Drawn (Feat. Little Dragon) – De La Soul

Hands down one of my favourite tracks from the past few years. Drawn is a beautiful collab between Little Dragon and hip-hop royalty De La Soul. It’s delicate, it’s strong, it’s brilliant. My only criticism is that it doesn’t go on for long enough.

Little Dragon is playing alongside Harvey Sutherland at Printworks this Friday. Cannot. Wait.

P.S. the image is taken from the video. It’s a good one. Watch it here

Time Spent Away From U – DJ Seinfeld

Remember how I posted an EP by Rimbaudian last week? Well this album, Time Spent Away From U is by the same guy, different name. It’s his first full-length album and it’s one of my favourites from last year. Like, it’s real good. It’s all about that dusty, lo-fi house scene, like you’ve downloaded a crappy version off Limewire. Trust me, it’s nice. My pick, How U Make Me Feel, an acid beauty.

Gallipoli – Beirut

Every Sunday I bring you something a little more downtempo to ease you back into the world.

I’m literally in Beirut (the city) right now. In honour of that fact, and the fact that Beirut (the band) have just released the title track from their upcoming album Gallipoli – here it is! Full of their trademark whistful brass sounds.

Tour details can be found here. Tickets are on sale for the London date now. These guys gave me one of my favourite ever gig experiences, so get involved before they sell out. The album will be released in February.

 

The Exact Location of the Soul – Thunder Tillman

Thunder Tillman don’t shout about their music. Below the radar seems to be where this Swedish duo want to operate – and I say leave them there. What I’ll do is post this track, and leave the promo for it below. Where I might have gone with “music that will leave you fantasising of running through snow-covered streets”, they go for “guide you through transient cloud sheets, over barren lunar landscapes, revealing hidden new worlds as you’re zooming endlessly into an atom.” Listen, and you’ll see they aren’t far wrong.

Like gold forged when two stars collided millions of years ago, or diamonds from the compressed remains of extinct giant animals, there’s music that transcends time, merging the future with the past yet glimmering every time you press play. This is the music multi-instrumentalist Thunder Tillman dreams up together with his personal spirit guide and shaman, Pony. Music categories like Kraut or Prog-rock, Ambient or Disco fail at reining in their boundless sound creations. With gentle hands, Thunder Tillman will guide you through transient cloud sheets, over barren lunar landscapes, revealing hidden new worlds as you’re zooming endlessly into an atom.

Turned On – Ben Gomori

A confession. A huge amount of the new music I post, comes from this show.

If you like what you see on here, do yourself a favour and check out Turned On. A weekly hour of the best new electronic and house, curated by producer, DJ and Monologues Records label boss Ben Gomori.

You can hear Ben play live at Farbfernseher in Berlin next month. He is also the founder of Pitchblack Playback – a cool set of events where an album is played in full, in complete darkness. Recommend. http://www.pitchblackplayback.com/

LCD Soundsystem

Where to start with these guys?

Here probably, their latest album, american dream. The highlight (amongst a full set of quality) is how do you sleep? It’s a new kind of protest track – anthemic, with super powerful synths. YES. One to chuck on repeat.

This is a really cracking remix by LA dance music staple Lovefingers. He lends oh baby a new chuggy tempo and confused percussion. He converts the track from an introspective number to what you want to hear when you are messy drunk on the dancefloor.

And finally, two of my favourite tracks from the archives. If these have aged at all I haven’t noticed.

One final word of advice. See. Them Live.

Photo credit: Mine! (for once)