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See: Tycho reveals new video for Pink & Blue, plus new album news
Following on from their Grammy nominated album Epoch, San Francisco’s Tycho have announced their new album ‘Weather’ is out on July 12th via the ever brilliant Ninja Tune. The electronic soundscapes are still there, but now they’ve introduced vocals into the mix. On new single ‘Pink & Blue’, Hannah Cottrell aka Saint Sinner takes the …
Track: Jordan Rakei – Say Something, plus album and world tour news
Jordan Rekei has announced his new album, ‘Origin’ is out on June 14th via Ninja Tune, and from it he’s released a single, Say Something. It’s a happy go lucky smooth slice of modern soul at first glance. The sheen on the production glows, as Rekei’s silvery vocals warm the cockles against a backdrop of …
Track: Tycho – Easy
San Francisco’s Tycho have just released a new single ‘Easy’ on Mom + Pop X Ninja Tune, and comes ahead of a new album, due out later in the year. With a CV that boasts over 1.3 million sales and a Grammy Nomination, Tycho – essentially the project of Scott Hansen, knows what he’s doing, …
Track: Bicep – Opal (Four Tet Remix), plus live dates
Belfast duo Bicep have revealed a new Four Tet remix of ‘Opal’, taken from their self titled debut album, which came out last year on the vaunted Ninja Tune label, and was rightly heralded as one of the dance music albums of the year. Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet) gently rubs the rough edges off …
Track: Young Fathers – Toy, plus European Tour dates
Just ahead of the release of their third album Cocoa Sugar, Scottish hip-hop trio Young Fathers have released a new track, Toy. The band Alloysious Massaquoi, Graham ‘G’ Hastings and Kayus Bankole, have already released two tracks from the album, lead single Lord and, currently recieving heavy airplay, In my view, and Toy follows on …
Track: Peggy Gou – It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
Following on from a spate of brilliant releases on labels such as Rekids, Phonica White and Technicolour, Korean-born, Berlin residing producer Peggy Gou is set to releaase her new EP, ‘Once’ on the ever brilliant Ninja Tune label on March 2nd. Talking of the EP, Gou says “I really wanted to represent different styles and …
Track: Young Fathers – In my view
Following last Novembers news that Young Fathers had completed work on their new album, the trio – Alloysious Massaquoi, Graham ‘G’ Hastings and Kayus Bankole have followed up the first glimpse of the new record, Lord, with a new track In my view. They’ve also revealed more details of the album. Titled Cocoa Sugar, the …
Track: Nathan Fake – Sunder
Nathan Fake has revealed the title track from his new EP, out via the ever brilliant Ninja Tune label on 23rd February on 4-track 12″/Digital release. “These four tracks are like snapshots captured in a single moment. They were all recorded on an old Marantz tape deck, Jupiter 6, broken Akai drum machine and a …
EP: Helena Hauff – Have you Been there, Have you seen it
Ninja Tune have dropped a new EP from master DJ Helena Hauff, titled ‘Have you been there, Have you seen it’, which finds her building on what she has achieved in the last two years, which, at her core is her commitment to, and innate talent for, the craft of DJing. Acclaimed for her skill …
See: Romare releases live video of Come Close to Me
Boasting the sort of beats and gluey synths that most producers would prostitute themselves for, Romare has long encaptured us at Backseat Mafia with this ability to build delicious slices of disco house and 80s electro. Alongside the announcement of his largest headline show to date – he’s at Koko in London on November 11th, …