Wah Wah Radio – End of Year Special

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Paper Tiger – Here We Go

Honeyfeet – Sinner (Envee Remix)

The Expansions – Breakthrough (7″ Version)

Hector Plimmer – Sunshine

Hunrosa – All (Jonny Drop Remix)

Children of Zeus – Tonight

Legacy – Monday Blues

Hello Skinny – Watermelon Sun

Jordan Rakei – Sorceress (Photay Remix)

Daphni – Face to Face

Chaka Khan – Some Love (Scrimshire Edit)

Blood, Wine or Honey – Loosefoot

Dusty & Sam Irl – Pick Up The Pieces

Prequel – Lefty

Soothsayers – Blinded Souls (Titeknots Remix)

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18 for ’18: the talent and trends tipped for the top in 2018

From girls with attitude on screen to new grime debuts, from Steve McQueen’s return to Tacita Dean’s London takeover, Observer writers on what to look forward to in the coming year

Something special is happening in UK publishing. After the success of The Good Immigrant (edited by Nikesh Shukla) and titles like Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, there has been a renewed push to rectify the problems of an industry that has too long ignored narratives outside the white experience. Out of the thousands of titles published in 2016, a Bookseller study found that fewer than 100 books were published by non-white Brits.

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Dom Servini – Netil Radio Show #1

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Children Of Zeus – This Christmas

Gil Scott-Heron – Winter in America

Charlotte dos Santos – Good Sign

Hamid El Shaeri – Ayonha

King Errissen – Space Queen

Shirley Caesar – Heavenly Father

Ike Strong – Boogie Land

Material – I’m The One

Soothsayers – Dis & Dat (Steve Cobby Remix)

Veronique Sanson – Bernard’s Song (Young Pulse Edit)

The Expansions – Breakthrough (7″ Version)

Run Child Run – Can’t Catch Me

Honeyfeet – Sinner (Envee Remix)

Kutiman – Too Late feat. Princess Shaw

Laraaji – All of A Sudden

Freiheit – Keeping the Dream Alive

Sam Irl & Dusty – Pick Up the Pieces

Jon Dixon – Fly Free (John Collins Edit)

Tee Mango – Tryin Times

Steve Spacek – Ring Di Alarm

Nosaj Thing – U Got

Penya – Why So Angry? feat. Dasiho

Som 3 – Jungle

Brute Force Steel Band of Antigua – Jingle Bells (Nirobi Edit)

Gay Flamingos – Black Man Wants to Cry

Made in NY – God’s Spirit (edit)

Legacy – Monday Blues

Darkhouse Family – Modaji Suite

The Superimposers – Chasing Christmas

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Observer readers' hidden musical gems of 2017

Last week, Observer music critics nominated their hidden gems of 2017 – the albums that didn’t get the coverage they deserved. Now it’s the readers’ turn…

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Myra Davies: Sirens review – witty spoken-word skewering of violence, patriarchy and modern music

(Moabit)

Backed by smart techno-pop production by Beate Bartel and Gudrun Gut, Canadian spoken-word artist Myra Davies delivers a supremely droll series of observations. Some are close portraits with the vibrancy of a Manet or Degas – on Golddress, she frets about a girl on the cusp of womanhood (“I’m aching to take her picture / it’s nothing compared with what the world will do”), while Inshallah is a funny meet-cute at Istanbul airport. Elsewhere there is a brilliantly pithy three-part retelling of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung (“Girl and a guy on a dopamine high …”) and a cool evisceration of John Cage and his acolytes, highlighting their snobbery while lampooning their methods (“If something is boring for two minutes, try it for four / if still boring, then eight”). As she looks at our sexist, violent culture from her panopticon, Davies is omnipotent, and drily jaded. But crucially – as on Noutiné, a stark lament about a father walking free from the killing of his daughter – not aloof.

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by Ben Beaumont-Thomas via Electronic music | The Guardian

Powerdance: The Lost Art of Getting Down review – love is the message

The collective celebrate disco and post-punk from an age before tedious dancefloor Instagrams – but their bass-heavy toughness means they never become retro

In spring this year, dance music collective Powerdance released their third single, A Safe and Happy Place. It came accompanied by a video shot at the Bethnal Green strip club that hosts Savage, an LGBT+ club night “combining disco music with an army of pole-dancing drag queens” at which Luke Solomon – the core of Powerdance, alongside Chicago-born, German-based producer Nick Maurer – is among the resident DJs. The video features the club’s regulars turning themselves into androgynous creatures of the night, a riot of stiletto heels, leather, sequins, thongs, gold teeth grills and, perhaps more unexpectedly, Jacobean ruffs. The images fit perfectly with the track. Its soft, understated sound, occupying an area somewhere between disco and early Chicago house, seems to capture a sense of anticipation about the coming night; its lyrics hymn clubs as a place of transformation and abandon, where the outside world is barred: “Don’t be afraid to let it go … unless it’s love nobody cares … disco has made this place for us.”

It’s a theme that’s been taken up in countless tracks aimed at dancefloors over the last 50 years, but, as with the music it’s set to, A Safe and Happy Place presents it with what you might term a modern twist. The ideal dancefloor, suggest the lyrics, is a place where “nobody stares”, a line that seems to gently suggest that that you can’t really escape into unselfconscious abandon if there’s someone nearby with their phone out, snapping away and posting the results on social media, searching for likes; that it’s hard to shut out the outside world if people insist on bringing the outside world with them in their pockets.

Related: Run the code: is algorave the future of dance music?

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by Alexis Petridis via Electronic music | The Guardian

XLR8R News and Features: Podcast 521: DJ Gregory

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• Podcast 521: DJ Gregory
• Davy to Make Production Debut with 'The Long Now' EP
• CRSSD Festival Announces 2018 Spring Edition Lineup
• Sade 'Couldn't Love You More' (Lauren Lo Sung Remix)
• Murcof x Wagner 'Avril 14th' (Aphex Twin) [Loscil Remix]

Podcast 521: DJ Gregory Posted: 19 Dec 2017 03:06 PM PST Many readers of XLR8R may not be too familiar with Grégory Darsa's DJ Gregory moniker. Although Darsa was one of the first proponents of house music in France, with one of the most storied resumes in the game—to give you an idea, he's collaborated with DJ Deep, Alex From Tokyo, Julien Jabre, and Bob Sinclair, among many others—in […]

RAPPAMELO | René Schier – Seeds | Musique Non Stop

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Dom Servini at The Hop Yard on 24/12

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• Artist:
  Dom Servini
• Date:
  25/12/17
• Time:
  7:00pm
• Venue:
  Hop Yard (Sussex)
• City:
  Sussex
• Address:
  Hartfield Road, Forest Row
• Venue phone:
  01342 824272
• Country:
  United Kingdom
• Age restrictions:
  No Minors
• Notes:
  The Hop Yard – Dom Servini DJ Set
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The Prodigy review – teeth rattled in dystopian breakbeat pantomime

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Twenty years on from their multimillion-selling album The Fat of the Land, the Prodigy refuse to get nostalgic, nor reduce the energy levels below total pandemonium

In an era when memories can be monetised, most bands – active or otherwise – might hungrily eye the 20th anniversary of their most successful album as an opportunity to mount a special tour to shore up their legacy and top up their Isas. Not so the Prodigy, Liam Howlett’s tetchy but tireless road warriors.

As Britpop shrivelled, their third album, 1997’s The Fat of the Land, took Howlett’s uncouth youthquake of evil techno and hot-wired breakbeats to the world; an astonishingly successful incursion into the US arguably laid the groundwork for the recent EDM explosion. Two decades on, you could forgive these Essex boys a backward-looking victory lap to fatten the brand.

Related: The Prodigy: 'we should be as important as Oasis or Blur'

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by Graeme Virtue via Electronic music | The Guardian

Dom Servini – Unherd Radio Show #10 on Soho Radio

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Prequel – Freedom

Lightmen – Talk Visit

Album of the Month: Charlotte dos Santos – Cleo

Charlotte dos Santos – It’s Over Bobby

Daniel Casimir – Really for Always

Yazmin Lacey – Still (Alex Patchwork’s 2-Step Dub)

Tee Mango – Tryin Times

Osage – Anyway feat. Yemi

Garden City Movement – Slightly All The Time

Darkhouse Family – Modaji Suite

Khaled Kurbeh & Rahman Khalef Ensemble – Shamal

Run Child Run – Can’t Catch Me

Album of the Month: Charlotte dos Santos – Cleo

Charlotte dos Santos – Cleo

TT Edit – God’s Spirit

Brief Encounter – What About Love?

EKO – Bowa’a Mba Ngebe

Collocutor – Agama (Contours Remix)

My Mate – Love You So

Renegades of Jazz – Prison Island (Jonny Drop Remix)

Amadou Balake – Bar Konon Mousso (Musicien C’est Pas Quelou’un) (Ben Gomori N’est Pas Musicien Edit)

J.Morrison – Tunnel Vision feat. Jack Baldus

Moses Boyd – The Balance

Fulgeance & VECT – Gifted

Crackazat – Coffee Time

Chip Wickham – Rebel No.23

JRBB – The Euclidean Trip Through Paintings

Michael Sardaby – Welcome New Warmth

Album of the Month: Charlotte dos Santos – Cleo

Charlotte dos Santos – Watching You

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Tom Rogerson With Brian Eno: Finding Shore review – improvisation in the right key

(Dead Oceans)

Three Trapped Tigers frontman Tom Rogerson plays piano and submits himself to Eno’s improvisational techniques on his debut solo album. In a very Enoesque way, a chance meeting outside a toilet led to the producer training infrared beams on the pianist’s keys and improvising around signals created when the beams were broken. The results are easy enough to digest, even if the process isn’t, with just enough repetition and structure to prevent attention drift. Most of the pieces forgo any sort of rhythm, although the baleful ambience of March Away’s percussion is so good that it’s a shame the pair didn’t pursue it.

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by Damien Morris via Electronic music | The Guardian

Kitty Empire’s best pop of 2017

From Jay-Z to Taylor Swift, it’s been a year of high political and personal drama in the worlds of rap, pop and rock

• Observer critics’ reviews of the year in full

With a couple of weeks to go until the new year, a number of significant records still teeter on the edge of an unannounced drop in 2017. Rihanna, for one, loves a fourth-quarter release; and Frank Ocean has hinted tantalisingly that he did make his promised five albums before he turned 30 at the end of October – he just hasn’t released one of them.

But the past 11 and a bit months have already seen more than enough melodrama: heartache and soap operatics, lawsuits and moral victories, and everywhere a political climate that was impossible to outrun. There were albums that engaged explicitly, from Hurray for the Riff Raff’s The Navigator to Joey Bada$$’s All-Amerikkkan Bada$$.

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by Kitty Empire via Electronic music | The Guardian

Simon Says at The Jazz Cafe on 01/03

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• Artist:
  Wah Wah 45s
• Date:
  01/03/17
• Time:
  7:00pm
• Venue:
  Hop Yard (Sussex)
• City:
  Sussex
• Address:
  Hartfield Road, Forest Row
• Venue phone:
  01342 824272
• Country:
  United Kingdom
• Admission:
  £10
• Age restrictions:
  No Minors
• More information
• Notes:
  Simon Says – Charity Night for The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation
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Scrimshire at The Hop Yard on 31/12

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• Artist:
  Scrimshire
• Date:
  31/12/17
• Time:
  5:00pm
• Venue:
  Hop Yard (Sussex)
• City:
  Sussex
• Address:
  Hartfield Road, Forest Row
• Venue phone:
  01342 824272
• Country:
  United Kingdom
• Admission:
  £25
• Age restrictions:
  No Minors
• Buy Tickets
• More information
• Notes:
  Hop Yard – Scrimshire DJ Set
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From bush doof to clowncore: your favourite underground music scenes

In the final instalment of our underground music series, readers share the scenes that inspire them – whether it’s radical brass bands, queer punk or doom-metal Mormons in Salt Lake City

At the outset of this series on underground music, we asked you for your suggestions of where to find it today – and nearly 800 of you responded. In this final chapter, we cover some of the most exciting scenes you uncovered across the globe, from Dartmoor to Slovakia, Queens and Luton. Thanks to everyone who took part, and who contributed to the series as a whole.

Think like an entrepreneur

Related: Where is the musical underground in 2017?

Related: Run the code: is algorave the future of dance music?

Related: 'There are a lot of weird people around here': how the north stayed underground

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The sound of mega orgasms: the female composers taking music into intimate places

A soundtrack to an erotic feminist film, the crunch of crisps in your own mouth, a composition for ‘strap-on and electric guitar’ … meet the women who are making music and telling stories on their own terms

In the early 1990s, the accordionist and musical improviser Pauline Oliveros wrote the soundtrack for a feminist porn film called The Sluts and Goddesses Video Workshop. The film is presented and co-directed by Annie Sprinkle, a sex worker turned academic whose lecture covers everything from deep breathing and vaginal bling to STD prevention and “mega orgasms”. Along the way, we get a spectacular sonic counterpart of drones, glitches, bleeps, twangs and pulsations.

Conventional porn music this is not: no sultry saxophones, no oily bass guitars. Instead, Oliveros made sounds that are fun, tactile and inquisitive. If Sprinkle’s mission was to confront industry standards of what erotic looks like, freeing viewers to define their own tastes, Oliveros reminded us that the power to decide what music means should ultimately belong to the listener.

The librettist, the composer, the director are all men … Why aren't women allowed to write their own stories?

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by Kate Molleson via Electronic music | The Guardian

DOM SERVINI’S ALLO LOVE CHART :: DECEMBER 2017

1. Joe – Tail Lift (Hessle Audio 12)
2. Pugs Atomz & Mulatto Patriot – Come With Me feat. Wes Restless (Dinked 7)
3. Prequel – Lefty (Local Talk 12)
4. Run Child Run – Can’t Catch Me (JLM Promo DL)
5. Various – Versus II (On The Corner 12)
6. Charlotte Dos Santos – Cleo (Fresh Selects DL)
7. Darkhouse Family – The Offering (First Word LP)
8. Tee Mango – Tryin Times (Local Talk Test 12)
9. The Diabolical Liberties – All Out for Love (DL 12)
10. Siassa et Tokobina – Mama Africa (Nouvelle Ambiance 12)

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Dom Servini at The Jazz Cafe on 16/02

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• Artist:
  Dom Servini
• Date:
  16/02/17
• Time:
  10:30pm
• Venue:
  The Jazz Cafe
• City:
  London
• Address:
  5, Parkway, Camden Town, London, NW1 7PG
• Venue phone:
  +44 20 7485 6834
• Country:
  United Kingdom
• Admission:
  £5-£10
• Age restrictions:
  No Minors
• More information
• Notes:
  Night Thing – Dom Servini DJ Set
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Dom Servini – Unherd Soul #3 on MiSoul Connoisseurs

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Pt1

Intro

Daniel Crawford – For Da Love of Da Magnificent

The Lyman Woodward Organisation – Creative Musicians

Betty Adams – Make it Real

The Emperor – Tough Times (Things Getting Tough)

Space Captain – Blue

C.O.W. – White

Amp Fiddler – Return of the Ghetto Fly feat. J Dilla

Sunny & the Sunliners – Open Up Your Love Door

Annette Peacock – Too Much in the Skies (Ole Smokey’s Inst Reprise)

Pt2

The Diabolical Liberties – Tuesday Evening

Jono McCleery – Ingenue (edit)

Manu Delago – A Step (Albin Janoska Remix)

Daev Martian – Blue Tick Tricks

Darkhouse Family – Just So You Know feat. Vanity Jay

Visioneers – The World is Yours

LEX718 – Reinforced

The Flying Stars of Brooklyn, New York – My God Has a Telephone

Pt3

Intro

Gizelle Smith – Sweet Memories (Radio edit)

Stark Reality – Say Brother

Dennis Farnon – Lady Killers

Caston & Majors – I’ll Leave a Light in my Window

Matthew Larkin Cassell – Heaven

Ocho – Undress My Mind

Modern Manners – Running With Me

Pt4

Minnie Ripperton – Here We Go

Benita – Time For a Change

Flapjack – Hawthorne Blvd

Jackie Moore – This Time Baby (M+M Mix)

Archie James Cavanaugh – Take It Easy

Daev Martian – Whaturrrp

Silver Jubilees – You Don’t Know

Hodges, James & Smith – Can’t Hide Love

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Soothsayers at The Portico Gallery on 31/12

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• Artist:
  Soothsayers
• Date:
  31/12/17
• Time:
  9:00pm
• Venue:
  Portico Gallery
• City:
  London
• Address:
  23B Knight’s Hill
• Country:
  United Kingdom
• Admission:
  £20
• Age restrictions:
  No Minors
• Buy Tickets
• Notes:
  Soothsayers LIVE at the Portico Gallery on New Years Eve!
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Soothsayers at The Jazz Cafe on 09/02

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• Artist:
  Soothsayers
• Date:
  09/02/17
• Time:
  7:00pm
• Venue:
  The Jazz Cafe
• City:
  London
• Address:
  5, Parkway, Camden Town, London, NW1 7PG
• Venue phone:
  +44 20 7485 6834
• Country:
  United Kingdom
• Admission:
  £10-£15
• Age restrictions:
  No Minors
• Notes:
  Soothsayers LIVE at the Jazz Cafe, London
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Honeyfeet at The Marshall Rooms on 08/12

Details

• Artist:
  Honeyfeet
• Date:
  08/12/17
• Time:
  8:00pm
• Venue:
  The Marshall Rooms
• City:
  Stroud
• Address:
  27A Nelson Street
• Country:
  United Kingdom
• Admission:
  £8-£10
• Age restrictions:
  No Minors
• Buy Tickets
• Notes:
  Honeyfeet LIVE at The Marshall Rooms, Stroud
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Honeyfeet at The Attic on 14/12

Details

• Artist:
  Honeyfeet
• Date:
  14/12/17
• Time:
  8:00pm
• Venue:
  The Attic
• City:
  Bristol
• Country:
  United Kingdom
• Admission:
  £8
• Age restrictions:
  No Minors
• More information
• Notes:
  Honeyfeet LIVE at The Attic Bar, Bristol
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The best albums of 2017: 50-41

We start our countdown of this year’s most outstanding sounds with slacker duets, African fusions and mournful brilliance. Tune in tomorrow for another reveal

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The top 100 tracks of 2017

In the year the album’s power eroded, we collate the 100 best songs of 2017 as voted for by Guardian critics – and put them in a giant playlist

Many listeners are still in love with the album: a piece of work that allows a musician to fully sketch out their current worldview. And we’ll be counting down our favourite 50 albums of the year over the next three weeks.

But many listeners have made a decisive shift away from albums and towards playlists on streaming services – often curated by Spotify or Apple themselves. We explored the phenomenon here – as well as how albums are mutating in response – and started our own monthly playlist.

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by Ben Beaumont-Thomas via Electronic music | The Guardian