Mix Tape Action

Hello all. Yes it is true, I am slowly fading into nothingness, my blogging potential is being drained from my very being by outside forces. New music has been coming to me drip fed, with a backup of must buys sitting in my little black book, but Winter is coming and dark nights staring through condensation filled bus windows always makes for perfect musical listening experiences, so hopefully things will pick up.

In the meantime I have crafted this gift for you all. It is badly wrapped in my messy, hurried and uncaring mixing skills, but once you open the present you will find it rammed full of precious jewels, items of dark wonder and glowing potions for the soul.
Go ahead. Open it. And should you wish to make it portable, which I would highly recommend, you can do so by clicking here.

And now, while you either click on another page or listen and read, I shall witter on brimming with witless gorm about the tracks I have chosen. Well Basically its because they are what I have been listening to on and off over the last wee while.

1. Fabrizio Paterlini – The Stars That Fell Over That Night
Something still and beautiful from the master of evocative piano. Fabrizio’s music has been a real inspiration to me this year and recently, while I suffer the new music drought, he has been providing me the soundtrack to my days with his free downloadable Autumn Stories, which I suggest you fire over to his website and check out immediately.
2. Caught in the Wake Forever – Fragments Turn to Dust
I was always wondering why countries like Iceland could knock out music that clung to my headspace by the ton, yet there was nothing happening here in my back garden. The answer is really just because I wasnt looking hard enough. This is bus-window simplicity in all its joy, from a wee record label in Edinburgh, Mini 50 which I would again suggest you check out.
3. Bon Iver – Holocene
Aye, bit dissapointed in the old Bon Iver album after tumbling over myself through the love/hate/dispair cycle of the first on a great many occasions. It was all going ok until the U2ness kicked in, then I lost the will to adopt it into my heart. However, Holocene is fantastic, and shows that still as a writer, he is a great talent.
4. Chris Tenz – Another Glass
Another Mini50 artiste and a cracking track. Its flow, going from frantic and engaging, seamlessly through to ambient and adding mental colour to your surroundings, is a work of extreme craftsmanship, one to be commended and has had a spot in my ears for many a month.
5. Jonsi & Alex – Happiness (Irrelevant Mix)
Yes, still going on about Jonsi and Alex after all this time. Still deeply in love with the original, but this Irrelevant Mix adds a beat so subteranean that it blends incredibly well with the original tune. A combination of moods which works very well.
6. Dustin O’Halloran – We Move Lightly (Pataphysical Mix)
Again, a wonderful track to start off with, but there is something nice and spacey about the remix. Strangely, the first song that my new child ever heard (another reason for the long hiatus in posting) as it started playing in my pocket in the hospital by accident. For this it will aye have a place in my heart, but romanticism aside, it adds a sort of bleak sadness to this powerful track.
7. M.J Cole – Be Sincere (Nero Mix)
A classic track and no mistake. Remixed by a bunch of chart topping goons who are adding to the pile of generic facelessness that is sadly the Prodigy’s leagacy. However, they done a good job on this and when the bass comes in, you know all about it.
8. Rival Consoles – I Left the Party
Wrote about it before, deserves another mention. Though its roots may be in another track, it still excels and shines as a work of emotive electronica loveliness. Again, the album review has been lost in the mire of my life, but suffice to say I enjoyed it thoroughly.
9. French Tragedies in Color – Ganik
God knows where I found this, but I am very glad to have done so. A lot of free downloads on Soundcloud and this is the pick of the bunch. Makes me think of vintage colours and lens flares. Makes me think of Manitoba (not the place, the Caribou before Caribou business) and for someone who just fires up the occasional tune it is a lovely bit of kit.
10. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – Household Goods
Aye, well. I just love it. I dont know how you couldnt. Full of mad energy, great use of space vs someone hoovering your brain and a narrative with enough vagueness to make it fit in with any form of self induced melodrama. Love it.

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I wrote all that gubbins in September. Meant to flesh it out more and click publish, but I never did until today. I do have more plans for writing, but I have said such before and it has not come to pass. we shall see!

Clive Onion Flies Low Cost Airwaves

How. Again, my faltering writing skills have been lost in the jungle of obsequiousness, dominated by my desire to do other things, which include nothing, amongst others. Showing solidarity for many other sufferers of the current tyranny of Britain, it has come to pass that my album funding has dried up in the last couple of months and I am now surviving on basic rations, I am a musical beggar, but what joy it is bringing. I have been surviving on the drip feed from soundcloud and mixcloud, happy that the internet can provide for those who must have music.

Rather than the usual album review type nonsense, I have plucked my favourite listenings from the mighty Soundcloud and present them here for your delight, with a few of my oh so choice words scrawled digitally below. I hope that this enables you to tune in, do some ‘favouriting’ and helping to make Soundcloud what My_ could only dream of being.

First Up

ENGINEERS WHAT PUSHED US TOGETHER RICARDO TOBAR MIX

It has been a while since I heard anything from Ricardo Tobar so it was a pleasant day when I reacquainted myself with his emotive Chilean electronica. The swooshing, dizzy haze of this remix took to my brain instantly and I wait with eagerness swimming in my belly with what he hits out with next. For more info on Senor Tobar, see earlier posts and get your hands on some of his e.p’s.

A Winged Victory For The Sullen – Steep Hills Of Vicodin Tears

A magical combination. Dustin O’Halloran collaborating with Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie from Stars of the Lid. My love of O’Halloran can be found here, but Stars of the Lid provided me with a couple of magical winter moments this year. I lay in deep snow, away from everything and let my mind wander into ..and Their Refinement of the Decline. It was probably the most meditative I have been in my life and it looks like A Winged Victory for the Sullen may provide similar.

Adding the compositional genius of O’Halloran to this style provides a work of pristine, fragile art. Defragmentation of the brain as provided by music.

– old unfinished untitled track – electrolyte

Again, with the theme developing that this is me revisiting past loves, comes this thrownaway unfinished track from Electrolyte. The passing of Duo Infernale was a massive loss to my drum n bass intake and hooking up with Electrolyte, one half of the duo, began to fill a gap. I think they might be back making music together though, so we shall see what time brings to the table.

This track is a subtle, low down affair, with a bass that slowly pours into you. The sway of the beat is massively evocative and for an unfinished track is a sublime affair indeed.

Efterklang – Raincoats (Trentemøller Remix)

The story for several, quite mental, films revolve around my mind when this tune is making itself known to my ears. Such a beautiful pulsating drive to the remix of a song which I already have had the pleasure of mainlining. Trentemøller’s album had not been complete enough for me to witter about on these pages, but there were moments of incredible mood altering music on there. Efterklang’s last two albums were two of my favourite albums of all time, so a pretty good combination for me. Check more words on Efterklang here.

– Nils Familiar teaser.

Nils Frahm. Wrote loads about him in the last couple of years and justly so. A phenomenal talent and with these two teasers from his forthcoming album, he has pushed himself into a microscopic dimension filled with motes of dust. These tracks are beautiful and particularly Familiar, which I am pretty much addicted to at the moment. I am trying not to listen and wait for the full album, but alas I cannot. The ambience he has added to the tracks filling them full of the minutiae of life that his work so handsomely reflects.

– Hiatus and Shura: River

Shura was brought to my attention by Hiatus a good few months ago and then shazam, suddenly they are a musical item. I gone done a video for the original version of this song, such is my love for it, but the mix adds light to what was a very earthy and subdued track. When the (insert potentially Iranian instrument) wanders in during the last third of the song, it lifts it to a place of pure joy. With an ep on the way and a tour to compliment it, watch the skies for this combination.

Enjoy these treasures mes amis and next I shall gift you with a wee mix, once I have figured out how such things work.

Codes in the Clouds – As The Spirit Wanes

And so to my next victims of poor wordsmithery. I have had a short mid-February break in order to get my flock in order and do some rough calculations, but here I am back with some more delayed reaction to recently released musical magic. Like last week ( I realise that last week was actually 3 weeks ago, but I prefer to live in a dream state where I am good at this) this is a follow up to something that I loved the first time round. Again trepidation came into play in a big way, but couldCodes in the Clouds top their wonderful debut album. Read on to find out. How exciting eh!

I reviewed Paper Canyon at some point last year and found it to my particular liking. Though I had heard similar styled music, there was a sort of clean determination and drive in their music that struck a particular chord with me. With no disrespect intended, what they did was quiet – long buildup – colossal ending, which I absolutely loved being that the release from the long, well constructed buildups was pure and affecting. So, I popped my silly big headphones on again, with much rubbing of the hands and eagerly expected the same business. And it wasn’t there. Disaster? No, not by a long shot.

As the Spirit Wanes is a complete developmental step from Paper Canyon. Gone are the ‘shoegaze’ elements from the music, it seems that Codes in the Clouds are now happily staring at the horizon, giving the feeling of a totally different side of life through their music. Though Paper Canyon wasn’t in your face angsty, there is little trace at all of angst in the new album, almost as if they are concept albums, with Paper Canyon being the difficult breakup and As the Spirit Wanes being the period after where life starts to reveal the beauty of opportunity. Being somewhat of a musical scientist, I have performed peak testing on the album and found that it is best listened to 3 hours either side of dawn, preferably in a quiet city centre or travelling to somewhere you long to be.

So, gone are the long popping candy buildups and instead comes in a pleasant beauty, a clean tranquil appreciative gaze. Though there are heavier moments, they are always perfectly tempered by elements from the quieter parts of the songs, always kept in check in the most thoughtful and thought provoking ways. It is light music, not like Chris Rea or anything, but there is space and light in it and it gives a great feeling of peace and gives the listener a feeling that they have more time on their hands, time to see to the things in life that we oft miss by rushing around like wombles after a street carnival.

So what is the genre? I don’t really think there is a pigeonhole for this one, which is rather nice. It is not rock, not chilled, not surf, though there are elements of each smoothly blended into the record. I suppose it is probably Post-Post-Rock, the natural progression to the fuzzy headfucks of the Post-Rock generation. The production on the record is fantastic, as if the music is playing in a back room in my brain that I never knew was there, its distance giving it an ethereal magic that bolsters the musical talent on display.

With all of this I have just realised that I never got my hands on their remix album, which is a result, so I am sure at some delayed point in the future there will be some words in it, as I am seemingly continually impressed with what the good gents at Codes in the Clouds are knocking out. Click on the picture above to go to buying place and explore your silent city in aural style.

clive onions massive easter mixtape

Hello all. With the coming of the Spring and the joy of the lightnights I bring you the Happy Easter mixtape. I have put on tunes from all the lovely people that I have reviewed over the last couple of months. I tell thee, tunes so dynamite that its worth peeling yourselves off the crucifix or rolling back the stone and getting yourself headphoned up. Just click on the attractive tape below to access the free playlist and have a listen while you fanny about on the internet. It’s all good.

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Omissions from the tape are the wonderful We’re Only Afraid of NYC, but when you can get their whole ep for free by clicking on THIS word, why bother being put on a mixtape. Fever Ray is the other omission, but again you can check her tunes on Myspace HERE and I would have put on Concrete Walls, just incase you have the remotest speck of interest.

April will be similarly rammed with musical delight, so keep eyes peeled, or just use them if peeling sounds too painful.

Pantha du Prince – Black Noise

This album is a lot to do with the reason for the gap in posting that has been knocking around for the last couple of weeks. I havent been able to see past Black Noise by Pantha du Prince, it has taken over my mp3 player and made its home inside my brain for nigh on a month. It has beckoned me with its guile and tempted me off the musical path and into its cavern of enchanting delight.

The tag line for Pantha du Prince seems to be minimalist techno, which, as most tag lines go, does a great disservice to the record. Black Noise strays further and deeper than any other minimalist techno I have ever stumbled across. It is more like the sound of a genius running amok in a bell shop, flicking his long fingers at every kind of non-drum based percussion that he can seek out. This is a subtly beautiful record and one which deserves to be played to death, as although it is good on the first listen, the more it soaks into your being, the more amazing it becomes. Though the music is subtle and breathy, its pace carries it though and it still has the trademark buildups and breakdowns of techno, but they are crafted in a way that I have never encountered before. The hands in the air moment of the vocal breakdown in Stick to My Side or the deep chime that kicks in on Satellite Snyper are guaranteed to raise at least a smile, if not some embarrassing spasm of random dancing while waiting for the bus.

The album starts of with ambient layers building upon each other until they transform into a syncopated honey that dances round the fringes of your consciousness. It then takes a turn for the dark side about half way through and becomes more challenging, thought-provoking and with the last two tracks you are absorbed completely, the power of them drowning out the need to think, the music becoming an intergral part of your being.

The album works so incredibly well as an album that I am not sure how each individual track would work on their own. There is something special about the way it runs, a symbiosis with your brain that enables it to become more of an experience than an album. I love it when music clicks with your surroundings and you feel like your life is being soundtracked and Black Noise made for the perfect accompaniment to my arrival in Amsterdam late, alone and disorientated at the start of the month. The confusion and hordes of people, the darkness and the greeny lighting of the airport and rail station all seemed to be tailor made to the first few tracks. Like so many great albums, Black Noise slows the pace of life for you, lets your brain take a step back and take a thorough look at what is around you.

There is a lot of great minimalist techno coming out of Germany at the moment, but none that I have heard have the emotional thrust or the layered sophistication of Black Noise. Enamoured though I have always been by Fourtet, I think Mr Du Prince has pipped him to my favourite album of the year so far. Get it on your headphones people, it will change your view.

Late of the Pier – Best in Class/Blueberry

I know this has been on the go for some weeks and whatnot, but I only just clocked it on the radio about a week ago and I have been on various adventures since, with this always at the back of my head. I refer, of course to the acid jelly snake that is Best in Class/Blueberry by Late of the Pier

When Fantasy Black Channel came out, I was in. An album that was rife with beefcake electro and rock monsterism that I could not help but fall in love with it. My recommendations to friends fell on deaf ears, but I wager they will be telling me all about them in a couple of months. In my infinite wisdom I have both placed a fiver on said album winning the Mercury Prize and partaken in some particularly fierce hotel bedroom dancing to the strains of it. At least one bore fruit. The other one, well Speech Debelle, nuff said.

The new material is a step from a precipitous ledge. You wake up one day, get washed and dressed, step outside and the world is not the same as it was when you went to bed. Basically, Late of the Pier have ramped up the madness on what was already an intensely insane music style, pushed what they do so well into another zone and have done an incredible job by doing so.

With Best in Class there is already the call for the song that will pull your socks up and wash your face for you. As soon as it comes on, there is a sway that breeds the desire to do something, get yourself in order and go do. It is totally on the one, the funk understatedly apparent and with the crazy retro future synth sound making salad drier rotations through your skull, the tune is an upbeat, happy go funk mince through the blue park. Then, just to finish it off comes sonic Armageddon as if the good time has to end somewhere.

Blueberry is stranger still. Starting off with the churning chaos that Late of the Pier love to produce, suddenly it all drops away to a Beatlesesque driving melody and then slowly builds itself back up to the madness before teasing and falling short once again. No need to panic as a swooshing dark 80s section takes over where the Beatles once were. Perhaps saying that the song roadtrips through musical history is a bit rich, but it certainly does a good overview and builds to the final climax that is so wonkily fucked up it feels like you are falling through your own ears.

Good to see them come back strong and I look forward to the new album and pray to the sweet baby Jingo that they get themselves on tour tout suite. Go get single. I promise you will not regret it.

We’re Only Afraid of NYC – zero.two

Everyone loves a freebie. Everyone loves the future, apart from John Conner and all that mob. Well you will all be pleased to hear that THE FUTURE IS FREE. Sounds like a pretty sweeping statement, but I refer of course to the quite magical Zero.Two ep from Glasgow based We’re Only Afraid of NYC

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If you click on the magic picture above you can download the generous gift of freedom that the band are giving out and I very much suggest that you do.

An unsigned band from Glasgow that have been putting in a couple of appearances on the unjustly doomed 6music and justly so. The ep is something fresh, though the sound may be familiar there is enough clarity of thought behind it to make it exciting. This coupled with the music being force-fed enough pop ethic make it highly addictive and enduringly pleasurable makes it something that you look forward to as soon as you get the chance to stick on the headphones.

They are from the loud quiet side of rock, but the pace carries throughout the quiet which adds to the whole melody driven aspect of the tunes. Though there is a pop mentality in there, the structure of the songs is far from standard. Verse, chorus is definitely involved, but parts will drop when you least expect it catching you off guard but never detracting from the pace or enjoyment of the song.

The vocal is honest believable and trustworthy and is backed by a well orchestrated stop/start guitar and compounded by a strong melodic bass and tight and choppy onslaught of drumming. There are glockenspiel and melodica (i think melodica anyway) floating in the background which adds some space and beauty to the headphone experience and build the structure and integrity of the whole sound of the ep.

My main thought about the band is the potential. While I am severely enjoying the ep, already I can’t wait for the future from them. This is a band well worth putting some effort into backing, I want to see what they can achieve with making music a full-time focus and with the backing of amazing production. So, though other new bands are available, I would throw your weight behind We’re Only Afraid of NYC, buy their tshirts or whatever they have to sell, send them a fiver in an envelope. Say thanks for the joy of freedom.

Codes in the Clouds – Paper Canyon

Bonjourno all. The last couple of weeks have seen Paper Canyon by Codes in the Clouds taking a short holiday in my ears and what a lovely holiday it has been.

Paper Canyon is the first album release from Codes in the Clouds and was out in the middle of last year, proving once again that Monsieur Onion is about as switched on as christmas lights in June. Post Rock, i hear you say. Another post rock album, another shoegazing escapade into the realms of one bands apathy. Is it? Well, to be quite honest, no. Paper Canyon is much more than this.

Apathy resides within, definitely, but it is the way that the album can guide the whole emotional range that is so impressive. Going from soul deep depression to walking on air accomplishment and ensuing joy, the album grabs your spectrum on a subconscious level. You find yourself head down, busy in your endevours until suddenly you are jolted into life, eyes wide open. Loaded with heartfelt crescendos of sonic hypnotism, you eventually begin to pray for the moment that the music ties in with real life, the massive buildup in your ears coinciding with the sun popping out from behind a cloud or some other such simple moment. When it does, music and life working together perfectly, there is little better feeling.

Codes in the Clouds are like GY!BE without all the shite bits that plagued their work. The 5 minutes of noiseless space in the middle of songs on Raise Your Skinny Fists is instead replaced with a masterful presentation of musicianship. The guitar work is flowing and flawless, cleanly picked notes over a sea of distortion like a perfect white picket fence in a field of tumultuous grass. The drumming is power and grace in equal measure and with subtle but heartfelt piano interspersed throughout the album it all comes together to make something more than well worth a listen.

With new material and a tour on the horizon as well as remixes from this album springing up, Codes in Clouds have another busy year ahead of them and I would recommend making it busier, by getting out there and getting your hands on their stuff.

Clive Onion Presents Week 5

Ah, the depths of January, cold grey light, finances in ruins, a time of deep joy. Fortunately the warm glow that begins with a small read at the ever glorious wonder blog of handsome shallot faced Clive Onion, will slowly spread throughout your body, warming you without you even having to utilise too many functions. The warmth will be exemplified by a thousandfold should you have a listen to the PLAYLIST OF THE GODS that has something from each of today’s contestants on it.

This week, due to the poverty of January there is only one album suggestion, a couple of amazing tunes with past albums to buy and future albums to look forward to and a massive ode to the passing of a longtime favourite. I am also going to stick a couple of links to some good free tunes at the end, just in case you are all in the financial dire straits that I am. So have a listen to the playlist and as ever click on the photos to link to somewhere to buy the music.

Ok, following the order of the PLAYLIST OF THE GODS First up I bring you the album which has accompanied me on my travels this week. It is Ashes Grammar by A Sunny Day in Glasgow

A Sunny Day in Glasgow are a dream laden, several piece band, predominantly from Philadelphia, but with some members in Sydney. Recently they were looking for a new singer and were not too bothered about geographic location, which is a good starting point for describing what the band are like. In short, I would say they are organised chaos watched through a Viewmaster. There is something so totally niche about their sound, yet it comes from so many different places, seeps into unused parts of your brain and causes a beatific riot.

Ashes Grammar is their second album, the first being the highly recommended Scribble Mural Comic Journal and it is definitely something you should get your hands on via the link above. There are about a thousand different styles and influences on the album, but the joy of it is that you will not really be able to pick out a single one. The infusion is so cleverly blended that nothing clearly stands out apart from flecks of influence from a drumbeat or a vocal.

The track I have put on the PLAYLIST OF THE GODS is a lovely track, but it is not really the point as far as Ashes Grammar goes. The album is a complete work and should really be listened to in that format in order to get the best from it. It is a complete experience, a sonic happening that at one moment sounds like the inside of an insane Japanese man’s head then subtly changes to be a smooth flow of energetic, tangible bubble mixture. Due to its uniqueness (see bizarreness) some people may find getting into it a little difficult, but I promise you that if you stick it on a few times in a few different locations or situations, that you will soon find something that it fits just perfectly. With a massive tour on the go, I would check their myspace for dates and go along to see exactly what this glorious patchwork of sound transforms into on a stage.

Next up I am going for Cold Summer from Seabear

This is a hauntingly beautiful tune from the Icelandic outfit whose second album We Built a Fire, is out in March. Seabear originally started off as a one man project, but with the seeming wealth of musical talent in Iceland it seems that this has been compounded into a 7 piece that adds layers of hand crafted perfection to the overall sound. Their previous album, The Ghost That Carried Us Away is a template of how to properly use a band of this size, with no ego’s (none apparent anyway) and with each musician contributing just enough to make the songs just perfect.

Cold Summer, which I am imagining will be on the new album, is a progression from that sound. Again, the production and the musicianship are supreme but the difference seems to stem from there being a load more heart put into this new song. It is both heartbreakingly sad and yet upliftingly beautiful at the same time. It seems smoother than their earlier stuff, not more polished as there is far too much of an organic sound to ever need polish. Probably just sanded very well. I loved The Ghost That Carried Us Away, it was last winter’s perfect listening and when March rocks up I am sure that I will be back on rabbiting about We Built a Fire.

And now for something mildly different. I remember clearly driving my mum’s massive car, giving my mate a lift back to his house when Alex Reece’s Feel the Sunshine came on the radio. Drum n Bass appeared in my life and did everything for me for a couple of years. Then it petered out and thankfully after a trip to Brasil I stumbled upon High Contrast, a bit of a weird place to find him being that he is from Wales, and this triggered a drum n bass revival in my life. Nothing could touch High Contrast until Duo Infernale came along and blew the genre wide open again.

I would strongly recommend purchasing the couple of tunes that Juno have left as there is to be no more on the Duo Infernale front. The tune on the PLAYLIST OF THE GODS is a neutered version of a classic tune, the full length you can find on youtube which is more than worth a listen. There is a definite headphone element to their music, not the full on, in your face, dancefloor jungle sound, but that intelligent drum n bass that can transport you and fits almost too perfectly into walking about a city at night. It seems that one half of Duo Infernale is due to release this month on Hospital Records under the name Electrolyte. Though details are sketchy, I hope to unearth some news about this shortly. In the meantime, delve into the past and give your ears a smooth roughing up.

Lastly today I am going to shoot for the tune that has been rattling around in my head all week. It is from the amazing and free, Erased Tapes Sampler II which has been getting good reviews all over the internet, including a small but charming mention from old Onion head last week. The tune is Helvetica by Rival Consoles

Though as yet temporarily unable to get their previous album due to cash strappage IO and missing the boat by about a year, being that Helvetica was released last February, I would strongly advise you to have a listen to this piece of aural witchcraft and let it destroy your senses for a couple of minutes. Rival Consoles is one man, Ryan Lee West and he seems to have all the quality elements of the great Ninja Tunes artistes, the quality of production, the intensity of ideas and the ability to break a song up, wonkify it a bit and still make it a dancefloor classic. Master of Electro Squelch intensity and beats that vary from the fat to the skittering, Rival Consoles live up to the label claims of being cinematic, but are a departure from the more classically influenced artists on their label.

Saying that, Helvetica starts with such a lovely piano riff that were it the first you had heard from them, you would be convinced that they had more in common with labelmate Nils Frahm. Then the beat kicks in. The beat convincingly kicks the piano into a different tempo before the bass arrives to tie the two together. The song progresses at an exquisitely manic pace until the breakdown arrives and this is when the love happens. A lull in the madness, a peaceful moment of well thought beauty that grabs you by the heart before throwing you back into an all the more gentle bout of insanity is what makes this song keep making me hit the repeat button. With a new album that is allegedly going to blow minds and speakers, definitely another one to look out for in 2010.

Ok, as promised there are a couple of good freebies to check out this week. A remix of Leilani by Hotels, mixed by Nite Club on the Hidden Shoal label is another wild piece of drum n bass cutup that is well worth downloading. Also the wonderful Dirty Projectors are handing out some new music at their site which is always worth a listen. Free things. Yum Yum.

Sayonara chiefs.