Little White Earbuds: Talking Shopcast with West Norwood Cassette Library Recordings @ MNS |  |
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Posted: 16 Mar 2014 10:01 PM PDT
 Bob Bhamra was by no means new to the music world when his West Norwood Cassette Library Recordings launched in 2010. As far back as 1996 the South East London producer had been releasing drum & bass, house and techno on some reputable labels under the names Plastic Soul and The Bob Bhamra Project. Though Bhamra hit on a small run of success, from 2000 he fell quiet again and it wasn’t until 2008s At Home With… by No.1 Astronaut that we heard from him again. Although the release was actually taken from old material, it showed Bhamra in full experimental mode as he dissected and stitched back together selections of old cassette tapes. Two years later the first WNCL Recordings 10″ was released by Bhamra under the elongated form of the name. It was a taut, dubstep/techno track called “What It Is” embellished with a Brackles remix on the flip, that together with the sublime homage to Larry Heard on the follow up, Mrs Fingers, all of a sudden marked WNCL as a name to keep an eye on. As the label started amassing new recruits for its releases, it became clear that there was no set style for the label, or at least if there was, it was buried beneath layers of open-mindedness. With this in mind, LWE quizzed Bhamra on the WNCL release policy, how he managed to squeeze an EP out of Ultramarine, and just how far reaching a moniker can be. Hot out of West Norwood studios as well, Bob mixed together our 20th Talking Shopcast feature with an exclusive clutch of freshly pressed dubplates and future classics. |
