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Gold Digger With Pet Sounds: In The Key Of Dee, Bullion shows that even the most well-mined of seams reward those willing to dig a little deeper. While reworking a classic rock LP isn't the freshest way for a producer to make their name, and the ongoing deification of Dilla has made indie-rap sound stale and samey, Bullion bores through the clichés to find the treasure below. The Beach Boys - I Just Wasn't Made For These Times (Bullion Remix) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 28/09/07 Breaker One-Nine Until this year our Best Trucks list had been consistent for a decade: 1 - Bigfoot 2 - Optimus Prime 3 - Any Eddie Stobart cab Now, thanks to Michael Bay and the arrival of our favourite new band, Truckers Of Husk, that list lies in tatters. At least we have awesome math rock to get us through. You can see the Truckers at the increasingly amazing-looking Swn in November. Truckers Of Husk - Salad Ballad (demo) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 27/09/07 Room Service From today, iTunes is giving away Hotel Chevaliar, Wes Anderson's racy 13-minute prologue to The Darjeeling Limited. It has an awful lot going for it: Jason Schwartzman's Yosemite Sam moustache, his dandyish Marc Jacobs luggage, Natalie Portman being all nude... And this breezily debonair ditty from Peter Sarstedt. Peter Sarstedt - Where Do You Go To My Lovely [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 27/09/07 Family Affair We know two things about Orkney: it looks cold; it's where Half Cousin are from. Is their name a little joke about the close-knit nature of small island communities? Probably. If not then we're sorry we mentioned it. Half Cousin - The Absentee (Fujiya & Miyagi Remix) [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 27/09/07 Find A Way We like the fact that Maps isn't an easy dude to Google. It means we had to flex our journalistic muscles and work that little bit harder* to discover he sampled Bright Eyes on this new b-side. *i.e. We read the back of the CD. Maps - In Chemistry (Edit) [mp3] [Buy] Bright Eyes - The Movement Of A Hand [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 26/09/07 Get Your Rocks Off Who would you rather buy your crack from: Rick Ross & Clipse or Jay-Z & Pharrell? Choices, choices… Rick Ross - B.L.O.W. (Block Life Is Our Way) (ft. Clipse) [mp3] [Buy] Jay-Z - Blue Magic (ft. Pharrell Williams) [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 25/09/07 Space Invader When Erols attack... LA Priest - Engine (Erol Alkan Re-Edit) [mp3] [Buy] Interpol - Mammoth (Erol Alkan Rework) [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 25/09/07 Rocket Man Mark E. Smith, discofied Northern Soul and the silky editing skills of Pilooski are all things we love, so our tiny, weak hearts all but exploded when we heard this new Von Südenfed b-side. The single also features a funny Smith-penned tribute to The Rocket so you really should buy it. Von Südenfed - The Rhinohead (Pilooski Edit) [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 24/09/07 Fashion Week: It's The Beat Sorry for the silence. We're experiencing FASHION OVERLOAD here in Madrid. More on that when we've dried out, but for now check out the awesome drumming on this: Scout Niblett - Moon Lake [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 21/09/07 Fashion Week: Shake & Pop When he’s not redecorating the world’s walls with his signature fetish designs, our pal Insa is busy building a fashion empire. He’s just unleashed a line of Insa Spandex- lurid, high-cut swimsuits inspired by the cover of Ice-T's Power. All fashion should be like this. Ice-T - Girls L.G.B.N.A.F. [mp3] [Buy] Spank Rock & Benny Blanco AKA Bangers & Cash - B.O.O.T.A.Y. (ft. Santogold) [mp3] [Source] Chromeo - Bonafied Lovin (Eli Remix ft. Pase Rock) [mp3] [Source] Posted by: Scott 19/09/07 Fashion Week: I Wear My Own Garms We've just landed in Madrid, where we will continue our Fashion Week blowout bonanza. While we head poolside, here's the Boy Better Know fashion manifesto and Kanye's new Feist-sampling, Pitchfork-primed Twista production. Wiley - No Qualms (Revox ft. Chipmunk, JME & Skepta) [mp3] [Buy] Twista - Well It's Time [mp3] [Source] Posted by: Scott 19/09/07 Fashion Week: Feast Of Flesh Lightspeed Champion joined in the Fashion Week madness last night with a shambolic show at the PPQ party. He walked on tables! He smashed glasses! Then he had his limelight stolen by professional dickhead Johnny Borrell. We mentioned Dev’s epic new single a few days ago and an edited version of the awesome video has since appeared. Here’s the b-side, his radiant version of the Hair classic The Flesh Failures, along with Wilson Simonal’s classic Brazilian take and a bananas reading by the Japanese cast of 1971. Lightspeed Champion - The Flesh Failures (Let The Sunshine In) [mp3] [Buy] Wilson Simonal - The Flesh Failures (Let The Sunshine In) [mp3] [Buy] The Japanese Cast Of Hair, 1971 - The Flesh Failures (Let The Sunshine In) [mp3] [Source] Posted by: Scott 18/09/07 Fashion Week: Brave Hart Devendra Banhart once played live at a Chanel show and that, along with several whorey front row appearances, is enough to get him and his amazing ginger beard into our fashion week. Banhart comes across as a sweet guy in the latest Fader and his new LP sees him trying on all kinds of fresh sounds. Nic Dawson Kelly is an intriguing young troubadour who has a bit of Banhart about him, but Banhart had he grown up in a dull UK commuter town. You can hear him getting his Antony on in the back of a cab or at one of his many London live dates. And here ends our weakest Fashion Week post yet. Devendra Banhart - So Long Old Bean [mp3] [Buy] Nic Dawson Kelly - London's Burning Down [mp3] Posted by: Scott 18/09/07 Fashion Week: Raising Hell Gareth Pugh Spring/Summer '08 and Pinhead We're calling this Cenobite chic. Seriously, this fashion stuff is easy. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (Ashley Beedle Re-Edit) [mp3] Posted by: Scott 17/09/07 Fashion Week: Build Me Up Buttercup The only disappointment from last week’s Marc by Marc Jacobs show was that he didn’t put Weezy on the catwalk. Like fellow Lil-rapper Kim, Wayne name-checks the New York designer all over his records, and we just know he’d be a natural on the catwalk. But the lack of Weez was forgiven when we saw these awesome Lego accessories: worn as brooches, hair pieces and belt buckles. Toys R Us here we come. Lil Wayne - Diamonds & Girls (ft. Currency) [mp3] Posted by: Alice 17/09/07 Fashion Week: Size Zero Last week it was New York, this week London, but the only Fashion Week that counts is the one starting here today. We've been starving ourselves for months to squeeze into this and thanks to a diet of cigarettes, heroin and heart attacks we're finally farbulous enough to work it. Expect dubious photos, sketchy sartorial references and lots of songs with the word Fashion in the title. Like this one from We Smoke Fags. We Smoke Fags - Passion For Fashion [mp3] Posted by: Scott 17/09/07 Never Scared Animal Collective - Peacebone Yesterday’s David Lynch post got us thinking about how he pretty much owns indie-rock videos right now. All the coolest kids have clips that resemble darkly lucid fever dreams populated by freaks wallowing in that eerie sense of mounting dread that has long been Lynch’s hallmark. Young directors like Alexander Turvey and Timothy Saccenti (who made the Peacebone video) probably watched Rabbits a few times before concocting new and horrible ways to give hipster’s nightmares. Animal Collective - Peacebone (Pantha Du Prince Remix) [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 14/09/07 Eraserheads Today we nursed our hangover through the press launch for this year's London Film Festival. As you'd expect there are plenty of great movies scheduled, but the announcement that really shook us out of our post-binge funk was this: David Lynch and Donovan are to host an evening of music, discussion and transcendental meditation. This could be the best thing ever. Donovan - Sunny Goodge Street [mp3] [Buy] Donovan - Get Thy Bearings [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 13/09/07 Hear My Song If you can read then you're probably under the impression that London is overrun by spunky young female singer-songwriters. You must think those bitches are everywhere, that you can't walk down the street without bumping into a feisty cockernee girl acoustically skewering her bastard ex. It's not true. There are, we think, about six. And only Remi Nicole had the sense to commission a Kissy Sell Out remix. Remi Nicole - Fed Up (Kissy Sell Out's Rules Of Attraction Remix) [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 13/09/07 Sweet Dreams Earlier today we were saying how great it would be if a Swedish Morrissey had fronted the Love Unlimited Orchestra. Then someone put on the new Jens Lekman record and our aural wish list became a little bit shorter. Jens Lekman - Sipping On The Sweet Nectar [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 12/09/07 Summer School Kanye West ft. T-Pain - The Good Life Kanye is brilliant at embarrassing himself, but even better at cranking out the hits. As autumn draws near here’s his late-registered entry for Summer Jam ‘07. Posted by: Scott 12/09/07 A Bronx Tale Even though this photo makes them look like one of Oprah's Book Clubs, ESG is undoubtedly one of the coolest bands of the last 30 years. Their influence is now so huge it's hard to find an act that hasn't referenced, sampled or stolen their sinewy basslines and pounding disco-rock rhythms. Which makes news of their retirement all the sadder. But sad in a good way. Sad in a we'll-really-miss-you-but-enjoy-kicking-back-because-you-have-absolutely-earned-it way. ESG - UFO [mp3] [Buy] Big Daddy Kane - Aint No Half Steppin [mp3] [Buy] Liars - Tumbling Walls Buried Me In The Debris With ESG [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 11/09/07 Dressed To Kill We haven't seen No Country For Old Men, but it's pretty clear from this bloody new trailer that Javier Bardem is the baddest badass bad guy of 2007 (The lank hair! The crazy, staring eyes! The shooting holes through good ol' boys' heads with a compressed-air gun!). We're already working on the Halloween costume. Talking Heads - Psycho Killer [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 11/09/07 Friday Night Lights As far as we're concerned it's still Friday night. LCD Soundsystem - Get Innocuous (Soulwax Remix) [mp3] [Buy] Edit: This has been removed by request. Kanye West - Flashing Lights (DJ Benzi's Instrumental) [mp3] [Source] Posted by: Scott 10/09/07 Midnight Cowboy Dubstep wunderkid Skream has recently become a bit of a genre slut. He's been playing funk and soul sets, providing techy house remixes for the Grecoromans and recording with jazz band, Nostalgia 77. Until more of this stuff surfaces we'll make do with the shiny new Switch remix of his classic Midnight Request Line posted by Diplo on the Mad Decent blog. Skream - Midnight Request Line (Switch Remix) [mp3] [Source] Skream - Midnight Request Line [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 10/09/07 Countdown To Armageddon Thanks to Chamillionaire hip-hop's flirtation with hair metal has reached its natural conclusion. Chamillionaire - Industry Groupie [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 09/09/07 Knight Moves Knightmare was a TV show that aired in the UK in the late 1980s. A bunch of kids would guide one of their friends around a virtual reality castle where they'd meet all kinds of out-of-work actors hamming it up as ogres or dwarfs. It was as if Jnr Lawnmower Man had stumbled into an am-dram version of Dungeons & Dragons. The poor sap being guided was blinded by a giant helmet that hid from him the true blue screen nature of his surroundings. "Two steps forward. One left. Pick up the bread." It was fucking awesome. If the lyrics to Tree Friend Tree Foe are to be believed then dude from Bolt Action Five was on Knightmare as a kid. For that he gets our everlasting respect. You may have already heard the Kissy remix of that track, so here is a rudecore rework from FOPs the Cleft Palettes. It's on their excellent new EP along with a ridiculous rework of Homecoming and a fantastic tune with Miss Odd Kid. Bolt Action Five - Tree Friend Tree Foe (Cleft Palettes Remix) [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 06/09/07 A Matter Of Life And Dev Comic-obsessed troubadour and owner of great hair, Dev Hynes AKA Lightspeed Champion will tee up his 2008 Domino debut LP Falling Off The Lavender Bridge with a 10-minute single called Midnight Surprise. The three-part epic features gratuitous Zelda references as well as Emmy and Tilly on backing vocals. The Lightspeed Champion blog always makes us laugh and it's crammed full of demos, live cuts, hastily made albums, and Superbad doodles. Head over to LiveRoom where you can see him perform live as well as Pinglepad favourites like Comanechi, Theoretical Girl and The Victorian English Gentlemen’s Club. Lightspeed Champion - Galaxy Of The Lost [mp3] [Buy] Lightspeed Champion ft. Florence and the Machine - Scattered (Green Day cover) [mp3] [Source] Posted by: Scott 05/09/07 Violently Happy Occasionally we'll hear some music that's so perfectly in tune with our tastes it feels like somebody has been making field recordings inside our brains. At the moment we suspect that somebody is White Williams. His debut album Smoke offers off-kilter pop-funk in seven shades of whimsy. We like them all. White Williams - Violator [mp3] White Williams - New Violence [mp3] [Buy] Posted by: Scott 04/09/07