Listen ♫: Mystery Jets – Dreaming Of Another World (Radio Rip) ←♥♥
Listen ♫: Mystery Jets – Young Love (Feat. Laura Marling) ←♥♥♥♥♥♥
Listen ♫: Mystery Jets – Two Doors Down (Duke Dumont Reconstruction)←♥♥♥

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First single proper from M.I.A.‘s new (as yet untitled) album.

Listen ♫: M.I.A. – XXXO (Radio Rip) ←♥♥♥♥
Listen ♫: M.I.A. – Paper Planes (DFA Remix) ←♥♥♥♥♥♥

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GangColours is the brainchild of this man. You don’t need to know his real name – it’s not important. All you need to know is that he makes sublime music that has the cinematic scope of Joy Orbison coupled with the playfulness of Flying Lotus with a dash of Floating Points and you may be getting there – at least that’s how it sounds to me.

His track ‘No Clear Reason’ was played on Gilles Peterson‘s radio show recently and I just had to tell you about it – it will hopefully be getting a release in the near future. Watch this space, or his space!

No Clear Reason (Played On Gilles Peterson) by GangColours ←♥♥♥♥♥♥
In Your Gut Like A Knife by GangColours ←♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
The Makers Motive by GangColours ←♥♥♥
Chance Meeting by GangColours ←♥♥♥

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Annie Mac played this earlier. Love it.

Listen ♫: Total Science – Redlines (Feat. Riya) ←♥♥♥♥♥♥

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Heard this on the Kissy Sell Out radio show the other night and just had to post it.

The Squatters – Monster (Luvstuff Remix) by Luvstuff ←♥♥♥♥♥♥

Went to see Krafty Kuts last night too! I’m still recovering…

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If you dismissed ‘Gorilla Manor’ by Local Natives after one listen (like I did) then I’d urge you to reconsider and give it a few more plays.

Listen ♫: Local Natives – Airplanes ←♥♥♥
Listen ♫: We Are Scientists – Nice Guys (Radio Rip) ←♥
Listen ♫: Best Coast – Our Deal ←♥♥♥
Listen ♫: Lo-F-Fnk – Marchin’ In ←♥♥♥♥
Listen ♫: Band Of Horses – Factory ←♥♥

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As you can probably tell from the picture on the right I am a….whisper it….jaunge*. Yes, I’d probably have a bullet in my arse now if I was in M.I.A.‘s new 9-min banned video for ‘Born Free‘. At least I’m not this guy though!

All of the following tracks are excellent!

The Suicide-sampling crack-racket that is ‘Born Free’, Kele from Bloc Party‘s new electro-dancefloor killer ‘Tenderoni’, the first taste of Aeroplane‘s new material with the reggae-esque ‘We Can’t Fly’, the Rawer-than-Iggy-&-The-Stooges blitzkrieg of Sleigh Bells‘ ‘Tell ‘Em’, the magnificent re-styling of Chilly Gonzales by up and coming Scottish talent Polymath and finally (just for fun) a clever mash-up of Rihanna and Crystal Castles by my favourite mash-up kings The Hood Internet. PHEW!

Listen ♫: M.I.A. – Born Free ←♥♥♥
Listen ♫: Kele Okereke – Tenderoni (Radio Rip) ←♥♥
Listen ♫: Aeroplane – We Can’t Fly (Live From Circus Liverpool) ←♥♥
Listen ♫: Sleigh Bells – Tell ‘Em ←♥♥
Listen ♫: Chilly Gonzales – Never Stop (Polymath Remix) ←♥♥
Listen ♫: Rihanna Vs. Crystal Castles – Rude Baptism (The Hood Internet Mash-Up) ←♥

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*actually I’m more of a strawberry blonde hahahaha!

This is gonna be a BIG tune this summer.

Swedish House Mafia – One by lavingello

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Summer anthem? Heard this on the Gilles Peterson show the other night.

Cee-Lo – I want You by uristocrat

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After the SEGA-on-crack whiplash that was the first hearing of Crystal Castles 2010 I must say that it’s totally grown on me. But that’s nothing compared to the 180° siren-call of Celestica, the 2nd track on their new self-titled record, that Zane Lowe played on his show last night. So this is what they call Deep Club.

Listen ♫: Crystal Castles – Celestica (Radio Rip) ←♥♥♥♥♥♥
Listen ♫: Crystal Castles – Doe Deer (Radio Rip) ←♥♥♥

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