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On BEATS: The Gaslamp Killer We're celebrating the release of Stussy x Turntable Lab's awesome BEATS album by speaking to some of the dudes involved. Today we are disturbed and bewitched by the Charles Manson of beatmaking. The one, the only, The Gaslamp Killer. [Continues...] The Gaslamp Killer - Show Stopper [mp3] [Buy] The Gaslamp Killer - Kobwebs (Ft. Gonjasufi) [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 30/05/08 I See A Darkness Danish duo Lulu Rouge are old pals of Trentemřller who cloak themselves in the creepy electronics of The Eraser. Bless You from their new album turns its sweetly benign title into a veiled threat. This is the softly sung confession of a dangerous mind. Lulu Rouge - Bless You [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 30/05/08 Punch Drunk Collapsing Cities - So I Said Last Weekend In which awesome New Zealanders ease our hangovers by blowing stuff up in slow motion and singing about the elusiveness of sobriety. Collapsing Cities - So I Said Last Weekend [mp3] Posted by: Scott 29/05/08 Pure Groove Relaunches Your Twenties sound test the new Pure Groove store last night [Source] Thanks to the internet (and those pesky music blogs) times are tough for most London record shops. Thankfully, our favourite spot Pure Groove is in rude health and moving to swanky new premises in Farringdon next week. They’ve lined up a stellar series of instore performances to celebrate, including visits from Lykke Li, Ipso Facto, Metronomy, HEALTH, White Williams, Black Devil Disco Club and The Chap (ie ALL OUR FAVOURITE DUDES). Doors open on 02/06 with instore performances from Jeremy Warmsley and the mighty Mystery Jets. We’ll be muscling in on the fun with competitions and other surprises, but for now check out the full Pure Groove instore listings after the jump... HEALTH - Lost Time (Pictureplane Remix) [mp3] [Buy] Lykke Li - I'm Good, I'm Gone (Metronomy Remix) [mp3] [Buy] Mystery Jets - Hideaway (Switch remix, Diplo edit) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 28/05/08 On BEATS: Lukid Vodka and tonic. Pryor and Wilder. T-Pain and everyone. Collaboration rules. With that in mind our pals at Stussy have joined forces with Turntable Lab to curate and create a special album called BEATS that highlights today’s brightest young beatmakers. You can listen to the album and admire the limited edition boxset here and get your hands on a copy from 31/05. To celebrate its release we spoke to some of the producers involved, starting with North London boy Lukid, who gave us this peek at his forthcoming album, Foma. [Continues...] Lukid - Veto [mp3] Posted by: Scott 27/05/08 Smoke & Mirrors It's strange that Brooklyn disco bros Chin Chin are signed to alt.rap label, Def Jux. Stranger still are the furry hats they wear. But there is nothing strange about their live disco jams. That is, until Eli Escobar remixes them into coked-out claustrophobia. This is the sound of your party turning sour as The Fear sets in. Chin Chin - Toot D'Amore (Eli Escobar Remix) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 26/05/08 In Search Of... Pop Levi has the kind of haircut that makes you think, this dude is either a musician or a 17th century explorer. Here Mumdance and High Rankin chart the mushroom-topped troubadour a passage through the speaker stacks of east London, from electro to grime to bassline and back again. Pop Levi - Dita Dimone (Mumdance & High Rankin Mix) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 23/05/08 Little Drummer Boy Drums Of Death looks like a cross between Baron Samedi and Heath Ledger's Joker. Like them he is scarily awesome. Unlike them he is the latest addition to the GrecoRoman army. Our sonic wrestling dudes are throwing another ridiculous party this Friday. If you're in Berlin head down to Scala where your ears will be pummeled into submission by Mr Of Death, Hot Chip DJs, Party Shank and local hero Oliver $. Posted by: Scott 22/05/08 Scientists Of Sound How To Make An Indie Rock Hit Bang For The French Nightclubs Of 1983, Part 9. Starring We Are Scientists & Danger. We Are Scientists - Chick Lit (Danger TV Remix Edit) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 21/05/08 Not Over Yet For some rappers death means biopics or Elton John duets. Not Dilla. More than two years on and amazing songs continue to surface, like this bonkers reinterpretation of Gary Numan's Cars. J Dilla - Trucks [mp3] Posted by: Scott 21/05/08 Chop Shop Laura Marling - Cross Your Fingers / Crawled Out Of The Sea In which the charming alt.folk star uses Quay Bros-style animation to introduce her new haircut. Posted by: Scott 20/05/08 Barely Legal XX Teens were called Xerox Teens until the photocopier dudes had them change it. Now they just sound dirty. XX Teens - The Way We Were [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 19/05/08 Celluloid Heroes This song by Pluxus is named after a type of German projector and you can hear why. It begins like one malfunctioning, sounds spool out of the speakers before a hazy melody is drawn into sharp focus. The Swedish trio’s album Solid State is out on Kompakt next week. Pluxus - Kinoton [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 16/05/08 Sea Of Blood Pivot - In The Blood In which we witness the world's goriest puppet shark attack, courtesy of Warp Records' latest signings. Posted by: Scott 15/05/08 Breaking Atoms With a Bunsen burner and a handful of magnesium you can make your very own Ryu fireball. It’s just one of the many awesome things science has given us. Another is romance. In this brand new song, the ever excellent Modernaire distill good loving down to it's base elements and engineer three minutes of perfect electro pop. Catch them on tour with the Ting Tings and marvel at their use of the word 'thermochromatically'. Modernaire - Science [mp3] Posted by: Scott 14/05/08 Through The Wire Tristan Wilds AKA Michael from The Wire has been cast as the male lead in the forthcoming remake of Beverly Hills 90210. Come in Gossip Girl, your time is up. Posted by: Scott 14/05/08 Purple Heart Flairs - Better Than Prince In which our hand-drawn hero declares his supremacy over the purple one in disciplines such as dancing, love-making and... um... eating. Posted by: Scott 13/05/08 Nerds Of A Feather Remember when Lapdance came out and Pharrell had an awesomely spivvy moustache? He looked like a baby newt with a dirty mind. While he remains disappointingly clean-shaven, Seeing Sounds, the new N.E.R.D. album, sounds like a return to those glory days. First the party hard dumb out of Everyone Nose and now Spazz, an I'm A Little Teapot thrash jam with jungle breaks. Welcome back, newt boy. N.E.R.D. - Spazz [mp3] Update! N.E.R.D. - Everyone Nose (Remix Ft. CRS & Pusha T) [mp3] [Courtesy of FADER] Posted by: Scott 12/05/08 On Trend We love Agyness Deyn. We do not love her new song. Songs by British supermodels always suck. Thankfully, songs about British supermodels are reliably awesome. Arab Strap - Kate Moss [mp3] [Buy] The Long Blondes - Erin O'Connor [mp3] [Buy] Noir Boys Club - Agyness Deyn [mp3] [Source] Posted by: Scott 09/05/08 Turn And Face The Strain Daedelus is the Zelig of beats. A globetrotting musical chameleon for whom reinvention is a daily operation. He is also a fan of Obama and Star Trek. Ninja Tune loves the new A-List of electronic producers (did you hear Switch is producing the next Coldcut record?) and here Daedelus gets a coat of spikey gloss from XXXChange. Daedelus - Make It So (XXXchange Remix) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 09/05/08 Jiggle It Annie Get Shakes. We get palpitations. Annie - I Know UR Girlfriend Hates Me (Get Shakes Remix) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 07/05/08 A Good Sport There is a photo of me aged six winning a race at a sports day. In the photo I am running and neither of my feet are touching the ground. Because of this I spent the best part of a decade believing I could fly. Sportsday Megaphone makes records like that photo. Here he turns messy teenage sex into perfect summer pop. Look out for his debut album So Many Colours / So Little Time on Sunday Best. Sportsday Megaphone - Young Lust [mp3] Posted by: Scott 07/05/08 Better Late Than Never Late Of The Pier - Focker In which the UK's best new band jam so hard their keyboards melt, then their faces melt, then a physical manifestation of their insane music beams down and dongs them all. Focker was directed by Daniel Brereton and is half of a double A-side release. The other half, Space And The Woods has a video too and you can get a free remix by signing up to the band's mailing list. Posted by: Scott 06/05/08 Giveaway: Santogold Album Launch Tickets Our primary WGI (What's Good Indicator) is Songs The Tough Schoolgirls At The Back Of Our Bus Are Blasting Out Of Their Phones. This week it's Akon & T-Pain, Trim mixtape cuts and Santogold. Yes, when they're not arguing about whether or not Shaun is a wasteman, our girls are screeching the AAH AH AH AHHH AHH AYAH AYAAH bit from the beginning of Creator and it sounds awesome. Proof, if it were needed, that Santogold is the truth. Her amazing debut album is out on Monday and we are giving away a pair of tickets to the launch (12/05/08 @ Old Blue Last); your chance to admire Santi's incredible styling and S1W dancers in a dirty east London pub. And we might even buy you a drink. To enter please email us your favourite bus jam. The winner will be contacted in a few days. Posted by: Scott 05/05/08 Fatal Attraction Crystal Castles - Courtship Dating In which Alice CC confirms our suspicion that dating her would be 50% awesome 50% terrifying. Posted by: Scott 02/05/08 Friendly Fire We Have Blog. We Have Music. We Have Hangover. We Have Band's name is as infectious as the music they make. From London and Manchester this trio wear their disco-rock influences like a flak jacket. Armed with sassy basslines, whipcrack rhythms and a trident of refreshingly diverse vocals they have laid siege to our ears and will not relent until We Have Surrendered. See them at Adventures Close To Home tomorrow (02/05/08), along with the also awesome Zombie Zombie. We Have Band - Oh! (demo) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 01/05/08