Orange Juice - Rip It Up

Wow. Stumbled across this absolute gem just now and had to throw it up. This is everything that is great about the 80's, The getups, the hair, the dancing black dudes, the funk, the tinfoil room, the name Orange Juice! Everything! So damn good!

Theophilus London - Flying Overseas (ft Solange Knowles and Devon Hynes)

Another Green Label Sound number. Very very cool. Good summer song: barbecues, beers & womans. However good this song is though, I think my favourite thing is that freaking bangin-ass shirt the kid's got. Check it! Looks like he stole it from a mexican he found sleeping under the tower while they were shooting the clip! I want it.

MNDR - Cut Me Out

How good is this this beat. These kids are SO original I'm fucking digging it hard. Their song 'I go Away" blew my mind field when I first heard it and now this thing coming out (aside from Bang Bang Bang with Mark Ronson & Tip). Man, I can't freaking wait to see what they come out with next. If you can't tell, this excites me. Green label are kind of ruling at the moment, they were the ones who first threw us the first single from the best band in the world's latest album (Chromeo's ''Night by Night'' from the album Business Casual). Possibly the best song ever made, definitely the best song ever made by a french-canadian arab/jew combo. Do what you have to do to find this song and turn the shit up.
NYC's back baby!

Foals - Miami (Jona Ma and Franklin Furter Remix)

Now this. This is cool. It was a good song already, then these chaps got their grubby mitts all over and made it super sweaty. Tres Miami. I've spent many an hour terrifying my neighbours with the bass from this thing. It rumbles. Foals are one of those bands that keep getting better and better and the more hype they get the better, because where there's hype and exposure, there's remixes. And when remixes like this roll in it makes me very happy. I hope this cut makes you happy too. Enjoy irresponsibly.

Neval Pippens

Xuman - Panic

No idea where I came across this song but it's made it onto many-a playlist since I did, usually the summer/party related ones. Just makes you wanna fucking JUMP! I've only ever found one more song by these kids, called Sense of Height, which is a ripper track but it's got nuthin on this one. A little funk-guitar sliced up into a synthy dance-pop is always a good recipe and these cats nail it on the head. Hope there's more of 'em to come!/////

Keedz - Stand on the Word

Rad song. Straight up rad film clip. Somewhere between Stand by Me and the Justice- D.A.N.C.E film clip! I can not get enough of those groovy-ass bass licks and there's something about those songs where there's a bunch of youngun's singin the chorus like that, all anthem-like and empowering that just makes you wanna high five your mates and then go roam the streets and punch out street lamps with a bat!  

World's End Press - Faithful (G.L.O.V.E.S ''China White'' Club Dub)

Fresh vibes from this relatively new bunch of kids on the block called Word's End Press. They got 'emselves a way cool sound. Very disco, bassy with heaps of good drum machine loops and man, when G.L.O.V.E.S got their hands on this thing, shit got super-classy.  Rad driving singalong song you can bounce to, give your lungs and excercise on the chorus. I first heard this late night on triple J on a friday, when Nina Las Vegas was doing some kind of DJ set thing and this slid into the mix very smoothly. Don't know much about the band except for the fact that they're going to BLOW UP. Very soon. Get on this bandwagon right quick. This has made it onto my favourite discoveries of 2011 already, maybe #1 so far.
Jam on.

Gregory Porter - Illusion

Really getting into my jazz at the moment. More than any other artist, I seem to be able to relate to Jamie Cullum the most. His exceptional choice in covers, his ridiculously smooth and playful lyrics, and his depth of knowledge of the genre of Jazz. I was on his blog the other day when he threw up his top ten albums of 2010. I had a little trouble finding them but the best one I came across by a country mile was a song called 'Illusion' by Gregory Porter.  It's just a good old fashioned break up song, so simple musically and lyrically, but it's one of those tracks that just hits home because you can really hear the melancholy in his voice. Beautiful stuff.
So I'll post this track, plus my current favourite Jamie Cullum track, which is changing weekly at this point! So I don't just post electro and hip-hop! I love it all man! Enjoy.



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