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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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DOWNLOAD: Geiom - Flic En Flac
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Such a colossal number of amazing producers are clambering from the UK's raver woodwork right now that it'd be more accurate to describe that 'woodwork' as a vast furniture forest alive with a gazillion potential clubland futures. Raised in rural England, Geiom's own sound is one pitched between the canopies and the coffee table; smooth, rich textures recalling the diamante bling of UK garage (gar-ij) while lurching low-end tells you to stand their nodding with your eyes closed (dub-step). Cue a confusion that leads your brains elsewhere - where? To "Flic En Flac", a glooping, curious soundstorm at the far end of UK dance music's ever-retreating horizon, helpfully dragged closer to you in London this Friday, October 9th, as Geiom's Berkane Sol label (together with the likemind heroes at Blunted Robots) annexes room three at Fabric.
Sounds Like: Kode9, Joker, Martyn
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Anti-Pop Consortium - Volcano (Lavaflow Mix) + NYC Ticket Contest
When New York's Anti-Pop Consortium reunited back in March of 2008, after almost six years apart, the outsider rap collective promised a new album was on the way. Well, it's been a minute, but that record, Fluorescent Black, finally dropped last week through Big Dada (buy it here on iTunes or here and here for the CD and LP). "Volcano" is its first single, given a rinse here by group member Earl Blaize that, verses untouched, sounds like drum machines regurgitating LEDs. In addition to that heater, we're giving away TWO pairs of tickets to their record release show tomorrow at Santos Party House in New York. It's 18+, so if you're eligible, enter by emailing contests@rcrdlbl.com with the subject "ANTI-POP." We'll holler in the morning if you've won.
DOWNLOAD: John Forté - Nervous
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John Forté is a free man, and yet on this deep slow-burner from his new record, StyleFREE the EP — his first since famously getting a sentence-commutation from the worst owner the Texas Rangers ever had — he’s more concerned with the search for “some essence of a connection in a world divided.” Damn, I hope he writes a song as good as this when he finds it.
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Kelpe - Eye Candy Bath
It sounds strange to say it, but beats as awkward and skewiff as Kelpe's actually sound smooth compared to what a lot of likeminds are up to these days; "Eye Candy Bath" caught between the late-night House joints Floating Points has been rolling this year and coarse Warp bleep. The result? The many, many stoned men and confused computers of Cambio Weschel, a new album out through DC Recordings on October 19.
Sounds Like: Floating Points, Flying Lotus, Four Tet
DOWNLOAD: Shafiq - Nirvana
We all know music like the music Shafiq Husayn makes with Sa-Ra Creative Partners is great to chill solo to - that soul and jazz fused hip-hop that takes as much from Sun-Ra and Fela Kuti as it does thug rap and siren sounds - but when weekend late nights swing around, it ain't always that great. You're liquored, and done with everyone else for the evening, so you head back to a friend's and you put on some Afro-beat-hip-hop-soul thing, and sometimes it'll just fall flat. People will look at you with scorn, like you're the eyes-shut, nodding-head, dreadlocked trustafarian piously filling the party with joint smoke while everyone else is all lager rampage and shouting. This though - check its bass. Shafiq knows how to keep a party going and keep it spiritual at the same time, and that's deep, man - find more on the man's debut Shafiq En' A-Free-Ka, out now.
Sounds Like: J Dilla, Sun Ra, Outkast
DOWNLOAD: Ninjasonik - Somebody Gonna Get Pregnant
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Shocker: Brooklyn spunk-rap crew Ninjasonik have a new mixtape out under the alias Darth Baño. Actually, that could be the least shocking thing we've written all day. A remix of "Pregnant" appears on that tape in a clubbier guise–this is the original, which already has a cameo-heavy video and is based around a line copped from a Tracy Morgan interview. It will be on their upcoming debut album, Art School Girls.
Ninjasonik - Somebody Gonna Get Pregnant
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DOWNLOAD: Amanda Blank - Might Like You Better (Blaqstarr Remix)
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Joining the excellent crop of remixes we've been sharing from Amanda Blank is this effusive flip from Blaqstarr, Baltimore's eminent purveyor of concussive, amorphous low end. MPfree below and in case you forgot, Amanda's I Love You LP is out now, grab it on iTunes right here.
Amanda Blank - Might Like You Better (Blaqstarr Remix)
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Amanda Blank - Might Like You Better
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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Private - My Secret Lover (Diplo Remix)
Even when he's wearing a toad mask and updating "The Frog Song" for the blog-house generation, Diplo seems incapable of doing anything other than killing it. This time he's taken his midas paws to "My Secret Lover", a track by this Danish troupe called Private who are led by Thomas Troelson. If the track was ungrippably sleek beforehand, Diplo's taken smooth to a whole new level, but there's toughness here too; rare, spick and span production backed by vinyl fetish crackle and rude, swollen bass. Private + Diplo = sexy, sexy toad. Hop on it.
Sounds Like: Teengirl Fantasy, The Neptunes, R Kelly
DOWNLOAD: Speech Debelle - Go Then, Bye (Photomachine And El-B Remix)
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Is it kosher if we count this Photomachine and El-B flip as part of the UK funky thing? It reminds us a little of bassline–the tunneled synths, the 2-step snares–but the arpeggios toward the end and the incessancy of the kick have us thinking house. So yea, we're gonna go with funky. If last week was a time for us to enjoy Speech Debelle's humbling, softsided originals, this remix is for like six hours later when we've had too many pints and get dropkicked on the dancefloor of some South London after hours for acting like fools.
Sounds like: Idiotproof, Duckbeats
Speech Debelle - Go Then, Bye (Photomachine And EL-B Remix)
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