letthemusicplay – 'Space' (Jacques Renault Remix)
We’ve got no idea who letthemusicplay is, and from the lack of information on him/her/them sent out with this single, we presume that’s how they like it. Either way, his/her/their debut singles comes with a blinding remix by DFA’s Jacques Renault which you can download below. Hey, maybe it’s James Murphy! Kidding. letthemusicplay – Space [...]
El-B – Selected Vinyls Pt. 1 & 2
Has anyone in the history of UK dance music had drums quite like El-B? So rough, gritty and rugged, yet so totally liquid at the same time – they’re basically perfect. Just ask Burial, Blackdown, or any of his other myriad admirers. A DJ called Mr . Revealomaniac has put together two all-vinyl mixes of [...]
Spaceghostpurrp – God of Black Vol. 1
Spaceghostpurrp has released a new free mixtape, God of Black Vol. 1. A frequent collaborator with the A$AP Mob (A$AP Rocky et al), SGP’s style mostly pays tribute to ’90s Southern hip-hop, with an ultra-slow pace that drips with sex, drugs and smoke. You’re probably as likely to hate it as you are love it, [...]
Salem – 'Better Off Alone' (Alec Empire/Atari Teenage Riot Remix)
It might have escaped some people’s notice that at the end of last year Salem (the reason witch house became kind of a thing that exists), released an EP titled I Am Still In The Night on IAMSOUND, who had released their 2010 album King Night. One of the tracks on that release was ‘Better [...]
D'Angelo – Live
It’s not quite a new D’Angelo release, but Sam Champ and Okayplayer have released a free mixtape of the ‘Voodoo’ singer’s highlights in the live setting. Download it below [via Fader].
Daniel Avery – 'Airstrike' (Tom Furse Remix)
The new single from London house producer Daniel Avery (a.k.a. Stop Making Me) comes backed with a remix by The Horrors’ Tom Furse, driven by a bubbling acid bassline. You can download it below; the full single is out this month on Relish Records. Daniel Avery – Airstrike (Tom Furse Remix)
Kyle Bobby Dunn – 'An Evening with Dusty'
Kyle Bobby Dunn – ‘An Evening With Dusty’ If eternity turns out to be glorious then it will sound like Kyle Bobby Dunn. ‘An Evening with Dusty’ was originally “composed & arranged on Christmas Eve in 2004 for an electric guitar, piano during coffee with Dusty and her mum” and doesn’t it sound like it? [...]
Jamie xx – 'Touch Me' (Instrumental)
Last night, London label Young Turks – home of the xx, Sbtrkt, Jack Penate and more – took over Australian radio station FBI for a second time in two days. In amongst several highlights (a short mix from Romy xx, a live session from new signings Chairlift, and a Rich Harrison tribute) is the instrumental [...]
Bebetune$ – 'Skyline / Reptile Online'
After inaugurating his hip-hop-leaning Bebetune$ alias late last year on INHALE C-4 $$$$$$, the eternally compelling James Ferraro is readying another mixtape. This one will be titled Silica Gel, and will be released under the name Bebetune$ a.k.a. Bodyguard, which we guess counts as a third current Ferraro persona. Ferraro will be releasing the mixtape [...]
Scuba – 'Flash Addict'
Scuba seemed to take a bit of shit for his last single, the hands-in-the-air trance banger ‘Adrenalin’, and frankly it was pretty unfair: you can’t expect someone to make eyes down dubstep and techno their whole life. When Scuba’s new album Personality was announced, we speculated as to whether the title was a reference to [...]
Photonz – 'Simple Pleasures'
The latest release on excellent UK label Don’t Be Afraid, who released one of 2011′s finest house records in Mr. Beatnick’s ‘Synthetes’, comes from Portugese techno duo Photonz. The rattling ‘Simple Pleasures’ didn’t make the final cut for the single, but the label are giving it away as a free download below. Photonz – Simple [...]
Hardhouse Banton – 'Capoira' / 'El General'
One of UK house’s most reliable figures, Hardhouse Banton (if you don’t know his 2008 soundsystem classic, ‘Siren’, then get to know), is giving away a pair of larger-than-life house tracks via FACT. You can download them below.
Ruff Sqwad – 2012
In Tom Lea’s 20 best Grime article from last year, he eulogized about the way Ruff Sqwad’s music seemed permanently to be “set at sunset … the most evocative square-wave synths stretched across the skyline”. Tinchy Stryder, the crew’s most famous member just Tweeted a link to a free-to-download new Ruff Sqwad EP simply titled [...]
Transformativa – 'S.L.T. Spirit'
This is a mash-up of a relatively well known-song by a once rather popular band, but don’t go racing forward to the next page in panic just yet. You could hardly be blamed for thinking that this is the last thing the world needs right now, but Transformativa is conducting a truly mesmerising wild and [...]
James Pants – Sludge: James Pants Sorrows Pt. II 2006-2010
Hip-hop / synth-pop / coldwave playboy James Pants just released a new beat tape, Sludge, for free online. The follow-up to last year’s JP’s Failed Rap Beats 2004-2008, it’s another instalment of music chosen from a “vast collection of oddities, soddities, and heresies from back in the days when I thought I could be a [...]
