The latest installment in our sporadic yet always satisfying mix series comes courtesy of a producer I’ve been posting a fair bit about recently. Hailing from Glasgow, Mirrors is a high-calibre architect of the house and garage variety, although recently exhibited his polymathic talents by dropping a stellar hip-hop release in the form of Superior EP.
Clocking in at just under 40 minutes, the mix itself is a compelling exploration of new house music with throwback elements. Featuring tunes from the likes of Synkro, Boddika & Joy Orbison, Mosca, Jack Dixon and Mirrors himself, the track that really stands out is Ce Ce Penniston’s dance classic ‘Finally’. Honestly, including that was a master stroke. I first listened to the whole thing in my car and if anybody had been watching me when that came on, they would have seen me transform into a ’90s backing dancer trying to steal a little bit of limelight. It made me genuinely wonder if I was born into the wrong generation…
Listen after the jump via Mixcloud or download here.
Rumoured to be part of a forthcoming EP on Hypercolour, ‘Eva Mendes’ is another huge look from the brilliant mind of London’s Mosca. I’m convinced he named it after Ms Mendes on the off-chance that she’d somehow get to hear it and think “Wow, Mosca’s a genius. I absolutely must meet him and satisfy his every need.” Of course, if she did say that, she’d be bloody right. Plus, you can’t really blame Mosca for trying, Training Day made me want to quit my life and hang on Eva’s back full-time like a baby koala.
Due to drop in May, this is going to be reason your Grandad tweaks his knee at the old folks’ village hall bash. Those pensioners sure know how to get down.
Yes, I know, it’s almost Monday. It’s time to pretend to be a normal person and tuck in your shirt. It’s time to wonder why you can never follow through on the ideas you come up with at 4am on a Saturday morning. It’s time to answer to someone else and accept that you’re no longer fully in control. It’s time to drink coffee all day and assume that you cannot function properly without caffeine. It’s time to care about stationery supplies, spreadsheets and powerpoint presentations. It’s time to look at your watch and genuinely give a fuck what time it is…
Posted today by the good folks over at The Guardian, this is a full-length stream of Be Strong, the forthcoming album from Joe Goddard and Raf Rundell, a duo collectively known as The 2 Bears.
Having listened to the whole thing this afternoon, I can assure you of its deeply groove-endowed and occasionally eccentric nature, which had me nodding my head like one of those springy door stops on a particularly funky dose of speed (in this instance, speed is a concoction of Ribena and Cherry Coke). Of the tracks that I had previously not heard, ‘Get Together’ really stood out for me, with the short portion of horns giving me a mad case of dance-by-yourself-but-still-look-around-to-acknowledge-fake-people. I’m pretty sure it will have the same effect on you. Unless you have friends because then you can dance with actual people.
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.
People may walk past our window and scream “Scrooooge!” while shaking their fists, but we can be generous souls here at Box Musique and to prove it we’re giving away 2 pairs of tickets to Triangle in London on December 2nd. Of course, in reality, it’s the guys over at Triangle who are giving away the tickets and we are merely facilitating such generosity, so don’t give us all the credit…but do give us some.
In terms of the actual event, Hyperdub’s Ossie is headlining proceedings with his blissful brand of organically-inspired house ready to get you moving like a centipede on a trampoline or possibly even a millipede on a trampoline. Alongside him is another purveyor of chilled yet optimistic vibes in Hackman, Take Record’s James Fox and the Triangle resident 2-22′s is the final piece of the beautiful puzzle. Basically, if you’ve got a place in your heart for the deep and groovy, then this is your thing. Or maybe I should change “thing” to “ting” to sound a bit cooler…and maybe not use the word groovy, ever.
How to Enter (In Bold to Save Scanning Time)
To enter all you’ve got to do is head over to that Twitter website and tweet a link to this post with the hashtag #wintriangle included before November 30th and then I’ll sift through all [4] of the entries and pick out one at random. If you’re interested in our ‘random’ method, last time we ran a comp Oldsy wrote everyone’s name on a grape and threw a bowl at me…I caught one in my mouth and BOOM. Winner. We’ll do something similar this time, maybe with knives and a spinning wheel. Why are you still reading this? Enter the damn thing!
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