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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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