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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Lords Of Flatbush - 999 (Toddla T & Ross Orton Remix)
OK, so it's kind of lame to get your press shots done in front of a graffed up brick wall, but Lords Of Flatbush deserve some cut slack: Steve N Edwards - songwriter - and Phil Jones - engineer - have spent more than one decade bashing out hits from behind the scenes, for the likes of Cassius, Boy George, Pulp and Take That (yeah, pretty 'eclectic'.) Anyway, now they're taking their turn in the sun as LOF but, ever selfless, have given this one over to their mate Toddla T to rework. You know what you're getting with Toddla - it's always gargantuan fun and bigger bass, funky house chase scene music for a cartoon clubland.
Sounds Like: Basement Jaxx, Calvin Harris, Gracious K
DOWNLOAD: The Gaslamp Killer - Baiafro
(Photo: Theo Jemison)
Did The Gaslamp Killer name this song after his hair? It's impossible to headbang to, but also has these synths that buzz like radioactive curling irons. So we're thinking maybe. He's popping around Europe for the next week or so, including a stop at London's Fabric club on Friday. Should look something like this.
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DOWNLOAD: DJ /rupture & Matt Shadetek - Track 20
So named because it is actually three different songs* colliding in the dust cloud of DJ /rupture and Matt Shadetek's new mix CD, Solar Life Raft (the first being their remix of Gang Gang's "Bebey," available below). Poet Elizabeth Alexander reads from her original collaboration with /rupture, now backed by loping drums and cut-up, disparate vocal pieces. We shouldn't be surprised that these two can make all these parts sound congruous, but we still are 'cause it's really impressive. Solar Life Raft is out 11/10 through The Agriculture.
*Matty G - Layin in Bed, Elizabeth Alexander - Overture: Watermelon City, Lloop - Autumn Rain
DJ /rupture & Matt Shadetek - Track 20
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Gang Gang Dance - Bebey (DJ /rupture & Matt Shadetek Remix)
Jahdan Blakkamoore - Never Gonna Stop (prod. by DJ /rupture & Matt Shadetek)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Boozoo Bajou - Sign (DJ DSL Mix)
Tomorrow brings Boozoo Bajou’s “Sign” single (from the current album Grains) with this exclusive mix below, and later this year, a full remix collection featuring reworks from Prins Thomas, Idjut Boys, and Quantec will drop. Will they all invoke a candlelit, D’Angelo pumping, red wine drinking, purple satin sheets rustling, babymaking fest? Dunno. But this one sure does. Silky.
Boozoo Bajou - Sign (DJ DSL Mix)
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DOWNLOAD: Gang Gang Dance - Bebey (DJ /rupture And Matt Shadetek Remix)
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(Photo: Josh Wildman)
Who better to tighten Gang Gang's baggy global drum tendencies than DJ /rupture and Matt Shadetek, Dutty Artz' resident beat dilligents? Their remix of "Bebey" stems from a new mix CD, Solar Life Raft, out November 11th through The Agriculture, which, and here we're just guessing from the title and this song, will contain loads of floaty, incandescent rhythms colliding with other crazily headspinning sounds. Looking forward to taking a dip in that swamp.
Gang Gang Dance - Bebey (DJ /rupture And Matt Shadetek Remix)
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Gang Gang Dance - Princes (feat. Tinchy Stryder)
STREAM: The Slits - Ask Ma
No band ever was more squarely at the intersection of punk and reggae than the Slits. Was? Sorry, is—chief agitator Ari Up (see if you can guess which one she is) has had the pioneering ’70s/’80s group back in action for a while now, alongside original Slit Tessa Pollitt and three younger disciples. Now they’ve chiseled their return into stone, with their first new album in more than 25 years, Trapped Animal, coming on Narnack in early October. The record nicely maps the band’s original stylistic moves onto modern cartography, like this’n, “Ask Ma,” with its buzzing, snaky bassline and chanted exasperations.
DOWNLOAD: Metronomy - Not Made For Love (Joakim Remix)
It's a little weird that, considering the parties involved, this tune isn't all that danceable, unless your vision of groove resides some place where stuffed animals throw parties in bouncy castles and synthesizers sound like bulbous water balloons flying around at varying velocitites. If so, consider this your new jam; if not, just get weird with us for a second. Metronomy lost a member to Your Twenties this year, though they're coming back with a new EP, Not Made For Love, out September 21 in the UK. The release does not include this refit from Joakim, so completists and adventurists and all those not able to cop the full thing–grab it below.
Metronomy - Not Made For Love (Joakim Remix)
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Metronomy - A Thing For Me (Sinden Remix)
Joakim - Love & Romance & A Special Person
Kleerup - Longing For Lullabies (Joakim Remix)
Cut Copy - Hearts On Fire (Joakim Remix)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Pit Er Pat - Evacuation Days (NGUZUNGUZU remix)
This track has been driving me crazy for days, ever since I picked up Pit Er Pat’s new High Time Remixes EP (pressing of 300, hurry). The Chicago trio, now an L.A. duo, struck a flawless Slits-style post-everything dread vibe on the original of “Evacuation Days.” The remix by NGUZUNGUZU (of L.A.’s Wildness party fame) is all that and so much different, a ghost-dub shaker with tropical highlights drawn out into the light of darkness. It’s driving me crazy! Maybe Pit Er Pat will do an all-night version of the song when they play their first duo shows in Brooklyn at Market Hotel and the Bell House this weekend (drummer Butchy Fuego then goes deep as one of nine drummers in Boredoms’ Boadrum 9).
Pit Er Pat - Evacuation Days (NGUZUNGUZU remix)
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Memory Tapes - Bicycle (Horrors Cosmic Dub)
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Do you remember Memory Tapes? As Sam Duke said exactly one month ago, whoever's behind this beautiful, anonymous noise has a 12" out through Loog Records, backed by a remix from The Horrors - this remix from The Horrors. It begins like Ennio Morricone and Mike Oldfield meeting in the midnight rain and ends as a throbbing, yet surprisingly tender, club take on New Order's "True Faith", wandering synths tied to a compulsive arpeggio and snare drum THWACK. It's fucking great. No sign of Memory Tapes' identity slipping just yet, though.
Sounds Like: Patten, New Order, Chromatics
Memory Tapes - Bicycle (Horrors Cosmic Dub)
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DOWNLOAD: A Gun Called Tension - The Echo Bass Sessions Mixtape
As if we need to be convinced to check a mixtape calling itself "a journey where no musical boundaries exist!," The Echo Bass Sessions is also the newest release from A Gun Called Tension, Dann Gallucci and Sean Reveron's inscrutably awesome punk/dub/electro-whatever project. Since Gallucci played in the Murder City Devils and Modest Mouse and Reveron collaborated with the Beta Band, sung for Exodus 77, and co-founded Rockers NYC, this mixtape sounds like the record collection of some dudes who listen deep and wide. Which is essentially what it is. And we haven't yet mentioned that the last track is an evidently super rare collaboration between Reveron (as Koolie Ranks) and 2Pac. At least, that's what he told us.
Sounds like: Public Image, Ltd., TV On The Radio
A Gun Called Tension - The Echo Bass Sessions Mixtape (Full Album Download)
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