LOTS of emails – mostly shite – but sometimes a wee gem pops up…. like this mash-up. Simple yet effective.

Listen ♫: Jay-Z Vs. Sleigh Bells – Rill Heart Of The City ←♥

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p.s. I took that photo

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!

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)