Category Archives: Big Shot Magazine

Album Review: Scrimshire / ‘Bight’ (Wah Wah 45s)

★★★★☆ Not quite a spicy melting pot, not quite a slow cooker, Adam Scrimshire’s third LP is bound by the open air. A diarist to a day of road trips, campfire closures, a spot of impromptu partying, and facing forks in ...

Album Review: Gold Panda / ‘Half of Where You Live’ (Ghostly International)

★★★★☆ Bright eyed and bushy tailed, dieting on synth cycles streaming and straining to be first past the finishing line, it’s a rare occasion where you can find a Panda behaving with an upright, inquisitive vivacity as it commutes. The student ...

Download Guy Gerber’s ‘Who’s Stalking Who?’ LP For Free (With His Permission)

2013 is shaping up to be quite an excellent year for Guy Gerber. The Tel Aviv-based DJ/producer has taken on Ibiza with his Wisdom of the Glove Wednesday party at Pacha, and he’s been pushing his sound forward in a ...

Send A Raven: Game of Thrones’ Hodor is a DJ

Fans of Game of Thrones will know actor Kristian Nairn for his portrayal of the the simple gentle giant Hodor, defender and transporter of young Bran Stark who was paralyzed after…well, never mind…you’ll just have to watch the HBO show ...

Download: Kris Menace & Douze – “Wall of Love”

Prolific DJ/producer/remixer/serial collaborator Kris Menace will release Electric Horizon (Live in Barcelona) on June 24. Recorded at the legendary Razzmatazz club in Barcelona, Menace captured the sold-out show featuring tracks from his acclaimed Electric Horizon. In the run up to ...

Throwback Thursday: Big Shot’s 2011 Interview with M83′s Anthony Gonzalez

For Throwback Thursday we dial the clock back to 2011, when we talked to M83′s Anthony Gonzalez about his ambitious double album, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, which was regarded as one of the best albums of the year. Here we ...

Compilation Review: Gregor Schwellenbach / ‘Spielt 20 Jahre Kompakt’ (Kompakt)

★★★★☆ A daring orchestral, regressive vision remix project quite within its right to fly over heads, going beyond the conductor’s baton with rustic chamber house and solemnly threadbare instrumental pieces from the king’s quarters, a band of bewigged players and radicals ...

Album Review: Luke Solomon / ‘Timelines’ (The Classic Music Company)

★★★☆☆ After a compilation and alter ego LP within the last year, Luke Solomon is on the grind again. Whether because he has remixers in support to inspire him, or is just using another album as another mood, Solomon flies free ...

Contest Alert! Win Steve Mac’s ‘Mac’s House’ & Andrea Bertolini’s ‘Progressive House Tools’ from Loopmasters

Steve Mac, formerly half of Rhythm Masters, has been crafting quality house tunes since the late ’90s while Andrea Bertolini is known for his energetic live performances and technical wizardry. Loopmasters has joined forces with both gents for high quality ...

Disclosure Unpluggedgate: Duo Deny ‘Pulling A David Guetta’

Did Disclosure fake their live set at Capital FM Summer Ball last weekend? After a photograph of the UK duo’s performance showing the plug for their gear not connected to a power source, some have accused the pair of “pulling ...