Edinburgh, Scotland’s electronic jazz collective Hidden Orchestra returns with “Vorka.” The title references Slavo Vorkapic, a well-regarded Serbian filmmaker who produced short montage pieces in the 1930s for Hitchcock and other film directors.… Continue reading
Wrongtom meets Deemas J meets East London meets hazy dubs meets surprisingly engaging 80s homemade reggae vibes. Love how from 3min 13sec onward Deemas J just decides to go and explore a… Continue reading
City Calm Down (great name) are a four-piece live electronic outfit from Melbourne, Australia, who have quite possibly titled their band after fellow Melburnians (real word, I checked) Architecture in Helsinki‘s song of… Continue reading
Sofa soul. Future funk. Naytronix is the solo project of Nate Brenner, bassist for tUnE-YaRdS and Beep. Fans of Jonti and Sonnymoon will no doubt dig. “Baby Don’t Walk Away” is second… Continue reading
Martin de Thurah‘s video for this voluminous, expertly written song is as imaginative and whimsical as that parping horn melody. “Who” appears on David Byrne and St Vincent‘s upcoming full-length, Love This… Continue reading
Songs about space always have a certain inherent beauty. “Spaceship” is taken from the forthcoming solo album New Broken Things by King Midas Sound vocalist Roger Robinson. Download the song for free… Continue reading
JJ DOOM is the collab between leftfield hip-hop’s rapper-producer Jneiro Jarel & London-born, metal-masked MC DOOM. Viewing notes: 1. Saying “Ello guv’nor!” in an overly angular Cockney accent is oddly satisfying. Dropping… Continue reading
London, Ontario, Canada’s Alex Fleming is Black Atlass. Bleak yet monumental, as castles often are.
There were two great songs released this summer that primarily concern themselves with telephones and calling someone, maybe. This is the one you can admit to liking. Funkineven & Fatima – “Phone… Continue reading
Queens, NY rapper and Stones Throw signee Homeboy Sandman shares his story. The Boy Sand‘s full-length debut album First of a Living Breed is released on September 18.
Philadelphia emcee and producer Has-Lo‘s “Fiber Optics” gets remixed by Paten Locke and retitled “Inherit the Stars.” The Mello Music Group label accurately describes director Nathan Hunter’s video above as an “animated,… Continue reading
Two hours of the freshest, newest, and most vivacious beats, beats, hip-hop, and future soul, plus the odd hand-brake swerve as we careen through genres and musical boundaries on that late late late… Continue reading
File under Nu-hula. I’ll let Vacationer introduce themselves. As per their Facebook page: Most people do not take vacations often enough, some not at all. Quality vacations let us recapture that feeling of… Continue reading
This video for Antwon‘s 2012 summer jam “Living Every Dream” manages to look and sound like a pitch-perfect recreation of everything 1993. I’m off to scour YouTube for taped VHS uploads of… Continue reading
Joining the dots. To get familiar with East London MC and former Roll Deep member Trim, listen to his track “Confidence Boost” as excellently reworked by James Blake under his Harmonimix alias. Here… Continue reading
More oil-and-water video promo from the one of the coolest bands on the planet. Nocturnal and warm. Jamie xx goes for a Burial beat shuffle vibe on the drums. “Chained” is the… Continue reading
August music in every sense of the word. This sublime soul-jazz cover of Junior Murvin’s reggae standard “Police and Thieves” will feature on Zara McFarlane‘s second album out… Continue reading
I never thought I would say the sound of a metal spatula banging on rusty basement pipes would be the future of music, but here we are. I also never thought Elmo… Continue reading
Little Fluffy Clouds turn golden with some help from the Upsetter. I once saw Lee Scratch Perry play a tiny venue in a tiny town in the middle of France. He walked on… Continue reading
Considering that this is a Toby Jug, it’s not first thing I would have thought of titling this beautiful, understated slice of late night bliss. “Tobyjug” is out now on Ten Thousand… Continue reading
Rap game kayak lessons. I’m completely loving everything about this tune. Trap 2012 goes global! It’s only a matter of time before Andy Lau guests on a TNGHT record.
“Nothing sounds quite like an 808.” Nicely done, video promo edit person who had the brainwave of meta-chopping and meta-repeating this promo’s own soundbite samples thus staying true to the musical style that… Continue reading
Borrows footage from DarwinFish105. Mixed with “Sais (Dub)” by Floating Points. Taken from Jamie xx‘s BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix. Beautiful in every which way.
This beat. “When you appreciate someone else’s art, it makes your art better.”
The Foreign Exchange’s Phonte teams up with Median to take the hip-hop gospel door to door and make music video history by being the first to rap to camera while wearing bicycle helmets.… Continue reading
Katy B might have popularized the pop-dubstep template, but this goes one better by sounding far more subtle, underground, and woozy. Om Unit plays Stop Biting at Lo-Fi in Seattle on August… Continue reading
90s! Love everything about this. The Mad Men-like attention to historical detail is commendable, right down to the first few seconds of VHS fizz and the appearance of early 90s British youth television… Continue reading
Late-night boom-clap. More from Swiss beat-chef Chief here.
This anonymous duo from New York call their music “Tumblr glitch pop.” This description is spot-on. SO MANY IMAGES SO FAST.
Dubstep-influenced bass and drum patterns are sneaking into every genre of music in 2012. Leeds, UK band Alt-J‘s video for “Tessellate” is a gangstered reversion of Italian Renaissance painter Raphael’s “The School of… Continue reading
Brooklyn ambient rock group Family Band describe their music as “heavy mellow.” While Johnny Ollsin, Kim Krans, and Scott Hirsch’s particular brand of dark and solemn, starless sky indie is indeed heavy, mellow, and… Continue reading
Maximalist joy from a Prince-adoring bedroom producer from Leicester, UK. Great songwriting that injects some real heart and soul into the laser synth storm and dubstep bass wobble.
Played this big-tings-a-gwan homage to London pirate radio on the radio show on Friday. Those rave synth stabs, junglish beats, and multi-handclaps, plus MC Stitch’s incredible vox. It’s VIBES!
We’ve talked about Enjoyed‘s life-affirmed, sunshined housed beats on Neoned Milked befored, but that only means you should get even more acquainted with the talented UK producer and Shoes Off label boss by… Continue reading
I played the studio version of 27-year-old Philadelphian singer Melody Gardot’s “Mira” on the radio show on Friday and decided to allow about seven seconds of silence after introducing the song and before… Continue reading
I wasn’t sure at first but the filtered disco bleeps at 0:26 won me over. From Cornershop’s latest album Urban Turban. As solid gold as solid gold. As roller rink as the… Continue reading
Brazilian-American singer Mônica da Silva and her partner Chad Alger expertly cover Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side.” Impossible to tell whether this was filmed in 1965 using an 8mm camera… Continue reading
While. I’m Not. Always. In. The Mood For. Spoken. Word. Poetry, this is pretty good. Superb soul-jazz beats and bass with a voice and flow that recalls a younger, laid-back Ursula Rucker. … Continue reading
Disclosure are two brothers from the UK who had their first single released on !K7’s Moshi Moshi imprint two years ago when they were just 16 and 18 years old. Since everyone… Continue reading
Like listening to the Beatles’ “Taxman” after enduring a sleep-deprived long-haul flight and landing in a remote, exotic, sun-heavy island paradise, no? “Like” the Nashville, TN psychedelic rockers on Facebook here. … Continue reading
It’s all about the piano at 1:51. Still classic.
Samon Kawamura is a Japanese-German hip-hop producer. Like Onra, Samon draws inspiration and samples from the vintage vinyl of Southeast Asia and blends his findings with beats. “Natty Fu Shake” is taken from… Continue reading
Orlando Higginbottom (probably the most British name since Nigel Tufnel or Armitage Shanks) is a dance music producer from Oxford, UK, who also calls himself Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. “Well I say… Continue reading
Over the course of their 10-year existence the K-Indie band Peterpan Complex, fronted by Jeon Jihan, have sounded like a spookily exact (and I mean exact) Korean replica of Radiohead Peterpan Complex – “You… Continue reading
Summer beat vibes. Out now on Bastard Jazz. Featuring music by Tensei, MonkeyRobot, Ta-Ku, Evil Needle, Teru, Chief, Jeriko Jackson, Buscrates, Floydcheung, Doc Illingsworth, Schecky’s Jazzy Tofu, and Tall Black Guy.… Continue reading
I’ve been obsessed with Ghana’s azonto rhythms and saying “chale” a lot ever since hearing E.L.’s dancey and ridiculously catchy “Obuu Mo.” Suffice to say I was extremely pleased to stumble upon Weird… Continue reading
From UK producer Rudimental. Probably what Soul II Soul would sound like had they come up in the xx’s and Disclosure’s London of the early 2010s.
