Soundsystem: The Leaves Are Brown / Hucci x GameFace
Seventeen year-old British producer, Hucci, trapped out The Mamas and The Papas‘ classic, California Dreamin’. Not trying to oversell but this may be the best track we’ve heard all year. The Leaves Are Brown can be downloaded for free HERE. –@ybaynes
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Soundsystem: Did You Have To (Float On?) / Richard Norris (The Time and Space Machine)
London based producer Richard Norris aka The Time and Space Machine has made five dub versions of tracks picked out from Sydney, Australia duo Jagwar Ma‘s upcoming album Howlin. Here is Did You Have To (Float On?), a track that will set you in a state of trance during the summer heat. The Time and Space […]
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Twin Z Concept Car / Renault x Ross Lovegrove
By examining nature, it’s systems and energy transactions this project intends to bring awareness and understanding of those phenomena and their current impact. Working with contemporary computational design methods and using parametric models, Ross Lovegrove and his studio’s intention is to reveal natures underlying blueprints and transfer them into a new design language. Therefore these...
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Rumour EP (Official Music Videos) / Chlöe Howl
A trio of videos from rising pop vocalist Chlöe Howl. We kick it off with the freckled 18-year old (!) Londoner’s video for I Wish I Could Tell You at the header. Then we follow it with two more upbeat videos, No Strings, and the 3-song EP title track, Rumour. These videos each dropped one week after another. […]
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Jealousy (Official Music Video) / The Purist x Danny Brown
London producer The Purist delivers the third video from his TR-ILL EP, this time enlisting Danny Brown for vocals. Previously, the English artist has created cinematic, often Blaxploitation-infused soundscapes for Action Bronson, Roc Marciano, and Maffew Ragazino. He’s also helped to develop MCs on his own side of the pond in the form of Piff […]
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The Natural Blonde / Sister by Sibling
This season we wanted to explore the idea of Paula Yates’ feminine sexuality,” say Sister by Sibling AKA Joe Bates, Sid Bryan and Cozette McCreery…”It was as if she took her look as a role; an ad for an ideal homemaker subverted. In our eyes she was the perfect English Rose. Punk Version. – Sister. The […]
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Retrograde / James Blake
James Blake‘s new video for the ethereal track, Retrograde. The video is somewhat reminiscent of the opening scene for Kanye West‘s Dark Twisted Fantasy and equally beautiful. The video was directed by Martin de Thurah and co-produced by A+ and Bacon. –@ybaynes Vimeo version
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Pre-Fall 2013 Collection / Alexander McQueen (Sarah Burton, Director)
Vogue by Sarah Mower: The Church of England has been tearing itself asunder recently over whether to allow women to become bishops (it’s no-go so far), but if it should come to pass in time for pre-fall deliveries, fashion-conscious female clerics ought to flock to Alexander McQueen. Only joking. Yet there’s a flicker of a […]
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Green Garden (Official Music Video) / Laura Mvula
Burgeoning talent Laura Mvula, from Birmingham, England, is set to make her mark. Here is her debut music video for Green Garden. Also, stream She and Like The Morning Dew below. –@teemunny via disco naïveté
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Soundsystem: Diver / AlunaGeorge
Here is the single, Diver, by London-based Island Records duo of Aluna Francis and George Reid; the twosome is known simply as AlunaGeorge. They’re one of many to watch who are emerging in the UK in the genre of what we’ll deem as tech-y pop or contemporary wobble; danceable tracks interweaved with future sounds. Be sure to check […]
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Soundsystem: This Life / Josef Salvat
This Life is the debut single of Josef Salvat, a London-based music hopeful. We think he has the unique style and vocal talent to blow up. The production is somewhat reminiscent of a more pop-like Woodkid, which is to say it is punctuated by orchestral flourishes and the layering of contrasting sounds. –@teemunny via disco naïveté
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Hold On & Migration (Live at Shepherd’s Bush Empire) / SBTRKT featuring Sampha
SBTRKT and Sampha filmed live at Shepherd’s Bush Empire performing Hold On and Migration live on October 5, 2012. This is available off of their 2013 Live Album (also). The video was directed by SBTRKT, Us3 Productions and Basik Products. The crew took about twelve remote controlled cameras to capture everything that happened on stage of the two shows at […]
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