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DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Atari Teenage Riot, “Activate!”

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:24:50 +0000

Yep, you read that record sleeve right: Atari Teenage Riot have signed to Dim Mak and will release their first post-reunion LP next year. In the meantime, they’ll be pressing up a single version of “Activate!”, which is available after the jump along with the trio’s tour dates, a new music video, and a photo with their new label boss.

Atari Teenage Riot fall tour:
9/23 New York, NY – The Gramercy Theater
9/24 Baltimore, MD – Sonar
9/26 Pittsburgh, PA – Diesel
9/27 Austin, TX – Red 7
9/28 Dallas, TX – Trees
9/29 Houston, TX – Groundhall
9/30 Los Angeles, CA – KeyClub
10/1 Chicago, IL – The Bottom Lounge
10/2 Montreal – Foufounes Electriques
10/4 Toronto – Phoenix Concert Theatre
10/5 Edmonton – New City
10/6 Calgary – The Gateway @ Sait
10/7 Vancouver – Rickshaw Theatre

PEEP SHOW: Watch Flying Lotus Cover J Dilla’s “Take Notice” Track With the Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:00:52 +0000

Of all the J Dilla tributes we’ve seen in the four years since the producer’s untimely death, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson’s Suite For Ma Dukes project has to be one of the most revelatory/rewarding. Mostly because it gets to the heart of what makes Dilla’s music so great—the grooves themselves, as rendered in brassy jazz arrangements of his productions for Common, A Tribe Called Quest, and more. The video above is from a recent free L.A. concert that featured Flying Lotus and some of his key Cosmogramma collaborators (harpist Rebekah Raff, bassist Stephen “Thundercat” Bruner). We’ve included a free MP3 version after the jump, along with another video and download from a track with Bilal (“Someday We’ll All Be Free”).

If you’d like to actually own pieces of the Ma Dukes puzzle, you’ve got two options: Timeless, a deluxe DVD box set that also includes the works of Mulatu Astatke and Arthur Verocai, or the Suite For Ma Dukes 12-inch that Atwood-Fegurson cut with Carlos Nino. An interview with the latter can be found here.

DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Blue Water White Death, “Song For the Greater Jihad” (F/ the Frontmen of Xiu Xiu and Shearwater)

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:07:04 +0000

Blue Water White Death’s self-titled debut arrives on 10/12 through Graveface Records.

Dirty Projectors Announce Limited Other Music LP, Share Live Acoustic Version of “Temecula Sunrise”

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:52:29 +0000

Photo: Jen Maler

Dave Longstreth just sent an E-mail to Dirty Projectors’ mailing list, sharing the following details about their month-long fall tour…

“We’re going to pack about 18 nights’ worth of songs into our rucksacks and just plan on letting a few go in every city. The songs will be from phylum Orca, genus Mount Wittenberg; genus Bitte; various specimens of the Rise Above family, maybe some from the New Attitude kingdom, and hopefully a few other more unclassifiable ones … hopefully they’ll fly up into the trees and indigenize alright, like those parrots who build nests on top of phone poles in your old babysitter’s neighborhood.”

He went on to say that the band’s got two new releases on tap. First up: an expanded two-disc edition of Bitte Orca that includes all of the album’s B-sides and a special acoustic set that was captured at Other Music last year. It arrives on 9/21 and can be pre-ordered here. A week later, Other Music will release a limited white label vinyl pressing of their five tracks. You can pre-order one (or two, which is the limit) of 500 copies now.

Check out the tracklisting after the jump, along with tour dates and a free record aisle rendition of “Temecula Sunrise.”

Bitte Orca Expanded Edition, Disc One:
1. Cannibal Resource
2. Temecula Sunrise
3. The Bride
4. Stillness Is The Move
5. Two Doves
6. Useful Chamber
7. No Intention
8. Remade Horizon
9. Fluorescent Half Dome

Disc Two:
1. Fluorescent Half Dome (Live at Other Music)
2. Temecula Sunrise (Live at Other Music)
3. Two Doves (Live at Other Music)
4. Cannibal Resource (Live at Other Music)
5. No Intention (Live at Other Music)
6. Ascending Melody
7. Emblem of the World
8. Wave the Bloody Shirt
9. Bitte Bitte Orca
10. Stillness is the Move (Lucky Dragons Remix)
11. As I Went Out One Morning

Dirty Projectors live:
9/7 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club *
9/8 Philadelphia, PA – Trocadero *
9/11 New York, NY – Terminal 5 *
9/13 Boston, MA – Wilbur *
9/14 Montreal, Quebec – Le National ^
9/15 Toronto, Ontario – Opera House ^
9/17 Chicago, IL – Metro ^
9/18 Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theater ^
9/19 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue ^
9/23 Pomona, CA – Glass House #
9/24 Los Angeles, CA – Wiltern #
9/25 San Francisco, CA – Fillmore #
9/26 San Francisco, CA – Fillmore #
9/28 Portland, OR – Aladdin #
9/29 Portland, OR – Aladdin #
9/30 Seattle, WA – Showbox #
10/5 Durham, NC – Page Auditorium #

* with Owen Pallett
^ with Happy Birthday
# with Dominique Young Unique

DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Kanye West Unveils “Monster,” Featuring Jay-Z, Bon Iver, Rick Ross and Nicki Minaj

admin — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:20:56 +0000

For more info on Kanye’s work with Bon Iver’s main man, go here. [Kanye West]

DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Kid Koala’s Rare Solid Steel Mix

admin — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:09:10 +0000

Licensing issues kept the following Kid Koala mix from a commercial release, but Ninja Tune just leaked it as part of the 20th anniversary series we told you about earlier this week. Check it, along with a complete tracklisting and some exclusive Kid Koala art (as inspired by Tyondai Braxton, the multi-instrumentalist who recently quit Battles).

Boards of Canada – “Everything You Do Is a Balloon”
Jay Jay Johanson – “I’m Older Now”
Isan – “Recently in the Sahara”
Björk – “Amphibian”
Buckminster Fuzeboard – “Return of the Pretzel Stretch”
Autechre – “Krib”
Radiohead – “Motion Picture Soundtrack”
Air – “Le Voyage de Penelope”
Amon Tobin – “Natureland”
Bonobo – “Magic man”
Land of the Loops – “Single Girl”
The Herbaliser – “Mrs Chombee Takes the Plunge (PC Mix)”
Fembots – “John and Irene”
Funki Porcini – “Purrrfect”
White Mud Freeway – “Man With Gun Man With None”
Henry Mancini – “Moon River”
Dan the Automator – “Lonely Man”

DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: The xx, “Shelter (Tiga Remix)”

admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:27:38 +0000

DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Starkey, “Gasping For Air In This Vortex”

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:38:39 +0000

Check out our exclusive Starkey mix/interview here. The following track is an unreleased one, as premiered on FACT.

Cold Cave Reveal Studio Plans, Leak Unreleased Hunkydory Cover

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:35:59 +0000

Photo by Aaron Richter

So we were checking up on Cold Cave—the stars of self-titled’s sixth issue—the other day and stumbled upon a rather random cover song that was cut in Wesley Eisold’s old Philly apartment last summer. It’s from an obscure British band called Hunkydory, which Uncut describes as follows:

An authentic children’s band from Lewes, East Sussex, Hunkydory signed to that safe haven for eccentrics, él records, in 1988. These five precocious children sang and played all their own instruments, with the bulk of the material being written and arranged by one of the band’s dads.

Hunkydory’s rare Over the Rainbow record can be found here. As for where Cold Cave’s at with their proper Matador debut, frontman Wesley Eisold told us that he’s heading into the studio with Chris Coady this October and “can’t wait” to start tracking. An Italians Do It Better 12-inch is also expected from the group at some point.

When asked about his post-Love Comes Close output, Eisold said, “It varies a lot…I feel like every sound and song Cold Cave has has come about very naturally and even mistakenly, so much that I can’t exactly describe the process. I don’t remember specific moments of writing songs for the most part. Since none of our songs were made with the intent to play them live, a lot of them don’t translate so well. We try and then leave them behind. So if anything I think there will be some attention to this detail.”

Curious as to how Cold Cave went from nihilistic noise experiments to partly cloudy pop tunes in a couple years? Then read the following cover story and follow our Twitter, where we’ll be giving away a couple copies of the group’s Cremations compilation.

DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: The Bug, “Poison Dart (Skream Remix)”

admin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:06:20 +0000

No doubt about it: Kevin Martin can do no wrong in our mind, whether we’re talking about the claustrophobic, skin-burrowing creepiness of King Midas Sound or the ballistic beats of The Bug. The latter gets the grand ole’ party treatment here by Skream, whose “Poison Dart” remix is the latest limited download release from Ninja Tune’s XX series. If you head over there today, the label will also E-mail you an exclusive edit of a brand new Bug track (“Catch a Fire”) and updates on future MP3-christened celebrations of Ninja Tune’s 20th anniversary.

The ultra luxe Ninja Tune XX box set—featuring six 7-inch singles, six CDs, and a hardback book—is available for pre-order now here.