February 2012
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Andrew Weatherall Remixes Clock Opera, it’s sounding good.
Feb 29th
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Feb 8th
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Stream 'Portico Quartet' →
Check out the incredibly Portico Quartet’s new album, released last week ‘Portico Quartet’ is another divergence from the always impossible to predict group. Sitting somewhere between free jazz and modern electronic, the album fuses a sense of composition borrowed from Steve Reich with the bloody minded forward thinking of labels such as Hyperdub.
Feb 7th
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January 2012
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Here’s the raw field recording that seams used for Hung Markets and the original. He recorded it using his phone, in Berlin, summer 2010,  he is a talented fellow and live he will blow you away.
Jan 31st
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Disclosure ‘Tenderly’  I love this, Nick Grimshaw is behind it not to mention Alt - J and Friends getting support from Huw Stephens and Fearne Cotton respectively. With M82 using his Billboard US top 10 success last year and Anna Calvi on the playlist the indies are working their magic nicely.   See the Radio 1 playlist here and get a free Disclosure EP here
Jan 31st
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Tip for 2012 - Kindness
In 2009 Moshi Moshi approached Kindness to release a single (his minimalist version of the Replacements’ Swingin’ Party, backed with the breezy funk track Gee Up.  Now signed to Polydor/Universal this single Cyan was released in October 2011 and Gee Up gets re-released with the album in March.  It’s got recognisable reference points — the leftfield disco of Walter Gibbons, the cosmopolitan...
Jan 26th
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Tip for 2012 - Django Django
Django Django  have been honing their art for over 2 years,  this stop frame video to the single ‘Default’ is a collaboration between the band and Director Dan Brereton. The debut album is released on 30th January.
Jan 25th
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Tip for 2012 - Alt-J
∆ is the symbol you get from hitting alt & j on a keyboard. Alt-j are too fresh for the tips for 2012, they have been receiving daytime support from Radio by Fern Cotton and Jo Whiley following support from Huw Stephen’s. They are deep thinking art students from Leeds who produce pop with a post punk underbelly, a unique sound.  Now signed to Infectious Records the label that brought...
Jan 24th
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Jan 23rd
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Jan 23rd
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A nice data visualsation.
Jan 23rd
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Jan 18th
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Our favourites @afriendszone are top of the... →
Jan 4th
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Jan 3rd
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Jan 1st
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December 2011
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An Independent article we assisted with... →
Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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BBC Sound of 2012 is out
The BBC sound of 2012 was out on Monday, Alex Winston, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Kindness, Theme Park, Alt J and The Milk didn’t make it in but hey! they can’t fit everyone in. Cool hip hop and r&b, soul/rock and cool pop is the name of the game. We have linked to each artists Google search to keep the info relevant, you find their social networks from there. A$AP...
Dec 7th
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November 2011
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Nov 21st
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A Tribute to a Tribe Called Quest
Nov 21st
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Nov 20th
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Redlight
Redlight has been building his profile for the last few years, with support from Annie Mac on Radio 1, 1xtra and a hectic DJ tour.  He has just been rewarded with a playlist on Kiss FM for Get Out Of My Head 10 weeks upfront of the release. 
Nov 19th
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Nov 10th
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Nov 2nd
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October 2011
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Oct 18th
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Intimacy - Trends for 2011
The concept of brand intimacy is not new but it is more important than ever, brands need to get intimate with current and future consumers by permeating their passions such as music and gaining their permission to connect again and again. We all need intimacy but what exactly is intimacy? It is an enduring behavioural interdependence, repeated interactions, and emotional attachment and need...
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January 2011
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Jan 30th
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Alex Winston
Sounds like:  Bette Midler,  Marina & The Diamonds Genre: Pop, Soul These press quotes give you a clue to the magnificent sounds Alex produces. “If Clare Maguire is the new UK singer-songwriter most likely to do a Florence/Ellie over the next year or so, as we predicted in 2009, then we’d like to make a similar claim for Alex Winston as America’s bright hope” The...
Jan 28th
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Hundreds
Sounds like: Fever Ray, Carole King, Royksopp and Bjork Genre:  Folk, Electronica, Techno The Hundreds music melds Electronic and Folk roots with true German passion and efficency.  It’s wonderfully original and grows with every encounter, with every collision and contradiction.  The album has been produced with a depth, attention, detail and elegance rarely matched in the musical sphere, put...
Jan 28th
Mount Kimbie
Sounds like:  Bjork, James Blake and Psapp  Genre: Dubstep  Background:  Mount Kimbie have toured with James Blake et al, they combine ethereal cinematic tones with Dubstep production, creating glorious lush ambient sound scapes in the process. These tracks are taken from the Crooks & Lovers album released in 2010.  Next London show:  28th April at Heaven Mount Kimbie - Field (from...
Jan 19th