Infectiously fun pop from Lucky Numbers’ DARWIN DEEZ. The New York quirkster turns it up in this rather fresh video. Its depiction of colourful cut and stick fun in the sun might even take you back to childhood for a minute or three…
Pre-order the seven from Rough Trade here, oh and check out the European tour dates.
We’ve just started working with the mighty Punch Drunk records. Pushing the Bristol dubstep sound, these bass heavy releases hit way above their weight, how apt that their latest release Hyetal & Shortstuff – Ice Cream/Don’t Sleep 12″ is RECOMMENDED on Sonic Router!
There’s a great write-up on the Resident Advisor too.
Out on BOKA on the 18th January 2010, these remixes of 16bit’s Chainsaw Caligraphy hit hard taking the sampled chainsaw hook and making it even nastier. I supose calling up Jakes, Kanji Kinetic and PropaTingz to make remix tracks for a 45 featuring the original(aa) was always going to be big…
You know it’s christmas when the snowman theme tune drifts through the lounge to the crackle of a roaring log fire. Except this time the beat drops and you’re ravin’ UK dubstep style… This is Hereldeduke’s christmas gift to the world.
Hereldeduke main man Ollie Brown has been creating quite a stir recently. The single ‘Shudda’ received massive support from radio earlier in the year and the ten musician strong live show is not to be missed. Releasing on Brown’s own label “Rife Records” Hereldeduke refuses to be held down. Influences come from all over, oh and did I mention the track Helm Blues (a humorous take on the troubles of a Cumbrian Farmer) was on the final shortlist for the Tuborg Musical Comedy Awards.
Liam Mclean, aka JOKER, is Bristol’s boy-wonder of dubstep currently on “one of those 18-month runs of one-classic-single-after-another” for Hyperdub and Kapsize among others. At only 20 years old Joker started making beats because he “wanted to make the thing that was missing, that I wanted to hear” as he says in an interview from FACT Magazine. He has also been an in-demand remixer, taking on The Heavy “How You Like Me Now?”, Zero 7 “Everything Up”, Simian Mobile Disco “Cruel intentions” and Basement Jaxx “Raindrops.”
He’ll be making a rare live appearance in LA this Saturday dropping ill beats alongside hometown hero Nosaj Thing… Check out his set from Sonar this year as part of the Mary Anne Hobbs showcase to know what destruction to expect.
His tracks “Digidesign” and “Stash” appear on the current Five Years of Hyperdub compilation, alongside new tracks from Burial, Zomby (also on RAMP), and label head-honcho Kode9. Hit us up for your copy!
DC Recordings artist Kelpe drops his new album Cambio Wechsel on October 19th… In the words of Resident Advisor, “the [album] contains a mix of downtempo and dance floor-oriented material, with McKeown attempting to blur the lines between his nu-disco, wonky instrumental hip-hop and post-rock influences.”
In celebration of the release, Kelpe has made a mix with music from his likeminded contemporaries such as Gaslamp Killer, Nosaj Thing, and Koushik for the great UK blog Drowned in Sound… The tracklist and soundcloud link are here or direct link here (zshare).
Enjoy and let us know if you’d like a copy of the album.
From Prefix Mag...
The members of left-field indie rap group Anti-Pop Consortium, following their highly influential Arrhythmia, disbanded and began putting out solo records in 2002. Beans had a string of successful records, and High Priest and M. Sayyid released an album together as Airborn Audio. Following this seven-year hiatus, the Consortium is back with the first of two records planned for release on the Big Dada label. In a statement, the group said, “We needed time to grow and mature as artists individually. Now that we have assessed our strengths and weaknesses, we are ready to re-form stronger and better than we have ever been before.” Fluorescent Black is the highly anticipated return of these IDM-inflected rap icons.
Hit us up if you’d like a copy (insts also available). Four Tet remix forthcoming as well!
The new self-titled BOY CRISIS album drops the end of this month on B-Unique… Here’s what the New York Times had to say about it in their recent review…
“Highly licensable” probably isn’t the praise Boy Crisis has been striving for, but there it was, springing from the mouth of Alexandra Patsavas, the music supervisor behind “Gossip Girl” and “Grey’s Anatomy,” in a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly. But what could be sold by Boy Crisis, a Brooklyn-via-Wesleyan band (what group isn’t these days?) whose spastically seductive debut album “Tulipomania” (B-Unique), due this month, is teeming with joke-R&B. (Boy Crisis shares a member, Victor Vazquez, with hip-hop ironists du jour Das Racist.) Chromeo got here first, and better, and more sincerely, but Boy Crisis has honed its electro-soul schtick with nods to Prince, hip-hop and literature. Its MySpace page features two video clips for “Dressed to Digress,” one of its sharper songs. In one clip the group stands clustered tight, as if in a Sears portrait studio, and harmonizes glee-club-style. In the other, a young woman swoons over teen-mag tear sheets of the band taped to her walls. Images of Mr. Vazquez festoon her bedsheets. Soon the band members materialize, and at the moment of seduction it becomes clear: if there’s a mumblecore John Hughes making films, this should be the soundtrack.
And here’s their new video for the single “The Fountain of Youth”….
Big Dada artist SPEECH DEBELLE’s debut album Speech Therapy has been nominated WON the UK’s coveted Barclaycard Mercury Music Prize, beating out an impressive field including KASABIAN, FLORENCE & THE MACHINE, BAT FOR LASHES, LA ROUX, GLASVEGAS, FRIENDLY FIRES and THE HORRORS….
Her new single “Better Days” feat Micachu is out now… Here’s the video:
As always, hit us up if you require any of her music. Instrumentals also available.
Who is Zomby? Hard to say as he hasn’t had a Burial style reveal yet, but he IS one of the hottest underground producers in 2009, popping up in all sorts of unexpected places… Erol Alkan kills a dancefloor in Berlin, Prada reveals their 2010 Womenswear line, Franz Ferdinand and Animal Collective get remixed, whatever this is happens – and there he is… And now here he is with a new LP on Ramp to follow-up his last ground-breaking release on Hyperdub, out next week but already getting play from Annie Mac on the BBC and tons of great reviews… We have copies for our first five callers…. In the meantime, here’s his new track Godzilla…
