We've listened A LOT to Santi White's new album Master Of My Make-Believe - and one of the absolute highlights is The Keepers. This happens to be her new single, which we are more than happy with! So looking forward to the video! The track is already being played on radio and these remixes just dropped + are receiving radio support! All good! Have a listen to Voyeur's trippy, chopped and layered take + Duke Dumont's more straight forward club approach. If you haven't heard the original version do so below too - it's so worth it. Enjoy!
Incredibly shy and introvert wallflower Azealia Banks dropped her first EP 1991 today and we just did a spot of ass shaking to it making some afternoon coffee. Van Vogue is amazing and her flow is so tight it's sick, sick, sick. Based on the Machinedrums instrumental of the same name Azealia really can take any track and make it her own. Remember when she did the same thing to Ladytron's Seventeen? Rappers beware, Ms. Banks just snatched ur crowns.
Björk's Thunderbolt - one of our personal favourites off Biophilia - gets a shiny new suit just in time for summer courtesy of Berlin based drum n' bass producer Current Value. He's the man behind the Crystalline and Solstice remixes that kicked off this remix project in March. We're really into this take! We imagine being at an open air party in the very near future and dancing to this dreamy but hard soundscape and see a dimly lit night sky. So beautiful and fitting. Since these mixes dropped just a few hours ago we don't have a stream of Hollow yet - but will update the post asap when we do! Enjoy!
KM is not wasting any time with her new single Timebomb. Nice! She premiered the video after getting 25.000 Timebomb tweets from fans + put it on iTunes for sale the same second. Tonight she already live premiered it in front of 11 million viewers at BBC The Voice. Someone's done their lesson after the lackluster single promotions for Aphrodite. But let's look into the future! Kylie even donned DAT DRESS! She's the only one on the planet who can wear a cut out dress UNDER a pair of cut off jeans, no underwear and not look a complete mess, haha. Love it. Have a looook beloooow!
Words cannot even describe how we feel about Billie Holiday. No words are even necessary - it's pure feeling it. We listen to her all the time, and she had a magical, otherworldly way of taking words and infuse them with a raw, pure emotion. You feel her when you listen. It's like she sings directly to you. Born in 1915 to teenage parents - with her mother only 13 we can't even begin to fathom the start of her life. A victim of rape when she was a child - she herself was sent away to a correctional facility like it was her fault. Then later working in a brothel with her own mother. Billie prevailed and began her career in music. Living in heavily segregated times and really before the civil rights movement her story is also a grim document of racism in America and the oppression of women. In this BBC documentary from 2001 we get to hear amazing stories from people who knew her directly. They together paint a portrait of the genius that she was, but also the person behind the music, who wanted to be loved and free and longing to have a family. We also get to hear what a badass she was - she managed to squeeze an awful lot of living in those 44 years she was here on this earth. The songs she wrote are legendary - God Bless The Child, Don't Explain, Lady Sings The Blues. Not to mention her version of Strange Fruit - in our book the definitive protest song against racism. The world is a much better place because of her legacy.
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at 12:16AM 
