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Kry Wolf - Concrete / BBC 1Extra Mix
We posted about some tracks last weekend but we’re at it again. Kry Wolf has been on repeat.
Get a DL of the BBC 1Extra mix here, some real crackers on it.
vbo
Ben Jamin - New Day (ft Peace)
Ben Jamin has a new EP out - ‘Radio Waves’.
Have a listen to one of the tracks, ‘New Day’, here.
The Streets - Has It Come To This (Kry Wolf Edit)
Here’s a nice edit of a Streets track we’ve had on repeat recently.
Listen to Kry Wolf’s original productions here.
Sam Smith - The Lonely Hour
Sam Smith. This London-based singer will have, doubtlessly, graced your eardrums on the unexpected chart smash ‘Latch’.
In his own right though, Sam’s talent is enormous. His voice carries with sensitivity only a well-accomplished musician pulls off
Here’s an acoustic version of his track ‘The Lonely Hour’. Let the legato glides of the cello and Sam’s powerful vocals serenade you.
His initial dates sold out in a flash but there’s a few tickets about for 24th April @ St Pancras Old Church.
Go on, you know you have / want to.
vbo
Farao - Skin
London-based, Norwegian artist Kari Jahnsen has a busy couple of months ahead. With Secret Garden Party and the Great Escape coming up, one could let her off if this manic touring schedule was preventing her writing.
Not here. Jahnsen is an artist that keeps putting stuff out at a consistently high level.
Known as Farao, the songstress brings an intriguing, beguiling twist on the sound of artists like Fleet Foxes and the Broken Bells.
The music swells and builds but always feels surprisingly calming.
Out May 27th.
Circula - Reprezent/Askin
CIRCULA WHO ARE YOU . WHY DID WE NOT CATCH YOUR TRACKS BEFORE?
This release is so mad… Garage, House and Tech have flirted their way into the minds of many producers (probably too many) and the result is all too often pretty unconvincing.
Writers love/have to criticise something or a review looks unbalanced. It’s hard here, however, to find something worth pulling out.
Circula’s production is tight - listen to how clean the percs are. It’s also unassumingly original.
1.19-1.25 - continuity between the bouncy 4/4 grimey club sound into a smooth, jazzy piano riff is underpinned by a sustained garage beat. Woa….
One of Future Groove’s releases (check them - always on point) and a VBO one to watch for 2013. If Disclosure lead ‘bass’ (sorry) into the charts, Circula is definitely in the band of producers who will continue to pull out the nuances and progress of house and electronic.
Not even saying that for hype.
vbo
5/5
Mount Kimbie - Made To Stray (Morning High Remix)
You know when you kill a track by listening to it at least 3 times a day, every day of the week, and strongly dislike yourself for it? Then you hear a remix, approach it reluctantly, and hope that it doesn’t kill the original for you (whilst secretly hoping it gives it a breath of fresh life).
Morning High’s edit of Mount Kimbie - Made To Stray definitely does that. Even looking at the waveform you know you’re set for a journey through a varied soundscape.
The original is eerie in how it sort of places you somewhere between an empty dancefloor. This one is aurally creative too - your brain is swept by nostalgia of summer evenings and the crack of a beer.
Oh, and it keeps those brain-popping semi and demis rhythms that give the Kai and Dom’s new material its unmistakeable groove, flair and originality.
Enjoy,
vbo
4/5
You all know Cassie. Her not-so-subtle innuendo’s in ‘Me & You’ right to her less celebrated collab with Nicki Minaj in ‘The Boys’. Jacques Greene reworked ‘Must Be Love’ and played out the most sultry and longing timbres of P Diddy’s purported into his own unique style.
Don’t grab these all at once. Take time to relish that the everyman press may have got it very wrong in declaring her career as flailing too early. The Guardian went as far as to suggest her as some sort of esoteric magician (‘Cassie’s constant disappearing acts merely fuel her mystique’, The Guardian 30 November 2012).
Hold press - maybe her music is just great full stop? It’s r’n’b at its most spacious, stripped back and adventurous. It’s malleable and artists love moulding it into their own works; you only have to listen to the Mak & Pasteman remix of Me & U to know this.
You’ll read the guardian article and say we’ve massively misquoted here. This is probably true, but its title still serves to demonstrate a widely misunderstood impression that artists ought to offer their listeners what they want rather than what the artist puts out.
thecassiecollective, so arduously dedicated to pay homage to this skill, have given special insight into Cassie Ventura’s musical career. Click through for a Weekend-style trilogy of her released, unreleased and (hopefully) forthcoming music.
Viva le cult of Cassie. Maybe her mystique is that she doesn’t whore out her music to any label willing to take it more than nobody wanting her breks.
all the best,
vbo
(via cassiecollective)
Burial - Truant/ Rough Sleeper
There’s some new Burial coming people.
Production-wise this teaser does not cease to entice. The composition is profoundly evocative and, as ever, draws your thoughts to some place or feeling that every Burial listener can imagine but not quite describe.
No shame to suppose all this from one minute of listening.
Enjoy
vbo
(Source: postdubstep)