The Fear by Röyksopp ←♥♥
Commix – How You Gonna Feel (Pedestrian Remix) by Pedestrian ←♥♥♥♥

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Sorry that the Evil Nine track is just a clip – but I had to do a post on it! Looks like the 90s is back.

Stay Up (clip) by Evil Nine ←♥♥♥♥
Marathon by erikwikstrom ←♥♥♥
Azari & III – Reckless For Your Love (Tensnake Remix) ←♥♥♥

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So we’re just entering the last week of the Edinburgh Festival and I’ve had a delightful time – whether it’s soaking up sunbeams in the Spiegel Garden (see my pic below) or seeing hilarious comedy acts (Seann Walsh, Obama Mia!, Eleanor the Tour Whore) at various venues including the now-infamous Udderbelly Pasture (a massive upside-down purple cow). I’m also writing up my 1st-year PhD report and it’s hellish – I’m off to work on it now actually – but I’ll leave you with these thrillingly effortless tracks by Andras Fox & Sui Zhen, Pitchfork-featured Tropics, Gilles Peterson-featured Ogris Debris and George Fitzgerald. Go outside.

Andras Fox & Sui Zhen – Petite Mort by Scottish Friction ←♥♥♥♥
Melorr by Tropics ←♥♥♥
Ogris Debris – Miezekatze by Ogris Debris ←♥♥♥♥
Weakness by George FitzGerald ←♥♥♥♥

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Another glorious day spent lying in the sun – I should really get back to writing my 1st year report :S

With Joyful Lips – Melatonin by With Joyful Lips ←♥♥♥
Listen ♫: Ken Boothe – Down By The River (Neil Young Cover) ←♥♥
Listen ♫: Derrick Morgan – Stand By Me (Ben E. King Cover) ←♥♥

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I might be going here next year!

Blamma! Blamma! – Beyond 17 (Mighty Mouse Radio Edit) by Scottish Friction ←♥
Solo – Rawmania (Rubix Remix) by IamRubix ←♥♥
The Hood Internet – Move It For Pimp (Bun B x The New Pornographers) by hoodinternet ←♥♥

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Been meaning to post about Big Boi for a while because the more I hear Shutterbug the more I think it’s a fecking groundbreaking sound! He also pops up on Janelle Monáe‘s sassy ‘Tightrope’. Grum‘s album has also been getting a lot of plays on my iPod recently and I’ve attached the splendidly-soporific standout ‘Want U’ so check it oot! I’ve sandwhiched these 3 gems with 2 tracks I heard on TV (well…I say TV…I really mean what I’ve torrented) one of which was the M.I.A. track ‘Space’ which was featured at the end of the latest Entourage right when Vince jumps out the plane; the second of which (is actually the first track here) is the best song I’ve heard used on a TV show and was featured on True Blood when Bill goes to the strip club and Massive Attack‘s ‘Paradise Circus’ is playing while he’s watching a Miley Cyrus-look-a-like work the pole. The hand-claps are key. Absolute prize of a track.

Massive Attack – Paradise Circus by Scottish Friction ←♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Big Boi – Shutterbug (Feat. Cutty) by Scottish Friction ←♥♥♥
Janelle Monae – Tightrope (Feat. Big Boi) by Scottish Friction ←♥♥♥
Grum – Want U by Scottish Friction ←♥♥♥
M.I.A. – Space by Scottish Friction ←♥♥

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p.s. I took this photo of my brother playing his first gig (on my Holga of course!)

[UPDATE] I’ve just been informed the Massive Attack song is also the theme tune for Luther.

“I thought my life would get easier,
instead its getting harder, instead it’s getting harder

I thought my life would get easier,
instead it’s darker, instead it’s getting colder…
Without you”

Listen ♫: The Drums – Book Of Stories ←♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Listen ♫: Kyte – Designed For Damage (Pacific Remix) ←♥♥♥♥
Listen ♫: Baths – ♥ ←♥♥♥

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“Misery
Will you comfort me?
In my time of need
Would you understand?

With you
With you
With you
With you”

Listen ♫: Best Coast – Boyfriend ←♥♥♥♥
Listen ♫: Wavves – Post Acid ←♥♥♥♥♥♥
Listen ♫: ceo – Come With Me ←♥♥♥

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I’ve been meaning to do a post on ‘Garden’ by Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (or T.E.E.D. as they’re also known) for a while but forgot and only remembered when I noticed they’d uploaded the video for it today on Facebook. Support has been mostly from Annie Mac and the Radio 1 massif.

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Garden by Scottish Friction ←♥♥♥♥♥

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p.s. here’s the dreamy video

What Kind Of Breeze Do You Blow? = “Idiosyncratic electronic jungle-disco re-orchestration, a robotic re-interpretation of a mirage.”

Optimus Prime = “Pulsating mechanical club-ready synth strutter for the cosmic dancefloors.”

Sweet Track – Two-Way Mirror (What Kind of Breeze Do You Blow? Remix) by Scottish Friction

Sweet Track – Two-Way Mirror (Optimus Prime Remix) by Scottish Friction

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