It’s true that most of Austrian director Michael Haneke’s films are not the most accessible in the world, but his 8th feature film, Hidden, is his most accessible film so far. Like some of his other great works such as ‘Funny Games’ and ‘Benny’s Video’ , he focuses on families that are thrown into very difficult and unusual situations in which they find themselves becoming desperate, unable to cope and traumatised. Yet ‘Hidden’ is more than just a muse on [...]

It seems that somewhere between DJ Shadow’s excellent sophomore effort The Private Press and the recording of his latest (mostly) electronic opus… Josh Davis (that’s his real name, see) had something of an epiphany. Shocked by a near-death experience involving a London taxi journey, and the news of potentially life-threatening complications during his wife’s pregnancy of his two (as then unborn) twin-daughters, the Sampler / Turntablist / Navel Gazer decided things would have to change. And nothing brings out the [...]