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Spannered

we'd rather jack than fleetwood mac

About Me

we are a website , launched at the end of 2006. we used to be two other websites - overload media and musicalbear - both of which have now snuffed it. we cover anything that grabs our interest outside the mainstream media bubble, specifically music, art, film, literature and llamas.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/9/2006
Band Website: spannered.org
Band Members: musicalbear.com + overloadmedia.co.uk

the archive on our site features a smorgasbord of goodies dating back to 2000... tons of music articles, interviews & reviews, plus book reviews, film reviews, audio, art galleries, videos, random musings and various other emissions of cultural flatulence.

in addition to our older, archived content, since launching we've pulled together the following:

music interviews and features with disrupt , cylob , afroreggae , milanese , maga bo , kode9 , goth trad , nego moçambique , kone-r , dj paulão , warlock , neil landstrumm , timeblind , bass clef , fulerô o esquema , dj ripley , steve taylor and laszlo beckett (hand on the plow) & hanuman .

audio from surgeon , disrupt , mungo's hi fi , bass clef , timeblind , soundmurderer , dj ripley , hand on the plow , mago bo , marolo , filastine , tom giles , warlock , jim petherwick , goth trad , dub boy , kid kameleon , point b , jerome hill , camilo rocha , bobby corridor , skim , kone-r , dj paulão , fulerô o esquema , uberdog , heatwave , hanuman , neil landstrumm , aaron spectre , gary weasel , el kano & vex'd .

videos, artwork and photography from dj scotch egg , cunt & scorpion scorpion , fulerô o esquema , south central , tim claxton , ho fun , boo cook , nayana fernandez , william eckersley & alexander shields & leinz .

you'll also find talking cows , fantastic snacking suggestions , occasional and often pointless blog entries and the spannered 'oddcast' ... go take a look.
Influences: delia derbyshire, delia smith
Sounds Like: a robot james brown having sushi with györgy ligeti in downtown são paulo.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

SITE RELAUNCH!! - and tons of new stuff too

happy new year and all that. we've not bothered updating our murdochspace page for a while... so if you've not checked the site over the last few months head over there, as there's a ton of stuff you ...
Posted by Spannered on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 04:17:00 PST

NEW!! - interview with disrupt from jahtari + audio

hear m' now! spannered's just put up a spanking great interview with leipzig's laptop reggae master, disrupt, who co-runs one of the best web-labels on the planet, jahtari. and there's audio to boot: ...
Posted by Spannered on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:53:00 PST

NEW!! - cylob interview + mixes from mungo's hi fi and hanuman

just dropped over at spannered.org...master of braindance chris jeffs, aka cylob, tells us about the setting up of his new net label. there's also some great new audio from the ever splendid hanuman a...
Posted by Spannered on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:18:00 PST

NEW!! - milanese interview & june oddcast now online

Milanese makes some of the sickest music on the planet. We have a new, in-depth interview with him online just here, where he talks to Derek Szeto about his productions, life in Birmingham, and what d...
Posted by Spannered on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:21:00 PST

NEW!! - afroreggaedigital: internet radio from rio's favelas

while we were over in rio de janeiro hooking up with maga bo, we tracked down with the gringos who are currently working with afroreggae to launch an internet radio station in rio's favela of parada d...
Posted by Spannered on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:27:00 PST

NEW!! - maga bo interview and mix on spannered

spannered recently popped over to rio de janeiro to meet boundary-smashing dj/producer maga bo. for those of you who don't know him from his stupidly good mixes or his work on soot records, wordsound,...
Posted by Spannered on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:40:00 PST