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See: Nozinja releases video for Baby Do U Feel Me, plus Summer dates
After releasing his new, and brilliant, album Nozinja’s Lodge on Warp Records last month, South Africa producer Nozinja himself is back with a new video for album cut ‘Baby Do U Feel Me’. It propels along at a breakneck 190bpm, and is scattered with percussion everywhere that ripples away. Underneath, there are these female vocal …
Track: AFX – Serge fenix Rendered 2, plus new EP details
Like buses, Richard D. James seems to be working in bursts. After Aphex Twin released the brilliant Syro last year and assorted EP releases, he’s now resurrected his AFX moniker – dormant since the flurry of Analord releases that ended in 2005, for a brand new EP. Called Orphaned Deejay Selek (2006-2008). Its out via …
See: Bob Moses reveal video for Talk, plus album and tour details
There’s something calming yet unsettling about Talk, the new single from Canadian duo Bob Moses (aka Tom Howie and Jimmy Vallance). It grows out of this cross rhythm laced opening, which confuses your senses, into something that merges the melancholy of the pairs vocals with layers of echo drenched synths and guitars, over a percussive …
News: Garbage Announce 20th anniversary Queer tour
Apparently, it happened on August 15th 1995, although I can hardly believe its 20 year ago. Through all the grunnge and associated alt rock, something cut through. Something that was smart and sassy, but could also be dark and ambitious. Something that was like a shard of colour across a landscape of grey and black. …
Track: Eliza and the Bear – Love Don’t Play Fair, plus Headline Tour dates
Those Eliza and the Bear people have been busy. After releasing a handful of delightful synth pop tracks, the band have been on tour most recently with Twin Atlantic, having occupied the same slot with Imagine Dragons and Paramore. They’ve recently unveiled their latest video for ‘Make it on my Own’, from the forthcoming EP …
News: Switzerland gears up for Edge of The Lake Festival
Nestled smack bang in the middle of the Swiss Alps and on the edge of idyllic Lake Géronde, the aptly named Edge of The Lake Festival returns for a ninth year. The festival is very popular with music lovers from all over Europe, with organisers promising to “absorb the people in a eco, festive, hot …
Track: The Chemical Brothers – Sometimes I feel so deserted, plus album news
Nearing quarter of a century at the cutting edge of mindwarp electronica, Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons are back once again with a new track, Sometimes I feel so deserted, and a new album Born in the Echoes. Their eighth studio album contains eleven tracks of classic Chemical Brothers featuring collaborations with Q-Tip, Ali Love, …
News: Warp announce CARGAA series / stream DJ Nigga Fox ‘LUMI’
With Lisbon being at the heart of a lot of the more interesting and cross cultural dance music being made right at the moment, Warp Records have jumped on board the scene, announcing their new 3 record CARGAA series of compilations, and saying its been “inspired by the sheer amount of incredible young artists in …
News: Warp to reissue Broadcast back catalogue
Following the tragic death of frontwoman Trish Keenan in 2011 left fans wondering what would happen to Birmingham kitch soul popsters Broadcast, it was of some comfort that the sole remaining member James Cargill has kept the fires burning, with the brilliant scores to Berbarian Sound Studio and the upcoming Duke Of Burgundy, as well …
Track: Mew – Satellites, plus album/tour news
Welcome back Mew. It seemed like the Danish art-poppers, aka Copenhagen quartet Jonas Bjerre Bo Madsen Silas Graae Johan Wohlert might have left us after going on a worryingly long haitus following 2009’s ‘No More Stories Are Told Today, I’m Sorry They Washed Away // No More Stories, The World is Grey, I’m Tired, Let’s …