The new Hercules and Love Affair album called Blue Songs. Eagerly awaited and due for release on Moshi Moshi on 31st Jan (can't wait to get the 12"). As I expected its fucking amazing, housey beats and some nice down tempo bits all with smooth, smooth as hell vocals, cant really ask for anything better to dance to. Nice one to Andy and Kim for totally killing it on this record!!
The xx have taken over the world recently and thats a real good thing for a band like them. Its not very often a band puts together an album as seamless as it is, a pure body of work, solely made by themselves and totally for themselves. The world deserves to hear what they have created and they deserve to show us.
To celebrate this, listen to these remixes/tunes that have that same emotion embedded into each bar, wait for the hairs on the back of your neck to stand up.......
The following track is a solo track from beat maker Jamie xx, entitled Far Nearer, its being released on Numbers Records soon. Sounds a bit like if Burial were a steal band....enjoy....
Jamie xx- Far Nearer
This next track is a mindblowingly good Four Tet remix of The xx- VCR. Starting out with the classic Four Tet shuffling drum rhythms with Romy and Oliver's soft ghostly vocals overlayed. Then at 2.57 a slightly speedier VCR melody kicks in and your ears prick up as it starts rolling from this point, gently growing and swirling you into dreamland. Amazing track....
The xx- VCR (Four Tet Remix)
Up next is a remix of a remix of a cover (complicated? its not). The xx remix of Florence's cover of The Source and Candi Staton's '86 disco track gets remixed by The Very Best. It has been done amazingly well keeping the xx version fully alive but adding vocal harmonies, and tropical percussion. All together very tasty....
Florance and the Machine- You Got The Love (xx remix) (The Very Best Version)
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Been quiet on the blogging front as summer was too much fun. Lots of time spent riding bikes and playing in parks, out drinking and partying till late every night. This left very little time for updates, but now its time to start over as the nights draw in and I spend an increasing amount of time on the net.
This awesome remix/tribute to Arnold Schwarzenegger, made by Luke Million, (keys player in The Swiss) with the help of an edit of the Original track by ATBC. The original track coming from Arnolds Total Body Workout LP released in the early 80s. (Yes he had his own work out LP- Discogs)
Anyway enough background bullshit, this tune is a dirty synth disco, groove laden dancer. When Arnold starts instructing its just ridiculous. Check it out!
Border Community head honcho James Holden has been the next in line to release a compilation in the DJ-Kicks series.
In true Holden style he oozes seamlessly through krautrock, cosmic disco, 80's new wave, electronica and techno, in a way only James Holden can.
If you were lucky enough to go to the launch party last friday at Village Underground you would have witnessed a mindblowing evening of fun with the music running over till 8am! Unfortunatly I was in Greece and missed out but reports have made me very jealous.
Back to the mix, Holden has made a new tune exclusively for the mix which is is first bit of new material since 2006! It sounds sweet as hell, check it out below:
Tracklist
01. Piano Magic - Wintersport / Cross-Country
02. Grackle - Disco (Musiccargo Remix)
03. Mordant Music - Olde Wobbly
04. Maserati - No More Sages
05. Caribou - Lemon Yoghourt
06. Luke Abbott - Soft Attacks
07. Mogwai - The Sun Smells Too Loud (Holden Remix)
08. Kieran Hebden / Steve Reid - Departure
09. Ursula Bogner - Punkte
10. Eric Copeland - Auto Dimmer
11. Mit - Rauch (Luke Abbott Remix)
12. ARP - Potentialities
13. Lucky Dragons - Open Melody
14. Holden - Triangle Folds (DJ-KiCKS)
15. James Ruskin - Definition Of
16. Legowelt - Flight Of The Jupiter
17. Walls - Gaberdine
18. Lukas Nystrand - Never Fail (Vocal)
19. Didier Pacquette - Arwen, Namarie
20. SS Pyramid Snake - Catacomb City
02. Grackle - Disco (Musiccargo Remix)
03. Mordant Music - Olde Wobbly
04. Maserati - No More Sages
05. Caribou - Lemon Yoghourt
06. Luke Abbott - Soft Attacks
07. Mogwai - The Sun Smells Too Loud (Holden Remix)
08. Kieran Hebden / Steve Reid - Departure
09. Ursula Bogner - Punkte
10. Eric Copeland - Auto Dimmer
11. Mit - Rauch (Luke Abbott Remix)
12. ARP - Potentialities
13. Lucky Dragons - Open Melody
14. Holden - Triangle Folds (DJ-KiCKS)
15. James Ruskin - Definition Of
16. Legowelt - Flight Of The Jupiter
17. Walls - Gaberdine
18. Lukas Nystrand - Never Fail (Vocal)
19. Didier Pacquette - Arwen, Namarie
20. SS Pyramid Snake - Catacomb City
One of our residents here at the Social, Jack Wilson, has recently started broadcasting his musical thoughts on XStream East Radio.
The weekly show called Rhythmatism is broadcast every Tuesday night and is also available on demand from the show website for catch up.
Jack aims to bring us music and sounds from the underground, and far reaches of the musical spectrum, giving us the chance to find out some new and intriguing musical gems, from artists, to labels, to influences.
Listen to the great first show here. (The first song is breathtaking)
Tracklist:
Wanderings- Spirituals
Tremel- Glasser
Imuhar- Group Bombino
Electriconne- The Lloyd Miller Trio
Onset - Beyond Clouds- Dolphins Into The Future
Camera '84- Growing
...And the World Laughs with You (ft. Thom Yorke)- Flying Lotus
Latin Lover- Mi Ami
Ghostrider- Suicide
Fright Night (Nevermore)- Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
antherm berlin (for the kingdom of elgaland-vargaland)- Alva Noto
Erosion of time- The Advisory Circle
Bear Creek- Rangers
Tremel- Glasser
Imuhar- Group Bombino
Electriconne- The Lloyd Miller Trio
Onset - Beyond Clouds- Dolphins Into The Future
Camera '84- Growing
...And the World Laughs with You (ft. Thom Yorke)- Flying Lotus
Latin Lover- Mi Ami
Ghostrider- Suicide
Fright Night (Nevermore)- Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
antherm berlin (for the kingdom of elgaland-vargaland)- Alva Noto
Erosion of time- The Advisory Circle
Bear Creek- Rangers
Disco is the name of the game, and who better to be the dealer than disco diva Bottin.
Here he is repin' hard with a disco podcast for PIG magazine.
Bottin had this to say:
“This mix is called The Right Knobs and I guess it different from my usual
mixes, where I normally feature quirky music for listening purposes.
In this one I put all tracks that I’ve been playing out and brought with my
on the road. So I guess it’s almost a club mix.
It also features 2 still unreleased (and therefore exclusive to this mix)
re-edits. No tracklist, though :)”
Get your dancing shoes on for this one and give it a last dance for the bank holiday!!!
Pure disco sexyness......... WOOOWEEEEE
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