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New Mount Kimbie – “Made To Stray”

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March 25, 2013
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First debuted by Ben UFO on the Hessle Audio Rinse.FM show, the long-awaited first single from Mount Kimbie’s sophomore LP has finally come in a swirl of clicking four on the floor madness. More than that, we now know the title (Cold Spring Fault Less Youth) and exact release date (May 27) for the album. If that isn’t enough for you, “Made To Stray” is up for free download at this very moment. That’s right, brand new Mount Kimbie at your fingertips for no cost whatsoever. Long time listeners might be a little surprised at the direction Dom and Kal have taken on “Made To Stray”, but if you checked out our interview with the London duo, then the use of analogue drum machines and the steady kick drum should be a welcome addition to the use pot and pan percussion and elastic vocal work. “Made To Stray” also heavily features a vocalist and while the track certainly falls outside of the standard pop realm, it’s about as traditional an effort as we’ve seen from the duo. Then again, one of the major concepts behind Kimbie’s music has been to insert dubstep/house/garage/techno sensibilities into a more traditional song structure, something made abundantly clear on “Made To Stray”.

Bok Bok And Fade To Mind Walk Into A Bar

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March 13, 2013
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In anticipation of a slew of exciting upcoming shows, Night Slugs co-boss Bok Bok has, well, gone the fuck in on the third edition of the Fade To Mind mix series. It’s an all exclusives everything affair here and if brand new Jam City, L-Vis 1990 and MikeQ is your kind of bidness, jump on this mix immediately. Almost more exciting than Bok Bok’s transcendent mixing and the heap of exclusives is a  more coherent taste of Kowton’s remix of Jeremih’s still simmering “Fuck U All The Time”. The remix entered our collective consciousness through a few shoddy live videos, but Bok Bok has offered it up in all of its rude boy glory. Because really, Kowton has no business remixing this track. But he does. And it’s so beyond everything else coming out right now that it might just be the most anticipated track of the yung year. Stream and download below.

Dro Carey & Grown Folk Collaborate On “Limbo Limbs”

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March 11, 2013
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Despite living nearly 10,000 miles apart, Sydney’s Dro Carey and Montreal’s Grown Folk have more in common than you might be lead to believe. For one, they’ve both released quality choons on Australian imprint Templar Sound and have a fondness for the rougher edges of hip hop. Carey produces under a number of pseudonyms and traverses the worlds of hip hop, grime, house and techno with effortless aplomb while Drew and Brendan of Grown Folk have cut their teeth as Main Attrakionz’ tour DJs. “Limbo Limbs” draws from all corners of the three prodigious producers’ vast range of influences, but can safely be called grime and is certainly an ode to the genre’s roughneck origins. Stream “Limbo Limbs” below and download it here.

The Purist & Danny Brown Collaborate On “Jealousy”

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March 11, 2013
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Are rave bitches the new ratchets?

In which London’s The Purist and The Hybrid meld old school electro and classique Detroit techno with some of the most shots fired worthy lyrics you’ve heard in quite some time. There’s a Notorious B.I.G. sample and the first shout out to J.J. Reddick in, well, ever. The video nods to Seapunk, VHS, old school rave and karaoke chic. The track is off of The Purist’s Tr-ill EP, which can be streamed in full here. Don’t get too jealous.

Eprom Remixes Rhye’s “Woman”

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March 8, 2013
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Since the release of his breakout hit “Regis Chillbin” last year, Eprom has made a name for himself producing frantic dance tunes that aren’t beholden to any one tempo or frame of reference. They’re loud, garish and eccentric, straying from the populist strands of house and garage that dominate the underground. The West Coast representative’s latest entry comes in the form of a remix of Rhye’s “Woman”. The remix sees Eprom at his most restrained, covering the original’s wispy vocals in understated hi hats and a simple chord progression melody. It’s simple and trance-inducing, far from the seizure-inducing sound of the Metahuman LP. Stream below and download here.

Ryan Hemsworth Remixes Lana Del Rey’s “Summertime Sadness”

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March 7, 2013
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Hi haters, Lana and Ryan in the building. If nothing else, Ms. Del Rey is great remix fodder and it’s actually something of a surprise that Halifax’s own hasn’t taken a stab at her much maligned crooning. While Hemsworth has dilly dallied in straightforward four on the floor stuff as of late, his best work has consistently come in the hip hop and R&B realm. I’ve never listened to “Summertime Sadness” before (and probably never will), and while Del Rey’s vocals are still fairly grating, Hemsworth still manages to flip it into yet another soundtrack worthy clapper, full of austere synth work and clipping hi hats. All hail the Hemsworth. Stream below.

Stream Two Tracks From Toro Y Moi’s “Dance” Side Project Les Sins

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March 7, 2013
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In today’s news, another project that makes too much sense to be real. One March 18, Caribou’s (aka Dan Snaith) Jiaolong imprint will release a split single from Toro Y Moi (aka Chaz Bundick) side project Les Sins that is more directly dancefloor oriented than anything the South Carolina-native has released to date. Last year, Caribou donned his Daphni hat to release Jiaolong, an album that ended up on more than a few year end lists. The project saw Snaith take on analogue house and techno with a vengeance, infusing strong traditional musicality and funk samples into an oftentimes rigid, dissociative sound. Bundick’s Les Sins project isn’t as clearly formulated or direct as Snaith’s Daphni, but what it does do is highlight his affinity for immensely danceable basslines. Instead of analogue house though, Bundick channels 80’s synth pop and early 90’s g-funk sounds and is akin to Dam-Funk than anything else. So yeah, stream “Grind” and “Prelims” below and look out for the single on the 18th.

Jason Burns Remixes Natasha Kmeto’s “Pleasure Delay”

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March 6, 2013
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As members of the ever-developing Pacific Northwest electronic music scene, Natasha Kmeto and Jason Burns have operated in the same general circles for the better part of a year now, but have never appeared on the same track before. That ended today when XLR8R premiered Burns’ remix of Dirty Mind Melt cut “Pleasure Delay”, a swinging cut that splits the difference between low end focused house (a la Dirtybird) and the pop-oriented garage of Disclosure. It’s a treat to have Kmeto’s pristine vocals and Burns’ swinging riddims on the same track. Stream below and download here.

New Lapalux – “Without You”

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March 6, 2013
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Lapalux and Kerry Leatham just need to stop. I don’t know if I can handle the immense loneliness and beauty the producer and singer bring to the table when they collaborate. A lot of fuss has been made about race and R&B in recent days and if the genre is inherently black or not. Not being a part of the greater R&B community, I can’t really speak on the greater race/class/historical issues in play here, but it has to be said that much of the innovation within the genre has come from outside its traditional barriers. Immensely popular artists like The Weeknd and Jeremih sound like nothing that came before them and work with producers like Zodiac, Shlohmo and Mike Will who offer sound palates that are pretty much antithetical to what traditional R&B stands for. Even further out are guys like Holy Other and Tom Krell who have reduced R&B to an icicle of its former self. Lapalux’s best work comes out when he’s working with vocalists, specifically Leatham, and “Without You” is his most emotive, touching track to date. The version in the wholly unsettling video below is the radio edit, but you can buy the full length version, which also includes “Guuurl”, from iTunes,

New Action Bronson – “Morey Boogie Boards” (Prod. Harry Fraud)

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March 6, 2013
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While Rick Ross has long been referred as the captain of yacht rap, between you and me, Bronsolino has a stranglehold on that real beamer with the racing seats shit. Between “Morey Boogie Boards” and “Bird On A Wire”, there isn’t a rapper who evokes Versailles on the high seas better than Ill Prosciutto. Of course, Harry Fraud plays the role of cartographer, guiding Bronson’s rough vocals through Miami Vice guitars and a heart-wrenchingly honest vocal sample. Can we please get a Fraud/Bronson full length already?