Ifan Dafydd first peaked our interest with his remix of Amy Winehouse’s ‘No Good’ and then again when he reworked Emeli Sande’s ‘Daddy’ single in October ’11. He followed those up with two original songs entitled ‘To Me’ and this, his first official single – ‘Treehouse’. An expansive production, riddled with intricate glitches, soothing chords and thundering basslines – it’s a beauty.
Now Dafydd along with his rising independent label Push & Run present it’s official video exclusively via Dazed & Confused.
The story behind ‘They Don’t Know’ is that back in ’04, Raphael Saadiq “opened his studio doors to SpaceK to produce an album for one of his sub-labels, the album was supposed to be called Pookie Blue Room and would have featured 10 songs produced by both Steve and Morgan [Zarante] with Raphael singing on all of them”. The songs would also feature guest appearances by Common, Q-TIp, Ledisi, Steve SpaceK and Sir Bentley. Unfortunately the project was never completed and thus – never heard and as executive producer of the project Schreyer had been sitting on these tracks for years – thankfully now he’s chosen to share them with the world…
The biggest track off their Watch the Throne album, Jay & Yeezy finally release their new video for ‘N*ggas in Paris’. Not what I expected (or hoped for), the video features live performance footage with insane editing – crazy enough to require an ‘epilepsy’ warning before viewing. It’s an enjoyable (albeit uncomfortable) view, but not what I wanted from such an epic tune. They could have come better – see: ‘Otis’.
Man, been dying to share this with you for the longest time – now we can! During his time at RBMA in Madrid last year, A’Dam’s finest Full Crate got to creating this beastly track with the mighty Mark Pritchard. Following on nicely from Crate’s last release Golden Glasses, ‘Dangle’ once again demonstrates the producers current bass-heavy headspace. Big speakers or respectable headphones essential – don’t mug yourself.
Like the Jesse Boykins & Gora Suo track we posted yesterday, this too will feature on the upcoming RBMA Various Assets – Not for Sale compilation album due out February 24th.
Freddie Joachim - Musician, producer, DJ, record label owner. How many more strings can this San Fran man add to his talented bow?
Plenty more it seems, as he changes direction slightly and drops his latest offering up on his soundcloud today. A sultry samba ambiance, amorous guitars and female utterances laden with romance. Relax into this one below.
Arca a Venezuelan producer, admittedly not a part of the world where we often showcase music from, but this 7 minute track transcends area codes and country lines perfectly.
Almost like two songs interwined, the free download ‘Spira’ gives us morphed and screwed R’n'B vocal at the beginning courtesty of Usher’s ‘Truth Hurts’ original (taken from his last decent album in my opinion – Confessions). Then livens up with an enclosing beat that swallows the smooth vibe, unashamedly spits it back out with a hollowing, glitched sound that eclipses the sample.
Download for free below and grab the free ep Baron Libre
I recently revisited Keyshia Cole’s debut album The Way It Is, cot damn – so many tunes on that LP. Really felt that she had the gusto to fill the gap left wide open by Mary J. Blige went mainstream, and to be fair – she followed up nicely with Just Like You, but personally I felt her material dipped after that.
In any case ‘Love’ was that jam on that record, that big ‘even man-dem can’t deny’ belter. So I’d forgive me for approaching this remix with a little trepidation. Thankfully JAW JAM (of whom very little is known) reworks it into an interesting chopped and screwed alternative – doesn’t lean too much to the original, but bumps enough to enjoy.
Lovin’ Kindness this morning, just the pick me up I (and you) needed. Nothing like a bit o’ Disco/Funk to spruce up your Thursday and ‘Gee Up’ is just that. An absurdly addictive bassline, with a Funky guitar section and to boot – a hilarious video. Probably one of the few videos that’s actually made me ‘laugh out loud’ in a while. “Low-fi with Hi-fi values”… Just watch!
Kindness’ debut album World, You Need a Change of Mind is due out March 19th.
“I was super inspired from all the love in the air for Jay Dee’s Birthday [yesterday]. Got me thinking about what an inspiration Detroit music is. Then got me thinking about other Detroit artists. Then got me thinking about Aaliyah, another amazing talent that we lost way to soon. So I made this. Inspired by Aaliyah, Jay Dee and Detroit” – Shigeto.
I’m a fan of Shigeto‘s work and dig his interpretation here, appreciating those Dilla vibes over Aaliyah’s classic. Real mellow and ends beauitfully.
As if masterpieces like ‘Eve’ & ‘Dolla’ weren’t enough, here is a newly liberated unreleased collaboration between astroplane singer Steve SpaceK (of SpaceK) and beat-God Jay Dee. As you would imagine this tantalizes enough body parts to require a new set of undies -but before you freshen up – you should know, this is just one of two unreleased gems Mathieu Schreyer (KCRW) is sharing with the world. The other will be shared soon – yay! OK, now go change.
Man, Rozay must have taken on some serious acting lessons for this clip – playing a hench drug lord out for revenge is no easy feat. Especially for… Rick Ross? Anyways – peep the Bawse’s latest visuals for ‘Yella Diamonds’ from his Rich Forever mixtape. And then have a moment of silence for 20 billion chinchillas that made that jacket he dons at the end.
Off the upcoming Black Sands Remixed longplayer comes this poignant reworking featuring the homie DELS alongside the original Andreya Triana vocals. The track surfaced back in ’10 as part of the Ninja Tunes XX celebrations and has finally got the visual treatment courtesy of duo Charlie & Joe. DELS is performing with Bonobo and Lapalux as part of tonights Boiler Room session (airing at 8 GMT) which is sure to be a heavyweight session. Black Sands Remixed is released Feb 21st.
The band have just released the video for their new single ‘Gold On the Ceiling’ taken off their new album El Camino. Mainly featuring performance footage, the video doesn’t do very much – but with their brand of Blues-Rock, it doesn’t have to.
Citing Michael Jackson, Prince, Paula Abdul, Janelle Monae & Lady Gaga as inspirations is a good start. Combining those influences and creating something dope – a brilliant result. London born newcomer Duke (who’s been doing his thing on the live scene for a minute) has seemingly dug deep to combine the best facets of Disco, Funk & R&B in order to produce this fresh piece of music. ‘Face 2 Face’ gleefully calls on recollections of Cameo and Bobby Brown, not to mention it seemingly pays homage to MJ (here) and Stevie (here) around the 02:18 mark. None of this though distracts too heavily from the fact that this guy is showing off some impressive chops too. Smash.
Bonus points for that bad-ass promo shot too, btw.
Catch Duke performing at Wired on Monday February 13th at Concrete – might need to see this in person.
Coming out of the big smoke is Shades Of Grey signee Duct. ‘Pensive Stare’ is taken from the upcoming Circles EP dropping in March. Jumpy time signatures accompanied by equally jumpy editing takes shape to create a nice 2-step bubbler with some intricate beat patterns thrown around to keep your motivated. Would have liked more of that bass that kicks in around the 2 minute mark though. Shot in NYC by Martyn Thomas, the piece is really well edited – I can’t get enough of those subway shots. Looks like 5Pointz in Long Island, how I miss that city!
