Category: Music

Ahead of the release for his new album ‘It’s What I’m, Thinking Part One – Photographing Snowflakes’ due out next Monday, Badly Drawn Boy has offered up a full EP to download free of charge.

The EP features tracks from the bonus CD on the special edition of ‘It’s What I’m Thinking…‘ and is mostly a collaborative effort with some fantastic artists, including Tim and Sam’s band with the long name who have been steadily making a name for themselves throughout the year.

Simply sign up to the mailing list to get your hands on the following tracks…

1. In Safe Hands (demo)
2. It’s What He’s Thinking (Oxidising Hexagons Silver Iodide – Album Re-Dux / Sound Collage by Andy Votel) (short excerpt)
3. The Order Of Things (with Tim And Sam’s Tim And The Sam Band With Tim And Sam)
4. A Pure Accident (with Sirconical)

Whether you’re fans of the Suffolk-based extreme metallers Cradle Of Filth or not, it’s strangely compelling to watch their videos.

Here’s a new one for ‘Forgive Me Father (For I Have Sinned)‘, the first single taken from the forthcoming Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa, due November 1st.

The single will be released October 18th. Protip: the video is all the more fascinating once you take into account the names of the band members. So click play and watch Paul, Ashley, Dani, James, Dave and Martin do their thing below.

Deerhunter are back with a 3rd album which simply melts in your ears. As Sleekly Lion points out in this week’s Buzz Chart review, Helicopter is built around the simplest of chord progressions, but such care has been put into its construction that it needs little else. As Cox’s voice melts into the song’s chorus he strikes upon a melody that no level of pedalboard wankery could match, singing, “Oh these drugs played on me in terrible ways, they don’t play like they used to play”.

One to end the week on, read the full review here.

Australian stoners Tame Impala have launched a new video to the web today for their song Lucidity.

Weather balloons were launched from the country town of Mildura outside of Melbourne that were destined for space whilst the band jammed on the desert floor below amongst tumbleweeds. This will definitely be easier to follow if you are blitzed.

Holy production combo Batman! In an unusual change of events for the french house duo, Daft Punk have been making headline after headline in recent months as we get closer to the release of the Tron Soundtrack. Further unconfirmed leaks aside, it has been confirmed that Daft Punk have produced the new N.E.R.D. track ‘Hypnotize You‘.

The track appears of ‘Nothing‘, the latest album from Pharrell Williams’ (seen doing a street plant back in the day on the right) band and can be seen being performed live on the Late Show with David Letterman below.

It’s a slow funk jam that’s a departure from the dystopian disco sound of Tron and Human After All and a return to the slower, groovier, in-front-of-the-fireplace style sleaze-cheese of Something About Us. Listen to it below.

Black Milk has posted the video for ‘Welcome (Gotta Go)‘ online.

The video was directed by long-time collaborator, Anthony Garth, with some hard work put in by editor Chris Chynoweth to create a gnarly stop-motion effect in downtown Detroit. Watch it below.

The track appears on the rapper’s album ‘Album Of The Year‘ out now.

Andy C will be releasing his fifth Nightlife mix CD on October 4th through Ram Records.

The tracklisting has just been announced and features over 60 tracks including cuts from Noisia, Sub Focus, Chase & Status, Rusko, DJ Fresh, Loadstar, Ed Rush & Optical and many more…

Have a look over the tasty tracklisting below then peep a trailer for an Andy C documentary that’s due to be dropped soon.

CD 1

1.       Spor – Kingdom
2.       Delta Heavy – Space Time
3.       Mind Vortex – Onslaught
4.       Chase & Status – No Problem
5.       Wilkinson – Moonwalker
6.       Loadstar – Link To The Past
7.       Bladerunner – Spartan Law
8.       Hamilton – Echoes
9.       Octane & DLR – Seven
10.     Konflict – Messiah >> Splash Babylon
11.     Sparfunk – Crash Test Dummy
12.     Mindscape – Bounce
13.     Shock One – Polygon (Dirtyphonics Remix)
14.     Mind Vortex – Now It’s Time
15.     Sigma – Stronger
16.     Noisia – Deception VIP
17.     Survival, Octane & DLR – Transition
18.     Hive – Blackout >> Ed Rush & Optical – Schranders Dice
19.     Wilkinson – Scream It
20.     Rusko ft. Amber Coffman – Hold On (Subfocus Remix)
21.     Siren – Snorkel >> Logistics – Colour Wheel
22.     Spor – Halogen
23.     Phace – Strange Science
24.     Loadstar – BLVD
25.     D Kay & Lee – Tuning VIP
26.     Break – Breakfast
27.     Culture Shock – Ohrwurm
28.     DC Breaks – Take That
29.     Spinline – Run
30.     Gridlok & The Upbeats – The Jitters
31.     Ram Trilogy – Gridlock (Break Remix)
32.     Commix – I Have You
33.     Culture Shock – I Remember

CD 2

1.        Craggz & Parallel – Turn The Page
2.        DJ Die – Ghet’to Bizness
3.        Break – All Thats Left
4.        DJ Fresh – Mission To Mars
5.        Tyke & Recipe – The Music Makers
6.        S.P.Y. – Go With The Flow
7.        Fierce & Vicious Circle – Section VIP
8.        Enei – One Chance
9.        Culture Shock – Footloose
10.     Hold Tight – Lounge (DC Breaks Remix)
11.     Sub Focus – Triple X
12.     Blackout – L.O.V.E. (Hamilton Remix)
13.     Delta Heavy – Take The Stairs
14.     Ed Rush & Optical – Chubrub
15.     Sub Focus – Rock It VIP
16.     Break – Hot Love
17.     Culture Shock – Protection
18.     Noisia & Phace – Floating Zero
19.     DJ Fresh – Cylon
20.     Total Science & S.P.Y. – Gangsta
21.     Total Science – Squash (S.P.Y. Remix)
22.     Callide – Supreme
23.     Hamilton – Soundboy
24.     Wilkinson – Samurai
25.     Drumsound & Bassline Smith – Can You Feel It
26.     Apollo Two – Return To Atlantis (Marky & S.P.Y. Remix)
27.     Loadstar – Hit The Ground
28.     Break – Get Hot
29.     Underworld – Scribble
30.     DC Breaks – Pickett Line VIP >> Sub Focus – Deep Space