Artist: Benin City

Before the iPod and shuffle, the only option if you wanted to flit randomly between musical styles was a compilation CD or a multi CD changer, a machine that once stuffed with your favourite discs would seamlessly blend from one album to another with only a great clanking noise to hint at the switch. The only other choice was the "producer" album or to give them their official name "faceless producers". In the late eighties and early 902s they were everywhere, Coldcut, Bomb The Bass, S'express, Beatmasters, and later Leftfield. The music critics hated them, sniffing that their albums [...]

This is an introduction for anybody who hasn't already discovered the multi talented... Musa Okwonga: No he isn't one of City's latest signings, but I haven't seen him in a match so you never know... Musa, originally from west London has a resume that make some of us jealous (I know I am !) He gained a scholarship to Eton, then studied law at St. Johns College in Oxford before joining a prominent law firm in that same [...]

• Benin City - PSH Baby (Demo Version)
• Benin City/Musa Okwanga - The Flight

It look's like you don't have Adobe Flash Player installed. Get it now. "All work and no play make Jack a dull boy!" resonates the repeating reprising refrain from Benin City's lead track "Work" from their EP " Invisible Cake ". The phrasing, whilst unoriginal, is poignant and surmises the track "Work", a musical expression of the mind numbing, spirit crushing nature of the 9-to-5 grind in a perfect and [...]

London-based five-piece band Benin City is one potent combo, blending several sounds into their Afrofunk mix, from the expected (the James Brown-style sax-and-drums rhythm section) to the less so, including vocalist Musa's spoken-word, The-Streets -like interjections and one mean electric cello. "Boogieman," from their debut EP Invisible Cake, really shows off Benin City's ability to mix heavy groove with social commentary, a track about the increasing level of suspicion and surveillance in UK society. And as you'll see from their YouTube video below, bet you'll want to catch them live... Benin City: [...]

• Benin City - Boogieman

Pictured: Melodica, Melody & Me Bukkake is shaping up to be one of London's most forward-thinking electronic nights, with an ambience of all things dark and moody: an arcade-esque environment with projections of anime, cult films and computer games. Driving forces are IDM 'Intelligent Dance Music' (think early Aphex Twin), Ambient, Minimal Techno and Dubstep, Japanese animation and cult science fiction. Live bands set to play Bukkake at Madame Jojo's, London Wednesday 10th September, 2008: My Panda Shall Fly (IDM/Electronica/Dubstep) Sample-heavy, [...]