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Bob And Weave Chipmunk - Muhammad Ali In which grime's young champ wrestles with an alligator, tussles with a whale; handcuffs lightning, throws thunder in jail. Posted by: Scott 26/06/08 Look Into My Eyes "Escargot/my car go/one sixty/swiftly/wreck it buy a new one/your crew run run run/your crew run run." It takes a brave man to tackle these words and Dan Black is that dude. Here he turns Poppa into pop-soul and piles on the bombast. This will soon be the sound of everywhere. Dan Black - HYPNTZ [mp3] Posted by: Scott 25/06/08 Beyond Words The other day we were saying we really wanted to listen to a remix of an epic disco media satire with a church organ breakdown by a band with at least eight words in their name. Then a song arrived from our pals at This Is Not An Exit. Spooky. They Came From The Stars, I Saw Them - The HOT Inc. (Geek Chic's Church Of The Posioned Mind Remix) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 24/06/08 Ready To Wear Little Boots - Ready For The Floor In which the freshly blonde Boots flaunts her Tenori-on skills with an awesome funtime cover of her pal Joe's band. Posted by: Scott 23/06/08 HERO: Michachu on Harry Partch HERO is an irregular new feature here at Pinglewood. We spoke to some of our favourite artists and asked them, who do you love? It will probably die quietly within a month so we hope you enjoy it while it lasts. First up is the awesome Micachu talking about the iconoclastic American composer Harry Partch. [Continues] Micachu - Curly Teeth [mp3] Harry Partch - Barstow [mp3] Posted by: Scott 20/06/08 Easy Like A Sunday Morning Like most players in London's promiscuous jazz scene Dave Okumu is a man of many bands. The giant axeman's latest group, The Invisible, sees him buddy up with Tom Herbert from Acoustic Ladyland and drummer Leo Taylor. They flit from barmy post-rock to balmy funk, hopping blithely from sound to sound, because these dudes are avant-garde slags. The Invisible - London Girl [mp3] Posted by: Scott 19/06/08 Hit The Road How To Turn A Mid-90s MTV VMA Winner Into Reverb-Heavy Space Disco, Part 22. Starring Tom Petty and Tiedye. Tom Petty - Don't Come Around Here No More (Tiedye edit) [mp3] [Source] Posted by: Scott 18/06/08 You Are Not Alone When Obama takes over and the unicorns return to Earth to clear all the pollution with their laser eyes, Kylie and Madonna will finally retire leaving Little Boots and thecocknbullkid to rule the popwaves. It'll be great! Until then here is the latter's splendidly odd new single, produced by Metronomy. thecocknbullkid - On My Own [mp3] Posted by: Scott 17/06/08 In The Fast Lane Diplo's ridiculous tour diaries make him sound like Victor from Rules Of Attraction only less sober, yet when he's not having a drink/dance/bubble, not living life at 100mph, gently pulsing remixes appear, like this for Black Ghosts, so should Diplo slow down more? Nope. Should he get a book deal? Yep. Black Ghosts - Repetition Kills You (Diplo remix) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 17/06/08 Tiny Dancer Little Boots' name is deceptive. Though she is slight of stature and her boots (like Caligula’s) are probably are on the small side, she is actually a towering force of awesomeness. We interviewed her recently and had the most fun ever. Visit her website, admire the lasers and unicorns, then download her new mixtape: 45 minutes of shimmering disco, epic new LB cuts and Fake Blood's fantastic remix of Stuck On Repeat. Tracklisting after the jump... Posted by: Scott 16/06/08 Coke Is It Our dudes at Summer Lovers Unlimited have a knack for uncovering bands that are dreamy and bands that are demonic. Vancouver's Twin Crystals are the latter. Here they pair the Bone Machine's brutal growl and clank with psychotic basshead berating. Just say no, kids! Twin Crystals - No Clinics [mp3] Posted by: Scott 13/06/08 Killing Joke When we asked Joker if we could host his amazing, videogame-devouring track Snake Eater he said no, so you will have to buy it like everybody else. Instead, he gave us this awesome bass heavy mix recorded for Skream's Stella Sessions. Usually we would use more words to describe how good this is, but we're listening to it for the 20th time in a row and our eyes just started bleeding. Tracklisting after the jump... Joker's Mix for Skream's Stella Sessions (68.7MB) [mp3] [edit: link fixed!] Posted by: Scott 12/06/08 Stuck On Repeat If you were to quickly scroll through Pinglewood it might read something like this: blah blah blah blah blah MYSTERY JETS blah blah blah blah blah blah MYSTERY JETS blah blah blah blah blah MYSTERY JETS blah blah blah... because in case you hadn't noticed we really like Mystery Jets. Here they are again, thanks to Duke Dumont's epic take on Two Doors Down. Check those pesky Fluo Kids for the Pilooski remix. Mystery Jets - Two Doors Down (Duke Dumont Reconstruction) [mp3] [snagged from Discobelle] Posted by: Scott 11/06/08 Robots In Disguise In keeping with its title, here is a dubstep track from 2562's excellent new album that has disguised itself as sparse tribal techno. 2562 - Kameleon [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 10/06/08 Into The Groove Lykke Li live at Pure Groove [credit: Gabriel Green] Here Lykke Li is saying "Dudes! I am singing for free in the new Pure Groove shop and it is awesome but you missed it because this happened last Wednesday. Also, I have a big face." You can see her sultry performance here along with the epic opening day set from Mystery Jets. Celebrations continue today with Metronomy. Posted by: Scott 09/06/08 The Gloves Are Off Buraka Som Sistema are latest dudes brave enough to grapple with our Greco Roman pals. Help them celebrate the release of Kalembe Wegue Wegue on 14/6 at what is bound to be a very messy affair. [Flyer...] Posted by: Scott 06/06/08 Make It Wayne Ah, Lil’ Wayne you never cease to amaze us. The mind-bending wordplay, the mightily impressive tour stash, the pretending to be a Martian; we’d almost done being surprised by your obvious but endearing insanity. Then you team up with Swizz Beatz, jack David Axelrod (not that one) and turn out a jazzy, conceptual rap jam that‘s as awesome as it is unexpected. Lil' Wayne - Dr. Carter [mp3] David Axelrod - Holy Thursday [mp3] Posted by: Scott 06/06/08 Goth Limits We want Detachments to soundtrack our nightmares. When we’re falling endlessly into the abyss we want their doomy funk to fill the darkness. Because sometimes being scared shitless is fun. If you’re feeling brave they will be casting long, spooky shadows over ACTH this Friday. Detachments - To The Night [mp3] Posted by: Scott 05/06/08 Happy House We’re always being asked what it’s like at Pinglewood. Are we a big team? Are we all in love? Well, for an accurate illustration of our healthy and happy homelife just listen to this fine remix of A Place To Bury Strangers' noisecore epic. A Place To Bury Strangers - To Fix The Gash In Your Head (Grime Reaper remix) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 05/06/08 City Slickers Stricken City - Tak o Tak In which Rebekah Raa justifies our enormous crush on her with some lethal hair tossing. Sign up here and get Stricken City's fantastic debut EP for free. Posted by: Scott 04/06/08 On BEATS: Free The Robots This week the awesome Stussy x Turntable Lab BEATS boxset went on sale (Get one quick!). In our final look at the dudes involved we spoke to LA's super-talented Free The Robots. [Continues...] Free The Robots - La Lune [mp3] Posted by: Scott 04/06/08 Stampede How To Turn Prog Gold Into Dancefloor Fire, Part 17. Starring Led Zeppelin and John Daly. Led Zeppelin - Trampled Underfoot (John Daly edit) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 03/06/08 Shout Out Loudmouth is a one-man hip-hop sweatshop. He churns out beats, raps and mixtapes quicker than asian babies stitch Dunks. His Cut Out and Suck Out grime beats have been driving DJs insane on the airewaves. Here Badness blesses the former with his Google-heavy dancehall chatter. Badness & Loudmouth - Cut Out [mp3] Posted by: Scott 03/06/08 Time Machine Kurt Ralske AKA Ultra Vivid Scene Our pal Fume Avanti sent us this mix of obscure indie rock with these words: “It’s all stuff from 1991-92 or thereabouts. It is mainly American. It has Daniel Johnson on it. And Bongwater. And two songs from flexi-discs and some that had coloured vinyl.” There are songs here about severed lips, skinhead girls and swivel chairs. THEY ARE ALL AWESOME. Tracklisting after the jump... VA 1991/1992 mixed by Fume Avanti (83.1MB) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 02/06/08 You Know, For Kids! Frankmusik - In Step In which the LED hula hoop jumps to the top of our must-own list ahead of Luthur burgers and Bill Cosby’s sweaters. Posted by: Scott 01/06/08