PREMIERE: Plan B - The Recluse (Netsky Remix)
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Plan B's (fairly) recent transformation from guitar-scratching acoustic rapper to crooning soul boy isn't the only retroactive thing going on here. Netsky's remix smothers "Recluse" in the sort of smooth drum breaks and bass slide that began cropping up in 'liquid' drum'n'bass around the turn of the last century—around seven years ago to the day, I was settling into my university halls for Freshers' Week, claiming my own bit of sonic territory by blasting Logistics' "Together VIP" through the walls of irked halls mates. If you're reading, Chinese Alvin, I'm sorry I drowned out your mid-afternoon karaoke sessions. Actually I'm not, you've got a fucking terrible singing voice. Anyway, that's all liquid under the bridge now, and deeply irrelevant—"Recluse" is out as a single through Atlantic on October 4.
Plan B - The Recluse (Netsky Remix)
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Nitin Sawhney - Last Train To Midnight (Gloom World Mix)
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Nitin Sawhney is a thinking man’s musician. His newest album on E1 Music, London Undersound (featuring guests Natty, Ojos de Brujo, Imogen Heap, Faheem Mazhar and Paul McCartney, to name a few), is an electronic representation of how his city has morphed into a dangerous, polarizing state post 9/11. His gorgeous, orchestral landscapes channel xenophobia, falling wasps and purifying fire. They will move you, from one dark place to another.
Nitin Sawhney - Last Train To Midnight (Gloom World Mix)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Patrick Wolf - Hard Times (Alec Empire Remix)
"Hard Times" finds Patrick Wolf battle-hardened. Industrial leather-boy Alec Empire was roped in to lend new album The Bachelor teeth and filth and while he's succeeded in doing that in his role as producer, as remixer he really goes to town: arming the track with brain-rattling beats and malevolent electronic whirs, swoops and clanks. What shouldn't fit here? What would be most alien, amidst the strings, dark mechanical sounds and Patrick's thesp-baiting wailings? G-funk. G-funk bomp underpins this, incredibly, and what's more it works. Confusion is Patrick Wolf's game - the English youth's lyrical repertoire is shot through with sexual and existential angst, but here that confusion is transferred to the music and so the singer in the middle of it all sounds relatively bold, bolstered, victorious. Good job, Alec!
Sounds Like: Pendulum, Outkast, dying aeroplanes
Patrick Wolf - Hard Times (Alec Empire Remix)
Previously:
Alec Empire - If You Live or Die
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Starkey - Gutter Music + Hair Braider
Philadelphian son he may be, but Starkey’s chops and glugs sound honed in Croydon, England; where shack-ish train portals shuttle passengers through an undergrowth of industrial towers at the blurred, suburban edges of London’s consciousness. “Gutter Music”, parts pulled from Metalheadz drum’n’bass, Wiley’s grime, Skream’s Plastician-era dubstep and imported electro, rattles and hums along like one of Croydon's modded Vauxhall Novae; alloy rims gleaming, dump valve wheezing, blue neons glowing beneath, illegal. The perfect soundtrack for when the rudeboys turn the town into a racetrack every Saturday night, Starkey – real name PJ Geissinger – packs the beats you’ll hear pumping at car park pit stops, his remix of R. Kelly’s “Hair Braider” hyped and live with teenboy fantasies of a girl who’ll thread your extensions, smoke your weed and empty your balls over the course of the same evening.
Sounds Like: Skream, Rustie, Joker
R. Kelly - Hair Braider (Starkey Remix)
