Metronomy MPFree

As promised, Metronomy are giving away She Wants for free in exchange for an email address.

I do love a widget.

She Wants Metronomy

New Metronomy. Are there any finer words?

Yep they're back with a less electronic, less wonky sound on She Wants. The weirdness inherent in Metronomy has seemingly been transferred to the video. A proper how-did-they-do-that? affair.

You can download the track for free in exchange for an email address here. Oh and remember they're playing Clwb on April 21st.

Optimo's Fact Mix 214

Sat on this for a while until the tracklist was released. An ambient mix that makes me long for the days when I used to tape Mixing It off Radio 3.

FACT Mix 214: Optimo by Fact Mix Archive on Mixcloud

Tracklist:
Odd Machine – Phase In (edit)
Cindytalk – Our Shadow, Remembered
Alvo Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto – Morning
This Mortal Coil – Song To The Siren (JD Twitch Reversion)
Zoviet France – The Decriminalisation Of Country Music
Sun City Girls – Come Maddalena
Forest Swords – The Light
Oneohtrix Point Never – Young Beidnahga
No Man – Days In The Trees
Tomita – Clair De Lune
Conrad Schnitzler – Ballet Statique
Peter Baumann – This Day
Reichmann – Wunderbar
Duet Emmo – The First Person
Carol – So Low
Zoviet France – Vienna (extract)

ESG Saved My Sunday

I usually drop Four Tet's Late Night Tales on the stereo on a Sunday morning, but I needed something a little more bassy today, for the twat upstairs was blasting out Usher or some shit like that.

So I turned to the original punk-funkers ESG.

ESG (Emerald, Sapphire and Gold) are a family affair, originally just the Scroggins sisters who were given instruments by their musical parents to keep them off the South Bronx streets, later drafting in family friends and when they had reached the right age, daughters and nieces.

ESG were so ahead of their time, illustrated by amount of times they've been sampled. Two anthologies on Soul Jazz and last year's greatest hits on Fire Records further hammers home the point.

They played at the opening of The Hacienda. They were a favourite of Larry Levan. They even appeared in the now forgotten 1989 Nicolas Cage psychological horror movie Vampire's Kiss.

They are an essential band.

mp3---> ESG - Six Pack (Original Version)

GWTF:8.0 Scott-Heron & Jamie xx. Again.

Another week, another Jamie xx embedding thing. Everywhere.

Pump Up The Quiz Quest

Sunday night is all about the Quiz Quest at Gwdihw. Yeah it's on a Sunday for some reason. Maybe that'll be a question in the quiz. Unlikely as the quiz is based on Now That's What I Call Music 10.

Track 4 on Disc 1 (incidentally the first Now... to be released as a double Compact Diszzzzzzzzz) was this...

No word yet if there's a prize for fourth place.

Jamie Woon @ CAI

One for the Diff-heads this. Jamie Woon - who came recently came fourth on the BBC Sound Of 2011 List is playing Cardiff Arts Institute on Sunday March 6th. Think of a dubstep troubadour and you're in the right neck of the woods. Or just watch the video. Get tickets from here.

You can also grab an mp3 of Blue Truth in exchange for an addy here.

Mums Of Death

Pretty much everything about this rules. Apart from some over-zealous asterisking.

In case you're wondering Mumdance + Drums Of Death = Mums Of Death

Girl Talk Steppin' Out With Joe Jackson

I don't really need an excuse to post Joe Jackson's awesome Steppin' Out, a track that's somehow weirdly timeless yet indubitably 80s. I think it's that bassline. No it's definitely that bassline. And the xylophone. Can never have too much xylophone.

Anyway, Girl Talk - the bane of copyright lawyers everywhere - has included it in amongst the oooh thirty odd tracks he's used for his new minimix/track/sampling game Triple Double. Fun though it is I'd rather listen to Joe banging away on the ivories.

mp3---> Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out

The Final Tron Post

As Tron: Legacy slides town the UK Box Office Chart, I solemnly vow, that this will be my final Tron related post.*

Electro producer Joakim goes back to the original film's score by electronic pioneer Wendy Carlos and chops and screws it in to 2Kwhatever.

A curio rather than a belter, but still worth a download.

mp3 ---> Wendy Carlos - Water, Music And TRONaction (Joakim Remix)

*This is not legally binding.

GWTF:7.0 Adele & Jamie xx

Man of the moment Jamie xx performs an actual miracle.

He's made an Adele track not only listenable, but proper good. Melancholic and warm, it really has fuck all to do with dubstep instead it delves deep into trip-hop territory. In a good way.

XL have locked it down ahead of its release on Monday, so the video below will have to suffice.