Metronomy are playing Cabaret Voltaire on the 25th. WANT.

Metronomy – We Broke Free by Scottish Friction ←♥♥♥♥♥
Metronomy – Trouble by Scottish Friction ←♥♥♥♥♥
Metronomy – Love Underlined by Scottish Friction ←♥♥♥♥♥

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This is Hostage. He’s a fan of the sausage…ahahha I totally meant the food. Saw him blitz Cabaret Voltaire on Friday and, being an absolute gentleman, he’s only gone and emailed me 3 of his newest tracks (all in glorious 320kbps!!). He must’ve saw me in the crowd – I was wearing the “Hi Hostage, Please Email Me 3 Bangers, KTHXBAI” t-shirt… and what do you know, it worked.

Listen ♫: Hostage – Dubtch ←♥♥
Listen ♫: Hostage – Skin Out ←♥
Listen ♫: Hostage – Otis ←♥

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Had a cracker of a night on Friday seeing Zane Lowe play Sugarbeat at Cabaret Voltaire. Blau! was the first track he played and I hadn’t fully appreciated just how BIG that track was. Here are some more jamz I’ve been bopping my head to. The Rubix remix is by far the best on the Romane EP. This fresh-ass Foamo remix is also catchy as hell. Finally, got emailed by the Don Diablo posse his new track with Sidney Samson. Samsonite! I was way off.

Listen ♫: Bart B More – Romane (Rubix Gypsy Remix) ←♥♥♥♥
Listen ♫: Major Lazer – Bruk Out (Foamo Remix) ←♥♥♥
Listen ♫: Don Diablo & Sidney Samson – Rise Up ←♥
Listen ♫: Laidback Luke & Lee Mortimer – Blau! (Original Mix) ←♥♥♥

Thanks to Zaber Riders, and Ilictronix for a couple of these.

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Saw Jack Beats on Friday there and they (or should I say he – it was one guy, I thought Jack Beats were two people???) tore the fucking roof off the Cabaret Voltaire. Was rammed and sweaty and pushy but the beats were glorious. The one that I lost my shit for was SonicC. I’d never heard it before but it completely blew my mind. So after ID-ing the track (thanks Erol Alkan Forum) I’ve played it to death. I also love Kissy‘s version which is a lot more playful.

Listen: SonicC – Stickin’ ←♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Listen: SonicC – Stickin’ (Kissy Sell Out’s VIP Edit) ←♥♥♥♥♥
MP3: SonicC – Stickin’
MP3: SonicC – Stickin’ (Kissy Sell Out’s VIP Edit)

When Jack Beats “dropped the bassline” the place went mental – I think I got about 4 elbows to the windpipe. The last two tracks I’m posting are just big bangers that deserve to be played at full volume. First is RipTidE who I’ve posted about before – his track Fk Me is huge and sexy and kinda sounds like Santa farting and you should download it immediately. Second is the excellent Para One remix of Boys Noize which I’d only first heard a couple of days ago.

Listen: Project Bassline – Drop The Pressure (Jack Beats Remix) ←♥♥♥
Listen: RipTidE – Fk Me ←♥♥♥♥♥
Listen: Boys Noize – Jeffer (Para One Remix) ←♥♥♥
MP3: Project Bassline – Drop The Pressure (Jack Beats Remix)
MP3: RipTidE – Fk Me
MP3: Boys Noize – Jeffer (Para One Remix)

Also went to see Julian Casablancas last night in Glasgow. Average. That is all.

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Saw Steve Aoki on Friday just there. I was absolutely hammered and therefore dancing like an absolute gimp on the dance-floor. He played a really good set and did about 150 stage dives – love it, wish more DJs would do that. And yes he played Warp 1.9 and yes it was amazing. I shook his hand at the end for being a legend.

No Steve Aoki songs but Dim Mak-related material so stop complaining. Plus I ♥ The Bloody Beetroots. Their Groove Armada remix is one of my favourite this year – I bet in the live environment it’s fucking euphoric. The Timbaland remix packs a big punch too.

Listen: Groove Armada – I Won’t Kneel (The Bloody Beetroots Remix) ←♥♥♥♥
Listen: Timbaland – Miscommunication (The Bloody Beetroots Remix) ←♥♥
MP3: Groove Armada – I Won’t Kneel (The Bloody Beetroots Remix)
MP3: Timbaland – Miscommunication (The Bloody Beetroots Remix)

Radio discoveries next. Kissy Sell Out played this Lucky Dip remix the other day and it stood out right away as one of the best ones he played – it actually made me smile when I first heard it. Takes a while to get into (~1min before it stutters in) but is a really playful remix and it’s worth the wait. Heard this Felix Da Housecat remix on Alex Metric‘s Radio 1 show and same again, it stood out from the pack so I’ve ripped it for your pleasure. Finally, this Jaymo & Andy George (another Radio 1 staple) remix is fantastic. Exactly what I want from a remix.

Listen: Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling (Lucky Dip Remix) ←♥♥
Listen: Passion Pit – Little Secrets (Felix Da Housecat Remix) ←♥♥ (Radio Rip)
Listen: Miike Snow – Black & Blue (Jaymo & Andy George Remix) ←♥♥♥♥
MP3: Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling (Lucky Dip Remix)
MP3: Passion Pit – Little Secrets (Felix Da Housecat Remix)
MP3: Miike Snow – Black & Blue (Jaymo & Andy George Remix)

Saw Phoenix at the Glasgow Arches on Sunday just there. Sounded awesome live, but the crowd really didn’t seem up for it. It was quite disappointing actually. I went with my bro and an altbro, expecting it to be really jumpy – but it wasn’t. I dunno if it was because it was a Sunday and people didn’t want to go wild because they had work in the morning or what, but it was a total fucking buzzkill. Worse, it was like the crowd had never heard of ‘Too Young‘ (my fave Phoenix song) or any tunes pre-Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix for that matter.

Phoenix @ Arches, Glasgow

Enough of the rant FFS eh! Ok back to la choonage. Heard Sleigh Bells for the first time the other day and was kinda blown away – especially by this song. Sleigh Bells are a boy-girl duo who make a fucking glorious racket and I could see them going down a storm live – plus the singer is FIIIIT! Next is Juiceboxxx who apparently recorded this in one take. Anything with Javelin attached will at some point be posted by me – cos I’m obsessed. Slinky blue-eyed soul from Mayer Hawthorne puts a smile on my faces.

Listen: Sleigh Bells – Crown On The Ground ←♥♥♥
Listen: Juiceboxxx – Runnin’ (Produced By Javelin)
Listen: Mayer Hawthorne – Your Easy Lovin’ Ain’t Pleasin’ Nothin’
MP3: Sleigh Bells – Crown On The Ground
MP3: Juiceboxxx – Runnin’ (Produced By Javelin)
MP3: Mayer Hawthorne – Your Easy Lovin’ Ain’t Pleasin’ Nothin’

Caught this over at PMA and couldn’t resist a repost. Another fantastic Seven remix. I think Fever Ray sent each remixer a strongly worded email telling them to NOT. FUCK. THIS. UP. The Twelves didn’t. In fact, they made the best one yet. Lifelike sprinkled his Falke-dust over Barcelona and out popped this remix. Harvard Bass is fast becoming a staple of my morning wake-up audioporn. Harvard Bass = The Sex.

Listen: Fever Ray – Seven (The Twelves Remix) ←♥♥♥
Listen: Plastiscines – Barcelona (Lifelike Remix) ←♥
Listen: Beni – Maximus (Harvard Bass Remix) ←♥♥
MP3: Fever Ray – Seven (The Twelves Remix)
MP3: Plastiscines – Barcelona (Lifelike Remix)
MP3: Beni – Maximus (Harvard Bass Remix)

Just got my ticket to see Steve Aoki at Cabaret Voltaire on the 13th Nov. This WILL be me.

Kind of a mish-mash post this one. Just a collection of bangers. Aoki gets a lot of stick but I don’t give a monkeys – I’ll be down the front holding him up with the rest of them.

Listen: Steve Aoki – I’m In The House (Feat. Zuper Blahq) (Gigi Barocco Remix) ←♥
Listen: Ghostface Killah – Charlie Brown (Yuksek Remix) ←♥♥
Listen: Soldout – The Cut (Just A Band Remix) ←♥♥ (OMG the drop!)
MP3: Steve Aoki – I’m In The House (Feat. Zuper Blahq) (Gigi Barocco Remix)
MP3: Ghostface Killah – Charlie Brown (Yuksek Remix)
MP3: Soldout – The Cut (Just A Band Remix)

Listen: Designer Drugs – Drop Down ←♥
Listen: Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Club Edit) ←♥♥
MP3: Designer Drugs – Drop Down
MP3: Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Club Edit)

I like to keep up-to-date with new music releases/news/current goings on, so instead of trawling through every. single. fucking. website. I employ an RSS Reader – basically a program that updates you when you’re favourite blog has a new post. I used to use FeedDemon but it fucked up and wouldn’t display images so I now use Google Reader and fuck me its awesome. Even better, apparently I already have 26 subscribers on Google Reader! Yeaaah Boyeeee!!! The moral of the story is – get Google Reader. NOW!

OK enough of my pish. I heard The Proxy remix on James Mountain’s Escape Plan and cheekily ripped it. Saw the Larry Tee and Alexander Technique remix over at Stoney Roads. I ♥ Ubbs like a blogfather. Both of these remixes are top notch, and as much as I would give a kidney to see The Proxy in the live environment, I’d say the Blogula remix just pips it.

Listen: Peaches – I Feel Cream (The Proxy Remix) Radio Rip 128kbps ←♥♥♥♥
Listen: Peaches – I Feel Cream (Larry Tee and Alexander Technique Blogula Remix) ←♥♥♥♥
MP3: Peaches – I Feel Cream (The Proxy Remix) Radio Rip 128kbps
MP3: Peaches – I Feel Cream (Larry Tee and Alexander Technique Blogula Remix)

Some amaaaazing dubstep is coming from 22-year-old South Londoner Peter O’Grady a.k.a. Joy Orbison. Great name. One to watch.

Listen: Joy Orbison – Wet Look ←♥♥♥♥
Listen: Joy Orbison – Hyph Mngo ←♥♥♥♥♥
MP3: Joy Orbison – Wet Look
MP3: Joy Orbison – Hyph Mngo

Finally getting round to mentioning this absolutely STUNNING remix by The xx. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – Florence And The Machine is/are(?) overhyped to the max. I won’t even link to the fucker. The xx, however, have released one of my favourite albums this year. They have a song called ‘Basic Space‘ and I’d say it’s a good description of their sound more than anything else. Single guitar/bass notes, basic drumbeats, sparse production. They have their own ‘sound’ after only 1 album it’s crazy. Goes totally against the grain of what kind of music has been coming out in recent years. Brilliant.

Listen: Florence And The Machine – You Got The Love (The xx Remix) ←♥♥♥♥♥♥
Listen: The xx – Islands ←♥♥♥♥♥
MP3: Florence And The Machine – You Got The Love (The xx Remix)
MP3: The xx – Islands

p.s. coming sooooooooon.

do you think i’m excited?

OK quick catch-up. I went to see Micachu on Saturday at Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh. I won’t lie – I was actually really disappointed with their set, and wouldn’t recommend them live. However, the night wasn’t a total loss, as the support band was recently Mercury-music-prize-nominated The Invisible. I can’t tell you how amazing they were.

Listen: The Invisible – London Girl ←♥♥♥
Listen: The Invisible – London Girl (Dolby Anol Pre-Op Remix) ←♥♥ (2.55 onwards)
Listen: The Invisible – London Girl (Dolby Anol Post-Op Remix)
Listen: The Invisible – London Girl (Nightmoves Remix)
MP3: The Invisible – London Girl
MP3: The Invisible – London Girl (Dolby Anol Pre-Op Remix)
MP3: The Invisible – London Girl (Dolby Anol Post-Op Remix)
MP3: The Invisible – London Girl (Nightmoves Remix)

I can hear why people compare them to TV On The Radio – and, I admit, I was one of those who brushed them off as merely copycat bastards. But seeing them live completely changed my opinion. Highly recommended. And yes, they blew Mica-shite off the stage. Harsh. I still like her album though.

Listen: The Invisible – OK ←♥♥♥♥
Listen: The Invisible – OK (Headman Remix) ←♥♥
MP3: The Invisible – OK
MP3: The Invisible – OK (Headman Remix)

It’s a shame, because these MP3s (and their album for that matter) don’t do them justice.

Guess where I’m going on Sunday…… YEEAAAH BOYEEEEEEEE!!!!

If you download one Annie Mac minimix this year, make it GRUMs.

Listen: GRUM – Minimix for Annie Mac (Radio 1) ←♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Listen: Friendly Fires – Skeleton Boy (GRUM Remix)
Listen: Passion Pit – To Kingdom Come (GRUM Remix)
MP3: GRUM – Minimix for Annie Mac (Radio 1)
MP3: Friendly Fires – Skeleton Boy (GRUM Remix)
MP3: Passion Pit – To Kingdom Come (GRUM Remix)

Minimix tracklist in comments section. Genius.