Hudson Mohawke - Polyfolk Dance
Enter Hudson Mohawke, a new Warp signing and one of our secret weapons for 2009!
A 22-year-old hailing from Glasgow, he has been perfecting his craft since the age of 12. After only releasing a handful of productions and painstakingly hard-to-find vinyl releases in the last few years, Hudson Mohawke has managed to become a much talked about producer.
He's responsible for spearheading a movement of next generation beat music that has exploded from Glasgow this year (also see Rustie, Wireblock, LuckyMe, Numbers). It's not just a Scottish thing either - these last six months have seen Hudson set off touring America, Australia & all across Europe!
With an ear for a pop hook and a forward thinking production aesthetic, our bets are that 2009 will hold an awful lot of action for this young producer. If you don't believe us yet, wait for this killer first EP on Warp - with his debut album in the pipeline.
6-track EP 'Polyfolk Dance' will be released on 19th January - but there's 2 advance tracks available to download on Bleep now! After hearing these we hope you're as excited as we are.
Preorder CD or 12inch from Warpmart
Hudson Mohawke MySpace
Band Of The Day #8 - THE TWILIGHT SAD "That Summer, At Home I Had Become The Invisible Boy"
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Slow to make an impact on homeland gig-goers though they’ve been, preferring instead to focus on live performances stateside and subsequently attracting the attentions of our US peers Pitchfork, there’s no doubt that as 2007 has progressed Glasgow’s the Twilight Sad have emerged as one of the biggest, boldest and best draws of the British tour circuit.
Releasing a highly acclaimed debut album can’t have hurt the quartet’s appeal any – hitting shelves via FatCat in May, Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters has proved to be a firm favourite amongst DiS writers and readers alike; expect it to rank highly when DiS concludes its reader-voted top albums of the year. Containing songs that didn’t exactly leap at listeners but crept, coyly and craftily, into synapses utilising canny stealth, the album’s a slow-burn classic of its time.
DiS is therefore mega-chuffed to present an exclusive remix of one of the choice cuts from Fourteen Autumns..., ‘That Summer, At Home I Had Become The Invisible Boy’, as re-imagined with subtlety and love by Björk collaborator Ensemble, AKA Olivier Alary. Originally from Toulouse, London-based Alary’s own self-titled album was released via FatCat last year.
The Twilight Sad tour Europe throughout December, and close their year’s live commitments with domestic shows in London and Glasgow.
Download: the Twilight Sad - 'That Summer, At Home I Became The Invisible Boy'
Feature - the Twilight Sad: talking with fireworks
- Mike Diver
