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New Jack City This weekend London finally gets a chance to witness the "raw jazz-jam-metal-ska power" of South Africa's BLK JKS. We love these dudes. See them tonight at Rough Trade East, (where you can also pick up their fantastic Mystery EP) and Saturday night at Cargo. If you don't go your life will suck that little bit more. BLK JKS Mystery Megamix [mp3] Posted by: Scott 29/08/08 Go Boom Volcanoes are cool. And so are Volcano! the latest band signed to the lovely Leaf Label. But when they erupt from their jazzy slumber don't expect red hot lava to start leaking everywhere. This Chicago trio gush skittering falsetto highlife jams. Lava would've been cooler, but you can't have everything. Volcano! - Africa Just Wants To Have Fun [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 28/08/08 Dollar Bin Jeezy may not have made the all-star S.W.U. cut, but he still swaggers with the best of them. Here Michael Phelps' favourite rapper takes a well-circulated Billy Paul track and spins some gold. Young Jeezy - Circulate [mp3] [Buy] [Via Nah Right] Steve Spacek - Dollar [mp3] [Buy] Billy Paul - Let The Dollar Circulate [mp3] Posted by: Scott 26/08/08 ON: Supersoul Recordings Today is a day we will spend drinking and dancing and not going to the toilet in roads around west London. It also sees the release of Nobody Knows Anything, an anthology of tracks from Berlin's Supersoul Recordings on DFA's Death From Abroad imprint. Across two glorious CDs you will find many genres ending in the letter 'o': Italo disco, electro, Detroit techno, Chicago houseo and Krautrocko. Listen as label boss Xaver Naudascher joins up with Moon Unit buddy Paul Mogg to muck around with Walter Jones. Head over to the mighty 20JFGs to hear what the D.A.N.C.E. cheerleaders might sound like if they were force-fed radical politics and amphetamines. Here Xaver talks to us about subterfuge, soundtracks and the unique styling of Berlin prostitutes... Walter Jones - The Odyssey Sound (Mogg & Naudascher Edit) [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 25/08/08 Yo Homes, Smell You Later Shad - The Old Prince Still Lives At Home Video Homage #4: In which the opening credits from Fresh Prince Of Bel Air are lovingly (and hilariously) recreated. Shad - The Old Prince Still Lives At Home [mp3] Posted by: Scott 22/08/08 Darkness Falls White Lies used to be called Fear Of Flying and they made cheeky, cheerful art-pop. Now they have a new name, a new wardrobe (all black!) and a gloomy, doomy new sound. Here Crystal Castles drag them even further through the looking glass. They take what remained of WL's sunny disposition and kick the living fuck out of it. White Lies - Death (Crystal Castles remix) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 21/08/08 Das Boots Do you like things that are so awesome they technically qualify as being super-awesome? Then download the latest issue of FADER and read our interview with Little Boots, for she is super- awesome personified. Her latest 7" is available now from Puregroove and it comes with free tattoos. Little Boots - Meddle (Toddla T remix) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 21/08/08 Be Kind, Rewind YACHT - Summer Song Video Homage #3: In which YACHT undertake a shot-for-shot remake of a scene from 1988's ridiculous Tapeheads. (With thanks to FADER.) Posted by: Scott 20/08/08 Jumper Spiritualized - You Lie, You Cheat Video Homage #2: In which director and dick-obsessed art turd Jake Chapman shamelessly rips off an old Jam sketch. Posted by: Scott 20/08/08 Dark Knights Twin Crystals - Two Girls Video Homage #1: In which director Dandilion Wind channels Joel Schumacher with a budget recreation of the fluro gang party in Batman and Robin. Posted by: Scott 20/08/08 Swimming With Sharks Over the weekend we saw stellar stoner flick Pineapple Express. Halfway through, a song from Public Enemy's Apocalypse '91 blasted out and for a few seconds we were transported back to our lusty teen ages. Back to Easy Rider-enabled summer holidays spent at Broom Hill outdoor swimming pool [RIP]... Hey girls! We like really confrontational hip-hop, listen as it booms tinnily. What’s that? Oh. Bye... Public Enemy - Lost At Birth [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 19/08/08 The End Of The Affair Metronomy - Heartbreaker In which the great British seaside mends a broken heart. This is the sound of our summer. Posted by: Scott 18/08/08 666 Chrome 's On It was such a startling song we wondered if Telepathe had fluked their way into momentary awesomeness. But oh no. New single Devil's Trident is a marker. A dazzling dolly zoom that pulls their playful and plentiful talents into sharp focus. And the horns are amazing. Telepathe - Devil's Trident [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 15/08/08 ON: Sportsday Megaphone Remember when Ultimate Warrior and Macho Man joined forces at SummerSlam to became the Ultimate Maniacs? What a glorious union that was. And here's another! On this song from his new album, So Many Colours/So Little Time, Sportsday Megaphone forms an all-conquering pop alliance with Rebekah Rah from Stricken City. After the jump Mr Megaphone AKA Hugh Frost tells us about Raa, walkie talkies and his favourite double acts... Sportsday Megaphone - Carrying The Years (ft. Rebekah Raa) [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 14/08/08 Go West Kanye West - Champion In which a puppet Yeezy battles for Olympic gold (topical!). In other Kanye news, our favourite furniture blogger is said to be producing every track on Blueprint 3. He's even leaked the lead single, a bare bones banger that sees 'Ye and Jay ransacking Run's house. Jay-Z - Jockin' Jay-Z (Dope Boy Fresh) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 12/08/08 Rain Man If you haven't heard Jape's I Was A Man you will not know he "popped [his] cherry to November Rain." Now you do! Here is his confession, jerked and twerked by a brooding Tapedeck. Jape - I Was A Man (Tapedeck remix) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 12/08/08 Mystic Mavericks Chairlift - Planet Health In which another band of blissed-out Brooklyn hippies wave flowers around at a garishly oversaturated VHS orgy while injecting a little Beijing into Berlin. Posted by: Scott 11/08/08 Hold Tight How To Make Classic Soul Bang For The Club, Pt 27. Starring Archie Bell & the Dells and Bobby LaBeat. Archie Bell & The Dells - Tighten Up (Bobby LaBeat Re-work) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 08/08/08 Splitsville Nelson - I Say You Can't Stop In which Parisien quartet Nelson prove they started the split screen revival, not Magistrates. Posted by: Scott 06/08/08 Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood The other day we were cooking dinner, listening to a Westwood live broadcast, and getting confused. Are they in Napa? What is that word everyone keeps saying? Malia is where? Is that Tinchy Stryder? Did he say he's got a million crepes under his bed? We're making crêpes right now! Spooky. Tinchy Stryder - A Milli (Freestyle) [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 05/08/08 Desert Storm Lawrence Arabia - Talk About Good Times Like a fuzzy mirage of psych-pop awesomeness, Lawrence Arabia's debut LP only recently appeared on our horizon. Somehow it came out in 2006 and has just been rereleased in the UK. Can our favourite album of 2008 be two years old? OF COURSE IT CAN. Lawrence Arabia - Half The Right Size [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 05/08/08 Coke Is Shit You may not have heard The Anthem, but you soon will. Thanks to some sprightly sampling it's been chosen by Coca Cola to soundtrack their Olympic commercials. The Anthem will be the beat that ate Beijing. So is Onra, the French producer behind the track, rolling in Cola cashola? Nope. Uncleared samples and a meddling musicologist have left him with just a co-writing credit and enough change to buy "the new iBook or a MPC5000." After the jump Onra tell us his side of the story... Onra - The Anthem [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 04/08/08 On Air We don't often post radio mixes, but then they don't usually sound like Timbaland raping a Gameboy. Hudson Mohawke is doing strange and amazing things to R&B. Marvel at his appearance on this week's Mary Anne Hobbs show. Hudson Mohawke - Exclusive Mix for Mary Anne Hobbs on Radio 1 30/07/08 [mp3] Posted by: Scott 01/08/08