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Thug Style We love Big Face. They've made a great video for I Wanna Be A Style Crusader and provided the perfect band name excuse for this picture. Big Face - I Wanna Be A Style Crusader [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 30/11/07 Them Belly Full Toddla T brings his kiddy crack digi-dancehall to the Patchwork Pirates never-not-ram-up Hugs & Thugs night this Friday (30/11). To celebrate, our oh-so-directional dudes at Dazed are hosting his brand new mix. And there's more! You can still cop Toddla's ridonkulous Ghettoblaster mix and his limited 7"s are available from the 1965 store. The youth are so productive. Toddla T ft. Mr Versatile - Fill Up Ma Portion [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 29/11/07 Seduce And Destroy Snoop Dogg - Sexual Seduction WOW. The vocoder and the turban and the bed and the keytar and the dry ice and the so-perfect special effects... Well played Snoop, Melina and Shawty. Snoop Dogg - Sexual Eruption [mp3] (This is the original version with a different title) Posted by: Scott 28/11/07 Hip To Be Square The Delinquent, The Hipster And The Square - Winter '07 promo We love The Darjeeling Limited but some people think it plays like an extended ad for awesome luggage. LA-based fashion label The Delinquent, The Hipster And The Square have taken a different path. They've made an extended ad for their new collection that plays like a Wes Anderson movie, right down to the tuned-in Brit Invasion-era soundtrack. Nazz - Open My Eyes [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 28/11/07 Rock The Discotheque It's cold, wet and we saw three fights on the bus home today. But DJs are making spacey re-edits of Guns 'N' Roses anthems so the world really isn't so bad. Guns 'N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle (Todd Terje Re-Edit) [mp3] [Source: Smuglesning] Posted by: Scott 27/11/07 The Greatest Dancer Ola Podrida - Lost & Found Todd Rohal, director of The Guatemalan Handshake and scene-stealer in Hannah Takes The Stairs wrote the spoof mumblecore stories we linked to last week. He's also the latest mumbledude to make a video for Brooklyn's Ola Podrida. While we liked Michael Tully's Rohal-starring clip and Joe Swanberg's sweet effort, the casting here of Ivan Dimitrov and his laser eyes makes it THE BEST MUSIC VIDEO EVER. Posted by: Scott 26/11/07 The Neverending Story Dear Andre, Please just forget about the acting and spend your days recording amazing verses like this one. Thanks, Everyone Outkast - Da Art Of Storytellin' Pt. 4 [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 26/11/07 Royal Mumble Mumblecore. The first significant movement in US cinema for a decade OR a group of young filmmakers who cast each other in sort-of-funny, lo-fi movies that usually involve them all having sex with each other? Probably the latter! And more power to them. At the London Film Festival Hannah Takes The Stairs director Joe Swanberg told us he expects the movie world to become more like music with local, national and international scenes, stars and genres. Mumblecore, he said, was just the first example of this democratization. This is the trailer for his new web series, Butterknife that starts soon over on Spout. It’s about a gumshoe detective who, we’re guessing, has lots of sex with Swanberg’s director pals. Posted by: Scott 22/11/07 Super Sub Stoke Newington's 12th tallest building, the Tower of Pinglewood, is in serious danger of collapse today thanks to all the bass coming out of this stupid blog. We blame Boy 8 Bit. His remix of Lethal B's ode to internet stalking contains the kind of low frequencies that can stop a child's heart beating. That's what we're telling the social services anyway. Lethal Bizzle - Selfridges Girl Not On MySpace (Boy 8 Bit Remix) [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 20/11/07 Get Low Ever thought ‘this dubstep guy I’m watching is good but how awesome would it be if he started playing a trombone or, hey, even a Theremin?’ Yeah? Then Bass Clef is your dude. You can catch his super-entertaining show tonight at White Heat. Also playing (every day he’s hussling) is Afrikan Boy who’s on the great new Paper Planes remix with Rye Rye. Right now MIA is the Angelina Jolie of post world hip-hop and Afrikan Boy and Rye Rye her Maddox and Zahara. Fiery Furnaces - Slavin' Away (Bass Clef Remix) [mp3] Durrty Goodz - Boi Dem (Produced by Bass Clef) [mp3] [Buy] Bass Clef - Ballad of the Broken 606 [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 20/11/07 Sail Away Vampire Weekend - Mansard Roof As introductions go, this is a pretty good one. Vampire Weekend’s first video scores roof-high in both Witty and Preppy. It could only really be improved by getting Chevy Chase* in to mime the vocal. *(You are wrong, Jens, Chase's stupid, grinning face is amazing.) Vampire Weekend - Mansard Roof [mp3] [Buy] Jens Lekman - You Can Call Me Al [mp3] [More...] Scottie B & King Tut - You Can Call Me Al [mp3] [Buy] Hot Club de Paris - You Can Call Me Al [mp3] [More...] Posted by: Scott 19/11/07 Snow Business Until the inevitable Souljah Boy Xmas remix drops (Superman that Ho Ho Ho!) our favourite new festive song is this collaboration between Lee Hazelwood and Amiina. It's a sentimental reworking of the Icelanders's Hilli and features the late, great Hazelwood's last ever vocal. Update: Gone! [Video] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 15/11/07 Higher Ground DJ Blaqstarr ft. Rye Rye - Shake It To The Ground Rye Rye must have crammed every one of her 16 years full of awesomeness lessons. And she still found time to perfect dance moves! Amazing. [Buy] Posted by: Scott 15/11/07 Pity The Fool's A-Trak brings his (literal) Fool's Gold family to Fabric this Friday (16/11) for a face off with Sinden and the Get Familiar gang. The never-not-capped boy wonder is in town with his girlfriend (Kid Sis!), her brother (Flosstradamus!) and a French pal (Medhi!). Elsewhere in the cavernous EC1 club you'll find the redonkulous likes of Simian Mobile Disco, Buraka Som Sistema, the YoYoers, Hannah Holland and Patchwork Pirates. Omnipresent Annie Mac takes time out from her all-media onslaught to play host. [Flyer and details...] Digitalism - Idealistic (A-Track Remix) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 15/11/07 Lechyd Da! Yeasayer Predictably our Swn coverage petered out prematurely. We were having too much fun! Two Gallants, Kotki Dwa, Yeasayer and Black Lips all played on Sunday. Huw and the other great dudes behind the festival are already working on next year's… Yeasayer - Sunrise [mp3] [Buy] Black Lips - Veni Vedi Veci(Diplo Remix)[mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 13/11/07 Brains! Brains! Brains! Truckers Of Husk at Clwb Ifor Bach Things we've learned so far at Swn: 1. It's pronounced 'soon'. 2. Drinking Brains will turn you into an alcoholic zombie. 3. Zach Condon is one talented dude. 4. Truckers Of Husk live are like Battles arranged by David Axelrod only twice as amazing. Today: Emmy! Erol! Edwyn! Beirut - Guyamas Sonora [mp3] [Buy] Findlay Brown - Losing The Will To Survive (Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve reanimation)[mp3] Edwyn Collins - The Magic Piper (Of Love) [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 10/11/07 Killer Wales Whose coat is that jacket!? Whose boots are those shoes!? We're in Cardiff for the crazily eclectic Swn festival and we are pumped. Today we're hoping to catch Domino's new wonderpal, some awesome Swedes and a Dubstep don, as well as local heroes like The Victorian English Gentleman's Club, DJ Scotch Egg and our dudes Truckers Of Husk. Weariness permitting* we'll be bringing you the sights and sounds of Swn throughout the weekend. *(whose drink is that booze!?) Eugene McGuinness - Child Lost In Tesco [mp3] [Buy] Those Dancing Days - Those Dancing Days [mp3] [Buy] Loefah - It's Yours [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 09/11/07 Ride It, My Pony Not everyone is crazy about horses, but the whole world loves ponies. Tiny ponies like this awesome little guy are even better. Two of our favourite French bands, Poney Poney and Poni Hoax, clearly know what's up. Tiny French rock ponies must be the most amazing animals ever. Poney Poney - Turbo (Demo) [mp3] Poni Hoax - Antibodies (To The Bones Edit) [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 08/11/07 Written On Ya Kitten Kotki Dwa means 'two cats' in Polish (thanks Google!), a name that should stand this electro-rock trio in good stead with the cute animal-loving corners of the internets. They've self-released two albums full of ideas, hooks and other good pop music stuff, and are soon to lose their Britain's Best Unsigned Band crown (i.e. they are being signed). Go see them at Swn this weekend, we're planning to (if we're still alive on Sunday). Kotki Dwa - Little Flags [mp3] [Buy] Kotki Dwa - Pad [mp3] [Buy] Kotki Dwa - Le Beau Charcutier [mp3] [More...] Posted by: Scott 07/11/07 Empire Building Jay-Z - Roc Boys (And The Winner Is) Over the weekend, we waded through Ridley Scott's American Gangster. It's entertaining enough (especially Rza flaunting his ink- it's supposed to be the 70s, dude!), but an epic crime classic it is not. So thanks to Chris Robinson for four giddy, cameo-packed minutes of glamourous, widescreen wiseguyery. That's how it's done, Ridley! Jay-Z (ft. Lil Wayne) - Hello Brooklyn [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 06/11/07 Your English Is Good Our good pal Fume Avanti obsesses over musical peculiarities. At the moment he likes singers who sing in English even though it's not their first language. Here’s a mixtape of some of his favourites… [Tracklisting...] Fume Avanti - 'I Wish I Could Speak Your Language' mix (44m35s, 102mb) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 06/11/07 We Start Fires Tonight's the night for mass pyromania. Across the UK things are burnt and fireworks become weapons. To soundtrack the nocturnal torching here’s the year's biggest dubstep tune from Benga & Coki. We've always thought it sounded familiar and now thanks to Ayres's recent Bangers & Cash/Ludacris blend we know why. Benga & Coki - Night [mp3] [Buy] Spank Rock & Benny Blanco are Bangers and Cash (ft. Amanda Blank) - Loose (DJ Ayres Potion Remix) [mp3] [Buy] Ludacris - The Potion [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 05/11/07 I'm Coming Out It’s not like we spend all day, every day scouring the internets for silly stuff to put on here. We sleep a good 17 out of every 24 hours and then there’s our baby smuggling business… But we digress, here’s Fat Jew from MTV’s Team Facelift telling it straight. Fat Jew - Mom, Dad, I'm Bi [mp3] Posted by: Scott 01/11/07