EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Primary 1 - Ploy (First Burn With Polly Brown)
It's fitting this song comes with a capture of the moment Primary 1's brain blew, 'cause "Ploy (First Burn With Polly Brown)" is the true sound of madness. Seriously, it's like three or four songs playing at once here; like Toro Y Moi's lo-fi pop without the haze, so douche-funk slap-bass juts out at awkward angles and horns toot like they're butting into a street argument. The first music to emerge from the imminent Mess Detective, Primary 1's debut 'proper' arrives next year. Fingers X'd the Londoner continues to descend into his own madness.
Sounds Like: Theo Parrish, Toro Y Moi, Hudson Mohawke
Primary 1 - Ploy (First Burn With Polly Brown)
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Kid606 - Mr. Wobble's Nightmare (Acid Jacks Remix) + Original
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(Photo: Micke Lund)
Back in November, we introduced you to the glitchy, manic world of Kid606, the Venezuelan-born, California-reared producer and boss of the IDM-centric Tigerbeat6 label. On April 28th, he'll release a new album called Shout At The Doner, nominee for album title of the year and his first record since a move to Berlin from San Francisco. Preceding the release is the basslineish single "Mr. Wobble's Nightmare," which got the remix treatment from a bunch of up-and-comers for an EP last month, among them Australian "idiot house" duo Acid Jacks. Below you'll find their all-the-more-ravey version alongside the original, and if you want to get in on the action yourself the label is hosting a remix contest for the track right here.
Sounds like: Drop The Lime, Math Head, Boys Noize
Kid606 - Mr. Wobble's Nightmare (Acid Jacks Remix)
Kid606 - Mr. Wobble's Nightmare
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DOWNLOAD: Asobi Seksu - Familiar Light (Twins Remix)
There's a purity to Asobi Seksu that makes you think it must be a blast remixing them. Twins, the alias of London producer/remixer Adam Jaffrey, takes the typically unspoiled original version of "Familiar Light" and subtly re-wires it, a saboteur scarring it with odd pockets of glitch and MOR disco throb. It could be love, but it's colder than that - romance as seen through the eyes of machinery, Yuki Chikudate's voice stuttering like a vibrator idly buzzing sweet nothings into an uncaring chasm.
Sounds Like: Crystal Castles, Fleetwood Mac, Annie
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Eightcubed - Promise Me
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Yeah, he's a funny looking fella isn't he, this guy Eightcubed? Based in Toronto, Rob Esposito's "Promise Me" fizzes with the same spazzed-out mutations as those engineered by Crystal Castles and does, as the picture suggests, sound like musical accompaniment to a situation involving bare chests, jewellery, graffiti and rubble. Do you like rubble? Esposito eats it. The sound of the most recent past and east London circa '07, for all "Promise Me"'s acerbic bluster it ends up oddly nostalgic, the latest victory for retro-futurism.
Sounds Like: Crystal Castles, CFCF
DOWNLOAD: The Samps - Mashed Skins + Magnetic Thys
You won't catch The Samps. Little is known about the elusive recording trio, sprung from various nooks in the state of California (USA) to your ears; now. Word has it their ranks include one called Cole, guitarist with Haunted Graffiti, as well as dude from Whitemare II and another, known only as Charland Nurknart AKA Doktorberis. The sounds they make - refer to the "Mashed Skins" and "Magnetic Thys" slung your way below - reflect these slippery folk, if not the lo-fi origins of Ariel Pink et al. Instead The Samps move hyperactive in high def; stomping beats until they break, moving from clubland to smoke filled ride in the space of synths that flutter like one of Moroder's b*st*rds and/or a gleaming Californian minute.
EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD: Stricken City - Lost Art (Gold Panda remix)
Rolling in on tubs thumped like they were once Burundi and bruised by Malcolm McClaren’s ‘80s pop tykes Bow Wow Wow, Stricken City re-strike that band’s awkwardly lusty poses into awkwardly romantic ones; frontgirl Rebekah Raa sweet where 14-year-old Annabella Lwin made desperate lunges for your 'candy'. The young London quartet can trace their origins back, way back and before GCSES, to Raa and guitarist Iain Pettifer’s maths lessons. In 2006 Kit Godfrey was brought in to thump those tubs and Mike Hyland joined on bass in August this year. Together they work through "Lost Art", low-end slipping and sliding all over the place beneath guitars that are altogether more elegant, their crunch and willingness to leave things unsaid recalling the pained restraint of Young Marble Giants. The remix is to be treasured – lazily psychedelic with synths that burble like the proverbial brook, Gold Panda sends Raa’s voice to the back of the class, making her swap seats with the bad-boy bass which teacher catches in a loop in an effort to stunt its more erratic tendencies.
Sounds Like: Flying Lotus, Gang Gang Dance, El Guincho
Exclusive Download: Stricken City - Lost Art (Gold Panda Remix)
Stream: Stricken City - Lost Art
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