Forthcoming on Permanent Vacation, Fin (ƒin) is the debut album of Barcelona producer John Talabot, whom you may remember from last year’s transcendent Families EP. Due to drop on January 27th, my levels of excitement for this release exceed even the delirium I experienced when I first saw an advert for Aquila. You’ll see why when you listen to the track below.
‘So Will Be Now…’ featuring Pional is nothing short of hypnotic, as rich textures collide with mercurial, downtuned vocals to produce a captivating 7 minutes of deep, pulsing house. Without exaggerating, I must have played this 10 times in a row already this morning. Maybe 11 times.
Forthcoming on Modeselektor’s 50 Weapons label, Transistor Rhythm is the hotly anticipated debut album from Addison Groove, the alias of Headhunter who made a huge splash in 2010 with ‘Footcrab’. Slated for a March 30th release, the first snippet of the album was unveiled yesterday in the form of ‘Sooperlooper’, which you can cast an ear (or two) over below.
Personally I think it’s a darn corker and I reckon the barn dance will be a-jumpin’ when I drop it tonight. Tobias is gonna freak! He’ll probably throw his hat in the air again.
Even though the last ever tune from The Streets was the conclusively titled ‘Close the Book’ — in response to the opening of Original Pirate Material which was ‘Turn the Page’ — indicating that the last page of that particular saga had been turned, it has now come to light that an actual book, written by Mike Skinner alongside Ben Thompson, is due for release on March 28th. There is currently very little information available on the memoir, dubbed The Story of the Streets, and all we know so far has been gleaned from Skinner’s recent tweets. “I wasnt going to have photos in my book,” he wrote earlier this week “coz i thought it was a bit silly but the wife said i had to”. Long story short, his mum gave him some pictures and no doubt some of them are in the book.
Personally, I’m going to buy it and read it. You should too. Unless you want to wait for my opinion on it first…although, I know you don’t really value my views anyway. ‘Close the Book’ is available for download below, because it’s relevant. I’m tired.
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The 2 Bears absolutely smashed it last year with their whimsical hit ‘Bear Hug’ lodging itself in the brains of many bear/electronic music lovers like a funky splinter. This year is set to be even more of a grizzly ride with their debut album Be Strong due for a January 29th release which will no doubt send us folks residing here in the ‘blogosphere’ (as people who write newspapers like to call it) bloody mental. First, however, we have been gifted — or at least, gifted the opportunity to purchase — a cracking remixes EP featuring some ball-busting edits of the Bears’ recent single ‘Work’ alongside the full version of the track itself. Employing the galactic talents of Toddla T, Oliver $, Supabeatz and Franky Rizardo, it’s a heavyweight line-up and the resultant tunes are more radical than your cousin when he wears that sun visor backwards AND upside down. Now that’s flippin’ cool.
Below is Toddla’s offering which features vocals from former Roll Deep member Trim as well as Scrufizzer and Trigganom and I guarantee that if you like it, you’ll like it. Have a listen and I’ll give you a bear hug…although I’m not particularly bear-like. It would probably be more of a bear skeleton hug. It would still comfort you though, you cold-hearted zombie you.
As prolific as a slutty frog, Dark Sky are always putting out ridiculous tunes. ‘High Rise’, for example, was definitely one of my favourite tracks of 2011 and I have spent many a night bouncing around like a sentient pogo stick to its rubbery bassline. Today I acted in a similarly mental yet happy fashion as, much to my delight, the trio decided to gift us mere mortals with a free track, entitled ‘Standoff’, as a slightly late but very much appreciated Christmas gift.
Of course, free track doesn’t always mean quality track and as one astute YouTube commenter observes, “usually free tunes are shit… not this one tho.” Although I do not agree with his use of “tho”, I am very much of the same opinion. With an offbeat, pretty chilled out vibe, this is big/massive/huge/awesome/[a positive adjective of your choice]. Download it.
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‘Light Years Popsicle’ is a fitting title for a collaboration between Joker and Rustie, two producers whose musical personalities would perfectly assimilate into the retrofitted future of Blade Runner and/or other similar sci-fi scenarios. If Chris Tucker was here dressed as Ruby Rhod, he’d catapult this tune into the stratosphere. Or beyond into, you know, space.
Played by Plastician on his Rinse FM show a week ago, trance chords mingle with electric guitaresque synth in an epic lunar concoction evocative of hallucinatory images featuring an ’80s rockstar floating through the infinite galactic night. Or maybe that’s just me…listen below.
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