Via Lostwithiel

Booked my train tickets for Cornwall this morning. Going back down for the Falmouth International Sea Shanty Festival... and to see my mum.

Anyway on the train I shall be going via Lostwithiel, which is also latest release from R&S signed duo The Chain. Think the kinda of mellow dubstep style stuff that Mount Kimbie does and you're on the right train of thought. Arf!

Lostwithiel by The Chain

Julio Bashmore's Vice Mix

What with this blog being on the cutting edge, here's a mix from January 2010.

I have no idea why I can't stop listening to this at the moment, I mean it's house music but really good. Weird. Probably because it features a couple of Deadboy tracks and his FACT Mix from last year is still on rotation.

Apparently Julio Bashmore is on a one man mission to rescue house music in Bristol. After the listening to this I'm not going to argue against.

Julio Bashmore's Vice Mixtape by Sammyfax on Mixcloud

mp3---> Julio Bashmore - Vice Mixtape

Tracklist

1. Deadboy - Heartbreaker (Julio Bashmore Remix)

2. Cooly G - Love Dub

3. Deadboy - U Cheated

4. Julio Bashmore - Around

5. Son of Aphrodite - Vibrations

6. DJ Sneak - Fix My Sink

7. Blackjoy - Untitled (Solid Groove Remix)

8. Mosca - Gold Bricks, I See You

9. L-Vis 1990 - United Groove (Baobinga and I.D Remix)

10. LV & Untold - Beacon (Mount Kimbie Remix)

11. Breach - Fatherless

12. Julio Bashmore - Um Bongo’s Revenge

Mirror Mirror

Sons & Daughters return on June 13th with Mirror Mirror on Domino. Big whoop right? That's what I thought when I picked up a review copy at Buzz. I last listened to them when I bought Dance Me In on red 7" partaking in the vinyl vogue of the mid-noughties.

Yet it took one listen to convince me that this could reside in a few Best Of lists come December. Keith McIvor from Optimo is on production duties and strips back their sound to lean post-punk with a sprinkling of electronics.

It's a dark album. It's also a very good album. Here's Mirror Mirror's closing track, The Beach...

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You can pre-order the album here.

Friendly Fires Widget

More widget business, except this time you need a real addy and you'll get signed up for a load of newsletters by other bands including Horrors. Take that how you will.

If you can't be bothered, then if you've ever heard a record by Friendly Fires, you'll know Blue Cassette, bombastic indie-dance with nods to the late 90s filter house sound. Oh and SUMMER. Alright like.

Stream: Eye Contact

Yeah this is bouncing round the blogosphere, but it's good.

Strange too. A whole album stream with easy and pretty embedding code, the week before release. Music really ain't worth shit any more I suppose.

I'm assuming it'll be pulled tomorrow when the album comes out in the UK, so grab an mp3 while you can.

Hanna / Hana

Hanna is out now. The soundtrack was done by The Chemical Brothers. Apparently it's a bit gash. The film, not the soundtrack.

Anyway upon hearing about the film my head spat out a memory from ten or so years ago. I was at a house party, somewhere in Pen-y-lan, battered off about four beers (I was sixteen). Must have been about 3am and I was slumped on the sofa flicking through the music channels. Then I found this.

I went ape shit. Someone (prob MTV 2) was playing Asa-Chang & Junray's beguiling, mesmeric, heart-wrenching, beautiful and utterly bonkers track Hana. I'd been taping late-night Radio 1 for about two years and had fallen hard for The Blue Room, the "chill-out" show presented alternatively by Rob Da Bank and Chris Coco. It was the best thing Radio 1 ever did. I first heard this track on that show and was amazed to hear it elsewhere, that I could share it with my friends in the right context.

They thought I was a tool.

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SBTRKT Widget

Gotta love a widget. Don't even need a real addy.

If you can't be arsed, it's squelchy and bleepy bass music with melismatic warbling over the top. Alright like.

ULTRA magnetic magnetic, MCs ULTRA magnetic magnetic...

Ran out of podcasts the other day. Been working in a warehouse down Tremorfa way, which meant lots of baths and resulted in me using up my pod stock.

So I returned to The Guardian's Music Weekly. They had a Beastie Boys special. They waffled and played about 7 seconds of the stonking Ego Trippin' by Ultramagnetic MCs. Which is 312 seconds too short. So here it is.

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AOR Overkill

Saw somewhere the other day that Journey, Foreigner and Styx are going on a joint tour. Thankfully it's coming nowhere near Cardiff.

That isn't fair, they're all good bands but in small doses. I've been known to roar along to Don't Stop Believing at an ungodly hour in the equally ungodly Live Lounge (I won't bore you with the theories about its re-appropriation thirty years on) and Foreigner have their moments.

But it's Styx that are making me eye up the £50 ticket price. And only for one track, the rather atypical Mr.Roboto. This track throws me back to Falmouth. It was the soundtrack of my time at University. Not Klaxons, CSS or Hot Chip. Styx's Mr Roboto.

Domo Arigato Canadian Steph-O for introducing me to this song.

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Now if they only added Free to the bill, playing that song from the Wrigley's advert, then we'd be on to a winner.

R.Kelly's Amazing Jacket

R.Kelly finally made his debut on Later with Jools Holland last night. Two tracks are all we got.

After his Ray Charles impression we got I Believe I Can Fly.

No Ignition (Remix). Still at least he wore an amazing jacket.

Right click to download Ignition (like you don't already own it).