The 15th annual Red Bull Music Academy, which this year heads to New York, will take place between April 28th-May 15th and will involve a plethora of influential and respected names in music. The academy will feature 236 artists across 34 nights which will include academy lectures, special one-off concerts, A/V installations and film screenings among other things.

The first round of names taking part this year have been announced and as expected – the list (already) includes some of the most pioneering names in contemporary music. Among the first to be revealed include Four Tet, Flying Lotus, Erykah Badu, Brien Eno, James Murphy, Skream & Questlove. Head over to redbullmusicacademy.com for the full lowdown and ticket information. Expect further (rather epic) announcements in the coming days.

So… New York in April? #yesplease.

Sidenote: They’ve also just launched a new (highly distracting!) Red Bull Midi Academy site featuring “cutting-edge [midi] renditions of all your favourites like Flying Lotus, TNGHT, Mount Kimbie and more…”. The site goes in-hand with the H∆SHTAG$ series they’re currently airing on internet music culture – peep the first three episodes (featuring How To Dress Well, Zodiac, Main Attrakionz, Flatbush Zombies, Mount Kimbie and many others) here.

Heads won’t have forgotten Artful Dodger’s classic ’00 debut It’s All About the Stragglers, it was an album that for many helped summarise a golden period of (commercial) Garage. They also won’t have forgotten one of the smash singles that came from it ‘Please Don’t Turn Me On’ featuring Lifford (what the f*ck happened to that guy?). Well now those Disclosure boys have taken on the challenge to re-vibe it (brave!) – have a listen/watch up top and see how they do…

Major Laser use some of their biggest shows over the past year as the backdrop for their new video for ‘Jah No Partial’ featuring Flux Pavillion. If you were waved at this years Red Bull Carnival Party in London, have a look and see if you can spot yourself doing something silly. Johnny Osbourne, whose “Mr. Marshall” is sampled in the song, opens the video in tribute.

Our most beloved London girl, Katy B features on Mosca’s epic new single ‘What You Came For’, which we first shared with you back in August. Sadly Miss Brien doesn’t make a cameo in the video but her vocals are, as always, impossibly infectious and instantly gratifying. Love this lady.

New album soon please!

Still riding high off her recent Mercury Music Prize nomination, songstress Jessie Ware has unleashed 3 new reworkings of her single ‘No To Love’, taken off her debut album Devotion. The EP features craftsmanship from George Fitzgerald, Ewan Pearson & Todd Edwards and so, as you’d imagine, it’s advisable you turn up those subs… Gah.

Listen / buy below via Soundcloud.

For a song called ‘Latch’, the action would have to be lip-locking. Liberally sprinkled with that, a brand new video from the duo that will be taking over. This single, which has already made a soundcloud-step to half a milli wheel ups, is out November 5th on PMR Records.

A brief rip of an unreleased Hud-Mo jaunt named ‘Tingle’ from Benji B’s Radio 1 show. At some point, the Scot beatsmith will probably reach that status of British Hip-Hop production royalty. If you can’t wait till the big rollers start officially vocal’ing his tracks, check out features on recent G.O.O.D. Music comp Cruel Summer with Teyana Taylor and John Legend: ‘Bliss’ gets very Butter. But charging forward into rider territory where TNGHT left off, is ‘Tingle’, crushing low freak-quency and skitters. Subs on as they say and mind out for the nutty turntable…

Hailing from Derbyshire, Jake Norman a.k.a Armeria follows in a similar vein to PinBoard favourites Karma Kid and the Disclosure boys. Bouncy future garage, chopped and screwed female vocals over a healthy dose of 808 percussion and bass. Tasty. Keep it locked on his soundcloud here for future vibes

The announcement comes that Disclosure have just signed to West London stable PMR Records, and if the label’s track record for high quality releases, artistic integrity, yet pop adventurousness is anything to go by then that move will probably guarantee an even brighter outlook for the Surrey massive. This single featuring soulful Sam Smith on vox will be the hotly tipped duo’s first official release for PMR, and a precursor to that forthcoming album we’ve been waiting on since The Face EP followed a litter of enormous remixes and online gems. Pure phonky exhilaration. This is all, probably, the most exciting thing that’s happened today.

Obviously not a one off then…

DJ Target premiered a brand new track from these two newly aquatinted friends on his Radio 1 show, only this time Hackney’s own Shystie leads the assault with Azealia returning the favour as the featured femcee. After the under di sea, calypso vibes of ‘Neptune’, the pair waste no time in switching things up, bringing forth their respective inner bad gyal – proving neither are to be messed with. Full-on empowerment, capped with tongue in cheek lyrics – clearly Shystie is prepping us all for her forthcoming  project Gold Dust Volume 2 – coming soon.

‘Control It’ is out 21st September