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For this fridays guest mix we have the retro-futuristic duo Futurecop.
Formed back in 2007, Manzur Iqbal and Peter Carol started to create music together that reminded them of their childhood. Since then they have gone on to tour all over the world receiving support and acclaim from the likes of Tiesto, Diplo, Annie Mac, even Kelly Clarkson, and all through out this journey their sense of nostalgia has remained central.
2013 has already been a big year for the Cop with the release of singles ‘Misanthropist Wolf’ and ‘Superheroes’ gaining major support. Plus with the planned release of two albums coming later this year things only seem to be getting bigger.
For their mix, Futurecop have put together a typically poppy retro infused collection of tracks to get your friday off to a good start. Or any day for that matter.
‘Our mix is a collection of tracks we love, vintage, dancey yet heartfelt. All the artists are people we really admire, because they break down genre boundries.’ – Futurecop
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Tracklist
Rilo Kiley – Pictures of Success
DWNTWN – Hungry Hearts
Futurecop! feat. Kristine – Superheroes (Azure Blue Remix)
Futurecop! – Atlantis 1997
Miami Nights 1984 – Ocean Drive
Ocean Drive Lifelike – Discomachine
Pictureplane – Real is Feeling
College – Révélation
Futurecop! – Misanthr:)pist Wolf
Viceroy & French Horn Rebellion – Friday Nights
She – Headshot
Boys Noize – What You Want (Christine Remix)
Justice – Helix
Jamin Winans – The City Surf
Another great remix from one of our favourites—Four Tet.
Happy Friday.
A Thievery Corporation & Tycho collaborative EP is more then enough reason to press play.
An arresting release. Lets hope for more.
Words can’t describe our love for new artist MOKO right now. Effortlessly cool, with the gorgeous injections of trip-hop and early dance elements like Massive Attack joined with a whole heep of soul make ‘Hand On Heart’ another gem from the South London singer.
It’s a feeling we all get when we have found the next big big thing.
Get ready for a vocal extravaganza tonight as the amazing and extraordinary Boxettes prepare to marvel and delight at London’s The Jazz Cafe.
If you don’t know by now The Boxettes are a all female vocal group featuring the female world beatbox champion Bellatrix, and four of London’s finest new vocalists.
Support comes in the form of electronic wizard Debian Blak who himself as a number of releases with one fifth Boxettes— Neo Joshua.
Let yourself sink into the wash of this gem from rising producer Debian Blak.
Taken from his highly awaited new EP – Six Months From Mars.
More from Debian Blak and don’t miss his debut London headline show June 8th.
‘Old Friend’ is the breath-taking new single from exciting new Manchester based producer Frameworks.
Featuring the gripping, soulful vocal performance of JP Cooper, the track is taken from Framework’s new EP of the same name released on First Word Records June 3rd.
Frameworks first gained our full admiration last year with his brilliantly beautiful Vanish EP. Though the release remained relatively under the radar for many, with ‘Old Friend’ he has returned with a maturar, deeper sound sure to connect with new fans across the world and gain this aspiring new producer justified comparisons to the likes of The Cinematic Orchestra and Bonobo.
This has been on repeat since we got our hands on it, some of the most refreshing Hip Hop we’ve heard in a long time. Described as “Electro Hip Hop” the trio got more soul than a sock with a hole.
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POW! this beat is electric! Recently found, Moods has an incredible portfolio of boom-bap beats. Beautiful samples, snapping drums what more do you need!?
‘Love Is Real’ is off Moods recent Seasons EP.
Don’t miss the next PMOI Live as they present the premier performance of “Eric Lau & friends” Thursday 16th May at the Old Queens Head
It has been five years since London saw a live performance from one of our favourites Eric Lau, and he returns with a brand new all-star band which includes Tawiah, Kaidi Tatham, Rahel, Akwasi Mensah, Vula, Ben Jones, Alex Bonfanti and The PSM.
They will be performing songs for the first time from Lau’s gorgeous and highly awaited new album One of Many .
“Eric Lau & Friends” will be an ever changing and evolving live show, so we can expect something different each time
There will also be guests Budgie and Marshmello on the ones and twos.
Check single ‘Everytime’ and ‘WhereTo Go Now’.
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Eric Lau drops another gem in the form of his next single—the super catchy ‘Where To Go Now’.
It’s free to download and features the beautiful soul of another Beatnik favourite Tawiah.
“Where To Go Now” is taken from his much awaited new album—One of Many out June via Kilawatt Music.
Make sure you check the first single, the seminal soul track ‘Everytime’.
A dusty soul beauty from one of the grooviest producers in Los Angeles – Day aka DJ Day.
Taken from his new album Land of 1000 Chances and download for free via the player.
If the soul movement of 1960s had house music this is what it would sound like.
‘Soul Fly’ is the debut from Detroit soul sensations Dames Brown released via Ampliphonic Records.
We keep championing newbie Kirk Spencer and here is another gem from the Nottingham based musician.
We have all the faith he is destined for greatness.
Find more music on his Soundcloud.
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We are truly blessed to welcome electronic/cinematic composer Hiatus for our guest mix series.
Since he released his debut album Ghost Notes at the end of 2010, which included the paralysing ‘Save Yourself’ and stunning ‘Insurrection’, Hiatus has been hailed by the likes of BBC Radio 1′s Annie Nightingale, 6Music’s Huey Morgan, Tom
Robinson, Nemone, Steve Lamacq and recently XFM’s Eddy Temple-Morris who billed the atmospheric wizard as one of his rising stars for 2013.
May 13th sees the release of his gorgeous and much awaited second album Parklands, which contains the beautifully haunting lead single ‘We Can Be Ghosts Now’.
The single features long-term singer/songwriter friend and collaborator Shura and is another reunion since lament to lost love ‘Fortune’s Fool’ which once again cements the pair as a beacon for bedroom electronica fans the world over.
For his Beatnik mix, Hiatus has gone beyond the abilities of most, painstakingly exploring and compiling a spectacular tracklist inspired by his love for film soundtracks.
“Film music has been a huge influence on me since childhood: one of my earliest musical memories is of my dad rigging our television to a tape recorder so I could copy Toto’s closing theme from Dune over and over until it filled both sides of a 90-minute cassette. I’m not sure what it is about soundtracks that have haunted me over the years, but I think a big part of it is the narrative factor – the best soundtrack music lends an orchestral score to the story of our own lives, and can make even the most mundane moments seem lifted from the silver screen. This mix features plenty of my favourite pieces from the 80s to the present day, from major releases to minor arthouse movies. I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed making it.” – Hiatus
Watch the stunning video for ‘We Can Be Ghosts Now’ featuring Shura.
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Tracklist
Ry Cooder: Houston In Two Seconds (Paris, Texas)
Max Richter: The Haunted Ocean 1 (Waltz With Bashir)
Jon Hopkins: Candles (Monsters)
Vangelis: Damask Rose (Blade Runner)
Thomas Newman: Angela Undress (American Beauty)
Cliff Martinez: We Don’t Have To Think Like That Anymore (Solaris)
Angelo Badalamenti: Theme From Twin Peaks (Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me)
Gustavo Santaolalla: Lait (Biutiful)
Michael Andrews: Carpathian Ridge (Donnie Darko)
Antony Partos: Animal Kingdom Theme (Animal Kingdom)
Neil Young: Guitar Solo 5 (Dead Man)
Jon Brion: Peer Pressure (Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind)
The Cinematic Orchestra: Dawn (Man With A Movie Camera)
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: What Must Be Done (The Assassination Of Jesse James)
Craig Armstrong: Slow Movement (Romeo + Juliet)
Thomas Newman: Road To Perdition (Road To Perdition)
Wojciech Kilar: Love Remembered (Bram Stoker’s Dracula)
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: Sorya Market (The Girls Of Phnom Penh)
Michael Nyman: The Embrace (The Piano)
Brian Eno: Prophecy Theme (Dune)
Hans Zimmer: A Way Of Life (The Last Samurai)
Jonny Greenwood: Open Spaces (There Will Be Blood)
Gustavo Santaolalla: Tema Amores Perros + Atacama (Amores Perros)
Another Beauty from Pedestrian. Welcome to the weekend.
Young Fathers is an alternative hip hop group based in Edinburgh. In 2008 they recorded their first album—Inconceivable Child… Conceived, but it wasn’t untill three years later when they dropped the the percussively lush and darkly intoxicating mixtape Tape One as a free download and limited edition cassette that this psychedelic hip hop boy band really started to turn serious heads.
NME dubbed the Scottish trio “locked somewhere between De La Soul and 3T, but re-imagined for the hipster generation” and others have said they “remind you of the sweet Lofi-Street-Sound of a nice old Ghetto-Blaster”
‘I Heard’ is taken from their Tape Two dropping June 11 via Anticon.
Atoms of Peace are an experimental rock/electronic supergroup formed back in 2009.
Consisting of Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, longtime Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, Joey Waronker of Beck & R.E.M. and Brazilian instrumentalist Mauro Refosco of Forro in the Dark
Taken from their debut album, Amok which dropped February 2011.
