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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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