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DOWNLOAD: King Midas Sound - One Ting (Dabyre Rework)
King Midas Sound's 2009 album Waiting For You is one that I consumed without much expectation at the time. It has surprisingly lingered, though. Its intimacy and open space seemed to make it a no-brainer for a remix collection, and after two years we finally get one with names like Gang Gang Dance, Flying Lotus and Nite Jewel doing their own dubs of the original tracks. On this version of "One Ting," a rework from Dabyre that has been floating around as far back as 2008, it's all nitrous vocals, submarine bass, intergalactic synths and those breathy vocals that made the original feel like it was created right there next to you. Find this and more excursions on Without You, which is out next week on Hyperdub.
DOWNLOAD: Smith Westerns - End Of The Night (Peaking Lights Remix)
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While Smith Westerns have perfected a contemporary take on classic rock, Peaking Lights have flirted with legitimate transcendence on the recent album 936. What happens when you put them together? You see where this is going. "End Of The Night," a Clash-indebted muscle rocker, gets completely blown-out and turned into a circular dub maze. Screaming guitars wander around in the background like a radio was left on. Rumbling bass has completely taken over the room.
Smith Westerns - End of the Night (Peaking Lights Remix)
DOWNLOAD: Vetiver - Can't You Tell (Bing's Slim For Summer Dub)
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I know it's dull to bang on about the weather, but the Indian Summer we're currently enjoying in London is really something. It's shorts weather today and it will be all week, and just as there's nothing better than the sight of me in a pair of jorts, there's nothing more apt when you're sweating on the eve of October than a disorientating, semi-Balearic track that has a warmth that seems to fade even as you're listening to it. So step in this "Slim For Summer" dub version of Vetiver's "Can't You Tell," out as part of a limited edition 12-inch on October 3.
Vetiver - Can't You Tell (Bing's Slim For Summer Dub)
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DOWNLOAD: Grace Jones - Well Well Well (Dub)
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In the future, people won't believe that Grace Jones ever existed. Mostly, that will be because of the way she looks—the jut of her jaw, the logger's saw mohican, that photo of her where she looks cut from wood, the body honed to a degree somewhere beyond Olympian. It's all just too perfect, she looks like something a fantasist drew drunk. Her music's often as unreal as her appearance, and "Well Well Well (Dub)", taken from her new album Hurricane Dub, backs up that assertion; snare hits and ominous incantations tumbling into a well of echo. Unreal. I still can't believe she's on MySpace.
Grace Jones - Well Well Well (Dub)
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PREMIERE: The Drift - Horizon
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Pulling influence from jazz and dub, The Drift layers, adds and removes elements for an engaging result. “Horizon” conveys a sense of poignancy with a single, unrelenting bass note, guiding you through the San Francisco trio’s maze of instrumentals over an ambient core. The track is also a memorial to former member Jeff Jacobs, who passed away shortly before the band entered the studio to record its third album. Alternately haunting and cathartic, it is a moving tribute that honors Jacobs and remains true to the band's sound. Blue Hour is out October 4 on Temporary Residence, and catch the group on tour with Explosions In The Sky this November.
PREMIERE: Bobby Birdman - Don't Walk Away
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Bobby Birdman is busy. Former Portland resident, frequent K-conspirator, YACHT backing band member and current LA man about town, Rob Kieswetter has spread his wings in a big way. Tomorrow sees the release of a 7-inch of his own, and A-side "Don't Walk Away" proves why the singer is so in-demand. With a voice as at home doing folk songs as surf rock gems, this track seems to nicely blend the two, showcasing Birdman's signature croon over an upbeat bass. The B-side features a remix by Selector Dub Narcotic himself, one Calvin Johnson, and you can grab the disc tomorrow from K.
Bobby Birdman - Don't Walk Away
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DOWNLOAD: Bosco Delrey - 20 Flight Dub
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Mad Decent don Diplo has affectionately referred to his buddy Bosco Delrey as something not quite like Elvis—a little less polish than the man from Memphis circa Blue Hawaii, but much more rugged than his Vegas days. "20 Flight Dub" is transient dreaminess with a borderline reggaeton backbone. It's Delrey's floating croons that lend to the comparison to the The King, as he delivers them with the same syncopation "Jail House Rock" had. It comes from Bosco's Everybody Wah, out March 29 on Mad Decent.
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DOWNLOAD: ESG - Dance To The Beat Of Moody
Mid-'70s Bronx, New York City: The Scroggins sisters (Deborah, bass; Renee, lead vocals, guitar; Marie, congas; Valerie, drums), having played music together since their childhood, unleash their utterly distinct minimalist funk to the rest of the boroughs. Though they found shelter under the erudite trash of the Downtown Manhattan No Wave scene, ESG was always a Bronx band. They absorbed everything from their surroundings--not just funk and dub and salsa, but also beatdowns and jumprope and hopscotch--and channeled it into simple and effective groove. "Dance To The Beat Of Moody," welds two of ESG's best tracks, "The Beat" and "Moody," into a seven-minute boogaloo of building-block drum beats, spooky basslines, and Renee's sweetly eerie singing. The track is a part of Fire Records' Dance To The Best Of ESG, a broad overview of this great band's inspired noodling.
ESG - Dance To The Beat Of Moody
