choppy, electroid funk from ben butler & mousepad, backed with remixes from mesak, shigeto and brokenchord.

high quality mouse pad from get physical music... great

ben butler & mousepad, the new electric wizard on the block, are unleashing their debut album >formed for fantasy< to coincide with their forthcoming us tour with legendary futurist popsters deerhoof. the album, conceptualized by philip k. dicks hallucinatory mind, played by prog-rock legends magma and goblin, influenced by the sounds of uks emerging wonky pop culture with some good ol funkadelic thrown in the mix. it sounds out of this world but you still can move your feet to it. recorded in various places around europe (rotterdam, berlin and darmstadt)

the best of italo & euro-disco on vinyl lp. includes a vinyl-shaped mousepad.

the best of italian showman adriano celentano on limited vinyl lp. includes a mini-mousepad in vinyl optic.

zum jahresende und rechtzeitig zum fest gibt es das nächste highlight für die italo disco gemeinde: 10 original italo disco vinyl-scheiben in einer box plus mousepad im vinyl-look.

nordic ice meets spanish fire in the latest offering from fine grains records collaboration series. blais is a split ep featuring norwegian skweee boss beatbully and barcelona-based machine funk don fitzroy north. the release is complete with three distinct remixes by young scottish grime producer inkke, synthetic funk master joe howe (fka ben butler & mousepad) and one of the finest contemporary beats producers this side of the atlantic, mwëslee. the artwork comes from norwegian graphic artist halvor bodin. blåis , one of over 100 nordic words for snow and ice, occurs when snow falls on a glacier, is compressed, and becomes part of the glacier. over the course of 8 tracks, beatbully & fitzroy north squeeze the maximum from their respective mpc & synth setups to deliver an unpretentious and fun mix of synthetic funk with a punch. moments of minimality, sweet harmonies, bleeps, squeaks and bass are compressed into a gleaming crystallised form

spring 2006 was both cruel and exciting. radiating hot helsinki nights, too much light and vivid, restless dreams about music. while chucking down a glass of cheap brandy in a local bar the idea finally materialized: lets start a record label! a label that would bring people together. proud people. people thinking of music. people doing their own thing in their own way in their own basements. and most importantly, people who understood the meaning of space between notes. after 5 years, 16 records, 85 tracks and 44 artists from 13 countries it goes without saying that those restless dreams became reality. and so did the music.

erstes album des gefeierten franzoesischen instrumental hip hop/bass music/dubstep-produzenten fulgeance! -to all of you- bezieht seine einfluesse aus techno, afrobeat, hip hop und der uk-sub-bass-tradition. der macher des labels musique large wird von gilles peterson oder benji b gefeiert wie nix gutes und jettet mit vollem terminkalender um die welt. die cd enthaelt neben den zehn original-tracks noch remixe, die er von seinen reisen mitgebracht hat: von josip klobucar aus kroatien, brokenchord aus litauen, 1000names aus bulgarien, ben butler & mousepad aus schottland, baron retif & concepcion perez aus frankreich und yosi horikawa aus japan.