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Grinderman RMX 2

Mike Coleman — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:18:08 +0000

Forthcoming after their recently announced disbanding, Nick Cave’s Grinderman project have returned for one last grizzly hurrah; their posthumously released ‘Grinderman RMX 2′. It is, quelle suprise, a remix album of their critically lauded Grinderman 2 album. For anyone unfamiliar with Grinderman’s sinister ruminations, the band have spent the past five years troubling ears and speaker stacks with their gritty, skewed rock ‘n’ roll, led by the ever charsimatic, manic spectre of Nick Cave. Excitingly, whilst the prospect of a Remix album may suggest ‘Nick Cave dubstep RMX’ surfacing on Youtube, this particular remix album boasts collaborations with a similarly-hued collection of icons including Josh Homme, The National, UNKLE, Cat’s Eyes, Factory Floor and the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s Nick Zinner.

Nick Zinner has taken the album’s wailing ‘Bellringer Blues’ and skewed it into a rattling, fuzz-driven lope, complete with grainy, ‘Zinner-cam’ shot live footage. View the video below and rest assured that ethough they may be no more, at least we’re guaranteed that Cave’s blistering Grinderman project will offer one last tantalising shot of wild-eyed, whiskey soaked rock ‘n’ roll energy.

Grinderman 2 RMX is released on March 26th via Mute Records.

Bombay Bicycle Club – How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep

Mike Coleman — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:03:24 +0000

Curious, idiosyncratic and bursting with a child-like – if slightly off-kilter – sense of adventure, the latest video from Bombay Bicycle Club – to accompany the single ‘How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep’, offers visual engagement as fraught with subtle, beguiling charm as the music it accompanies. Envisioned and brought to life by animator Anna Ginsburg, the woozy, curious short took six months to fashion and finish. This meticulous aesthetic to Ginsburg’s animation makes for a pleasing change from the usual boys-in-the-band fare usually wedged in as a quick fix for single releases, whilst it’s personal, home-spun nature is perhaps complimented further by the fact Ginsburg attended school with Bombay Bicycle Club prior to this work.

Taken from Bombay Bicycle Club’s acclaimed ‘A Different Kind of Fix’, the band’s prior acquaintances have seen them chance upon the creation of a brief audio-visual pairing that feels particularly personal; it’s jittery, eccentric stylings sitting comfortably with the quivering vocals and marked personality that have won Bombay Bicycle Club so much attention. There might be a slightly unnerving quality to the protagonists dilated, wide-eyed wonder, but creepy kid and space jellyfish aside, It’s interesting, endearing and… rather nice to look at, basically.

How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep is released on the 2nd April via Island Records, You can check out the video below.

How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep is released on the 2nd April via Island Records

Daily Download: The 2 Bears – Whatever The Weather Mix

Martyn Cooling — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:15:22 +0000

Joe Goddard is due to reveal the new Hot Chip album later this year, but right now he is knee deep is his widely praised 2 Bears project – a collaboration with his Greco-Roman label DJ partner Raf Daddy. To get an idea about their sound, check out their “Whatever the Weather” mix below in todays Daily Download.

You can download the mix in the soundcloud player and find out more about 2 Bears at the2bears.co.uk

M.I.A – Bad Girls

Martyn Cooling — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:33:06 +0000

Brand new video and the return of M.I.A (if you dont count her guest spot on the abysmal Madonna single that dropped last week).

‘Bad Girls’ sees Maya venture team up with previous collaborator Romain Gavras (M.I.A – Born Free, Justice – Stress) and heads to Morroco for some casual street surfing, and car stunts. Talking about the video which was launched a couple of days ago in association with Vice’s Noisey channel, she proclaimed…

‘It was dope to have so many people from so many different backgrounds speaking so many different languages come together to create something that we believed in,” says M.I.A about the video. “I thought I was gonna die on the shoot when I saw the drifting. It was a four day shoot so everyone was on edge the whole time specifically ME when I had to do bluesteel singing to the camera while the cars did doughnuts on the wet road ten feet away. In my mind I was thinking how I was gonna deliver the video to Vice with no legs.”

You can check out the video below and find our more about M.I.A’s latest exploits at MIAUK.com

Daily Download: Betatraxx – Bootleg EP

Martyn Cooling — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:32:32 +0000

Todays Daily Download comes from Dirty Dutch Producer – BetaTraxx. He’s just dropped his latest release’The Bootleg EP’ Via his Soundcloud for all to enjoy. Containing unreleased re-edits like his glitch laden version of Justice vs Simians ‘We Are Your Friends’ & his all encompassing ‘Daft Punk – Live Edit’ which in the same vein as Soulwax’s re-remix of Lcd Soundsystem’s ‘Daft Punk Is Playing At My House’ encorporates 90% of the french duo’s back catalogue mashed up into a dancefloor smashing anthem.

You can grab the tracks from the soundcloud player below and find out more about Betatraxx at Betatraxx.com

Feist – The Bad In Each Other

Martyn Cooling — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:49:18 +0000

Feist has just unleashed the video for her latest track ‘The Bad In Each Other’ – taken from her 4th studio album ‘Metals’.

The music video (Or more accurately; Short film) directed by Martin De Thurah in Mexico, resembles a scene straight out of No Country For Old Men. The gritty western visuals accompany Feist’s brand of folksy-alt-indie perfectly.

You can view the video below and find out more at listentofeist.com. The single drops March 26th on Cherrytree/Polydor.

Worlds Fastest Finger Painter

Martyn Cooling — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:06:47 +0000

Fabian Gaete Maureira has been described as “Bob Ross On Meth” – A Chilean street artist, Fabian paints detailed sprawling landscapes using only his fingers on a sheet of glass. But its not the end result thats the most impressive feature of his work, its the sheer speed at which he pumps out the work.

Check out the videos of his incredible talent below and find out more at his website here (be warned – his website is much worse than his painting).

[Via. Complex]

Jacques Lu Cont – Church

Martyn Cooling — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:57:01 +0000

The many-monikered Grammy-winning producer and DJ Stuart Price is back under his Jacques Lu Cont guise, with his first original production work in nearly a decade.

New track ‘Reload’ dropped on Soundcloud at the end of last year with support from fans and contemporaries alike including Erol Alkan and Pete Tong, and now Lu Cont invites us to worship at his ‘Church’.

Premiering this weekend on Pete Tong Radio 1 show and over on US blog Stereogum, the dancefloor destroying ‘Church’ pits heavy basslines against soaring synths in the battle for supremacy.

You can check out the track below and find out more at jacqueslucont.com

Spector – Chevy Thunder

Martyn Cooling — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:44:09 +0000

Following Spectors trilogy of 7″ singles throughout 2011, the boys return with their major label debut – on esteemed Universal imprint, Fiction.

Already a firm live favourite from 2011′s festival appearances and a recent Jools Holland performance, Chevy Thunder is inspired by a star crossed romance derailed by prescription drug abuse and mechanophilia.

The video as just dropped and was shot on location in the wastelands of Southern California by L.A luminaries, Focus Creeps (Arctic Monkeys, Girls).

You can check out the video below and find our more about Spector at spector.co.uk.

Justice – On & On

Martyn Cooling — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:58:29 +0000

Acclaimed duo Justice will release their new single ‘On ‘n’ On’ (feat. Morgan Phelan of NYC’s Diamond Nights) on February 27th on Ed Banger. The ‘On ‘N’ On’ EP will include remixes from Brodinski, Erol Alkan, Rick Rubin and Tiga.

Watch the intergalactic video, directed by Alexandre Courtes below and check out the UK tour dates below that.

Justice hit the road in the UK on the following dates:

Feb 8th – Manchester Academy
Feb 9th – Bristol Academy
Feb 10th – Brixton Academy
Feb 11th – Birmingham Academy
Feb 12th – Glasgow Academy