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Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Dom Servini at The Jazz Café on 27/10

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Sunday, September 24, 2017

Tricky: Ununiform review – stark and slinky

(False Idols/!K7)

Strange things are afoot on Tricky’s 13th LP: its quality, for one. The trip-hop maverick’s former foil, Martina Topley-Bird, guests for the first time in 14 years; a sombre treat. Elsewhere, Russian rappers jostle against a perplexing cover version of Hole’s Doll Parts. The former are excellent, with the lairy Scriptonite juxtaposed against Tricky’s malevolent drawl on Same As It Ever Was (a Talking Heads reference, surely). The latter? If only Tricky had sung it, rather than one of his myriad guests. Throughout, Tricky creates a claustrophobic world full of stark bass lines, pop digressions and slinky Bristol moments; his duet with Francesca Belmonte, New Stole, is particularly moreish.

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Friday, September 22, 2017

Dom Servini – Unherd Radio Show #7 on Soho Radio

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Hermeto Pascoal – Dança Do Paje (Far Out)
Phil France – Joy of Brass (Mr. Scruff Remix) (Gondwana)
Son of Sam – Put It On Ya feat. Soundsci & Mr Thing (Bandcamp)
Compilation of the Month: Crown Ruler Sound
Kosmik 3 – I’m Gonna Pack (Jeremy Spellacey Edit) (Spacetalk)
Leonidas & Hobbes – Web of Intrigue (Original Mix) (Hobbes Music)
Makadem – Nyako (Jinku Remix) (On The Corner)
Jordan Rakei – Goodbyes (Ninja Tune)
Werkha – Foolin’ Self feat. Berry Blacc (Tru Thoughts)
L’Orange – Look Around (feat. Oddisee) (Mello Music Group)
Space Captain – Sycamore (Tru Thoughts)
Antonio Adolfo – Cascavel (Artezanal)
The Showfa – See Thru Bon Bon (Original Mix)(Midnight Riot)
Compilation of the Month: Crown Ruler Sound
Legacy – Monday Blues (Spacetalk)
Charlie Smooth – Mesta Lanion (Smooth Operators)
COEO – Flesh World (Kapote’s Drum Jam Version) (Toytonics)
Washed Out – Get Lost (J Rocc Edit) (Stones Throw)
Soothsayers – Blinded Souls (Simbad ’79 Raw Disco Mix) (Wah Wah 45s)
Thrilogy – The Hustle (Fate & Fiction)
Donnie & Joe Emerson – Baby (Perlair Remix) (Unreleased)
Compilation of the Month: Crown Ruler Sound
Ezy & Isaac – Let Your Body Move (Oba Balu Balu) (Spacetalk)
Funkadelic – Music 4 Your Mother (Moodyman Edit) (White)
EERA – Christine (Big Dada)
Portico Quartet – Lines Glow (Gondwana)
The Last Welfare Record – PBD (Planet Sundae)
Tony Allen – Bad Roads (Blue Note)
Sun Ra & his Arkestra – Along Came Ra (Art Yard)

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Thursday, September 21, 2017

The Horrors: V review – spindly indie survivors hit their sweet spot

Against the odds, the Horrors’ fifth album is their best yet, with Faris Badwan’s commanding, world-weary vocals adding to the synthesised thrills and sparkling guitar-pop

Let us briefly take a detour down memory lane. It is 2007 and, as a contestant on the most recent series of Big Brother has so eloquently put it, “there’s a new music that’s taking over our country and it’s called … ‘indie’”. The Pigeon Detectives bestride the Top 20. The second Razorlight album has just been certified five times platinum. The pages of the Observer play host to a feature that wonders aloud how Bloc Party will cope with being propelled to superstardom as a result of their new album: “A zeitgeist-defining record that rips up the rock rulebook.”

Strange days indeed, but imagine the consternation you could cause were you able to offer everyone a glimpse into the future, a world 10 years hence where Razorlight are headlining not Reading and Leeds but a VW campervan convention in Llangollen; where the lead singer of the Kaiser Chiefs is now best-known as a judge on a talent show, and where the frontman of the Arctic Monkeys has left Yorkshire, changed his accent and now favours the world not with gritty vignettes of provincial Britain, but updates from the frontline of life as a swashbuckling multi-millionaire cocksman, rampant amid the sun-bronzed lovelies of Hollywood.

Related: The Horrors review – eldritch rockers signal move into the big leagues

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Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Soft Cell – 10 of the best

In the last of this series, we look back at Soft Cell’s bleak but beautiful synthpop – from their run of Top 3 hits to their disintegration amid drug use and nervous breakdown

Likeminded art student renegades at Leeds Polytechnic in the late 70s, Dave Ball and Marc Almond originally came together to make music to accompany theatrical productions – an evolution of Almond’s developing interest in often extreme, sexual, graphic and confrontational performance art. Their first release, the short EP Mutant Moments, was funded by a £2,000 loan from Ball’s mum, and was enough to grab the attention of record label Some Bizzare, whose eccentric owner, Stevo, would go on to talent-spot some of the 80s’ best underground electronic groups. Their early single Memorabilia, from 1981, reveals just how much of the winning Soft Cell formula was already firmly in place. Claustrophobic, slightly stalker-y (“I have got to have you”) and with a brilliant electronic riff that lodged in your brain alongside the pen portrait of an obsessive collector, it was a remarkable calling card.

Related: Marc Almond: ‘I’ve had the chance to be subversive in the mainstream’

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by Jude Clarke via Electronic music | The Guardian

Sunday, September 17, 2017

Letter: Pierre Henry obituary

I followed the work of Pierre Henry from his earliest compositions, including his many collaborations with my friend the choreographer Maurice Béjart. When I was appointed as artistic director and choreographer for the opening celebrations of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King in Liverpool, I was able to commission Pierre to create the world’s first electronic mass, a task he was eager to undertake.

The intention was to create a performance with two masses – the 17th-century orchestral Messa Concertata by Francesco Cavalli, followed by Pierrey’s electronic Messe de Liverpool (Liverpool Mass) – and with both works simultaneously performed by dancers. In the event Pierre’s mass was not fully realised in time for the opening celebrations starting on 26 May 1967, although an extract from the partially completed mass was heard, and a choreography created to his Musique pour les Evangiles. The completed work was issued as an LP some time later and was first heard in France.

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LCD Soundsystem review – euphoric dancefloor pop reignited

The Warehouse Project, Manchester
Six years after a farewell tour, frontman James Murphy gets back under the glitterball to revive his special brand of thunderous, emotional dance music

At midnight in Manchester, blue neon bathes the bricks of a former air-raid shelter under Piccadilly station. The floor is sardined with young clubbers and ageing, ecstatic ravers, all heralding a band currently at No 1 in the US.

Related: LCD Soundsystem: American Dream review – virtuosic comeback full of harmonies and humblebrags | Album of the week

Related: LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy: ‘I was a joke. My wife said I was going to die’

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by Jude Rogers via Electronic music | The Guardian

Thursday, September 14, 2017

Gary Numan: Savage (Songs from a Broken World) review – pop gleams amid the dystopian gloom

(BMG)

Once a fading 1970s synthpop star, Gary Numan’s career has been gradually revitalised since Sugababes’ 2002 smash Freak Like Me mashed up his Are “Friends” Electric? and Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson hailed him as a pioneer of electronic industrial gloom. There’s plenty of the latter on his 21st studio album. Guitars and keyboards crash like falling slabs of granite, percussion pulses throb and synths purr ominously. Numan’s dystopian worldview hasn’t been exactly cheered by climate change or leaving Britain for Los Angeles, only to find a Trumpocalypse. “We live in a windswept hell, not even God remembers”, he sings, bleakly. However, tunefulness permeates the intensity like rays of sunshine. Huge, Cars-type banks of synthesisers fire Bed of Thorns and The End of Things and the east Asian-tinged My Name Is Ruin (featuring 11-year-old daughter Persia) is one of his catchiest songs in years. For all the retooling, the vintage Numanoid still has a pop star’s beating heart.

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Paper Tiger live at Gwdihŵ Café Bar (Cardiff) on 14/10

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Paper Tiger live at The Jam Jar (Bristol) on 13/10

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Hunrosa at The Deaf Institute (Manchester) on 29/11

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Hunrosa + Paper Tiger live at The Eagle Inn (Salford) on 19/11

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Monday, September 11, 2017

'We were just clowning about': how cartoon rave changed pop

Twenty-five years ago, the British charts exploded with cheap and cheerful songs such as Sesame’s Treet, Trip to Trumpton and Ebeneezer Goode, that turned a whole generation on to dance music

Underage discos could be pretty strange in the early 1990s. You’d get a blast of Nirvana; maybe even REM for the more sophisticated pre-teen. But you were also guaranteed to hear at least one example of speaker-rattling, drug-referencing rave music that borrowed samples of children’s TV tunes for its hooks – samples that its pre-teen audience was too young to have nostalgia for.

Related: Machines of loving grace: how Artificial Intelligence helped techno grow up

It was pretty bizarre. I had to do Top of the Pops, then carry on working as a chef

There was a time when I'd get annoyed that people would ​be ​go​ing​ on about this tune like it was a joke

Related: Cult heroes: Altern-8, the pop jesters who took rave music to the playground

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by Ben Cardew via Electronic music | The Guardian

Sunday, September 10, 2017

Dom Servini – Unherd Soul #1 on MiSoul Connoisseurs

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1st Hour

Intro

Jordan Rakei – Nerve

Flamingosis – Want Me (Need Me)

Madison Washington – Royalty

Pry – This Cycle feat. Omar Soulay

Honeyfeet – Sinner (Envee Remix) *Exclusive

Space Captain – Loveline (The Drive Home)

Washed Out – Hard to Say Goodbye (Lone Remix)

Escapism Refuge – Unlock

Werkha – So London

30/70 – Misrepresented

Island Jazz Quartet – Feel Like Makin’ Love

Tony Allen – Woro Dance

Featured Compilation: Beating Heart South Africa Vol. 3

Throwing Shade – Wonderful Sushi

Kutiman – Too Late feat. Princess Shaw

Johnny Moore – Big Big Boss

2nd Hour

Intro

Lou Bond – To the Establishment

Sunny & the Sunliners – Our Day Will Come

Lee Fields – Precious Love

Gaby Hernandez – Stay a While

Courtney Pine – Butterfly feat. Omar
Shanta Nurullah’s Sitarsys – A Message, A Vision

Featured Compilation: Beating Heart South Africa Vol. 3
Thor Rixon – Tula Mutwana

The Soul Session – Quantraversa feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow

Kushti – Taking Hold feat. Alice Russell
Julia Beil – Wasting Breath
Yazmin Lacey – Black Moon
Resonators – Right Time (Ash Walker Remix)
Tropical Energy – La Destinee
Sibusile Xaba – Open Letter to Adoniah
Featured Compilation: Beating Heart South Africa Vol. 3
Hunrosa – Mohodo

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Mount Kimbie: Love What Survives review – a change of pace

(Warp)

Since their acclaimed 2010 debut Crooks & Lovers, production duo Dominic Maker and Kai Campos, AKA Mount Kimbie, have gradually shaken off their “post-dubstep” label with tunes better suited to sticky-floored indie dives than pensive, 6am bus journeys. On this third album they’ve all but replaced their former glossy, fragmented electronica with live instrumentation, krautrock drums and vocals from James Blake, King Krule, Micachu and Andrea Balency. As tracks quickly pivot between ragged indie rock, melodic dance music and wistful, tinkly tunes, the record feels disjointed, but a few productions stand out as some of their most inventive yet, particularly the intricate weave of synth and organic sounds on James Blake collaborations We Go Home Together and How We Got By.

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Zola Jesus: Okovi review – a perfect hybrid

(Sacred Bones)

Returning to long-term label Sacred Bones after a sojourn at Mute for 2014’s relatively poppy Taiga, Nika Roza Danilova has perfected her hybrid of industrial electronics and gothic power balladry on her fifth album. Bearing aloft a forensic inquiry into mortality and loss on the wings of her formidable voice, she soars from the shuddering strings and chilly wails of Exhumed to the trip-hop grandeur of Soak and the sweeping romanticism of Witness, via Siphon’s warm assurance of unflinching support to a friend on the edge (“We’d rather clean the blood of a living man”). An album to light the way through the darkest hours.

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Lunice: CCCLX CD review – doesn’t quite add up

(Lucky Me)

In the five years since electronic duo TNGHT – Hudson Mohawke and Canadian producer Lunice – released their self-titled EP before announcing an indefinite hiatus, Mohawke has worked with artists such as Kanye West; Lunice has taken a more low-key route. Unfortunately, his debut solo album is largely underwhelming, especially for what’s described as a “theatrical showcase”. It’s industrial, but somehow not abrasive enough; ominous, but in an almost cheesy rather than menacing way. There are striking moments – Drop Down bubbles with rapper Le1f’s playful flow and Sophie’s additional production, while Distrust seethes spaciously. The elements are there but never really draw you in. Overall, CCCLX doesn’t quite add up.

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by Tara Joshi via Electronic music | The Guardian

Friday, September 8, 2017

Hunrosa at Omeara (London) on 02/10

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Hunrosa at The Canteen (London) on 29/09

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Hunrosa at Jazz refreshed (London) on 28/09

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'The hippie dream is still alive': how Ibiza went from techno to boho

Railing against VIP areas and generic EDM are a crop of promoters tapping into the original spirit of Ibiza: bohemianism, Balearic beat and cosmic alignment

It’s Friday afternoon in Ibiza, the sun is beating down and I’ve arrived at an old army barracks in the centre of the Spanish clubbing mecca for the inaugural Aniwa Gathering. It resembles a rave; the police, naturally, have already tried to close it down. But despite the troupes of hippies, decorative canopies and the totem pole demarcating the entrance, it is most definitely not a rave.

While the tech house superclubs prepare for another night of narcotics and vest-clad fist pumping, this is an event singing to a different tune. If you’ve ever wondered what happens when a former Brazilian model and a ex-director of a tech startup discover ayahuasca, then you’ve found your answer: they launch a foundation dedicated to the promotion of indigenous culture, start a festival and fly in 40 spiritual leaders from around the world to lead a series of talks, performances and ceremonies including the ritualistic sharing of cacao, the consumption of “plant medicine” and sweat lodges. Whatever your poison, Ibiza is always going to be an island of excess.

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by Will Coldwell via Electronic music | The Guardian

Thursday, September 7, 2017

Mount Kimbie: Love What Survives review – electric wit and wisdom from London synth duo

(Warp Records)

In recent years, London duo Mount Kimbie have shrugged off their post-dubstep past and started to create songs that shepherd synth-heavy post-punk into the present day. On their third album, the band’s instrumentals radiate wit and warmth, like mid-80s New Order sloshing around in a sun-kissed sea – but it’s as a foil to some of Britain’s most idiosyncratic artists that Mount Kimbie really prove their mettle. Marilyn, their collaboration with Micachu, produces a masterly melange of outside-the-box melodies, James Blake’s hyper-emotional pipes meet creepily corrupted gospel on We Go Home Together, while the brilliant You Look Certain (I’m Not So Sure)’s chit-chatty vocals (courtesy of Andrea Balency, the band’s touring singer) recall post-punkers such as Vivien Goldman and the Raincoats. The record’s other highlight, Blue Train Lines, sees the duo reprise their hugely fruitful alliance with King Krule, artfully tempering the latter’s cracked howl with neat motorik drums and restrained synths that hover politely on the fringes of white noise.

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by Rachel Aroesti via Electronic music | The Guardian

Wednesday, September 6, 2017

DJ Dom Servini at Bussey Building (Peckham) on 21/10

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DJ Dom Servini at The Jazz Café (Night Thing) on 20/10

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DJ Dom Servini at Badaboum (Paris) on 19/10

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DJ Dom Servini at House of Tippler (London) on 14/10

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DJ Dom Servini at The Jazz Café on 13/10

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Holger Czukay obituary

Founder member of Can who took a prominent role in producing and engineering the German rock band’s albums

When Holger Czukay, who has died aged 79, became one of the founding members of the Cologne-based band Can in 1968, his role was that of bass player. “The bass player’s like a king in chess,” he reflected later. “He doesn’t move much, but when he does he changes everything.”

However, Can described themselves as an “anarchist community”, and the group’s experimental spirit allowed Czukay plenty of room to explore various aspects of electronic music and recording. Right from their first album, Monster Movie (1969), they broke new ground with their fondness for improvised playing shaped by editing, layering and electronic effects, and Czukay took a prominent role in producing and engineering the band’s albums. Can never achieved huge commercial success, though they did achieve a Top 10 hit in Germany with Spoon, the theme from a TV thriller series, in 1972. Nonetheless their work – not least their mastery of the minimal, repetitive “Motorik” beat, which became a trademark, of Can, Neu! and other German bands – left a lasting impression on countless artists who came in their wake.

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Tuesday, September 5, 2017

'It sent us down all kinds of wormholes': Bicep's secret dancefloor weapons

The Northern Irish duo have become one of the biggest acts in dance music – partly thanks to their DJ sets of ultra-obscure house and disco. They lift the lid of the darkest corners of their record collection

Andy Ferguson and Matt McBriar are dance music royalty, playing alongside house music’s biggest names and making waves with their new self-titled debut album. The former schoolfriends from Belfast are also scholars of dance culture: before their success as DJs they had built a reputation with their blog, Feel My Bicep. Since 2008, FMB has showcased the pair’s obsessive trawling of record shops and online sources for unknown club music oddities across the decades – this collectors’ mania has influenced a generation, and it has given Bicep’s music an extraordinary maturity. We asked them to pick their 10 favourite curios from the deepest corners of their record boxes.

Clashing Egos – Aminjig Nebere (I Trusted You) (Joakim’s Afrobot Remix)

Related: Bicep: the bloggers who became house music heroes

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DJ Dom Servini at Giant on 12/10

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Jessie Ware review – safe soul caught between candour and blandness

Islington Assembly Hall, London
Showcasing ballads from her third album Glasshouse, the singer keeps things cool – but with a sensationally emotional closing number

It’s hard to think of a young British artist who has had as easy a ride as Jessie Ware. A singer who began her career collaborating with future-facing figures such as Sampha and SBTRKT, Ware’s electronica-plated soul exists in a hinterland between pop and the underground, and is held to the standards of neither – not mocked for its shortage of Top 40-scaling hooks, nor chastised for its lack of inventiveness.

Instead it has been allowed to stretch its sultry wings in relative freedom, seemingly given special dispensation to pursue the ideals of subtlety and sophistication rather than resort to the attention-seeking abrasion that is the sad lot of out-and-out popstars like Taylor Swift and Katy Perry. Ware has also been spared the sniffy reviews suffered by other bastions of tasteful minimalism including London Grammar. Such are her reserves of cool that not even a working relationship with chart demon Ed Sheeran (she co-wrote the much-derided New Man on his last album; he co-wrote Say You Love Me on hers) could sully Ware’s reputation.

Related: Jessie Ware on Tough Love, working with Miguel and getting mobbed in Poland

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by Rachel Aroesti via Electronic music | The Guardian

Monday, September 4, 2017

The month's best music: Beck, Cardi B, Zomby and more

In a new series, the Guardian rounds up the 50 songs you need to hear each month in playlists across all major streaming services

Welcome to a new monthly feature on the Guardian, where we round up the best 50 songs from the previous month and stick them in a beautifully sequenced playlist for you (available on streaming services Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music). We’ll also pick out the 10 biggest, most zeitgeist-squatting tracks from it below – this month there’s everything from psychedelic dance-rock by the Horrors, to Latin pop from J Balvin, to glacial dub techno by Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe.

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Paper Tiger live + Wah Wah 45s DJs at Archspace on 07/10

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Paper Tiger live + Wah Wah 45s DJs at Archspace on 07/10

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Paper Tiger live + Wah Wah 45s DJs at Archspace on 07/10

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Dom Servini + Jamie Isaac at The Jazz Café on 06/10

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The Milk live + DJs Dom Servini & Scrimshire at Koko on 04/10

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The Milk live + DJs Dom Servini & Scrimshire at Koko on 04/10

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Sunday, September 3, 2017

Dom Servini – Unherd Radio Show #6 on Soho Radio

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Clap! Clap! – Lusaka Dreams (Dutch Archive Edition)
Keope – Uno (Keope Music)
Tony Allen – On Fire (Blue Note)
Ezra Collective – Space is the Place (Ezra Collective)
Forest Swords – Raw Language (Ninja Tune)
Thool – Je Sors feat. Marieke (Deek)
Balako – Nervous Inn (Greco Roman)
Moonchild – Run Away (Tru Thoughts)
L’Orange – Need You feat. Blu (Mello Music Group)
Vibration Black Finger – Love & Hate (Enid)
Glowrogues – Rivers & Roads (Jazz Plus)
Nina Simone – Vous Etes Seuls, Mais Je Desire Etre Avec Vous (Carrere)
Lay-Far – Dva Kolca Dva Konca (Interlude) (Local Talk)
Sam Irl & Dusty – Pick Up The Pieces (Jazz & Milk)
Turbojazz – Strings of Life (BBE)
Falty DL – Drugs feat. Rosie Lowe (Kaidi Tatham Remix) (Ninja Tune)
Sabrina Malheiros – Clareia (Dego Remix) (Far Out)
Tom Blip – There Were No Signs (Blip)
O’Flynn – Tru Dancing (Free DL)
Bunny Mack – Let Me Love You (BBE)
Lord Echo – The Sweetest Meditation (Club Mix) feat. Mara TK (Ubiquity)
Doc Daneeka – Save Me (Ten Thousand Yen)
Y. Gershovsky – Disco Baby (Floating Points & Red Greg Edit) (Melodies)
The Singers Unlimited – Stone ground Seven (Pausa)
Hall & Floyd – Sunrise (Family Groove)

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Dom Servini – Unherd Radio Show #5 on Soho Radio

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Washed Out – Floating By
Compilation of the month: BadBadNotGood presents Late Night Tales
Stereolab – The Flower Called Nowhere
Hampshire & Foat – The Solar Winds (and Cadenza)
Il Est Vilaine – Gouda
Robin Trower – I’m Out to Get You (Ole Smokey Edit)
Momo Joseph – War on Ground
Le Tout-Puissant Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo – Madjafalao (Switch Groove Exp. Disco Dub Remix)
Gil Scott-Heron – The Revolution Will Not be Televised
Lay-Far – 4/4 Interlude
Kiko Navarro feat. Isis “Apache” Montero – Everything Happens for a Reason (Kyodai Remix)
Emilio Santiago – O Amigo de Nova York (Brody Rework)
Jay-U Experience – Some More
Bobby Oroza – This Love (Part One)
Nubia – The Time is Right
Barbara Mason – Give me Your Love (Alkalino Edit)
Compilation of the month: BadBadNotGood presents Late Night Tales
The Chosen Few – People Make The World Go Round
Zara McFarlane – Fussin and Fightin
Resonators – Right Time (Ash Walker Vocal Remix)
Nicole Mitchell / Black Earth Ensemble – Peaceful Village Town
Dwight Trible – What the World Needs Now is Love
Compilation of the month: BadBadNotGood presents Late Night Tales
Grady Tate – And I Love Her
Quincy Jones Big Band – Caravan
Yaz Ahmed – Bloom
Mr Jukes – Angels / Your Love
Jaysole- Save Your Sole
Jordan Rakei – Sorceress (Photay Remix)
The Revenge – Every Night
XOA – Mon Ecole (Glenn Astro Remix)
Gee-O – Amazon Wave
Sudan Archives – Come Meh Way

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Dom Servini – Unherd Radio Show #4 on Soho Radio

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The Diabolical Liberties – East of the Dub Canal feat. General Rubbish (White)
Jordan Rakei – Sorceress (Ninja Tune)
Dexter – Bells of Lorenz (Money$ex)
Osage – Guanguan Riddim (Bastard Jazz)
Michael The Lion – Get it on feat. Amy Douglas (Bosq Remix) (Soul Clap)
Kiki Gyan – 24 Hours in a Disco (Soundway)
Sabrina Malheiros – Clareia (Far Out)
Same Speed – Samba Operator (Same Speed Edits)
Phase 7 – So Good to be in Love (Aloha Got Soul)
Domenico di Vito – Spensieratamente (Fly By Night Music)
Keith Florence & the Associates – Future (Florence)
Michael Gregory Jackson – Risin’ Up (Alex Attias Edit) (Lilly Good Party)
Black Peaches – Tight Squeeze (Free DL)
Biosis Now – Independent Bahamas (Bahamas Nationhood Ltd)
Soulful Dynamics – Jungle People (Lee Douglas Edit) (My Rules)
Merry Clayton – Sparrow Love (Scrimshire Edit) (Dubplate)
Hoffy – Makei Klap (Forgot)
Marcel Lune – Disco Mantra (Local Talk)
Marcel Lune – Mr Strings (Pusic Records)
YGT – UWTB (Jazz Cabbage)
Hector Plimmer – Bossa B (Deoke Remix) (Albert’s Favourites)
Ellen O – Uneven (Babygrande)
Hunrosa – All (Wah Wah 45s)
Ash Walker – Bush Weed (White)
Diggs Duke – Gravity (Bandcamp)
Eamon – Before I Die (Huey Ave Music)
Profusion – Time’s Up (First Word Records)

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Opaque Poetics festival review – beautiful beats in Silicon Fen

Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire
The African electronic music collective NON Records take over the countryside with lineup of truly global sounds

Wysing Arts Centre is located deep in Cambridgeshire’s Silicon Fen, a landscape of science parks and tech incubators, a place where microprocessors and bluetooth sets issue from isolated country barns. But for 12 hours on Saturday, this corner of the fen was sending out high-tech emissions of a very different kind, as Wysing Arts Centre became a satellite of NON, an artist-run record label turned global collective of artists.

Last year’s Wysing music festival enforced one rule: no electricity. This year, however, everything is electric. From the throbbing digital scree that opened London-based producer Venus Ex Machina’s set to the woozy north African vocal samples used by Milan’s Petit Singe, no sound came unmediated, unamplified or unprocessed.

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by Robert Barry via Electronic music | The Guardian

LCD Soundsystem: American Dream review – sombre but satisfying

(DFA/Columbia)
The spectre of mortality stalks LCD’s comeback album but mainman James Murphy seizes the day in style

LCD Soundsystem had rarely put a foot wrong before they announced a huge farewell in 2011 – and then reformed, with what many felt was indecent haste, in 2015. But LCD main man James Murphy had a good excuse for bringing back the band: his idol, David Bowie, thought he should. (If you took Bowie’s passing badly, just imagine how Murphy must have felt, with his three albums riddled with Bowie tributes, and a dream-come-true contributor credit on Blackstar.)

On this evidence, Bowie was not wrong. Tonite – released ahead of the album – is as succulent an iteration of LCD’s core squelch as fans could wish for. Accompanied by guitarist Al Doyle (Hot Chip), Murphy sets up a motorik disco groove mighty enough to carry the weight of Murphy’s pin-sharp musings on death and music.

Related: LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy: ‘I was a joke. My wife said I was going to die’

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by Kitty Empire via Electronic music | The Guardian

Mary Epworth: Elytral review – electronica unbound

(Sunday Best)

Daunted by writing the follow-up to her feted 2012 psych-pop debut Dream Life, Mary Epworth (sister to producer Paul) decided to set herself free to play without limits. The result is starkly different, a more austere, violent electronic soundworld, opening with the dark, low-synth arpeggios of Gone Rogue, punctuated by outbursts of raw sax. Beyond the poppy bounce of Stereolab-ish lead single Me Swimming and the romping, krautrocky pulse of Burned It Down, Elytral lacks the sort of direction or structure that linger in the mind, but has a delightful exploratory freedom, as seen in the sweet, warm analogue ambience of Surprise Yourself: “No judgment, no fear”.

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by Emily Mackay via Electronic music | The Guardian

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