Specter (Sound Signature/Tetrode) banging the loosey goosey vibe ... This mix got taken down due to shitty copyright algorithm or cosmic squirrel conspiracies... who knows ... anyway, back up now (we hope) .... enjoy!

**Please Note** There's roughly a 20-30 second silence at the start ... the only way we could get round the mix being blocked ... sorry!

FIRECMIXX009 Specter

Fudge Fingas - Gettin' Togetha

Re-up as the original Soundcloud file has gone awol. 

House Of Traps - Murkish Delight MIx

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

FIREC008B Fudge Fingas - MassX - Juju & Jordash Remix (Clip)

Lemme Kno - UNTHANK009
(DJ Isle O' Man & Max D ... Rathmines via Washington DC)

Lemme Kno - UNTHANK009

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

Distributed exclusively worldwide by Rubadub. Available April 2012. Hand printed covers and coloured 10" vinyl. Strictly LTD.
All tracks produced by Inkswel for Secret Heat music except B2 - Remix by Funkineven

Inkswel LFO Bounce - Funkineven Remix (Clip)

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)

B1. Solar Panel (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

Our favourite bothy botherers Mac-Talla Nan Creag (comprised of Hoch Ma Toch, Other Lands and Lord Of The Isles) return to Firecracker Recordings, channeling ancient rites, the mysteries of the Scottish landscape and its elements through technologies both old and new for your listening pleasure.

This time round the archaeological work of Forestry Commission Scotland at Dun Deardail in Glen Nevis, and the links between that site and the ancient Celtic myth ‘The Sorrow Of Derdriu’ provided fertile ground for new exploration and response. Accompanying the music once again will be a lush booklet containing some of the stunning imagery that results from the work FCS have done there, all packaged and silk-screened with the usual finesse we've come to expect from Firecracker Recordings and their chief visionary House Of Traps.

Captured in part in a high vaulted medieval church, then in home studios, bouncing ideas back and forth over the internet, MTNC have once again drawn on field recordings, traditional instrumentation, analogue electronics and the simple power of the human voice to create a shimmering and expansive song cycle.

Whereas the first album was borne out of an intense period of field trips and whisky fuelled jam sessions in brochs and had a loose approach overall, the second is perhaps more focussed in its themes relating to the ancient tale - love, war, beauty and tragedy all intertwined - and they arguably go deeper this time, conjuring up something of the Fourth World feel, by way of the Firth Of Forth.

With additional contributions from Professor John Kenny - whose primal Zummoesque playing on a range of horns including a giant conch shell and a replica of the ancient Deskford carynx underpins several tracks on the album - and Eva Sutherland (daughter of Other Lands) who provides a reading from the myth at the very beginning, this is an album that not only carries the heaviness of history but also looks to the light of the future.'

>> Coming in late November 2018 as 2x12", CD and digital. Distributed exclusively worldwide by Rubadub.

FIREC027LP Mac-Talla Nan Creag 'The Sorrow Of Derdriu'

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

Inkswel's UNTHANK003 EP drops in 2 weeks. "Traveling in a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie"

Vinyl, FLAC and 320k mp3 downloads from the source ---> http://firecrackerrecordings.bandcamp.com/

FIRECMIXX003 Inkswel

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

Sorry for the small hiatus in our mix series. We relocated HQ recently but now have something special for you ... One of Italy's best kept secrets is a club located in Brescia called Disco Volante. Well known by visiting DJs to have one of the best DJ booths in Europe (Bozak mixer with dedicated isolators on each channel is rare these days!), we thought it only right that Enio (one of the masterminds behind the club) presented one of our podcasts.  Please download and enjoy three hours(!) of personal music from the heart. Cosmic, afro, krautrock, soul, jazz and disco ... just don't ask us for a playlist!

Here's some details about the DJ and Disco Volante:

(D.C.DJ SoulMind)
I've been a music lover since day one! As a kid with my small turntable I used to listen endlessly to all the records in my brothers and sisters' collection. In the early 80's I started to go to some alternative clubs located in Northern Italy. I am talking about "Cosmic" and "Typhoon". There I heard djs playing all kinds of music, from Jazz to Disco, to Afro and Funk till the modern electronic music from the 70's and 80's. It was only at the end of the 80's / early 90's that I started to dig house music. But it was a slow process. I have never loved glamourous and fake clubs. I loved the stuff coming from Chicago and Detroit since I could immediately find my vibe and roots in it, even if I was born and raised in Italy. Since the 90's I have been a promoter and dj for many projects mainly in and around Brescia. Today I am one of the founders, djs, director and owners of DISCO VOLANTE, in Brescia. In my dj sets you can feel my deep love for black music. I love analog sounds and I LOVE VINYL.

ENJOY!

Vinyl, FLAC and 320k mp3 downloads from the source ---> http://firecrackerrecordings.bandcamp.com/

FIRECMIXX005 'Fly Trip' by D.C.DJ

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

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

Distributed worldwide exclusively by Rubudub Ltd.

UNTHANK001 Bakey Ustl - Tender Places (Mp3 Clip)

UNTHANK001 Bakey Ustl - Nose Candy (Mp3 Clip)

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

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"All dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous, for they may act on their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." - T.E. Lawrence (Seven Pillars of Wisdom)

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