Entertainment (Blood Orange Remix) / Phoenix
Dev Hynes (Blood Orange) takes his hand at remixing the first single, Entertainment, off of Phoenix‘s upcoming album, Bankrupt!. DOWNLOAD via Stereogum or cop it HERE. –@teemunny
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Soundsystem: Everything Is Embarrassing (Krystal Klear Remix) / Sky Ferreira
Check out this soothing yet upbeat Krystal Klear remix of Sky Ferreira‘s Everything Is Embarrassing. The original track is produced by Dev Hynes. –@s_iravani
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Soundsystem: Unravel / Laura Welsh (Produced by Dev Hynes)
Smoky UK chanteuse Laura Welsh spent a couple days in a London studio with Dev Hynes (aka Blood Orange), the past Christmas, and produced this track. Here is the effervescent piano-laced pop song, Unravel. Download the track, for free, HERE. Check out Hollow Drum at the head. –@teemunny via Fader
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Soundsystem: Cyan (Kindness Cover) / Blood Orange
Blood Orange: Last night as a break from production work I’ve been doing, I decided to cover my good friend Adam “Kindness” Bainbridge‘s song Cyan. I used drum elements from Everything Is Embarrassing, then I invited my friend Tracy Antonopoulos (from the band Cable) round to come and sing some backing vocals. Here’s the end product, […]
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Soundsystem: Lovers in the Parking Lot / Solange (Prod. by Dev Hynes)
Here’s another sampling of Solange‘s new portfolio as produced by Dev Hynes. The song is titled Lovers in the Parking Lot and it’s a good pop ballad to end your week with. –@teemunny
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Everything is Embarrassing (Official Video) / Sky Ferreira
Sky Ferreira pouts and vogues across the city in Everything is Embarrassing. Ferreira’s album, Ghost EP, features collaborations with Dev Hynes aka Blood Orange, Ariel Rechtshaid, Cass McCombs and many more. The video was directed by Grant Singer. –@s_iravani
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Losing You (Official Video) / Solange prod. by Dev Hynes (Blood Orange)
When Melina and I decided to film ‘Losing You’ in (Cape Town) South Africa, we really didn’t have a real firm concept in place. It was sort of a grab a camera and let’s go moment. I knew I wanted to capture a couple things: the vibe of our friendship and all of the crazy […]
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Champagne Coast / Blood Orange
Here is the official video for Champagne Coast by Blood Orange. The video has a ’90s video game aesthetic. In fact, it was inspired by Duke Nukem and Second Life. The camera fly-through and girls seductively dancing draw significant similarities to those video games. The interiors are magazines and photographs taken from any teenager’s bedroom walls. […]
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Soundsystem 25: Best of 2011
To close off the year, we would like to feature our Top 25 Soundsystem hits of the year. So without further ado, here we go! 1. Used / Fake Blood Probably the most impressive compilation and/or collection of sampled music I’ve ever heard. As a young kid, I was always interested in the samples that were […]
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Soundsystem: Champagne Coast / Blood Orange
Here is Champagne Coast, a track by the smooth and eccentric artist Devonté Hynes aka Blood Orange. I first heard the track when I came across its unofficial video (which fits surprisingly well) featuring the amazing and talented Vanilla Ice (sarcasm). The sampled footage is from his film debut in a barely known movie titled, Cool As […]
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Sutphin Boulevard / Blood Orange
Here is the video for Sutphin Boulevard a song by young British artist, Devonté Hynes, who goes by the name of Blood Orange (and sometimes Lightspeed Champion). He is based in Brooklyn. He reminds us of a more eccentric and melodic version of Twin Shadow. FADER has a recent interview and downloads: Dollars to Pounds: […]
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