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Jamie xx hopped on the decks for a BBC Essential Mix recently. Apart from the usual goodness we’ve come to expect make sure you wait to the very end for Jamie’s remix of Radiohead’s ‘Bloom’ from the Radiohead remix collection TKOL RMX 1234567, it’s insane.
You can also download another great Jammie xx mix this time for BBC 6 Music here.
Orbital — Belfast
Phanes — Lucky Woman
Ifan Dafydd — No Good
Harvey Mandel — Christo Redentor
Koreless — Lost in Tokyo
Floating Points — Sais
Wiley — Colder (Instrumental)
Fantastic Mr. Fox — Untitled
Pärson Sound — Untitled
DJ Deeon — Fine Hoes
Luke Vibert — Analord
New Look — Janet
John Tejada — Unstable Condition
Univac — Untitled (Track 1)
Aardvarck — Nosestep (Original Mix)
Jean Jacques Smoothie — 2 People
Instra:mental — Pyramid
Grimm Limbo — Fortune Favours the Brave
R A G — Rage (Spaventi &Aroy Raw Mix)
Ronnie Dyson — All Over Your Face
Jamie xx — Far Nearer (Bootleg)
Axel Boman — Purple Drank
Loosse — About You (feat. Yolanda)
Anette Party — Moreno (feat. Anita Coke)
Gino Soccio — Dancer
Mr Beatnick — Synthetes
Funke, Sacha vs Nina Kraviz — Moses (Stimming Remix)
Jamie xx &Gil Scott Heron — I’ll Take Care of U (Special DJ Version)
Genius of Time — Houston We Have a Problem
Austin Eterno/The xx — I Remember Shelter
James Blake — Libra (Edit)
Pangaea — Bear Witness
Holly Miranda — Slow Burn Treason
Peter Horrevorts — Siren
Chuck Roberts — My House (Acappella)
Virgo Four — Do You Know Who You Are?
Morning Factory — Diane’s Love
Karen Pollack — You Can’t Touch Me (Roc &Kato Vocal Beat Trip Mix)
War — The World Is A Ghetto (Special Disco Mix)
Marshall Jefferson — Mushrooms (Justin Martin Mix)
Radiohead — Bloom (Jamie xx Rework)
Hailing from Indonesia, aspiring beat student Maverick hit our facebook page with his Soundcloud link. We were taken back by his promise of talent.
Ranging from Distorted sounds to dark trip hop and like Scream Cheese below, subconscious funk, this is a producer to keep your eye on.
Maverick’s Soundcloud.
UK-based singer/producer Sampha is not new. He has been around for a minute mostly making his mark with various abstract electronic tracks and working heavily with SBTRKT. His Sundanza EP on Young Turks is definitely something to fish out too.
On new piano-based song ‘Indecision’, apparently a demo, he blows his smooth, weathered croon to aural perfection. His voice has the ability to send shivers up your spine.
Ryan Keen is an amazing acoustic folk artist. He is unsigned for now but the things he can do with a guitar are majestic.
And while we have caught him many a time supporting the lovely Lucy Rose at a number of gigs, now it seems soon you will be seeing him as the main headline.
Little Dragon is currently on an international tour for new album Ritual Union. During their stop in Ibiza they offered an impressive live cover of Crystal Water’s timeless dance tune “Gypsy Woman (La Da Dee).” BBC Radio 1 was on location and recorded the audio version that you can check out below, but first the original. Enjoy!
Our old friend Ghostpoet drops his third single from his Mercury Music Prize nominated debut album Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam. Entitled ‘Liiines’, its Ghost at his best with motivating piano and guitar strings twined with characteristic thoughts.
And if you liked the orignal the addictive remixes from xxxy and Lando Kal will have definitely send you potty. Be sure to purchase at Brownswood Recordings! Enjoy!
Liiines (Original)
Liiines (xxxy Dub)
Liiines (xxxy Remix)
Liiines (Lando Kal Remix)
This is an off-the-hook live mix from producer, DJ and rapper supreme The Last Skeptik. A mix of original instrumentals as mixed together live on the Livin Proof Radio Show on NTS Live, on May 5th, 2011. The voice you hear over the mix is DJ Snips.
Before heading over to SXSW in Austin, Texas, Jamie Woon sent us Glaswegian electro-head Hudson Mohawke’s remix of his song ‘Lady Luck’. Listen to this monster below.
A warm up to the release of his new, nine-song “non-LP” You Drive Me To Plastic on Young Turks, London based producer Bullion has done a pretty special mix of all the Canterbury bands from the 60/70s such as Robert Wyatt, Gong and Caravan among others.Apparently he got into Caravan a few years back. He then started buying all the vinyl from that scene that he could lay his hands on this is the consequence collection. Slightly trippy with injections of humorous interludes this is magnificently presented.
Canadian music magazine Spinner are previewing Shad K’s new album TSOL, out 25 May, on their website. Shad also takes time to explain the story behind each track, making for an interesting read to go with the great music. As always, the Londoner (from that side of the Atlantic) is on point lyrically, and the beats don’t seem to disappoint.
Stream all of TSOL here,
Yes, three of the last decade’s most innovative artists have formed a super group. While broadcasting on Rinse FM recently, Four Tet let us get a taste of what he, Burial and Radiohead’s Thom Yorke have been up to lately. Listen to ‘Ego’ below.
Burial, Four Tet & Thom Yorke: Ego (Radio Rip)
London’s Gold Panda (who we interviewed a few months back) makes the kind of techno that makes us like techno. Hear his single ‘Marriage’, off last year’s Lucky Shiner, with proper remixes from Starslinger and Baths, among others.
Gold Panda: Marriage EP by Gold Panda
image Gabriel Orozco
The Brooklyn-based band TV on the Radio are preparing the release of their fifth album Nine Types of Light in April. Peep the cover below and listen to the sweet ode ‘Will Do’, which is the album’s first single.
Pharoahe Monch is prepping the release of his new album W.A.R. (We Are Renegades) on NYC’s Duck Down records. ‘Clap (One Day)’, a track produced by Australian beatmaked M Phazes, has now been released.
Stream/download this conventional banger below.
Pharoahe Monch “Clap (one day)” feat. Showtyme & DJ Boogie Blind by duckdown
We’ve had our eyes on Mr. Marcus Price for a while now. Working out of Stockholm, Sweden, he an Carli have been delivering seriously danceable tunes for a while.
Crooked Teeth has remixed the pair’s track ‘Cronic in the Back’. It may be early in the week, but we anticipate a big weekend to this tune.
Marcus Price & Carli – Cronic In The Back (Crooked Teeth Remix) FREE DOWNLOAD by Ed Orable
When Stones Throw boasted that Jaylib, the producer duo comprised of Madlib and the deceased J Dilla, would have a previously unheard track on the eleventh instalment of Madlib’s Medicine Show series, anticipation spread far and wide.
‘Louder (Blast Your Radio Theme)’ has now dropped. Listen/download this raunchy tune below.
Russian producer and globetrotter DJ Vadim has the most downloaded mix on Mixcloud this week. Winter Wax is something to keep you real warm, delivered at the right time of year. Real nice!
Stream the mix below and don’t forget to peep our interview with Vadim right here.
Winter Wax by Dj Vadim on Mixcloud
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Stones Throw MC and soul vocalist (equally convincing as both, by the way) Aloe Blacc is preparing the release of his debut album Good Things later this year.
He already gave us the splendid ‘I Need A Dollar,’ and now he brings us his and Truth+Soul’s take on The Velvet Underground’s timeless ‘Femme Fatale‘.
NYC independent hip-hop legend J-Live is steadily preparing the release of an EP and album in 2010. First up was ‘The Way that I Rhyme,’ and just ahead of the single release comes its b-side track ‘Poetry in Motion‘.
Beatnik witnessed Justice Allah (as he is also known) tear down the stage at SOB’s in New York on Tuesday, and all we can say is that the new material is something to look out for.
Download both singles at J-Live’s Bandcamp.
J-Live: Poetry In motionJ-Live: The Way That I Rhyme
Don’t sleep, radio shows are the best way to find new music. And this new radio addition to Spine Magazine fits the bill.
Sounds of The Universe
Home of Soul Jazz Records, Sounds Of The Universe is one of London’s few remaining vinyl emporiums. Their Spine Radio show is an after-hours lock-in beamed direct from behind the counter.
Broadcasting monthly, it reflects the musical passions of both the label and the shop with jazz. soul and reggae rarities rubbing up against brand new dubstep, funky, house and more. The full tracklisting for this month’s show is below.
The show is be available to stream or download for 1 month from the Spine Radio player.
Tracklist
Steve Reid – Lions of Judah – Soul Jazz
P.E. Hewitt – Bada Que Bash – Now Again
Kellee Paterson – I’m Gonna Love You Just a Little Bit More – Jazzman
Oscar Sully & the Uhuru Dance Band – Bukom Mashie – Soundway
Moodymann – It’s Too Late For You And Me – KDJ
Black Lodge – Broughton – Black Lodge
Holger Czukay – Let’s Get Cool – Claremont56
Lette Mbulu – Normalizo – Claremont56
Beres Hammond – Do This World a Favour – Joe Gibbs Music
Matthew Larkin Cassell – In My Life – Stones Throw
Andreya Triana / House Shoes – Far Closer / Newports (Blend) – Ninja Tune / All City
Camp Lo – Luchini (This Is It) – Arista