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Nigh on six minutes of propellant drone havoc here from Brooklyn trio These Are Powers, sounding like they've crammed a gang of electric eels into the innards of a jackhammer and/or used a particle accelerator as an instrument for club music. It's cribbed from a new 12-inch for RVNG, which means another immaculately-crafted vinyl package with cover art we'd gladly hang on our wall. Get one for yourself here.
Northern Soul was a rough-and-tumble British thing, but far be it from the Swedes to not do anything more cleanly than its originators. Moneybrother aka Anders Wendin has already won a Grammy, notched a number one album, and, somewhat bafflingly, launched his own brand of soup–all in his home country of Sweden. With "Born Under A Bad Sign" (not an Albert King cover, but produced by Bjorn Yttling of Peter Bjorn & John) and the new album from which it stems, Real Control, Wendin's looking to make inroads into the U.S., which shouldn't be too hard since "Come On Eileen" is still on like ninety percent of the jukeboxes we encounter. The LP's out in April via Bladen County.
Saheer Umar and Liv Spencer (also of DFA's Still Going) have only made one single as House Of House, but they made it one worth remembering: 2009's multi-part piano-and-vocal-house epic, "Rushing To Paradise". The unenviable task of remixing its rapturous, near-perfect twelve minutes for a 2010 re-release on Pete Tong's White Label fell to a worthy candidate–legendary, maniacal disco and house selector DJ Harvey. Harvey's version cools things out a bit, latching onto a circular groove and swapping the piano for decaying sheets of modular synth. It hits all the same pressure points, just in a mildly different way.
"Rushing To Paradise" is out now via Pete Tong's White Label.
Typically ecstatic stuff from CFCFhere as he sets about stuffing pills down the throat of teen pop boy Fabio Lendrum, bejeweling his original version of "Trouble" with pianos that sound played by the sun's crepuscular rays and synths that tickle like gut pangs. I love it when pop hides its true intentions - CFCF always seems to be wiring up more subtle versions of this and this; god bless him for it.
Initially released as a collaboration with Brooklyn DJ Lauren Flax, "You've Changed" has been rearranged for Sia's forthcoming fifth album, We Are Born, which is due later this spring. The newer version, produced by Grammy-nominated producer Greg Kurstin, hasn't shed its club-ready sequins, just slowed down to a slinkier pace and traded synth pads for clean guitars and ascending arpeggios, or, more simply, house for disco.
The Australian singer just announced a tour of the U.S. around her still-unconfirmed release date. That itinerary, which includes a stop at Coachella, is after the break.
Our West Coast partners at Dim Mak are rebooting their New York party Cloak & Dagger this Thursday (2/11) at Santos Party House, with a line-up that pulls equally from both coasts (and beyond). Crusty Brooklyn rappers Ninjasonik and L.A. beat juggler DJ Fashen top a bill that includes Japanther, Team Facelift, The Auctioneers, DJ Jonny Famous, and Gina Turner, who will helm the downstairs booth with help from some "(not so) secret European guests". Hmmm. Anyway, we're co-presenting and giving away three pairs of tickets, so if you want to go for free, send an email to contests@rcrdlbl.com with the subject "CLOAK & DAGGER" and we'll holler on Thursday morning if you've won.
Pre-sale tickets are also available here and the full flyer is after the jump.
Heavy-on-the-sublime Danish duo Syntaks don't need pretty, ethereal videos for us to enjoy their music, but who doesn't like pretty, ethereal videos? Directed by Syntaker Jakob Skott, the above clip for "Blue Sunshine" (from the Ghostly-released Ylajali) layers warped found footage over slo-mo portraits of Anna Cecilia, Skott's bandmate and partner. So, add "romantic" to that previous list of adjectives. An MP3's below for take-home vibes.
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