After the Rainy Milo’s sultry ‘interlude’ we put you on last year, more goodness is emerging from the South London collective, Last Night In Paris. Joshua Collard, singer (and rapper according to his Youtube channel) offers up his own interlude.
Melodic R’n'B ivories follow Collard’s womanising voice, as he sings proudly of his girl. Definitely got the ladies with this one, I think. Coming off the forthcoming Off The Come Close EP. Look out for this crew, seem to have something a lil’ special.
Roses Gabor – young female songstress who uses London as her roots, but has shared a fair amount of stages, singing alongside the likes of Gorillaz all across the world. And of course who could forget last year’s summer tune with SBTRKT ‘Pharoahs‘.
With very little of her own solo material floating around the interwebs, it was perfect timing for Gabor to release her first official mixtape. Entitled The Wonderful World of Roses Gabor, going by the mixtape, I assume her world is full of partying, dancing and more partying. With fall to floor beats, dance samples and instrumentals provided from Hudson Mohawke, Redlight, Dizzee Rascal, Mac Band and Dead Prez, what else is there to think other than… party!
Great pre-shoobz music… stream below and download.
Although the album, Purple Naked Ladies was released digitally at the back end of last year, this week it received the physical status.
To coincide with this release date, The Internet unveils a bonus track and a documentary about the making of the album. Bonus track or not, it’s definitely fits in with the rest of the project – soulful, funked out R’n'B.
Watch up top for the pair’s personal thoughts on the album, their favourite tracks, Quadron and more.
Vince returns with a very different visual affair from his Smother Me acoustic outing he last blessed us with. This time bravely venturing down the wildly stylish and sexy road, whilst still demonstrating his raw vocal talent and range. The song was written by Vince Kidd, The Royal Palms and Leon Jackson and serves a slice of sultry smooth R’n’B pie. The video was produced by De La Muerte, directed by Debbie Scanlan and Edited by Liz Adams.
New visual offering from the Swansea lads, signed to Modeselektor operated label 50Weapons. This chilled lo-fi gem comes from their debut album They!Live, a collection of Berlin inspired, UK influenced Detroit- and Dub-Techno, UK Funky, Deep House, Tech House tracks all recorded in Berlin between late August and early November 2011. Melodies and soundscapes going hand in hand with gold-panda-esque pads and ambient vocal under-dubbing courtesy of Abigail Wyles. Perfect post-work-wave. You can listen to snippets of the other album tracks and pick up your copy over here.
Despite her ‘SoKo is dead’ episode that played out back in 2009 via Myspace, the Bordeaux chanteuse is back with an expectant album next month.
First Love Never Dies is an affable caring, wistful dream. Genuine sentiment is dispensed via SoKo’s husky, slighty accented voice and even more so with the cute visuals to accompany the track. The home movie feel video was also directed by SoKo herself and actor Matthew Gray Gubler. How cute are these kids..
On Saturday 21st January, the PinBoard team headed down to the cool corner of Camden, London – Koko to be precise for Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide Awards 2012, which was a stellar night of great music – review coming soon.
Whilst there, we were blown away by 15 year old singer J’Danna from South London who sang a tribute live. We were amazed by her rendition of the Gill Scott Heron original and the tender yet mature control over her future soul voice. Floating over the deep two step production works perfectly and gives a new lease of life to the 1974 classic.
Not much more is known about the youngster, other than she has been freshly signed to hip hop collective’s 2Morrow’s Victory’s own label. We will keep watch, of course. Listen and download below.
Following the release of Time Wharp’s first single ‘yrLyf’ comes another glitch-heavy production also taken off his newly released free BLKEP, titled ‘mdat’. Presumably designed for ones with mellow minds, this kicks, jumps and bumps in all the right places – its a quiet builder, something to sit with and enjoy during some down time. Two for two – Time Wharp is delivering the goods.
BLK is out now via bandcamp and is offered as free download.
TightMike & KayleoStock, make up the Vancouver/ Oakland duo that spend most of their time making what they like to call “forward thinking beat music” and “original dancefloor melting rhythms”. Continuing with that mantra, they start off 2012 on a good note with their new single ‘Nigeria’ which includes a remix from Bobby Tank.
Being from Nigeria myself, there is less of the more familiar afrobeats sounds or tribal drums at work here, but rather the Falcons opt for a gritty bass line, dark yet sultry in nature. Laced with a soothful R’n'B vocal and a blend of roaring glitches, this track is full of flavour.
Bobby switches it up slightly, giving us Nigerian heat. Lightening the bass, adding delicate warming, arp synths too. Definitely enjoying both sides. Check it out below.
When a legendary figure in music passes away, subsequent tribute songs and remixes inevitably emerge. It’s a tradition that can go either way (like any reworking), thankfully Lucky Paul leaves the fundamental greatness of Etta James’ ‘I’d Rather Go Blind’ to soar while building around it an Electronic shell that subtly brings it into the 21st century.
Oklahoma rockers, The Flaming Lips mentioned talks of pairing with Ms Badu last week. Now lead singer Wayne Coyne unleashes on his Soundcloud a three minute sample of what to expect.
Biz Markie backwards (!), plus the sweet vocals of the soulstress Erykah Badu are the ingredients to make subtle sensual iPhone music together. And surprising guest appearance by Apple’s very own Siri. Yep – the intelligent software personal assistant – THAT Siri. Wayne mentions as he posts up the song that “Life is beautiful. Music gets you high”. What do you think, beautiful or just freaky?
With that line up, not sure what else to expect from the whole project which is due for a Record Store Day release. Listen below. Am I wrong for liking this?
Brownswood signed Gangs Colours has his new single ‘Fancy Restaurant’ remixed by three dons of the Electronic world – Machinedrum, Ifan Dafydd & Deft. Each craftsman takes aim at re-sculpting the undeniable surrealist swag of the songs original composition – and of course, do so impressively.
A really exciting set of reworks here – mad love to Brownswood and Gang Colours for curating this set. ‘Fancy Restaurant’ is taken off GC’s forthcoming debut album The Keychain Collection, due out February 27th.
PinBoard is in (snowy) Amsterdam right now for reasons of sheer musical pilgrimage, and a couple hours ago the dreadful news that D’Angelo had cancelled the fourth sold out night of his comeback as hopeful fans queued caused impending uproar, but worse – broken hearts.
At present it’s speculated tonight’s cancellation is due to the artist sustaining a leg injury during his Paris show last night. Tomorrow’s gig at Paradiso is currently said to go on as planned. Fingers crossed the idol returns to shape and we all manage to get to the holy grail. Otherwise… inexplicably pissed.
For all our Dutchies and other international wayfarers in the city here tonight aswell as the UK fams back home, throw up one mo’ gin thanks to OkayPlayer who’ve just dropped this ‘fantasy concert’ tape of high quality live D’Angelo recordings compiled by expert NY producer/connoisseur Sam Champ. You need this tonight.
Hang tight, we’ll keep you posted via our twitter.
Tracklist:
1. Fantastic Intro
2. Brown Sugar
3. Devil’s Pie
4. Crisco
5. Left & Right
6. Chicken Grease
7. Lady
8. Left & Right (Reprise)
9. Feel Like Making Love
10. Can’t Hide Love
11. Things You Do (Fall in Love)
12. One Mo’ Gin
13. Me and Those Dreaming Eyes of Mine
14. S.D.M.
15. Untitled (How Does It Feel)
Brand new video from Shabazz Palaces‘, the band who delivered my personal favourite album of 2011 in the form of Black Out. The experimental Hip Hop group also delivered one of my favourite videos from last year when they released visuals for the albums title track ‘Black Out’.
Peep their latest creation up top and for reals, if you haven’t already – make sure you experience their debut album, it’s fantastic.
