From what I can tell, West Norwood Cassette Library is the moniker of a South London producer who puts out records under the same name. And that’s pretty much all the information he’s giving away via his frustratingly uninformative blogspot, but at least that focusses the spotlight more onto the music the label is putting out, rather than the overall aesthetic.
It’s eclectic, to say the least. Continuity seems to have been thrown to the wind with WNCL, with releases dipping in and out of every era of dance music as if it were some sort of musical pick ‘n’ mix. The only one thing i can find that ties all the pieces together is that every track is seriously good. There’s no corners being cut here, and having put out 6 records throughout 2011, WNCL are working at a pretty fast rate for a label that doesn’t even have a facebook page.

Balboa by Don Froth, an awesome display of huge beats with the kind of song structure that’s equivalent to being shaken around inside a bag full of cats.

Unrelentingly subby, Abandoned Skip by Knowing Looks is one of the best examples there is of how Garage evolved into Dubstep and back into Garage again. Aside from being a brief musical history lesson, it sounds pretty fucking amazing as well.

Not content with what you’ve heard so far? All a little bit too 2010′s for you? How about a smashing track from the West Norwood Cassette Library himself that takes a look 20 years into the past and drags back those booming breakbeats kicking and screaming all the way into the future.

Remixes normally involve taking a song and giving it a slightly different tone whilst retaining a few defining characteristics of the original track. This one however has taken the original and hit the ‘convert totally different genre button’. Consider your breakbeat hardcore track successfully evaporated and distilled into a minimal house banger.

Want a piece of the action? Do your bit for the music industry by heading over to Redeye Records and grabbing some of these tracks!