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The Golden Filter – Hide Me

Niall — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:33:03 +0000

We’ve had two singles from The Golden Filter since they appeared this time last year. ‘Solid Gold’ and ‘Thunderbird’ were knockout tunes that boded well for future material. Well that time is almost here. The debut album Voluspa is out on April 23rd through Brille and they’ve just debuted the newest single ‘Hide Me’ from it.

On first listen, Voluspa has plenty going for it – it’s a great mix of disco, electronics, ambience, synths and strings and ‘Hide Me’ might just be the poppiest thing they’ve done thus far.

MP3: The Golden Filter – Hide Me

Videos and tracklisting after the jump.

Tracklisting

Dance Around The Fire
Hide Me
Look Me In The Eye
Moonlight Fantasy
Solid Gold
Stardust
Frejya’s Ghost
Kiss Her Goodbye
Nerida’s Gone
Thunderbird
Here We Go Again
The Hardest Button To Button (bonus track)
Favourite Things (bonus track)

The Nialler9 Weekly Gig Guide

Niall — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:08:25 +0000

A list of recommended events taking place over the next seven days in Dublin.

Lots of great local lineups this week around town with a couple more Haiti benefits as well as recommended international gigs from Beach House (sold out), Tune-Yards, Breakage (Roots Manuva and Burial appear on his forthcoming album – hear his Roots and Flying Lotus collaborations below), DMX Krew, Midlake, The Leisure Society and more. Sample MP3s below too.

Tuesday 9th February
- Trashed (Indie/Electro club) @ Andrew’s Lane Theatre (10.30pm, €5)
- C U Next Tuesday (indie/electro/pop/dance) @ Crawdaddy (11pm, €3/5)

Wednesday 10th February
- Jamie T @ The Academy (Sold Out)
- Antics presents Neosupervital (indie club @ Crawdaddy (€5, 11pm)

Thursday 11th February
- Sidetracked (Indie, Dancey Disco) @ Chocolate Bar, The Pod (8pm – 11pm, Free)
- David Bazan (Pedro the Lion) @ Whelan’s (€15)
- Jonny Fun & the Hesitations, Land Lovers, Seeping into Cinemas @ Anseo (€5)
- Trinity Arts Festival: Heathers, We Cut Corners, Little Green Cars, Wounds @ The Village (€8)
- Cancelled: ~~Drop Haiti’s Debt: Cathy Davey, Julie Feeney, Villagers & more @ Vicar Street, Dublin (€20)~~
- Soundcheck Celebrity premiere @ Spy (7pm / Free before 11pm, €5 after – Screening of The Room from 9:30pm)
- PANDAmonium! Relaunch with Kieran Delorentos, Aero vs Loro @ Shebeen Chic (Free)

Friday 12th February
- The Leisure Society @ The Sugar Club (€15)
- TUNE-YARDS, Hunter-Gatherer @ Whelan’s, Dublin (€16.50)
- MUD: Reach Present Breakage, The Breakdown Band & Gamepak (€8/10)
- Gamepak: Chipzel, SKP and Spank The Chemical Christian @ Twisted Pepper (€8/10)
- Le Galaxie, Vengeance and the Panther Queen @ The Village (€10)
- WAR @ Spy (€10 – see video below)
- Choice Cuts: The Beatdown – DJ Scope and Handsome Paddy @ The Pygmalion (Free, 10pm)
- NoDisko (Indie and electro) @ Crawdaddy (11pm, €8/€6)

Saturday 13th February
- Discotekken: DMX Krew – Twisted Pepper, Dublin (€10/€8)
- Beach House, Lawrence Arabia – Whelan’s (€18.50 – Sold out)
- John Shelly and the Creatures – Whelan’s, Upstairs (€5)
- Pilotlight @ The Button Factory, Dublin (€10)
- Dark Room Notes, We Cut Corners, The Vagabonds @ Twisted Pepper, Dublin (11pm, €10)
- Partie Monster @ Wax (11pm, €7/€5)
- Transmission @ The Button Factory (€10)

Sunday 14th February
- Valentine’s Day Massacre @ The Bernard Shaw (Free, from 4pm)
- Midlake @ Vicar Street (€23)
- Haiti Fundraiser: Andy Irvine (Planxty), The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock, Mumblin Deaf Ro, The Hounds & Big Monster Love @ Whelan’s (€15)

Monday 8th February
- Hefty Horse Club: The Followers of Otis @ Whelan’s Upstairs (Free)

MP3: Tune-Yards – Hatari

MP3: Breakage – Together feat. David Rodigan

MP3: John Shelly and the Creatures – Long May You Reign

MP3: Wounds – Vectors

MP3: Vengeance and the Panther Queen – Keep it On the Phone
[See post to listen to audio]

Autechre FACT mix / Dublin gig

Niall — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:13:05 +0000

While I can’t say their new album Oversteps does anything for me at the moment (Autechre are mostly something to be appreciated not loved*) this rare FACT mix indeed does push all the right buttons.

A surefire mix of everything the duo love, it’s got hip-hop from the Wu Tang, Q-Tip to drill and bass, sub-quaking distortion and a metal song interlude. No tracklisting is available as yet. Autechre play The Button Factory with Rob Hall on April 23rd thanks to U:Mack.

MP3: FACT mix 122: Autechre

* Some individual tracks from Amber and Tri Repeatae are amazing examples of ’90s electronica at its best like Tri Repeatae’s ‘Clipper’:

MP3: Autechre – Clipper

Here is a related mix from Irish act Solen who mashed up The Wu-Tang with Autechre over the course of 30 minutes to breathless effect.

RAPIDSHARE ZIP: Solen – Wutechre mix

Also, remember the glorious headfuck of a video for ‘Gantz Graf’? See it after the jump.

The return of Broken Social Scene

Niall — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:15:39 +0000

I’m giddy like a Japanese schoolgirl about the imminent return of Broken Social Scene. A new as yet untitled album is due on May 1st on City Slang / Co-Op and they’ll be playing SXSW next month which I hope to catch. I’ve fond memories of all their Dublin shows particularly the Temple Bar Music Centre gig in 2006 and their two albums You Forgot in In People and Broken Social Scene are amongst my favourite albums ever. ‘7/4 (Shoreline)’ is one of my favourite tunes ever too.

The new album was produced by Tortoise’s John McEntire mainly in Toronto and Chicago and features the usual guests Feist, Amy Millan, Emily Haines, Jason Collett and loads more. The core group is now Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning, Justin Peroff, Charles Spearin, Andrew Whiteman, Sam Goldberg and Lisa Lobsinger. That’s four guitarists, a bassist a drummer and three vocalists. You can read more about the new album in a Kevin Drew interview with Pitchfork.

MP3: Broken Social Scene – 7/4 (Shoreline)

MP3: Broken Social Scene – Stars and Sons

Happy 36th Birthday J Dilla

Niall — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:55:00 +0000

Today would have been the legendary hip-hop producer J Dilla’s 36th Birthday. Here are some videos and mixes in his honour.

Top 20 J Dilla Beats (tracklisting)

Nothing Like This

J Dilla – Won’t Do

The Best of Dilla’s Donuts

All J Dilla Produced Mix by deejaysee

J Dilla Month Celebration Mixtape by kidfury

How Justice’s D.A.N.C.E became a Jay-Z tune

Niall — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:21:49 +0000

If you wondered how Jay-Z’s producer Swizz Beats twisted Justice’s D.A.N.C.E. into ‘On To The Next One’, this video explains it. The transition is about 2:00.

Farewell Def Jux 1999 – 2010

Niall — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:37:43 +0000

With the news that Def Jux, home to Aesop Rock, Cage, El-P, Rob Sonic, Cannibal Ox, Mr. Lif and more is winding down as a traditional label, The Crypt posted a 62 tune 350MB mixtape by Vega of Def Jux tunes to mark the occasion. Tracklisting after the jump.

ZIP: Def Jux Mixtape (Alternative link)

Before Def Jux disappears in its current form they’ve scheduled some releases including a posthumous album from Camu Tao, a remix compilation, a 10th year anniversary and other goodies. Hopefully, as detailed in El-P’s statement, they can “turn this hoopty in to a hovercraft”. Here are some of my own personal favourite tunes from the label:

MP3: Aesop Rock – Facemelter

MP3: RJD2 – The Horror

MP3: El-P – Poisenville Kids No Win (feat. Cat Power)

MP3: Cannibal Ox – Vein

MP3: Mr. Lif – Brothaz

And a related classic:

MP3: Company Flow – End to End Burner

Tracklisting:
01. Cage – I Never Knew You.mp3
02. Yak Ballz – Arabian Facebuster.mp3
03. Aesop Rock – Daylight.mp3
04. Aesop Rock – Bazooka Tooth.mp3
05. Cannibal Ox – Iron Galaxy.mp3
06. The Perceptionists – Let’s Move!!.mp3
07. RJD2 – The Horror.mp3
08. S.A. Smash ft Cage – Smash TV.mp3
09. Aesop Rock – Night Light.mp3
10. Camu Tao – Hold The Floor.mp3
11. Cool Calm Pete – Lost.mp3
12. Company Flow ft Ill Bill – Simian Drugs aka Feeling Ignorant.mp3
13. Del Tha Funkee Homosapien – Bubble Pop.mp3
14. Mr. Lif – Jugular Vein.mp3
15. Murs and 9th Wonder – Bad Man!.mp3
16. Party Fun Action Comittee – Mental Storm.mp3
17. Danny! – Where is Danny.mp3
18. El-P – Deep Space 9mm.mp3
19. Murs – What Do You Know .mp3
20. Despot – Look Alive.mp3
21. C-Rayz Walz – Showgun.mp3
22. Mike Ladd – Black Orientalist.mp3
23. Mr.Lif – Live From The Plantation.mp3
24. The Mighty Underdogs ft MF DOOM – Gunfight.mp3
25. El-P – Dead Disnee.mp3
26. Hangar 18 – Boombox Apocalypse.mp3
27. S.A. Smash – Illy.mp3
28. El-P, DBA The Lyrical Punisher, and J-Treds Freestyle.mp3
29. Party Fun Action Comittee – Chapstick.mp3
30. Aesop Rock ft Breeze Brewin – Getaway Car.mp3
31. Cage – ft Darryl Palumbo – Shoot Frank.mp3
32. Cool Calm Pete – Cool Calm Science.mp3
33. Del Tha Funkee Homosapien – Naked Fonk.mp3
34. The Perceptionists – Black Dialogue.mp3
35. RJD2 – Someones Second Kiss.mp3
36. Rob Sonic – Rock The Convoy.mp3
37. C-Rayz Walz – The Line Up.mp3
38. Danny! – Turn Me Up.mp3
39. Hangar 18 – Feet To Feet.mp3
40. Mr. Lif – Arise.mp3
41. Camu Tao – Open Hands.mp3
42. El-P ft Cage – Habeas Corpses (Draconian Love).mp3
43. Murs ft Humpty Hump and Shock G – Risky Business.mp3
44. RJD2 ft Jakki Da Mitamouth – F.H.H.mp3
45. Yak Ballz – Flossin’.mp3
46. C-Rayz Walz – Battle Me.mp3
47. Dizzee Rascal – Excuse Me Please.mp3
48. Murs and 9th Wonder ft Phonte – The Animal.mp3
49. Rob Sonic – Dylsexia.mp3
50. Yak Ballz – Reign.mp3
51. 4th Pyramid – Aquatic.mp3
52. Aesop Rock ft El-P and Camu Tao – Rickety Rackety.mp3
53. El-P – The League of Extraordinary Nobodies.mp3
54. El-P – Sunrise Over Brooklyn.mp3
55. Aesop Rock – 9-5ers Anthem.mp3
56. Mr.Lif – Earthcrusher.mp3
57. El-P ft Cage – Oxycontin pt 2
58. Cage – Hells Winter.mp3
59. The Mighty Underdogs – Victorious.mp3
60. C-Rayz Walz – First Words Worse.mp3
61. S.A. Smash – Gangsta.mp3
62. Cannibal Ox – Pigeon

Erykah Badu – Window Seat

Niall — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:47:40 +0000

Badu tweeted this song earlier today. It’s the first official single from New Amerykah Part II: Return of the Ankh which drops in late March. This is the Badu laidback as you know her well with Questlove on drums and co-produced by Badu and James Poyser.

MP3: Erykah Badu – Window Seat

Official Site | Photo via.

Donal Dineen’s First Fifteen mix

Niall — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:12:51 +0000

A perfect Friday mix from Today FM’s Donal Dineen including some of my favourite tunes from Joy Orbison, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Floating Points, the Jape remix of Patrick Kelleher, Darkstar’s ‘Aidy’s Girls a Computer’ and more good stuff.

First Fifteen by fresh_air

Gigs happening this week

Introducing: The Selfish Replicators

Niall — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:57:39 +0000

This tune was sent to me late last night by a mate wanting to know more. Unfortunately, there is very little to know about the cryptic Selfish Replicators at the moment apart from the fact that this song was disseminated amongst a small number of music blogs (hello MP3hugger) and that the band are possibly from Norway.

Describing them as a Scandinavian Grizzly Bear means you probably won’t need to know much else. ‘Strands’ is definitely reminiscent of the Bear in its delicately arranged percussive timbres and its guitar line particularly. Whoever this band are it’s an awesome introduction.

MP3: The Selfish Replicators – Strands

Introducing: Quadron

Niall — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:11:03 +0000

Danish band Quadron specialise in soulful silky-pop with an emphasis on the soul and pop. They are Robin and Coco and if you dig Lykke Li’s brand of Scanadavian pop you may very well dig these guys too.

Producer Robin Hannibal was worked with Aloe Blacc, Buraka Som Sistema and Omas Keith of Sa-Ra Creative Partners while 21 year-old Coco has sang for the producer collective Boom Clap Bachelors of which Hannibal is part of.

Their recent self-titled record was released in Europe last year and it’s getting a Stateside release in March on LA label Plug Research. Soul Clap!

MP3: Quadron -Sippin’

MP3: Quadron – Average Fruit

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Video: Not Squares – Asylum

Niall — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:44:53 +0000

Sometimes all a song needs for a video is a load of people spazzing out to the tune in front of a camera. ‘Asylum’ is Not Squares forthcoming single on Richter Collective due in March. They were awesome at this a couple of weeks ago.

The video was directed by Andrew Wood. Here’s their recent single:

MP3: Not Squares – Aye Yo Pa

Video: Massive Attack – Splitting the Atom

Niall — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:08:36 +0000

This is the music video of the year so far for me. I love how director Edouard Salier has created his own world of black chrome, bejeweled people, particles and a slow reveal.

The fixed moment of a catastrophe. The instant the atom bursts on the beast, the world freezes into a vitrified chaos. And we go through the slick and glistening disaster of a humanity in distress. Man or beast? The responsibility of this chaos is still to be determined.

- Edouard Salier

If you’re on Twitter, more videos are forthcoming at this site: http://heligolandfilms.massiveattack.com

Inbox Jukebox

Niall — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:53:54 +0000

With between 50-100 promo emails coming through each day, it can be hard to give due coverage to everything I’d like to feature. Here are some songs I’ve been sent which deserve more of your time and mine.

A 19 year-old dude from Indiana named Joseph Denny who makes music under the name of Spirit Spine. He’s got many a blogger watching him already. He took his name from a ’70s documentary about people with severed spinal cords who still feel they can walk. His music is like an amalgamation of Dan Deacon, Panda Bear and Washed Out; playful samples and chambered arrangements that belie his Garageband production methods.
He’s got a single Crashers (Highs And Lows) out in two weeks on Makemine Records, a 7″ label who has previously released Gold Panda, The Books and Plastic Little . You can get it from Rough Trade. An album Jungle Bridges has been released Stateside and ‘Flashes’ from that is below.

MP3: Spirit Spine – Crashers Highs and Lows

MP3: Spirit Spine – No Psychic

MP3: Spirit Spine – Flashes

Scottish band Errors have a new album Come Down With Me due out in March and it looks like they may finally, in my eyes, live up to the initial promise I had for them a few years back (I was big into ‘Salut France!’). Here’s the band remixing Vessels and getting remixed by The Twilight Sad. Listen to ‘A Rumour in Africa’ on their myspace. They play The Academy 2, Dublin on March 25th and the Black Box, Belfast on the next night.
MP3: Vessels – An Idle Brain and the Devil’s Workshop (Errors remix)

MP3: Errors – This New Technology (The Twilight Sad remix)
Elegant beat instrumentals from London’s “King of Glitch Hop”, MusSck. His album Land of Animation is out now on Daly City. Definitely check this one.
MP3: MusSck – Town Made of Clouds

MP3: MusSck – Land of Animation promo mix
From my Ones to Watch 2010 list, May 68, unleash their remix of Hot Club De Paris.
MP3: Hot Club De Paris – Extra Time Then Sudden Death (MAY68 Remix)
Alan Wilkis takes on Yeasayer’s ‘Ambling Alp’. Watch out for this guy’s remixes. He good.
MP3: Yeasayer – Ambling Alp (Alan Wilkis remix)
A nice B-side from Frightened Rabbit’s most new single ‘Nothing Like You’. The album The Winter Of Mixed Drinks is out on the 26th of February.
MP3: Frightened Rabbit – Fun Stuff

An Emalkay dubby remix of Miike Snow’s ‘Sylvia’. There’s a Sinden remix floating about too.
MP3: Miike Snow – Sylvia (Emalkay Dubstep remix)
Oddly bonkers remix by Simon Bookish of my favourite track ‘Keep The Dog Quiet’ from Owen Pallett’s new album Heartland, . You can also stream the album on Soundcloud.
Finally, From Los Angeles via Philadelphia comes the experimental obscure pop of Hands. More here.
MP3: Hands – Hold

Stream Gil Scott-Heron’s album here

Niall — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:47:57 +0000

As I enthused last week I’m New Here is Gil Scott-Heron’s first new album in 16 years and I described it as “a mix of spoken word, futuristic blues, dark-stained socio-political life and poetic ruminations. The man above still sounds as inspired and god-damn urgent as ever.” Amen.

Listen for yourself after the jump.

Who makes these unsightly long widgets?

The return of Gil Scott-Heron

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