PREMIERE: Fool's Gold - Street Clothes (James Pants Remix)
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James Pants—Tyler, The Creator muse and electronic wunderkind—meet Fool’s Gold. Fool’s Gold—summer staple and Afro-beat tribesmen—meet James Pants. Now that we’re all acquainted, think you guys could get together on “Street Clothes” and go all tiki-jazz on the joint in anticipation for Fool’s Gold’s new tour, starting Sept. 13, and to urge fans to pick up the superbly tropical Leave No Trace on IAMSOUND? Oh, you already did that? Well, much appreciated then.
Fool's Gold - Street Clothes (James Pants Remix)
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PREMIERE: DONSO - Mogoya
Fans of Krazy Baldhead, get giddy: The apple-juice-guzzling freak tweaker and Ed Banger disciple’s new project finds him fronting the French and Malian quartet DONSO. And while KB’s (aka Pierre-Antoine Grison) rich electronica textures inform the group’s sound, their style is definitively fusion—Afro-rock, pop, and jazz strains all tangle on their energetic debut. Use the fluttering “Mogoya,” rife with kora and keyboards alike, as your intro to DONSO’s eponymous EP, out on Comet (and for you lucky French kids, available for purchase right here).
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DOWNLOAD: The Very Best - Angonde (feat. Mo Laudi) (Remix)
Ever had the urge to hijack one of those Jeeps without doors, strap a Daiquiri-filled Super Soaker to your back, and speed around the beach, alternatively shooting the nozzle into your sun-drunk mouth and firing that sweet, sweet vacation juice at bikini-clad passerby? Click on The Very Best/Mo Laudi's “Angonde” remix and you will. It’s the preview track to Radioclit Present: The Sound of Club Secousse—the preeminent partystarters’ forthcoming compilation of their favorite African dance jamz, and all you positive energy people can pick it up on Crammed Discs on October 19.
The Very Best - Angonde (feat. Mo Laudi) (Remix)
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Tinny - Zingolo (Doorly Remix)
Glass and a Half Full Records (populated by the good people behind this) is a new project supporting the campaign celebrating Cadbury Dairy Milk’s recent fair-trade certification. “Zingolo” features Ghanaian MC Tinny and Paul Epworth (Florence & The Machine, Friendly Fires) and its profits fund educational programs in cocoa growing communities in Ghana—where Cadbury’s been sourcing cocoa for 101 years. Below, check the Doorly remix—a big Afro-beat banger that gets nasty at the two-minute mark, and help the cause by purchasing the original here.
Sounds like: M.I.A., Major Lazer
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou - Malin Kpon O
Among reissue labels with a specific focus — a time, a place — you’ll find none finer than Analog Africa, a favorite of Afro-minded DJs and fans the world over. As its name implies, the imprint dusts off the jaw-droppingly rich and diverse treasures of Africa’s happening ’70s, and its next sack of gold (coming in November) is a must-must: the second volume exploring Benin’s crazily prolific Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou. Don’t think of this as “just” some Afro-beat excursion — these cats absorbed and mastered every style of music that flashed across their viewscreen. Prime evidence is “Malin Kpon O,” a 1975 jam supreme that Analog Africa has been cool enough to share with us, with hot guitar licks and psychedelic organ bursts arranged around a killer Afro-funk rhythm. This magic could not have been made anywhere else in the world.
Orchestre Poly Rythmo - Malin Kpon O
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DOWNLOAD: Gyratory System - Cargo Cult
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Why do people hate Mark Ronson so much? The Londoner seems to attract an extraordinary amount of bile for someone whose arrangements are so basically inoffensive. Perhaps Ronson's problem is that his strings are just too heroic, to the extent that at times they appear to come tooting and parping from between Lois Lane's legs. Superman, as we all know, is incredibly boring. Not just the most boring of all superheroes, but probably more boring than 75 per cent of the mortal population, among which lurk Gyratory System, whose strings are anything but heroic - the instrumental quartet's sound is paranoid and pent-up, reassuringly human. For them, strings wriggle and throb like fraying nerves. They'll probably never have to worry about stopping a runaway train or get to gunge-race prime-era Teri Hatcher, but they're infinitely more interesting than Superman and that's what counts.
Sounds Like: Emperor Machine, Talking Heads, Valerio Cosi in a rush
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Gyratory System - Utility Music
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STREAM: NOMO - All The Stars + More
If only our home-made instruments sounded so fresh! A full-on orchestral band, with trumpet, home-made percussion, and a load of ‘distinct’ instruments, Michigan-based NOMO is walking in plain of its own in terms of musical style. Yes, they make it very clear their music ISN'T intended to be afrobeat, jazz, funk, but they may be closest analogies you're able to draw on the fly. Whatever they may be, their laced and looped rhythms and ambitious, animated syncopated beats urge you to groove, shimmy, jive and/or rumba. Check it below.
SOUNDS LIKE: ENO, Can, Kuti, Funkadelic
