Electronic
Track: Battles release Stirling Bridge (DJ Diary & DJ Orient (Black Midi) Remix)
What makes a remix? Take the best bits of your stuff and plenty of my stuff and make it sound like ME or take the essence of mine and the heart of yours to make something new? I know what I go for, the remix that sounds like collaboration, made from respect, taking the music …
Track: Pet Grotesque Share Psychedelic-Funk Banger ”Pingin Alone”
Hailing from South London by the way of Yorkshire, comes psychedelic-funk tinged bedroom popster, Pet Grotesque. A busy chap, Pet Grotesque also combines time playing in Speedy Wunderground outfit Tiña as well as having been a Goat Girl’s touring keys player. Despite the busy times, following up from the balearic banger ‘Scratch’ Pet Grotesque has …
Album Review: Tommy Lee – Andro
You don’t have to read the Youtube comments under the videos for the album singles to realise he’s upset a lot of his long term fans. Instead of Lee dropping a glam metal album we would all expect, he has taken 2 years to craft something different, yet uniquely Tommy Lee. The album features a …
Album Review: Machinedrum – ‘A View Of U’
As Machinedrum, LA-based producer Travis Stewart has been steadily outputting innovative records broadly influenced by rave, jungle, hip hop and soundsystem music for the past two decades. 2011’s breakthrough album Room(s), released on Planet Mu, came the same year as the Sepalcure, a collaboration with Praveen Sharma aka Braille, self-titled debut album. He’s since gone …
Track: PVA – Talks
London’s PVA arrive today with the announcement of their signing to Ninja Tune’s taste-maker label Big Dada. In celebration they have also released a new track – ‘Talks’ taking from their debut EP ‘Toner’ due November 20th Ella, Josh and Louis said of their decision: “We are really over the moon to be joining the …
TRACK: Laura Groves – ‘Infinite Wisdom’: dreamy and glittering
NEWLY signed to Bella Union, Laura Groves has shared dreamy new track “Infinite Wisdom” and its accompanying video. The glittering track comes ahead of her new six-track EP A Private Road, which will be released on December 4th. Speaking on the upcoming EP, Groves explains: “This record, made mostly on my own, became both a channel for the expression of …
Track: Left Field Messiah – A.M Moonlight
Left Field Messiah are Steve Bays (of Hot Hot Heat), Jeremy Ruzumna (of Fitz & The Tantrums) and Erik Janson (formerly of Wildling). They have announced their new project with the single ‘A.M. Moonlight’, the lead single off of their upcoming debut album, ‘In Praise of Bombast’, due out early next year via KEXP. Melodic bass line …
Album Review: SAD13 – Haunted Painting
To contrast Sadie Dupuis’ work as SAD13 with her work with Speedy Ortiz feels unfair, yet inevitable as they are essentially two different distillations of her own personality. The former is more Dupuis as Dupuis, for sure ,but even the band work was sprung out of her own ideas and therefore could be reasonably approached …
Premiere: Dirty Freud releases new single Blood Bayou – listen first here
Taken from his upcoming EP ‘Love In The Backwater’, out on Modern Sky UK later in the year, Sheffield producer Dirty Freud is back with a new single Blood Bayou, and we’re delighted to premiere it right here on Backseat Mafia today. It’s the follow up to his lauded recent single ‘Intentions’ (ft. Szou), and …
See: Falle Nioke and Ghost Culture – Mounemouma
Falle Nioke & Ghost Culture have shared a brand new video for “Mounemouma”, a standout track from their acclaimed debut collaborative EP Youkounkoun via PRAH Recordings. ‘Mouemouma’ is sung in Susu and Malinke, two of the native languages of Guinea Conakry. “Back home, if you travel to Europe or America, people think that you will forget them and forget your life …