DOWNLOAD: Seun Kuti - Slave Masters (Jacques Renault Remix)
2012, The Year Dub Returned, continues to heat-up, and here's a great new addition to the canon with Jacques Renault's hypnotic, delay-addled remix of Seun Kuti's single "Slave Masters." Percussion rolls at a steady, locked-in clip while horn samples drop all smeared and echoing across the track and eventually tangled drones hold it all together. Summer!
STREAM: Baio - Tanto (feat. Matias Aguayo)
Baio is Chris Baio (bassist from America's favorite Polo-rocking band Vampire Weekend), and he's gearing-up to release his first solo EP entitled Sunburn on May 21 via Greco-Roman. "Tanto" has all the qualities of a major island party jam with mirrored steel drums, ecstatic wordless vocals from Matias Aguayo and enough clipped hand percussion to start spasms.
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STREAM: Deportees - A New Name To Go By (feat. Lykke Li)
"A New Name To Go" by Deportees is like a beautiful island hymnal with Lykke Li's unique vocals blending into thick harmonies, steel drums and rolling percussion. Really, it just makes me realize that it's that time of year where 'longing for summer' becomes trendy again.
DOWNLOAD: Superhumanoids - Malta (Get People Remix)
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When the ever-mixable dreampop anthem “Malta” gets ever more remixed by tropical outfit Get People, it leaves Superhumanoids gorgeously slapped and soaked by rainforest drops. Here, wooden flutes, amorphous vocal samples and billowing rain stick beats seem to dribble straight from the canopy into your brain. Tour dates in drier climes can be found on each band’s respective MySpace page, while the original and very worthy Superhumanoids record can be bought via Hit City.
Superhumanoids - Malta (Get People Remix)
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PREMIERE: Riva Starr - Orizzonti (feat. Sud Sound System) (Dub Mix)
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Riva Starr has moved his musical obsessions from the Balkans towards the sunnier locales of Latin America. On "Orizzonti (Dub Mix)," a RCRD LBL-premiere digital b-side for Starr's new The Latin America Trip EP, a bouncing groove meets flashes of vocal samples, upstroke guitar, high tempos and beams of synth hits. It's a mesmerizing Latin groove that Starr subtly manipulates for peak dance floor drama. Grab The Latin America Trip EP via Snatch! Records on June 14.
Riva Starr - Orizzonti (feat. Sud Sound System) (Dub Mix)
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DOWNLOAD: Cuckoo Chaos - Jesus Flag American Fish
Polyrhythmic hippies Cuckoo Chaos keep the long weekend going with “Jesus Flag American Fish,” a tune so loaded with banana boat riffs and easy listening verse, it’s giving our ears a tan. More good-natured and nectarous rock will surface in July, on the band’s upcoming 7-inch through Lefse.
Cuckoo Chaos - Jesus Flag American Fish
PREMIERE: Get People - Away
A rightfully hipstamatic press pic for a rightfully hipstamatic band: London’s Get People is all golden shutter riffs, choral-grade hooks and steel drum synths. “Away” is a tropical indie blend of the highest order, simultaneously invoking budding palm fronds and shattered young hearts. Add it to your growing catalog, while awaiting the group's sophomore effort, Rain Tears, on Friends Vs Records later this summer.
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DOWNLOAD: This Is Head - 0007 (A Remix By Korallreven)
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Holidays do strange things to people. Swedish duo Korallreven—made up of writer Marcus Joons and The Radio Dept's Daniel Tjäder—are heavily influenced by a sojourn Joons took in Samoa, and their music seems to harbour an incorrigible desire to return to those warmer climes. So, while the original version of this track ambles to a tense, tub-thumping end, Korallreven imbue it with the soft-focus humidity of the track that has become their calling card: last year's heartbreakingly good "The Truest Faith". The result is something that, while not a million miles from This Is Head's own "0007", contains just a little bit more of that bliss that's missed. Joons and Tjäder's debut album arrives later this year—more news on that soon.
This Is Head - 0007 (A Remix By Korallreven)
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