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Bullion –‘Magic Was A Ruler’
Bullion’s You Drive Me To Plastic was released on one-sided 20 minute long 12″ through Young Turks last year. It gets a CD release on April 25th. Here’s a funky Cut Chemist-esque track from it which...
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Mo Kolours –‘Biddies’
Mo Kolours‘ debut EP arrived with the description of “Mauritian sega music”. How could you not listen to that? Well, it turns out Mauritian music is commonly known as “sega music”, so we’re not talking...
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NGUZUNGUZU’s electronic R&B mix – The Perfect Lullaby
Beautifully put-together mix of R&B with dark disco and electronic tracks for Dis Magazine by LA duo NGUZUNGUZU. Between this, The Weeknd and Frank Ocean, R&B is now a jumping off point for...
View ArticleIntroducing: Charles Bradley – Overcoming a hard knock life with soul music
It’s a heartwarming story. After years of toiling away, struggling through personal tragedy of his brother’s murder, working as a cook as a fallback and playing in bars, 62 year-old Charles Bradley has...
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Booker T. Jones –‘Representing Memphis’ feat. Sharon Jones & Matt Berninger
This soulful tune from Booker T features a surprise vocal collaboration between Sharon Jones and The National’s Matt Berninger. The surprise comes from how easy Berninger fits into the groove...
View ArticleIntroducing: Michael Kiwanuka – Channelling the voice of Bill Withers
Michael Kiwanuka is a 23 year-old soulful Londoner who has been supporting Adele on tour of late and just happens to sound like Bill Withers (and has covered him too). ‘Tell Me A Tale’ was produced by...
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Solange Knowles samples Boards Of Canada
Diehard Boards Of Canada fans aren’t happy. So far, there’s been cries of ‘sacrilege’ , ‘crude’ and ‘naive’ but obsessives aside, this track in which Solange Knowles sings over Boards Of Canada’s ‘Left...
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Blood Orange –‘Sutphin Boulevard’
Lightspeed Champion frontman Dev Hynes went and packed himself off to Noo Yawk a couple of years ago where he’s probably been hanging out with loads of new hipster friends in Williamsburg resulting in...
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Motor City Drum Ensemble –‘L.O.V.E.’
An extremely funky cut from Stuttgart’s Danilo Plessow aka Motor City Drum Ensemble. Once that rolling bass comes in just after a minute in, it’s game over. ‘L.O.V.E.’ features on Motor City Drum...
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The Weeknd –‘The Birds (Part 1)’
The new song from The Weeknd follows along the same path as the brilliant House Of Balloons mixtape. Since then, we’ve found out The Weeknd is Toronto-based Abel Tesfaye, we’ve seen about a gazillion...
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Download an Indie R&B mixtape
Check out this unwieldily-titled Indie R&B: The Evolution of Alternative and Experimental Contemporary R&B mix which aims to chart “Alternative R&B”, “lo-fi R&B”, “future soul”,...
View ArticleWatch footage from The Weeknd’s first ever gig
Abel Tesfaye aka The Weeknd (pronounced ‘Weakened’) played his first ever live show to a sell-out crowd who knew every word in Toronto last night. Above is ‘Wicked Games’ and below you’ll find lots...
View ArticleMayer Hawthorne – ‘A Long Time’ (video)
Mayer Hawthorne’s new single (and first for major label Universal) is an ode to Detroit and as such makes great use of dance footage from an ’80s Detroit cable TV show called The New Dance Show...
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Download The Weeknd’s Thursday mixtape
Fittingly, Toronto’s Abel Tesfaye aka The Weeknd waited until the nocturnal hours of Thursday night to post the second instalment of his mixtape trilogy Thursday and the followup to the brilliant...
View ArticleMichael Kiwanuka –‘Im Getting Ready’ (video)
I introduced Michael Kiwanuka as 23 year-old soulful Londoner who channels the voice of Bill Withers back in April and he’s releasing a new four-track EP – I’m Getting Ready in September. So much soul...
View ArticleThe Kanyu Tree –‘Slow’ (Laser Tom’s Slow Dance remix)
A huge slice of disco funk from Laser Tom & The Blast Crew on the remix of The Kanyu Tree’s ‘Slow’. Downloadable via Bandcamp later today. You can hear the original here.Slow (Laser Tom’s Slow...
View ArticleMichael Kiwanuka –‘I’m Getting Ready’ (video)
Previously. Kiwanuka plays gigs in Dublin, Belfast and the UK next month as well as an tour with Adele in the US in October. Dates after the jump. 25th October – Yardbird Jazz Café, Birmingham 26th...
View ArticleNiwel Tsumbu –‘S’all Vibration’ (video by Donal Dineen)
Take a diversion into a psychedelic unknown with Niwel Tsumbu’s ‘S’All Vibration’. The video was directed by the one and only Donal Dineen. The rest of Niwel Tsumbu’s new album of the same name doesn’t...
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Nicolas Jaar & Dave Harrington are Darkside
More from Nicolas Jaar after the weekend’s superb EP tracks. Darkside is a collaboration between Jaar and Dave Harrington (Jaar’s live guitarist) of spaced-out disco-funk music. The three track EP is...
View ArticleAlunaGeorge –‘You Know You Like It’
London-based post-dubsteppin’ R&B from AlunaGeorge (a duo of Aluna Francis and George Reid. ‘You Know You Like It’ is like a track that takes you by surprise on a DJ mix, an effortless cool...
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The Weeknd –‘The Knowing’ (official music video)
After months of crappy image-projecting unofficial music videos, you know that The Weeknd needed to come correct when Abel and crew finally released their first official music video. The epic Haile...
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Download the third mixtape from The Weeknd – Echoes Of Silence
I spent all of Monday afternoon listening to the first two mixtapes from The Weeknd, House of Balloons and Thursday. There’s enough quality material there that I really didn’t anticipate the final part...
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Lee Fields & The Expressions –‘You’re The Kind Of Girl’
UGH. January. The prevailing sense of impending doom is too much. People on radio stations allude to it, social networks and conversations are awash with anti-grind sentiments. The wind howls and the...
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Georgia Anne Muldrow & Madlib –‘Seeds’
Madlib’s hyper-accelerated release cycle with a new album or mix dropping seemingly every month has left me unable to check out recent projects but maybe his upcoming collaboration album with Georgia...
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THEESatisfaction –‘QueenS’
“Whatever you do don’t funk with my groove…”‘QueenS’ is psychedelic swagged out funk soul song from Stasia Irons and Catherine Harris-White more commonly known as THEESatisfaction.Recommended if you...
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Introducing: Sophia Knapp
If you’re on the hunt for something light today, Sophia Knapp is right up your brightly-lit street. Knapp is a New York lady who has gone solo from her band Cliffie Swan and will release an album Into...
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The Chromatics –‘Lady’
The third and best single (or video to be precise) from The Chromatics‘ new album Kill For Love after the Neil Young cover last week and the title track last year. ‘Lady’ is a perfect slice of suble...
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AlunaGeorge release EP through Tri Angle Records
I first featured the music of Aluna Francis and George Reid aka Aluna George in November last, citing their post-dubstep style as ripe for rap instrumentals which may go some way to explaining the news...
View ArticleJaveon McCarthy –‘Precious’ (video)
Loving this future R&B cut from Javeon McCarthy with production from Two Inch Punch. The Bristol singer has some quality material on his Soundcloud, some of it is below and ‘Precious’ is released...
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Onra –‘L.O.V.E’
This track first appeared last summer on Onra’s Soundcloud page as a demo. Since then, the French producer released his Vietnamese sampling-album >Chinoiseries Pt. 2 on All City and dropped the...
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Frank Ocean –‘Pyramids’
Dropped over the busy weekend, ‘Pyramids’ is the brilliant first song from Frank Ocean’s July-release album Channel Orange. At a running time of near 10 minutes, it’s a song of epic proportions for a...
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Listen to Onra – Deep In The Night EP
Coming across as a companion piece to Onra’s 2010 LP Long Distance, the five-track Deep In The Night finds the French producer return to that sleek electro-funk synth sound he does so well. Laser funk,...
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Flying Lotus – Lovers Melt Vol 3 mix
Flying Lotus dropped his third instalment of Lovers Melt mixtapes this week with the words “Another mix for your summer / some things you know / some things you may not”. It’s an hour of slow jaaams...
View ArticleJJ DOOM –‘Guv’nor’
DOOM and Jneiro Jnel’s JJ DOOM album Key To The Kuffs is supposedly coming out August 21st on Lex Records. After ‘Banished’, here’s ‘Guv’nor’ in which you get to hear DOOM do his best English...
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Listen to Solid Steel’s version of Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique –...
It’s taken three years for Solid Steel DJs Cheeba, Moneyshot and Food to construct their own version of the Beastie Boys’ album Paul’s Boutique (aka one of the greatest albums ever) entirely out of...
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Intro: The Insomniax – music shrouded in the sounds of London city
There’s an unmistakeable inner-city grimeyness to the music of The Insomniax. Like Ghostpoet, Burial and The Streets before them, the music of South London brothers Kai Gama and Dr Sydney Velvet...
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Download: THEEsatisfaction – The Anita Baker mixtape
The THEEsatisfaction ladies are back in Dublin next month on their European tour with Shabazz Palaces in the Twisted Pepper on November 16th. They’ve released a mini mixtape EP of new material called...
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Listen/Download: Awesome Tapes From Africa mix for Nialler9
I’ve been following the Awesome Tapes From Africa blog for as almost as long as I’ve been blogging since 2006. Brian Shimkovitz started posting MP3s of cassettes he picked up on his travels in Africa...
View Articleinc. –’5 Days’
The LA brothers Andrew & Daniel Aged aka inc. impressed with ‘The Place’, a gorgeous downbeat R&B track a month ago. They are signed to 4AD and will be releasing an album no world in February...
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Listen to the ESG electronic-funk of Gramme’s ‘Too High’
Here’s a band who first appeared in 1996. Gramme are a London band who didn’t really do an awful lot in the proceeding 16 years except influence those few who heard them, namely James Murphy who went...
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