Not Not Fun continues to add new names to its roster. The man behind Golden Donna and “Shifter” is Joel Shanahan, a musician from Madison, Wisconsin with an obvious passion for synthesisers. After a fistful of releases on underground formats like cassettes and CD-Rs, Shanahan is now making his debut on the LA label with his eponymous album, available as from today.
EL-B has come out of his cave to remix Disclosure's “Boiling”, as taken from their “The Face EP” on Greco-Roman. And we're happy he did, for the Briton has been keeping rather quiet recently, especially compared to the start of this century, when his obscurantist view on UK garage proved fundamental to the birth of dubstep. For now, we have no further release info, but you can listen to the tracks after the jump.
A few hours ago, this sober, elegant reformulation of his "Lion", done by Jamie xx, appeared on Four Tet’s SoundCloud. The member of The xx stripped down the original 4x4 song to turn its seven minutes into an absorbing stroll at different rhythms. Listen to it after these lines.
And the remixes of the inevitable Lana Del Rey just keep coming in. Veteran MJ Cole takes the baton from Active Child and takes “Ride”, one of the previously unreleased tracks on “Born To Die: The Paradise Edition”, to his UK garage territory. Taken from Annie Mac's radio show.
Since there isn’t any fresh news of Justin Timberlake musically speaking, we have to settle for the reinterpretation that the very young, Bear//Face has just done of that well-known “My Love” that dates back to 2007. Slowing down the tempo and distorting the voice of the former member of ‘NSYNC until it is unrecognisable, make the song seem like perfect company for the lovelorn on Halloween night. If you like it, you can download it by following this shortcut.
Dayve Hawk, the brain behind Memory Tapes, wants to celebrate Halloween with you again with this “Walk Me Home 2”, specifically intended for the holiday. As if it were the soundtrack of a B-movie, the American has woven together analogue synthesizers and vintage-flavoured drum-machines for fourteen minutes, creating atmospheres that are ideal for dancing in the company of a troupe of zombies.
We told you about Australian producer Kyson for the first time last week, when bringing the news of the release of his new EP, "Blackstone"; eight tracks plus remixes by Marco Vella, Sina, and Essáy, out today. Now we can listen to "Remi", his new single, also taken from said EP, a little downtempo gem featuring ghostly whispering voices.
Seventeen years ago, Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue surprised the world with their unexpected duet on “Where The Wild Roses Grow”, probably the best-remembered song, most often played on the radio, of all of those on the highly acclaimed Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds album “Murder Ballads” (Mute, 1995). Now they have re-recorded the song with an eye to “The Abbey Road Sessions”, Minogue’s new album, in which she is performing hits from her career accompanied by an orchestra. This version of the “murder ballad” has nevertheless ended up sounding barer than the original. The album comes out on 29th October via Parlophone.