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About

Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

Around a hundred and sixty sources, in English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Italian: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.

Cover of Zim Zim — Cover via the Cover Art Archive ↗

Album · Silver Camel · released Feb 2003

Zim Zim

Billy Boyo

XLR rating

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Out of 10 · awaiting a listen by the desk

Press score

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Not collected yet · the reviews we read are linked below

Spotify ↗Apple Music ↗Bandcamp ↗YouTube ↗

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Tracklist

01Jamaica Nice—:—SGR
02Dub Freeze—:—SGR
03Zim Zim—:—SGR
04Stagolee Stylee—:—SGR
05Dreadlocks Party—:—SGR
06Dread Skank—:—SGR
07Every Mockell Tell—:—SGR
08Got To Say It—:—SGR
09Iron Woman—:—SGR
10Vote For Me—:—SGR
11I Like Your Something—:—SGR
12B.B.s Posse—:—SGR

12 tracks · Titles and lengths from MusicBrainz ↗ (CC0), checked 2026.11.04 · tracks: Skip · Good · On repeat, by the desk, after listening

The desk’s take

Awaiting a listen.

When someone on the desk has heard the whole record, they write a paragraph here and sign it

What the press said

11.04Billy Boyo :: Zim ZimAquarium Drunkard ↗
Soundsystem check. A lost star of early ’80s dancehall, Billy Boyo was just fourteen when he recorded Zim Zim in London in 1983.

Headlines and short excerpts from the stories we read, each linked to its source · more appear as the press publishes them

Release data: MusicBrainz ↗, matched from our headlines on 2026.11.04