Can’t wait for his album to drop later this year.

Listen ♫: Primary 1 – Princess ←♥♥ (Removed)
Listen ♫: Primary 1 – The Blues (Feat. Nina Persson) ←♥♥♥♥

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PRIMARY 1 has caught my ear before. Been listening to his Demos that are free to download and some are good, some are great and some are just OK. But I guess that’s why they’re demos…but I can see the potential, and so will you. Here are my favourites, along with the new album track ‘The Blues’ premiered on Gorilla Vs. Bear.

Listen ♫: PRIMARY 1 – Swimming Pools (burnt copy White Room) ←♥♥♥♥♥
Listen ♫: PRIMARY 1 – Foaming (White Room Version 05) ←♥♥♥
Listen ♫: PRIMARY 1 – Nice To Meet You (fra sandefjord til Tonsberg) ←♥♥♥
Listen ♫: PRIMARY 1 – The Blues ←♥

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I’ve had this U’s & I’s and Lullabies mixtape on repeat all day. I’m really impressed. Primary 1 is Joe Flory, a 24-yr olf half-Norweigan signed to Erol Alkan‘s Phantasy Sound label. It’s all amazing but I have highlighted my favourites. The Aphex Twin/Zombies mix is fucking inspired.

Runtime: 19 mins
Tracklist:
1. The Sunshine Boy and The Goonies – Fires On The Island (zshare)
2. Gonzales and Mickey Moses – Singing The Cat’s Meow Something (Primary 1 Blend) (zshare)
3. Alka Salsa and Brian Wilson – Leone Loves Our Prayer (Primary 1 Blend) (zshare)
4. Cassie and Kim Hiorthoy – Me and U Know The Score (Primary 1 Blend) (zshare)
5. Burial and Stanley Kubrick – U Hurt Me Lolita (zshare)
6. Metronomy and Stanley Kubrick – Lolita Has A Thing For Me (Breakbot Remix) (zshare) ←♥♥♥♥♥♥
7. The Canyons and Prefab Sprout – All The World Loves Apples and Pears Lovers (Primary 1 Blend) (zshare)
8. Slope – Want Choo Longer (zshare)
9. The Zombies and Aphex Twin – The Way Nanou Feel Inside (Primary 1 Blend) (zshare) ←♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Download complete mixtape RAR: Primary 1 – U’s & I’s and Lullabies (mediafire)

Thanks to Discobelle for this.

Bonus video:

Fuck Rumsfeld! Although, he did inspire the titles of these past 2 posts, so… thanks Donald. Originally I was just gonna pile everything into the one post, but that’s just too much for your tiny brains (and mine) to handle at one time. So I decided to split them up Hipster Runoff-style into “mainstream” and “alt” – at least what I consider “alt” anyway, you might have a completely different definition. This posts’ theme is therefore titled “Remixes Of Artists Who Are Alt“.

Dalkeith Country Park, Midlothian

This may be old but I don’t care – Edwin Van Cleef rocks my little socks! Thanks TMS! Asian Dan recommended ‘Kyouki’ a couple days ago. You see how close my ears are to the ground ? The Tom Deluxx remix is another stormer! If I were to ever remix a song, I’d hope it would come out sounding like this Shoes remix – man when that beat drops it DROPS! Naaam Sayyyin??! Got that from LA Friendly. I should rename this post ‘Fucking Bangers To Bop To‘, especially after these 4 eardrum grenades! Kish from Futuristic Silence has awesome taste, and knows a tyrannosaurus beat when she hears it. You can thank her, then, for bringing to your attention this John Roman remix of Felix Cartal.

Listen: Edwin Van Cleef – Overtaken ←♥♥♥♥
Listen: Shinichi Osawa & Nima Tahmasebi – Kyouki ←♥♥♥
Listen: The Shoes – Movin’ In (Feat. Primary 1) (Tom Deluxx Remix) ←♥♥
Listen: Felix Cartal – Skeleton (John Roman Remix) ←♥♥
MP3: Edwin Van Cleef – Overtaken
MP3: Shinichi Osawa & Nima Tahmasebi – Kyouki
MP3: The Shoes – Movin’ In (Feat. Primary 1) (Tom Deluxx Remix)
MP3: Felix Cartal – Skeleton (John Roman Remix)

Dalkeith Country Park, Midlothian

You’d be a Mightyfool not to like this IllStM & Zôl remix. See what I did there. Also, I’m really digging this AC Slater remix. That’s a great name for a DJ eh. I’d be Screech. Panoramix rulez. The Twelves are also yet to disappoint me. Weaving slinky disco basslines into their remixes like they own it.

Listen: Mightyfools – Cops! (IllStM & Zôl Remix)
Listen: Juiceboxxx – 100MPH (AC Slater Remix) ←♥
Listen: Yuksek – So Far Away From The Sea (The Twelves Remix)
MP3: Mightyfools – Cops! (IllStM & Zôl Remix)
MP3: Juiceboxxx – 100MPH (AC Slater Remix)
MP3: Yuksek – So Far Away From The Sea (The Twelves Remix)

The Conservatory (built 1832), Dalkeith Country Park, Midlothian

I actually saw Freeland when I was down in Brighton a few months ago for the Great Escape festival. I’ll be honest – I wasn’t impressed! They came on like Kajagoogoo, but with worse hairdos! HAHA! Joke. GRUM can also do no wrong, his remix of ‘Borderline’ is impressive (altogether now “DO YOU FEEL ME?“) but he really shines on his own track Heartbeats. Heartbeats (like VEGA‘s ‘No Reasons‘) will probably be in my year-end top 10 song list. Lastly, Lifelike is a brutha from another mutha who hasn’t slipped up at all recently. Wind down the end of this post with the 80s-indebted ‘Radio 84′ – fuck me it’s even in the title.

Listen: Freeland – Borderline (GRUM Remix) ←♥♥
Listen: GRUM – Heartbeats (Extended Mix) ←♥♥♥♥♥
Listen: Lifelike – Radio 84 (Lifelike Remix)
MP3: Freeland – Borderline (GRUM Remix)
MP3: GRUM – Heartbeats (Extended Mix)
MP3: Lifelike – Radio 84 (Lifelike Remix)

p.s. look at the size of that fucking chute!! I used to go there (Dalkeith Country Park) as a bairn. Fond memories