Friday Tunes

Some new tunes from me to kickstart the weekend. New bizzniss from man like Nosaj Thing, Sinden, The Blue Nile, Geeneus and a classic garage cut from El-B.

First off, LA hip-hopper Nosaj Thing is on remix duties for Charlotte Gainsbourg's Heaven Can Wait. Full of false starts and reversed samples, Nosa Thing's ethereal production style combines with Gainsbourg's lovely vocals to create something a bit special here - all staccatto claps, lush synths bubbling up and a timeless vocal refrain - "Heaven Can Wait".

Next up, the remix package for new XX single Islands is jammed full of quality mixes - Delorean and Faulty DL mixes are both worth checking out - although unfortunately, for once Untold's effort falls short (for me anyway) - the Untold mix would be better as a standalone track, with the XX's vocal stylings seeming ill suited to the percussive tension Untold brings to his productions. The real treasure in this package is the Blue Nile Remix, which introduces a new piano line and bathes the vocals in reverb.

Geeneus kills it once again with another funky banger - the Yellowtail VIP rolls along nicely with a percussive beat and a properly banging synth line, all set off by that repeating vocal sample.

Sinden's clearly been switching up what he's been listening to lately - his tracklists for his Kiss FM show have been showing it for a while, and it's beginning to be evident in his productions too. His mix of Miike Snow's Sylvia builds from a simply UK funky drum beat to a sweltering tropical house riddim. Dreamy vocal lines and a nice piano refrain don't hurt either.

Last up, classic UK garage slice for you from El-B. One for the heads who know this one - I was watching a few of the Red Bull Music Academy lecture videos, and when people were questioned over the origins of dubstep this producer popped up every time. That dark 2-step thing with skittering rhythms and real sub bass that was being produced by heads like El-B, Horsepower, Zed Bias would go on to become influence each and every of the original dubstep producers. This track Buck & Bury was played by both Skream & Kode 9 in their RBMA lectures as an example of this dark garage sound, and rightly so. Can't stop doing the Buck and Bury....

Any Brighton heads should make sure they head to Aka Aka Roar on Monday to catch Ramadanman - I'll be doing my usual residency thing, warming up and closing the night - cheap drinks all night, £2 entry, Life - dun know.

Club Candy

Afternoon all... got to be quite brief with this post, as I only have about half hour of internet in the Library at university (as Virgin Media are not installing my internet until Friday this week... 7 days after they said they would!) to get this beautiful selection of music to your ears. In the words of Kissy... "let's do it!"

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll (dangerDAN Remix)
A great new remix from one of my favourite producers at the moment, dangerDAN. Taking on a really positive vibe similar to the remix I enlightened you with last week of AVH's Funk Phenomenon. It starts off quite dark and chilled, with a rather soothing, rolling bassline that sweeps into the main beat. Karen O's vocals really compliment the excellent percussion work as well and the drop is rather Indian Summer-esc ;)... top effort!

Hostage - I Get High
I simply adore the big bass man Alan, far too much! He is simply a one-man-party sensation in action, and this is his latest track, currently getting much love from none other than the lady of the moment Annie Mac. Conjuring up a whole host of Kite-like renditions, then swooping into a rather tasty wobbly bass lick, I Get High really hits on all kinds of levels for me. The recognition Hostage is getting for this track is very long overdue and very deserved in my opinion.

Noob & Brodinski - Peanuts Club (Beatau Cue Remix)
Building on the success of their two recent remixes of Pon De Floor, Beatau Cue takes things a stage further with this new mix... feckin' massive! I literally can't wait for the opportunity to play this out... it is making me wet my little blue panties right now! Epic, epic stuff... much better than Renaissance Man's rather tame effort if you ask me.

Miike Snow - Black & Blue (Savage Skulls Remix) Switch's latest singing to his Dubsided venture show their true colours here with a cracking acid'y make-over of the latest single to be lifted from one of my favourite albums of the year.
If anyone makes a bassy, glitchyeryiness-kind-of tune that is as epic as this, this year, then please point it out to me. Jack Beats... cop a load of that!

rackNruin – Skitzo VIP
Currently taking a nice place on the most recent Orange Rockcorps ad, this tune with a tastier new take is making big noises on the club circuit at the moment and rackNruin's other material also has plenty of clout to boot. I'm not the kind of person to give away tracks like this, like some kind of 'blogwayman'. So instead enjoy the tune from the YouTube link above, and head here to buy it and support their work!