After three weeks of living like a 75-year-old man who listens to the radio and drinks scotch in the dark, I finally got the internet in my new apartment. What does that mean to you? Well it means I can start posting regularly again and from my point view, it means less time pretend shooting the inner-city geese prowling the canal outside. Vicious bastards. What tune am I posting to accompany my triumphant come back? The Wideboys London mix of T2′s ‘Heartbroken’ of course. Probably not to everyone’s taste, but a bit of a banger.

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Danger EP is a free, 4-track release from Katy B and a group of long-time collaborators and similar talents including Jessie Ware, Jacques Greene, Wiley, Geeneus, Diplo and Iggy Azaelia. Come to think of it, a line-up like that should do a new Band Aid. They’d certainly produce something a little less confusing and woeful than “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” It would probably also annoy Sting and, in my book at least, that’s always a good thing…

Listen to the title track after the jump and download the full release over at Katy B’s official site.

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Don’t lose your shit like a teenage Beatles fan, but a new single from Burial is due to be released on December 17. Unveiled as part of a Boomkat newsletter yesterday, the release will comprise two tunes — currently just referred to as ‘One’ and ‘Two’ — and will run around 25 minutes. In terms of formats, there will be 12″, CD and digital offerings and it’ll most likely sell-out faster than the time it takes you to make a crap cup of tea, so stay alert and I’ll post more info as it becomes available.

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The b-side from their forthcoming Don’t Explain 12″, “Feel Me” is the latest slice of halcyon goodness from Atlas. The follow-up to Cities EP, which saw a digital release on Symbols earlier this year, it’s as rhapsodic and characterised by a composed charm as the artwork above implies. It made me do one of those smiles people always talk about, possibly the first one since I last killed…

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Slated for a December 7 release on 50 Weapons, Myriam EP is the latest 12″ from London production trio Dark Sky. Comprising four tunes — two of which you can preview below — it has been described by Fact Mag as “year zero grime” applied to a house framework. It has also been described as “music that could make sheep dance on two legs” by me, just now…so, yeah. What I’m trying to communicate is that it’s bloody good, but if you’re familiar with Dark Sky then I won’t even need to tell you that. Everything they do is usually faultless, they’re essentially the opposite of U2.

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The title track of Clamor EP, which dropped on Snowfall yesterday, this is a huge offering from Throwing Snow. Imbued with an apocalyptic grandeur, it builds up like the soundtrack to a particularly epic battle scene and peaks with the raw energy that characterises much of Sir Snow’s work. This could make a video of your grandad climbing the stairs seem like the greatest journey ever undertaken.

The remainder of the EP comprises two more new tunes — “Brook” and “Perca” — and a remix by Gold Panda. Yep.

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