Neon

Whacked out from the whisky soaked bristles of Firecracker HQ, the Danish DonDaDa DJ Sports (he of Regelbau and Help Recordings fame) offers up a maiden LP of vast and varied sonic states. Get set for solid rave aesthetics aplenty - the double pack’s journey trudges over a musical milieu of broke-beaten, ambient driven house and techno, melancholy junglist and dubwise downtempo. One foot in the past, one foot in the future and killing the present - a perfect and timely addition to the Firecracker canon.

Worldwide distribution exclusively, as ever by Rubadub, Scotland.

FIREC023 DJ Sports - Modern Species (320k Clips)

Pre-order on Bandcamp:
https://firecrackerrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/firec023-modern-species

FIREC023 DJ Sports - World A

Periodica Records family member Filippo Colonna Romano aka Modula (Naples, IT) drops a weirdo, tropical, Yamaha pss 780 fonk EP. RIYL Dam Funk, Prince B-sides and twisted dancers. First 10" format for some time ...

As usual, worldwide distro on the excluso from Rubadub ...

Shipping October.

FIREC022 Modula - The 780's Chronicles

Vakula's debut LP. 2 years of dubwise, cosmic and uniquely Ukrainian electronic music delivered late May 2012 on triple vinyl with full double gatefold hand-made artwork. Only on Firecracker Recordings. Distributed exclusively worldwide by Rubadub.

Vakula - You've Never Been To Konotop (mp3clip)

It’s safe to say that Steven Legget has been somewhat measured in his approach to releasing music. The Newcastle native was behind the Four Hands moniker, with releases alongside iconic industrial figures Zoviet France on Signals From The North and the classic ‘Hizou’ on Claremont 56 back at the turn of the decade.
 
Now, this Firecracker Recordings release highlights a fully realised body of work, only hinted at by the aforementioned projects. Starting life as a performance in Turkish Baths located in Newcastle upon Tyne’s City Pool, one of the last remaining civil saunas in the country, Legget has created a textured, melodic and immersive eulogy to the woozy, slow motion, drug free endorphin rush of the bath house. Pieces from this performance, alongside field recordings collected on the islands of Paxos and Loutro, South Crete are reimagined as a luscious ambient music. Accompanied by cello and electronics with real attention paid to musicality, vast and gaseous cinematic compositions are submerged beneath waves and drenched in steam and condensation.

All tracks produced by Steven Legget. Field recordings collected on the island of Paxos, and Loutro (Crete).
Tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 co-written by Laura Reid.
Tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 cello performed by Laura Reid.
Track 7 co-written/produced and performed with Suade Bergemann (Sine Bass) and Mark Hand (Fender Rhodes Stage 88 Piano and Jen SX1000 synthesiser).

LP Mastered by Suade and Cut by Keith.

For Sacha x

All profits from the sales of this LP will be donated to the charity Waves for Water:
http://www.wavesforwater.org/

• 2x12” vinyl album
• Double gatefold, screen printed, 2 colour sleeve
• Strictly limited press
• Silkscreened artwork by Al White

Worldwide distribution exclusively by Rubadub.

FIREC024LP Steven Legget - Bathhouse

One of Firecracker’s Founding Fathers returns once more, this time shoving two fingers up to current DJ conventions smashing out a 150 BPM electrofunk hybrid. On the flip, two deeper cuts traversing ambient wormholes and reflecting that classic Linkwood sound.

Ultimately, a miscellany of unique, syncopated weirdo sounds, barely orbiting the outer regions of dance music; or, depending on how you look at it, three timeless cuts designed for the dance floor, the sofa and all points in between.

B2. Another Late Night (Clip)

A. Fresh Gildans (Clip)

Linkwood & House Of Traps 'Barely Eagle'. Available on Firecracker EP4 (firec004). Distributed exclusively worldwide by Rubadub Ltd.

Linkwood & House Of Traps - Barely Eagle

Linkwood - Hi-Vis Blues

Consisting neither of one lone woman, nor hailing from either the Eurasian country or the North American state, this Georgia is in fact comprised of two human males working out of China Town, N.Y.C., namely Brian Close and Justin Tripp. Together they form a creative partnership responsible for not just a slew of output upon such highly regarded imprints as Meakusma, Palto Flats and Emotional Response, but also for a kaleidoscopic variety of multimedia work with a whole host of clients, from the corporate to the counter cultural. With an all embracing, freeform and in some ways contradictory approach to production, their sound is at turns stimulating, terrifying, comforting and confounding. Separated from any visual representation, the audio on its own becomes a soundtrack for the listeners' own intense internal projection screen.

With 'Time', Georgia's vision is especially well realised as here, in collaboration with fellow intuitionists Firecracker Recordings, they release into this world an album which, with any luck, shall help you unlock your inner portals - should they need assistance in that regard anyway. Unquantisable polyrhythms knock against one another in an uncannily externalised, conflicting collage of half remembered dance ritual memories. Fragmented melodies, disembodied vocal snippets, a hint of ethnomusicality in places all give deep nods simultaneously to ancient experience and to post human intelligence, condensing past present and future into one eternal instant.

'Time' the album asks us: what happens when one removes ones expectations of where in time a piece of music or art must sit? And what of time itself as a construct, now that we have myriad ways of measuring it, even at the atomic level; but still its passing is completely relative according to the observer, and indeed may all be in our minds anyway? Equally, you can always just put it on - again, and again - empty your mind of such thoughts completely, and allow all of your particles to move around freely to this joyful noise... after all, that's the point, isn't it? We're gonna have to stop asking questions eventually.

Georgia - 'Ayolas' (From FIREC028LP Georgia 'Time')

Consisting neither of one lone woman, nor hailing from either the Eurasian country or the North American state, this Georgia is in fact comprised of two human males working out of China Town, N.Y.C., namely Brian Close and Justin Tripp. Together they form a creative partnership responsible for not just a slew of output upon such highly regarded imprints as Meakusma, Palto Flats and Emotional Response, but also for a kaleidoscopic variety of multimedia work with a whole host of clients, from the corporate to the counter cultural. With an all embracing, freeform and in some ways contradictory approach to production, their sound is at turns stimulating, terrifying, comforting and confounding. Separated from any visual representation, the audio on its own becomes a soundtrack for the listeners' own intense internal projection screen.

With 'Time', Georgia's vision is especially well realised as here, in collaboration with fellow intuitionists Firecracker Recordings, they release into this world an album which, with any luck, shall help you unlock your inner portals - should they need assistance in that regard anyway. Unquantisable polyrhythms knock against one another in an uncannily externalised, conflicting collage of half remembered dance ritual memories. Fragmented melodies, disembodied vocal snippets, a hint of ethnomusicality in places all give deep nods simultaneously to ancient experience and to post human intelligence, condensing past present and future into one eternal instant.

'Time' the album asks us: what happens when one removes ones expectations of where in time a piece of music or art must sit? And what of time itself as a construct, now that we have myriad ways of measuring it, even at the atomic level; but still its passing is completely relative according to the observer, and indeed may all be in our minds anyway? Equally, you can always just put it on - again, and again - empty your mind of such thoughts completely, and allow all of your particles to move around freely to this joyful noise... after all, that's the point, isn't it? We're gonna have to stop asking questions eventually.

All tracks written and produced by Georgia (B. Close & J. Tripp).

Mixed by Raz Mesinai.

Additional contributions from: 80881, Meron Kibret, Selam X, and Lily McMenamy.

Distributed exclusively worldwide from 30th April 2019 by Rubadub. All enquiries distribution@rubadub.co.uk

FIREC028LP Georgia 'Time' Preview Clips

Firecracker’s dwarf constellation Unthank thaws down from a small cryogenic suspension and delivers it’s first 12”!

Tracks from the vault from Cardiff’s DJ Guy (Other World Music/Cejero/All Caps) who’s been busy since 1992. All tracks designed to be played loud and with the dance in mind whilst taking in all sorts of melancholy, euphoria and pastoral, acid soundscapes.

• First ever 12” Unthank release!
• 6 Track EP
• Small, 85mm metallic labels suspended on 12” crystal clear vinyl
• Silkscreened artwork by House Of Traps

RIYL Dream 2 Science, Autechre, Unit Moebius, μ-Ziq etc

DJ Guy - UNTHANK012

Having issued a solid number of equally solid releases on the likes of Berceuse Heroique, Versatile, Wisdom Teeth, Peur Bleue and his own finely curated imprint, Banlieue Records, Benoit B steps up for the latest Unthank 10" instalment!

A world populated by eerie synth-pop textures, hypno-industrial oddities, electroid dynamics and hip-hop breaks gone astray. 100% retro-futuristic Bauhausian blends for the DJs and dancers out on a limb.

10" Clear vinyl with 75mm, metallic labels. Two colour screen printed sleeves with artwork by House Of Traps.

Available end of November 2019.
Distributed via Rubadub Worldwide.

Pre-order here:
https://firecrackerrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/unthank013-caution-96-high

UNTHANK013 Benoit B - Caution 9'6" High

From their native St. Petersburg, Square Fauna evoke a score for imaginary protoplasmic oceans, surreal, sepia-tinged space operas and Russian sci-fi folk tales; lush, green landscapes littered with the burned out husks of automobiles, military vehicles, and askew telephone poles no longer in use though marked by pools of water in which can be found the debris of modern society.

Primitive kosmische electronics and vintage spacescapes cascade around complex polyrhythmic percussion. Ethereal mists of gaseous reverb are scattered by windswept synths and white-noise striations.

‘Meet The Fauna’ is as much of a cheeky nod to The Residents and Coil (or even Haroumi Hosono and John Hassell) as it is to the likes of B12, Black Dog, Richard H Kirk.

A completely singular, modern sci-fi soundtrack for the discerning sofanaut.

Produced by Dices & Flaty.

https://soundcloud.com/dices
https://soundcloud.com/producedbyflaty

Artwork by Al White aka Crud.

Available end of March 2020. Distributed exclusively worldwide by Rubadub.

FIREC029LP Square Fauna 'Meet The Fauna' Preview Clips

being, then ...

Locked in a 486 glow, lightblink machines nightlight, being enters lighttime limelight. The long nineties already distending, the Major midbloats, crowds throng superclubs- strobelit honeys on a podium in Ibiza already blasted a stratosphere away from mildewed badflats, emphysemic parlours, the fug of week old washing drying slowly on the rad. Ach we’ll hang it out in the morning fire another joint of badhash and turn that tape over. We are being Here. beings disconnected, shut ins, psychick worriers, long walks to and from clubs, mostly dark, always raining, or mizzling anyway, lug bigbrick machines into cabs and Venue, setup and playing live and right now from the lounge lobby at Sativa, down the stairs from the caustic, twitching thrashpit being sits, being works. Dole sludge, shirking class zeroes, scoff pizza rolls w salad cream, that headchef gaffer never reckoned you’d graft at the potwash, a slick fur of rotfood dish slop residue right to the elbow, absolutely bowfin.  Rumours of other places, people, scenes, tapes sent and emissaries return, invites to get trains, overnightbus south to London. being brought water to the ‘wells in South London and monthly emissions snaked out into the world, into badflats elsewhere where gowched couch tatties sprawl and the being burrowed deep into memories.. Tea is toast and sandwich spread and endless crisps as the binbags pile high in the backyard, the being blinks, it’s a twilit morning and it’s time to go to bed.

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Firecracker present archival tracks from the legendary Scottish producer Being. 

Downright essential for those who are grabbing the Ampoule reissues, the SW. album on Avenue 66 and whats the likes of Ex-Terrestrial and Ura are releasing on Naff and Temple. 

Throughout the early and mid 90's, Being released a series of records on Weatherall's Special Emissions label. Collaborated with Claude Young and also produced the rare as hens teeth Two Lone Swordsmen And A Being 12" with Weatherall and Tenniswood, whilst his Tides album was remixed by Ectomorph, Insync and more. Years later he'd resurface as the Wee DJ's and releasing idiosyncratic electro on Daz Quayle's SCSI-AV label and Sativa's Gasoline imprint. 

Distributed by Rubadub. Coming Early December 2020.

FIREC030LP Being - Broxburn Funk

Preview!! Coming July 2013 .... Distribution exclusively by Rubadub worldwide.
Vinyl, FLAC and 320k mp3 downloads from the source ---> firecrackerrecordings.bandcamp.com/

UNTHANK006 Denaji - Wuhti (DJ Sotofett AM Remix) (Mp3 Clip)

For those interested the field recordings contained within Mac-Talla Nan Creag 1 & 2, here is a further contact mic recording by Lindsay Todd from August 2020.

Dun Carloway is currently under conservation work with a huge amount of scaffolding and security fence. There was a fair wind blowing and the whole structure was resonating wildly.

Equipment used:

2x JrF contact mics with Hosa MIT-129 impedance transformers
1x Sound Devices MixPre3

** Headphones or studio monitors recommended for full frequency listening **

Dun Carloway is an excellent cross-section of a broch – a type of structure found only in Scotland. It overlooks Loch Carloway and is built on a rock on a steep south slope at the height of 50 metres and is the best preserved broch in the Outer Hebrides. At 9m tall it still stands close to its impressive full height. It was probably constructed about 200 BC. Broch-building ceased around AD 100, but they may have continued in use.  Evidence from excavations suggests it may have been used until about AD 1000. It’s also said to have been used as a stronghold by members of the Morrison Clan during the 1500s.

Dun Carloway Broch Contact Mic Recording August 2020

FIREC005 Linkwood Family - Miles Away (Intrusion Sunset Dub) (Mp3 Clip)

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