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With bassy wardrums and a melody that swings like a sea shanty, the perpetually grim Mark Lanegan returns like a ghost with a chip on it’s shoulder.  Alain Johannes’ (Eleven, Queens Of The Stone Age) reverb-soaked guitar work on the track soar, crash and echo as they follow Lanegan’s gravelly calls.  From a fan’s perspective, had Mark Lanegan released another singer-songwriter song reminiscent of his back catalog there would be an air of disappointment, but it doesn’t fall short of expectations.

The song does have its drawbacks, though.  After a career of over 25 years, it seems that Lanegan’s once-thoughtful lyrical brilliance have lost their luster due to over usage, whereas his sonic constructions have become more and more forward-thinking – a common criticism of practically all of his material since 2001’s Field Songs.  It is, nonetheless, a truly remarkable song, a great departure from his recent work with Isobel Campbell (Belle & Sebastian), and a great follow-up to Mark Lanegan Band’s 2004 release, Bubblegum.

– Ryan Farishian

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Black Up is the latest release from Shabazz Palaces, and it's one fuckin' hypnotic album. Distorted beats, evocative lyrics and sludgy sounds create some tripped-out, murky atmospheres. This 'Late Night Creepin' body of work is top of the list of 2011, for sure. A fascinating and grimy track here. 

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Voices of Black, consisting of Baba Ali and Jules Born are just out of their teens, but producing some advanced house and hip-hop mixtures. After being introduced to the Wolf+Lamb family in 2010, they released an original house beat tape named 'Plastic Dolls'. Her Flower EP is another step into the house-funk direction. 

They’ve fused funky beats and synths, worldly grooves, and an array of vocals and sultry lyrics here.  “Une Semaine Avec Lui” is a refreshingly-dancy track, and I have to give them props for switching up the language.

Très bonne musique ici!

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Just more proof of how deep Miltown's talent runs. Tarik Moody started the brand spanking new record label Unlooped after the large success of the live events such as the Dilla vs. Unlooped event which started Unlooped Versus Series where different artists works are reimagined. In eary 2012 the series takes on Justin Vernon's Bon Iver. A smaller more intimate event, Winter Beats, is scheduled for this Friday December 2nd at bSide. Tarik got some of the artists that will be performing there to submit tracks for a Promo for the show and the Dave Olson & Scott Radke jointKeep On Movin' is BANGING. Grab your copy here for FREE.
 

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A wonderfully wonky, spaced out gem that will have you breaking your mothertrucking neck before relaxing you out. Word to that Smoooth Music. The glitchy nature some of the tracks have while simultaneously maintaining an undeniable melody are what keeps this joint on steady rotation.

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I heard this off xlr8r.com and agree with their post. This UK producer does a great job at mixing the Talk in Colour track by creating deep layers of unique and ambient sounds. Mircroburst's mixture reminds me of Fourtet with a wide range of vocals.

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A great soulful E.P. that's equal parts dreamy, atmospheric and poetic. An overall gorgeous soundscape that when paired with Amenta's chocolatey velvet vocals is a winning combination.

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High Gravity by P Villa has features by 3 artists who grace a few tracks with some light-hearted raps. The album comes in with “Won’t U Stay?,” a track that begins with a sample of a round of applause, preparing you for a musical experience that feels celebratory.

Download High Gravity here

“Hop Scotch” has a dope bassline, hard kicks, slaps and claps that together make you feel like you’re getting jumped by a slew of women.

My personal favorite on this project is “J108.” It’s spacey. It’s poppy. And after about 45 seconds or so it reminds me of some older Daft Punk. I could picture driving out to the beach (or anywhere else to clear my mind) and vibing to this joint. You gotta play this track. Trust me.
On “Cloudy” Villa samples some of Q-Tip’s vocals from his first major solo hit “Vibrant Thang.” Though the repatative track feels like an interlude that got looped for too long something about it kept me listening.

After listening to the first track I thought of something The Mighty Mos Def said about beat tapes: “The future of hip-hop, to me, is the instrumental album. Once people really get to experience hip-hop as sonic phenomenon away from the personality of a vocalist, it’s like whoa!”
I feel similar about instrumental albums. Thanks to the legacy of the late J Dilla and the ongoing legacy of Madlib, hip-hop seems to be headed in that direction. Younger hip-hop lovers are making and listening to beat tapes and instrumental albums seemingly more than ever before.

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Listen. Everyone loves sunshine, tacos and ice cold Coronas, but summer is over. And while the sun still shines, it just doesn't shine the same; therefore I choose the moonlight. Here comes one deep track from Axel Boman that is much better listened in the darkness. Find a basement, a dim blue light, plug in the Klipsch La Scalas, and invite some weird girls.

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This track is influenza, catch it. Super deep moon gravity spacey electric r&b with production by Alexander Spit. This is the stuff that inspires the hell out of me. You can grab Bago's digi- single here for $FREE.99.

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This track is utter hotness and it’s finally avalible. It's off the two track Far Nearer / Beat For - EP. Looking forward to hearing Jamie's collaboration with Drake and the future XX material. 

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Tyson, an up and comer producer from the UK, recently dropped this awesome dance track “Out of My Mind.” What is even more awesome is that YYY fav Star Slinger did a remix that will sho nuff get you dancing in no time. Star Slinger can do no wrong in my book. The single also boasts a remix by The Swiss. I’d love to see Kirstie Alley dance to this jam and try to stay on her feet!

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Coming from Australia is the three piece Seekae. The song Void is off of The Sound of Trees Falling On People, which got put out in 2008! It doesn't matter, it's still a beautiful song. It's a very emotional and kinda just sticks to you. It's the kind of track that makes you want to run, or drive fast with the all windows down. I think I could get nostalgic for this track in a few years time, thinking back to the day when I rocked it. They have a new record that just came out. I am still working on digesting it, but it's called +Dome.

There is a good interview here with the band.

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I have been listening to this song quite a bit in recent times. It’s epic in arrangement. It has a electro goth feel slightly a late 90s downtempo throwback. Midway through the song it breaks into a beautiful jazzy moment where horns, piano, and woodwinds meld together creating a dreamy break from the harder beat of the first half. As the accordion comes back in with the vocals we are swept into another verse yet the complexity builds into a very layered sound that takes us to the end of the track which ends on a somber note. Epic indeed.

Emanuel and the Fear is an eleven piece orch-rock band from NYC. I sense big things this year for them. 

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My friend Tunji put me on and I'm completely infatuated with this mixtape. I know I've said it before but the amount of quality free music asthonises me. All you need is great friends and a keen e-digging technique and you too can enjoy hours of heat for free. 

The design aesthetic matches the quality of the music which is perfect. This is one of the more cohesive projects I've come across this year.

From the the drowsy melodies to the soulful distorted & echoed vocals, this album does a great job of capturing an overall feeling and inviting you in. GET LOST...oh and you're going to want to be High For This.

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The song, “Truth” by Alexander starts out with an Ennio Morricone whistling over an acoustic guitar loop and light jazzy beat. Then comes in the falsetto ooos and ahs. Once the psuedo rapping cadence of Alex Ebert floats in we hear hints of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros (probably because Alex fronts the band) yet with a tinge of Grizzly Bear . I absolutely fell in love with this song the second I heard it for first time because not only the melody but the lyrics also carry great meaning. Take a deep listen and find out for yourself why Alex Ebert shines either with or without his band behind him. A truly gifted artist.

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This song is a collaboration between Sonny Coates, Shafiq Husayn, and Om'Mas Keith of SA-Ra Creative Partners. They recorded it live and in one-take in Los Angeles. It's vibey... check out the last 15 seconds where they break into waltz time.. it gets swirly and psychedelic. It's a promotional release from the band's upcoming EP which will be released on their label (preamp_+)

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mjrhe∆vy !!!!!!!!!!!!_! (*)
Sonny Coates

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I am still picking my jaw off the floor. After listening to the two songs on this release my mouth is watering for more. This song is intricately layered, atmospheric and has beautiful vocals overlaying the sounds. Young Magic is a outfit from NYC and they have dropped a 7" that is also available on bandcamp. Appearenlty they have been signed to Carpark Records, so expect more from them soon.

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Two spots in my personal best of 2011 filled in as many days? GONZO just like this album. Even though this dropped at the end of l 2010 I'm experiencing it in 2011 so it WILL go on this years list. I dare you, defy you even, to find even just one minor thing wrong with the new Thelma & Clyde "White Line" album. It's kushy warm tones and murderously dreamy vocals rival those of Portishead. Yes I said Portishead.
Deal with it.  

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This is the second group or artist that I like with the name Bon in their name. This track and FreE.P. are late night burners. Put it on and drift away. Bon Accord have a new 12" that drops in February that you can listen to on their Bandcamp page also. It sounds much different from the FreE.P. but it's equally good!

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Audrey Montgaillard, Rob English, Jean Marc Virard and Anthony R. Franco are all designers. Coming from France, Chicago and Cali to combine their unique sensibilities and create the band DE SIGNER. Marrying their creative talents in Fashion, Graphics, Marketing and Music to generate a vision that is uniquely distinctive.

2011 brings the release of their second LP, NOUS NOUS, available now on their label Le Branché Records.

DE SIGNER Official Site

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Another amazing distorted VHS fizzy fuzz love journey crafted by Stephen Harris. Posting "Indigo" because it's more accessible but for the advanced heads I highly recommend the 3rd track "Witch Jazz". In the ever expanding cosm of beats and beat making Stephen is emerging quickly with a promising sound... One clever fella.

Indigo by Stephen Farris

For more check out his other albums
Alphabet Soup (Free)
Cosmic Sound (Free)
Twin Tape Cycles
Soundcloud Page

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I admittedly had never heard of Andy Allo until coming across this silky cover of Bon Iver's and Kanye's "Lost In The World". As soon as quick as I could get done listening to it I found that she has an album titled UnFresh on iTunes. I'm "late" to the party...whatever that really means. None of us know about artists until we do. You can check out the grainy dream fuzzed video for the cover.

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Yacht’s Classixx Remix of Psychic City never ceases to put a smile of my face. From the melody to the lyrics, it’s pretty much perfection. It really captures everything I try to capture in my own work. Wit, charm, and sheer joy. If there were a single song at the moment that represents my own art/design I think this would be it. Which song represents you? Something to think about.

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Record label Arcade Sound is responsible for putting out some of the best music currently hitting my eardrums. Their list of artists includes Memoryhouse, Coolrunnings, Teen Daze and MillionYonung justto name an astonishing few. It's a MillionYoung that I recently discovered though. The Be So True  E.P.sounds so free and honest. Real easy to listen to but it ain't easy listening ya dig. iTunes says it's not supposed to be out until January 26th but it's available now! Also if you want to ease into things (and I can't imagine why you would because the music is NICE!) and get a feel for MillionYoung's music you can grab the Sunndreamm E.P. & the track "Feel the Same" here for free.

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Fantasizing allll day with Lone's new EP. Soak these audio waves up in yo delfs..

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Pandit is Austin, TX based musician Lance Smith’s moniker. His first single release off the Waaga Records label begins as a hard hitting beat but then softens as a wash of reverberating guitars swells over and is further softened by the following echoey vocals. There are hints of Washed Out, Toro Y Moi, Beach House, and other current indie darlings of the moment here obviously but none the less Lance’s production still shines bright. Keep an eye out for the eventual release of “Eternity Spin” which drops in February.

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Okay, so normally this would be 2 paragraphs of text describing the band, the song, maybe little factoids like "where I heard it first" or "how I discovered this", but all fuckery aside.

Play this song.

Play it really loud.

Trust me, you'll shall scour the earth on your hands and knees for more.

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Werk Discs head and UK music don Actress follows up his debut Hazyville;being critically acclaimed across the board for its atmospheric, ambient moods, ) the second album, entitled Splazsh. It's set to expand on those themes, taking in a broader range of styles you might find akin to one of his DJ sets (real electro, disco, house and UK bass).

Found this appropriate write up on Pitchfork ( the site I love to hate ) Andy Battaglia nails Actress. Actress himself has called his music "R&B concrète," and that helps illuminate the way he works from both inside and outside a track. He has an ear for building up a song from the bottom (like a pop producer) and then abstracting it from the top (like a musique concrète technician), so that he makes some incredibly strange sounds surprisingly palatable-- and without making a big show of their strangeness.

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Holy F#$k! My jaw is dropping on the track. The sounds of Pariah are so dense and rich it's making my head spin. I love the balance of chaos and order in the track Detroit Falls. There is not much released by Pariah yet, but go cop some of his music. Highly recommended.

The image matched- up to this is by Michigan photographer Peter Baker, who also helped us build the new YYY. Massive props to Peter.

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This was hard to track down till a couple days ago where it showed up on iTunes and eMusic. Happy that it did. I had no idea what label he was signed too, and when you do a google search for say my name all you get is destiny child links. Say My Name's first project is a sure hit. There are a lot of chopped and screwed tracks that are composed beautifully. Somehow he was able to sound uniquely retro and youthful at the same time. Here's a little more taken from the label Rangelife: 

Say My Name's S/T EP is 8 tracks of tangy twists and ice-cold instrumentation, a travelogue through 70's World Music and scratched Blaxploitation LP's cut together in his Lawrence, Kansas apartment. Say My Name has done beats for Dri's "Smoke Rings", remixes for White Flight, Suzannah Johannes and Hospital Ships, and played lead guitar in Fourth Of July. This is his first solo project.

Get it here

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It's hard to create one track that lifts people away with how it makes them feel. Accomplishing that with 6 consecutive tracks is just gonzo. Wind at My back was released for free as a single via Brothertiger's Bandcamp Page. He then released an E.P. titled Vision Tunnels that carries a $1 minimum price tag. But come on y'all, I know you have at least $3 to share for an E.P. this good. 

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LA/SF beat brainiac Shlohmo comes thru with some sticky treats on the Camping EP. Take a trip to saturn with the gurgling and melodic bass drones of “Tomato Smash.” Nice up your collection and buy this shit NOW. Highly recommended!!

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For all the LA heads, Shlohmo is playin’ Low End Theory TONIGHT alongside Strangeloop, Teebs, and Timeboy!
GO for the love of god.

Peep some more tunes here

Buy
 

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Being a creative person is hard for a number of reasons. If you’re worth your weight you put enormous pressure on yourself to keep the standards of work high, you’re always trying to walk the fine line between honestly expressing yourself and creating something that people will be able to relate somehow to and despite what creative professionals will have you believe, you are always trying your hardest to make an emotional connection.

Alicia Keys has managed to create one of the strongest emotional connections I have had to a song in a long time. The best thing about this is I can’t put my finger on the exact reason the connection was made. So I keep listening to find out and I am still not burned out on the song. It’s quite incredible.

Drake’s appearance is unexpected. He guest features but doesn’t rap a single bar and in doing so, offers himself up as an example of how to do what is honest and still get the respect you deserve in an industry so quickly willing to label.

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He’s 21 years old. This track is facemelting. Just listen. His Myspace lives here. He has been touring with one of my favorite bands of recent – Mount Kimbie. Of all places I saw this CMYK track talked about on Pitchfork – which part of me despises due to the extremities of their criticisms. They got this one dead on the money – it’s an awesome track – and Mr. Blake is one to look out for.

The image associated with this post is done by Jesse Auersalo. I strongly recommend a walk through of his work.

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Jazz makes for good remix funk. When you add math and composition you get Shigeto. I can see how he ended up on Ghostly International. His sound compliments the line-up of artists but he can certainly differentiate himself. I like that he has a sophisticated sensibility and approach to his production – it comes across beautifully. I also enjoyed the variances between each track. Fantastic experimental electronic!

Taken from his Ghostly Bio:
Zach’s body of work has grown over the last few years to the tune of several EPs on Moodgadget as Shigeto and with A Setting Sun, a pair of EPs under the alias Frank Omura (another family-name reference), and remixes for Worst Friends, Praveen & Benoit, Tycho, Mux Mool, Charles Trees, A Setting Sun, Beautiful Bells, Shlohmo, and more. The Semi-Circle EP will be his first release with Ghostly International; the full-length Full Circle is on the horizon. Semi-Circle is a fiercely independent work of art, nominally indebted to instrumental hip-hop but, like Zach, straddling many worlds at once. Cool shades of ambient music, stuttering early IDM, dubstep sub-bass, and jazz melodicism color Shigeto’s palette, which he wields with a painterly attention to detail.

Look out for this young, talented producer. More to come.

Get it here
Shigeto MySpace

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We’re a little late bringing the news about this but some peeps may not have caught wind of Diplo’s “Free Gucci” remix album. Gotta respect Diplo for really spreading out and absorbing so many musical cultures (more on that in the next few weeks). It was really hard to find the best track off the album because pretty much 90% of it is So Icey. It was out of both remixes of “Excuse Me”, this track we’re posting, and DZ’s remix of “I Be Everywhere”.
So.. why the title you ask? This is from the Gucci Mane Wiki page:
In April 2001, Davis was arrested on cocaine charges and sentenced to 90 days in jail. On May 10, 2005, Davis was attacked by a group of men at a house in Decatur. Davis’ companions shot at the group, killing at least one. The corpse of one of the attackers, Henry Lee Clark III, was found later behind a nearby middle school. Davis turned himself in to police investigators on May 19, 2005 and was subsequently charged with murder. Davis claimed that the shots fired by his party were in self-defense The DeKalb County district attorney’s office dropped the murder charge in January 2006 due to insufficient evidence. The previous October, in an unrelated matter, Davis had pleaded no contest to a charge of assault for assaulting a nightclub promoter the previous June; at the time the murder charge was dropped, he was serving a six-month prison sentence for this. Davis was released from jail in late January 2006.
In September 2008, Gucci Mane was arrested for parole violation for completing only 25 out of 600 community service hours following his 2005 arrest for assault. He was sentenced to a year in jail but was released after six months. On November 12, 2009, Gucci Mane was sentenced to 12 months in prison for violating probation. He is currently incarcerated in Fulton County jail.

Featuring remixes by: Diplo, Bird Peterson, Memory Tapes, Dj Teenwolf, Flying Lotus, Zomby, and more
Best of all… it’s FREE to download

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Some brand new goodies from Tokyo Dawn’s Portformat. Instantly became a fan when his remix of Comfort Fit’s “Peter Pan” came out. This Suzi Analogue feature was one of my faves. Soulful wonked out offbeat loveliness! The next release will be from Swede:art called “Emotional Colors”.. with guest artists such as Blaktroniks, Caits Meissner, Comfort Fit, Duktus, Note, Persuit Grooves and Stray.. This label will be busy this year, so keep them on your radar.

From the label:
Tokyo Dawn Records adds fourteen remixes ranging from dance to dub to Portformat’s highly successful debut album ‘The Repeat Factor’.

Featuring Alien Entertainment, Andreas Saag (Swell Session), Blaktroniks, Bless1, Comfort Fit, Dandario, Dudley Perkins, Gajah, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Jedeye, Killing Skills, Negghead, Obey The Altar Native, Opolopo, Red Light Boogie, Resound, Ronni Vindahl (Boom Clap Bachelors), Shuanise, Soulparlor, Suzi Analogue, Swede:art, Thesaurus Rex.

Purchase Here
Tokyo Dawn

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