No more lists until August, cos I'm taking a two-week break. Track of the week si another tough one... after much consideration, I'm going with Deryk's "Call You Out" which has a real Massive Attack style trip-hop feel to it.

Jul 10 - Jul 16 2020

Reuben Vaun Smith hadn't intended to be a musician; he was supposed to be on the football pitch. As a young prodigy, he was signed to the Leeds United youth team as a rising talent and by 16 he'd been spotted and signed by Sevilla in Spain. But the dream was over before it really began.

At 18 he suffered a life-changing knee injury, catastrophically stopping his career in its tracks for good. With no back-up plan, Smith moved back to Yorkshire and contemplated what to do next. 

Not long after, his grandfather bought him a MIDI keyboard - and Smith retreated to the shed at the end of his garden and started to teach himself music production.

In a world full of sonic musical snobbery, a world full of the hierarchy of expensive hardware and software - Smith delivers a unique raw, live and improvised style using an inexpensive keyboard and a computer program given to him on a memory stick by one of the punters in his dad's pub. 

He joins a long list of musicians that were somehow detached from the rule-bound world of the music industry - making music as much for themselves as for anyone else. With no formal musical education and not over influenced by mixing techniques that may have slowed his raw stream of musical consciousness, here we present some of his earliest musical sketches and heartfelt outpourings.

Drawing on the Balearic style of the 1980s, Smith invokes the sound of warm nights, lapping oceans and a young man, in a Yorkshire shed, wrapping himself in layers of musical warmth and shimmering sonic landscapes. The wonderful world of Reuben Vaun Smith.

Warm Nights

Under The Thunder

Greg Foat - Nikinakinu

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Silver Ladders

Mary Lattimore - Sometimes He's In My Dreams

Printer's Devil

Premiering on Clash https://www.clashmusic.com/news/timothy-clerkin-remixes-gloks-projected-sounds

Dissident Remixed

GLOK - Projected Sounds (Timothy Clerkin Remix)

Yellow Brick Road EP

Cheerleader

Call You Out

'Gonna Get Me' is the new single from our new album that will be released on Wild Honey Records on October 9th. 

Pre-Order "Day Ripper" here: https://wildhoneyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/day-ripper

Recorded, mixed and produced by Brown Barcella and Alessio Lonati at T.U.P. Studio in Brescia.
Mastered by Riccardo Zamboni.

Booking Italy: alberto@hoodooh.com
Booking EU/UK: elborracho.bookings@gmail.com
Booking USA: justin@atomicmusicgroup.com
Press: giovanna@bigmouthpublicity.co.uk

Day Ripper

Gonna Get Me

Long-time (3+ years!) curator of a regular weekly 10 track playlist of legit, (mostly) new tracks from Soundcloud, dug up here, there and everywhere. The lists always start out as 10 tracks, but some subsequently get pulled from Soundcloud by the band/artist or the label, so don't blame me for any short lists!

Jul 10 - Jul 16 2020

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