We both adore those records that do everything with nothing, what they leave out as important as what they include. Version is one of those imprints that borrows heavily from a dub mindset, loads of delay, space and hypnotic rhythms. Orson heads things up by keeping with a brief that means all the output interconnects.

Check that Yak Mido for a sure fire percussive club no that always slays!

(No Dub of this on youtube but it’s great)

(Nevins putting a donk on it – don’t judge it until you play it out!)

Thanks to everyone who came down last Friday night, from our perspective we don’t feel it could have gone any better.

Great venue,  sound system, audience and the warm up was easily the best we’ve had to date.

Here are five we played that raised a cheer on the night!

This Friday night we are having a little soirée in one of our favourite new venues in the city (Blaklist) alongside the Never Never guys.

These two gents are currently introducing Belfast’s streets to great threads from around the world, as well as having amazing taste in music.

They have guest selection honours on the site this week before they kick off the music on Friday from 9pm.

Here are five sonic gems from never never hq and the reasons why…

Superpitcher – Snow Blind. Both of us are big Kompakt fans and who better to choose than Kompakt stalwart Superpitcher.

The Black Dog – Witches Ov. Was lucky enough to catch a rare live set in Fabric about 10 years ago. One of the best club experiences I’ve had.

oqbqbo – Linen Streams. Bit obsessed with Posh Isolation at the minute.

Tirzah – Devotion. Beautiful, imperfect pop, getting a lot of plays over past few months.

Milo – Failing The Stress Test. Fuck all that mainstream bollocks – this is proper modern rap.

So many (good) ideas. An explosion of styles and sound. I keep coming back to these songs for inspiration. A label that could house the brutal with the beautiful and make it work. To me like many ‘things’ the sweet spot is the early stuff. Records for the head, heart and feet.

There are very few producers in modern electronic music that can consistently give that goosebump feeling in the way that a Levon Vincent production can.

He seems to have that balance of not too much, nor too little down and always raw machine made soul.

It was impossible to pick five so here are ten LV essentials…

So it was 303 day yesterday but for some of us it’s acid every day, a classic sound that never dates and something we always find room for in our sets.

It did get me thinking about five timeless acid numbers that still sound as fresh as the day they were conceived though…

Still on a Manchester tip!

There is a shop here that unsurprsingly seems to have an endless stream of Factory records. I have a bit of a routine whereby I stop off on the way to the airport back to Belfast for a dig at the weekends. Recently I bought a couple of releases that I wasn’t aware of. One of those moments where you wonder why you didn’t know this stuff?

Anyway… It’s reminded me how ridiculously good, diverse and broad Factory and it’s offshoots were.

Five below that touch upon their genius.

Remember when MK was great?

No, well forget the recent tech house by numbers Marc Kinchen but in the early days, raw house so bloody amazing that it still works the room over today.

You know the drill by now, five still good to go below…