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Welsh producer who famously sounds a lot like James Blake but is clearly an extremely talented musician in his own right and so on and so forth, Ifan Dafydd has a new single out. To be fair, ‘Treehouse’ is a less obviously Blake-aping than ‘No Good’, Dafydd’s vinyl-only debut from last year: the way he treats the vocals is still only gonna remind you of one person, but he seems to be developing his own sound around them. He also, if the video for the track is anything to go by, has a penchant for pandas. You can watch it below.

Foostie, one half of Newham Generals with D Double E, released one of his most anthemic tracks yet earlier this year in the form of ‘One Spliff’ – a vocal of Sukh Knight’s 2008 remix of Zomby’s ‘Spliff Dub’. Taking the weed theme further, he’s now let out a free seven-track EP titled Zoot Break. Production comes from bassline’s DJ Pantha, Footsie and more.

Download: Footsie - Zoot Break EP

The soundtrack of the last week in the FACT office.

Spaceghostpurrp – God of Black
Horrid Red – Celestial Joy (Holidays)
Nick Nicely – Elegant Daze (Captured Tracks)
Twista – ‘Purple Swag freestyle’
Samoyed – ‘A Small Good Thing’ (GLUM)
Evy Jane – ‘Sayso’
Alex Under – La Maquine de Bolas (Soma)
Julia Holter – Ekstasis (RVNG INTL)
Camberwell Now – All’s Well
Human Teenager – Animal Husbandry (Spectrum Spools)
M.I.A. – ‘Bad Girls’
Project Pat & Nasty Mane – Belly on Full
ABBA – ‘Super Trouper’
Umami – Torti Girl
Gonjasufi – MU.ZZ.LE (Warp)

Jason Grove has been working at the peripheries of the Detroit techno scene since the late 1980s.

Despite building a local following as a DJ and producer, Grove refused to release his music through conventional channels. Instead, his records – pieced together using strictly analogue materials – were distributed by cassette to independent music stores in the locality. On February 20, French label Skylax Records – who have also chalked up releases from Mr Fingers and DJ Sprinkles – will release 313.4 Ever, a compilation of some of his most essential transmissions.

Grove’s cottage approach to distribution is reflected in the music. The tracks on display are warm, enveloping, emphatically human. Highlights include the boogie-jam ‘Leave It For Today’ and ‘The Path Of’, where a thick analogue lead is spotted with fragments of voices, like flies stuck in ointment.

The album is currently available to stream through Skylax’s Soundcloud [embedded below].

Following the announcement of Damon Albarn’s new album with Rocketjuice & The Moon, Graham Coxon has spoken out about the possibility of a new Blur album.

In an interview with the Daily Record, the reformed Britpop legends’ guitarist explained that “2009 was an amazing healing experience for us. We were really swept away with it and got a lot out of our systems. We realised how much we still had in common, that we are good friends, that we are brothers.”

“We’re always going to meet up and want to play things. We do like recording. Eventually, even if things aren’t around the corner, Blur will do more recordings together. We all love each other and still like making music so that’s not a bad start.”

We haven’t planned the rehearsals yet, but there will definitely be another Blur album.”

Oakland rap duo Main Attrakionz [above] guest on South London producer Jam City’s next Night Slugs release.

Titled ‘The Nite Life’, the collaboration appears on the B-side of Jam City’s ‘The Court’, due for a vinyl-only release on the Night Slugs White Label series (NSWL11). No word on release date, but it’ll be Night Slugs’ second vocal release of the year: NSWL10 is new producer Helix’s ‘Drum Track’, backed with a vocal by grime tongue-twister Flirta D. You can stream radio rips of both tracks below.

Jam City feat. Main Attrakionz – ‘The Night Life’

Helix feat. Flirta D – ‘Drum Track Vocal’

A trailer for it has been kicking around the Internet for a couple of months, but the latest single by Cassie, ‘King of Hearts’ is now online. We’re torn. It was inevitable that Cassie in 2012 would be making 4/4 dance pop – and this track’s got a million times more class than the muck churned out by the Guetta / LMFAO / FloRida circle of Hell; in fact, it’s probably closer to the material from Robyn’s Body Talk records – but she’s done this kind of thing before, and it’s never been her strong point. Cassie’s best when the music’s slow and cold. Still, the rumours are that her and Diddy are now engaged, so maybe there’s a little less ice in her life these days.

Patten, who you’ll likely know from last year’s excellent GLAQJO XAACSSO album, also runs a label called Kaleidoscope. The next release, by Sculpture, comes out on Valentine’s Day, and you can see why it appealed to Patten – similar to his work, it’s melted-down techno with a healthy amount of dissonance. We’d call it weird, but that’s just derogatory – it’s bloody good. You can stream the video below.

Domo Genesis [above], of Odd Future fame, likes to get high – hence his album being called Rolling Papers. Wiz Khalifa, in contrast, likes to get really high, hence the titles of about half his discography and the fact it’s pretty much all he talks about. It was only a matter of time until the two teamed up, and you can stream the results below. Wiz, in other news, recently confirmed that he’s been in the studio with Spaceghostpurrp, and late last year recruited Juicy J to his label Taylor Gang.