11th Jan 2013 – Mercury get hot for the new year.
1 (NEW) MERCURY – MAN EP – GOMMA
Peak time irresistible house business, sporting brilliant effected percussion and a bassline to die for, complete with a slightly camp repetitive vocal, I’m a man, that’s all I am, my muscles are of steel, my mind a complex computer. Comes backed with Born Happy, an uplifting, soulful, rolling filtered number. Superb. http://youtu.be/VmpgFzVd5rE
2 (NEW) HIEM AND ROOTS MANUVA – DJ CULTURE – NANG
A low slung funky groove with sassy swing and handclaps, drives RM’s swaggering bittersweet vocal about the shallow and plastic lifestyle of the super club DJ. Top notch.
3 (9) SWISS LIPS – DANZ (REMIXES) – EPIC
Tom Furse of The Horrors fame serves up an out there slo-mo mix with dramatic chords and flitting distant twiddly bits which give your drugs that added extra sparkle. Autokratz goes big and shiny club pop, and Jimmy Edgar brings up the rear with some deep electro house. http://youtu.be/w6v_w_soj2M
4 (NEW) THE DEADSTOCK 33S – UNDERNEATH THE PINES – GOMMA
The teaser single for the debut LP has got an early 90’s feel, with a blue eyed vocal over classic Balearic flavours. Ewan Pearson delivers a funky low slung seductive mix that simply oozes quality, and Disco Bloodbath go for a handclap fuelled electro number.
5 (1) JESSE WARE – NO TO LOVE (THE REMIXES) – PMR / ISLAND
Ewan Pearson is up first at the mixing desk, delivering a couple of deep steamy neon numbers, packed with analogue synths and oozing sassy slo-mo hipness to die for. George Fitzgerald pumps it up in a powerful old school soulful house vein, and Todd Edwards adds jazzy elements and psychedelic washes over skipping garage rhythms. http://youtu.be/lmdCheC75nk
6 (NEW) THIS MANY BOYFRIENDS – TINA WEYMOUTH – ANGULAR
The third single to be lifted from their much lauded self titled debut LP. As you would expect, it’s charming, got great witty lyrics, and it’s jangly with a pigeon toed stance. Indie pop doesn’t get much better than this.
7 (16) INDIANS – SOMEWHERE ELSE – 4AD
Indians is the brainchild of Soren Lokke Juul from Copenhagen, a very determined and creative individual, who has managed to capture that Scandinavian film noir cool, and mixed it with just the right amount of colourful American influenced psychedelics, creating a wide eyed winter wonderland with a difference. Imagine Mercury Rev and MGMT taking a trip across glacial fuelled fjords under twinkling night skies. http://youtu.be/338hl_lOuOE http://youtu.be/XbB_sE3knvI
8 (NEW) DIDZ & CHICO – WHEN I SAY FT. VANITY – MELODICA
A lovely slice of fresh sounding future thinking urban, which cherry picks and puts a new slant on all the best bits. Tony Blitz delivers a bumping house mix, and the man at the Melodica helm Chris Coco takes us on a fuzzy round the edges dub excursion.
9 (NEW) CRAZY P – REMIXED (VINYL) – 2020 VISION
What we’ve got here is the 3 track 12” sampler from the 10 track LP. Burnski gets the show on the road with a warm and funky take on Beatbox giving it sunshine holiday isle appeal. Meanwhile Bonar Bradberry works the handclaps and gets soulful on Eruption, and Wolf + Lamb Ft. Slow Hands give We Can Only Be Who We Are a smooth going over. http://youtu.be/D7QoC1qoH4c
10 (15) ROOTS MANUVA – BANANA SKANK EP – BIG DADA
Two brand new stripped back cool and deadly cuts from the UK’s leading hip hop maestro, alongside a WAFA Remix and a Part 2 of the title track. Impressive stuff. http://youtu.be/24BZoaHIywE http://youtu.be/hLSHJxUk-rY
11 (12) VALERIE JUNE – YOU CAN’T BE TOLD – SUNDAY BEST
From Memphis, Tennessee, combining soulful blues, gritty realism, fat dreadlocks and looking gorgeous. This lady is definitely going places.
12 (NEW) PINK SKULL – DEFINITIVE GAUZE EP – MY FAVORITE ROBOT
Five tracks of techy heads down ambient wash atmospheric eccentricities that bump, groove and pop across all the electronic genres and then some.
13 (NEW) FUZZY LIGHTS – RULE OF TWELFTHS – LITTLE RED RABBIT
Delicate arrangements weave and soar with elements of psychedelic folk and atmospheric dream pop around fragile vocals. Lovely.
14 (NEW) MONOBLOK&PSLKTR – SPOOKY EP – MEANT
The title cut rides an infectious techno groove with Scooby Doo-isms running throughout, as the tension builds an effected vocal worthy of the hooded claw comes into play, and The Hacker serves up an old skool electro remix with classic synth lines. http://youtu.be/QYowR_vYCYQ
15 (NEW) TRWBADOR – SAFE – OWLET MUSIC
The debut single release from this Welsh girl/boy duo is cute and intricate DIY ramshackle pop, coming over like a young Kate Bush fronting the school play at Royston Vasey Secondary Modern. On the flip Cornershop do a skanky remix of To The Bull. http://youtu.be/4ciucPYvZO0
16 (NEW) RAYKO – IN THE CAVE – NANG
A nice slab of percolating disco with kraut rock and 70’s sci fi overtones. Ohm Fat delivers a slightly spaced Trancended Remix and Dub. http://youtu.be/6OyMS43gl-U
17 (NEW) DIDIER MORRIS – SUSPICIOUS LOVE EP – SOUTHERN FRIED
18 (NEW) GURI – FREEDOM EP – SUB_URBAN
http://youtu.be.com/watch?v=Lf3D3tArbwE
19 (NEW) ARTHUR OSKAN – CHROMANTIC EP – MY FAVORITE ROBOT
Three cuts of pumping electronics with progressive and familiar synth riffs.
20 (NEW) BAD BUSINESS – LAWLESS EP – LUNA
The opening Time Again is spooked and dreamy number with a nod to the Bauhaus classic Bela Lugosi’s Dead.
21 (NEW) VARIOUS ARTISTS – MY FAVORITE ROBOT’S EIGHTH STIMULUS PACKAGE – MY FAVORITE ROBOT
Showcasing DJ Glen & Vitor Munhoz, Stefan Z, Betoko & Climbers and Jouhl.
22 (NEW) SONO VABOS – FOUR TRAX EP – SOUTHERN FRIED
23 (NEW) NATHAN G – DUPLICITY EP – LARGE MUSIC
24 (NEW) TOMSON – WE_CTRL003 – WE_CTRL
25 (NEW) SPIN SCIENCE – WONDERLAND – AUDIO TONIC
To get your track submitted for consideration please contact Dean Thatcher at deanthatcher25@hotmail.com Vinyl & CD’s much preferred it makes compiling a lot easier.
