And the 2011 award for “Track Which Oldsy Should Have Posted” goes to…this one. Why? Because he loves Thundercat, Austin Peralta and Flying Lotus and while I am a fan of all three, I am no expert. The track in question is ‘$200 TB’, a tune which only features on the Japanese import version of Thundercat’s album The Golden Age of Apocalypse and was posted, for the benefit of everyone not in Japan, on Soundcloud today. Produced by Flying Lotus and featuring Austin Peralta, it’s a rather beguiling affair and the silky bass makes me believe I could walk into a bar, click my fingers provocatively and have all the ladies swooning like some kind of jazzy George Clooney. Actually, I can kind of do that already, just without the finger clicking…and the women…and the going to a bar bit.

Thundercat – $200 TB prod.Flying Lotus ft. Austin Peralta by Flyinglotus

Buy The Golden Age Of Apocalypse at Amazon.

Flying Lotus (who produced the album) has been feeding the hype-fire like a real pro on his Twitter. From the sounds of this track though, it’s all going to pay off… for everyone involved. Those guys will hopefully earn some tasty bones while we are treated to an album full off space junkie-friendly, low end-driven, float-away beats.

Brainfeeder will release Golden Age of Apocalypse maybe in the summer, maybe in the Autumn.

We went along to the opening party last night and were treated to free beer, DJ sets from Mary Anne Hobbs and Grievous Angel and, above all, excellent photography. Shaun has been documenting the electronic bass music scene since 2005, taking in the rise of Dubstep etc. over here with Rinse and that before crossing the Atlantic and getting in on the LA beat action. ‘Underground’ features, among others: Skream, Benga, Flying Lotus, Gaslamp Killer, Roska, Mary Anne Hobbs, Ramadanman and there’s a sweet shot of some plugs too. If you want to sample the goods, this Bleep blog post will sort you out.

‘Underground’ will be running at Bank Street Arts in Sheffield city centre for another week or so. Shaun and the crew also want to take this exhibition down to London (and beyond) so get involved, spread the love. More and info and prints to buy can be found on the official site. The video below is a trailer for a little film put together for Sonar last year, you can watch the whole thing here.

Shaun Bloodworth: UNDERGROUND
28/04/2011 – 20/05/2011
10:00 – 17:00

www.bankstreetarts.com

Minds Locked Together (Trailer) from BRAINFEEDER on Vimeo.

Gilles Peterson latest show via iPlayer.

Taylor McFerrin is Bobby McFerrin’s son so if ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy’ is most certainly your bag then great because this is completely different. Blissed-out future-Björk sitting in a coffee shop in the ‘Dam is the closed I can come to a summary that implies I’ve put a shred of effort in.

Taylor McFerrin feat. Ryat – Place in My Heart from Simon Benjamin on Vimeo.

Endless Planets features collaboration with Strangeloop throughout and finishes with an epic track featuring The Cinematic Orchestra. I’m still getting my head round the thing really; it’s a good time and the aforementioned ‘Algiers’ is certainly standing out right now. I could say a review will follow but it probably won’t. It’s jazz man, subjective to the last so let it take you wherever you want to go.

“This is a step in direction of where I want Brainfeeder to go. True musicianship as well as some interesting electronics” – Flying Lotus

There appears to be no legitimate streams or samples going on but again, who cares. The tracklist might excite you? Jump in.

1. Introduction: The Lotus Flower
2. Capricornus
3. The Underwater Mountain Odyssey
4. Ode To Love
5. Interlude
6. Algiers
7. Epilogue: Renaissance Bubbles

Buy Endless Plantes at 7digital.

Black Sun is slated to drop on Hyperdub this April and just because you’ve been a good kid and read the whole post, I’ve attached a track from Memories of the Future. Wait, but where’s the tracklist? After the GD jump sunshine.

Note: A little while after I posted this Hyperdub announced that this isn’t the final tracklist on Twitter. I’ll keep you updated!

Kode9 and The Spaceape – Nine Samurai

Tracklist
01 – Black Smoke [ft. Cha Cha]
02 – Promises
03 – Bullet Against Bone
04 – Green Sun
05 – The Cure [ft. Cha Cha]
06 – Hole in the Sky
07 – Otherman
08 – Love Is the Drug [ft. Cha Cha]
09 – Black Sun (Partial Eclipse Mix)
10 – Neon Red Sign [ft. Cha Cha]
11 – Am I
12 – Kryon [ft. Flying Lotus]

Buy Kode9 and the Spaceape tunes at 7digital.

Going to have to make this snappy because I do actually have an exam in 40 minutes.
The session in its entirety with an interview as well is right here, wowser.

Cheers to Some Kind of Awesome for the heads up on this one. So much jazz, so little time…

Flying Lotus BBC Radio 1 Maida Vale Session by Some Kind of Awesome

Buy Flying Lotus tunes at 7digital.

Also, here’s a video from the Warp site entitled Inside the Codex: the Art of Cosmogramma. It’s short and a little pretentious, but you may as well watch it…you’d only spend the time touching yourself and eating Doritos anyway. The artist seems to live/work in a room reminiscent of some slow wizard’s watchtower from Merlin or another terrible fantasy show starring Mackenzie Crook as a birdman. The art is pretty sick though.

Buy Flying Lotus tunes at 7digital.