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RND UP: 7.4.2009

Posted 7/4/2009 11:41 AM by Omar McFarlane

Tags: rnd up

Another amazing week here at RCRD LBL has come to a close. In case you missed any of the great tracks we released this week, here's the RND UP. This is your chance to catch up on all the new music.

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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Little Boots - Remedy (A1 Bassline Get Hype Remix)

Posted 7/3/2009 9:36 AM by Kev Kharas

Tags: Speed garage, bassline, hardcore, acid house

A1 Bassline takes no prisoner. The Londoner's remix of Little Boots' "Remedy" finds the femme actuelle whirring and beleaguered within a maelstrom of Hardcore, Speed Garage, Bassline and Acid House. It sounds like someone in London tuned infinite hi-fis to pirate radio in about 1985 and then wrapped them around the moon, so that when the bow returned you could hear the birth of every UK bass sound of the last 20 years all at the same time. Vicious, twisted, time-compressing club music. Get Friday hype!

Sounds Like: Hot City, T2, Delinquent

Little Boots - Remedy (A1 Bassline Get Hype Remix)

Little Boots - Stuck on Repeat

Little Boots' RCRD LBL Page

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DOWNLOAD: A Grave With No Name - Sofia

Posted 7/3/2009 7:55 AM by Kev Kharas

Tags: indie-pop, slacker

"Sofia" is currently at the centre of a bidding war between the RSPCA and Battersea Dogs Home. They want to use it in those adverts they put on daytime TV to get donations out of the unemployed. A Grave With No Name sure do sound like lonely slackers, so help them out! It won't cost you a penny and they'll write to you every month.

Sounds Like: Banjo or Freakout, a slowed down Wavves, Daniel Johnston

A Grave With No Name - Sofia

A Grave With No Name - Open Water

A Grave With No Name's RCRD LBL Page

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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Niyi - Boom Bang Boy (feat. Adamski)

Posted 7/2/2009 12:30 PM by Kev Kharas

Tags: pop, rap

I think Niyi's London's most prominent hipster. I'm not certain about such things, but matey chills with M.I.A., Gareth Pugh and that girl from Cassette Playa, DJs at Punk on Oxford Street and got kicked out of Central Saint Martins a couple of times. He also gave birth to Nu-Rave, allegedly. What a horrible, sloppy mess that must have been; neon tendrils reaching out from the torso of some gurn-faced baby. Anyway - Niyi's plays a bouncy, half-pop, half-rap kind of music and he's playing at the London showcase for new label/club night Awesome next Saturday, July 11th. Details are up there - if you want entry, turn up and say 'RCRD LBL' on the door and those most magic of words should see you in.

Sounds Like: Bloc Party, Nelly Furtado, Just Jack

Niyi - Boom Bang Boy (feat. Adamski)

Niyi's RCRD LBL Page

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DOWNLOAD: Mew - Repeaterbeater

Posted 7/2/2009 11:25 AM by Samuel Duke

Tags: prog, indie, rock

Cosmic Danish rockers Mew are currently on tour in Europe with Nine Inch Nails, where Trent Reznor's been tweeting that they are "so good live it kind of pisses me off." Way to make friends, you guys. The band also have a new album, "No More Stories..." (the title is actually a six line poem we aren't going to print) out August 25th on Columbia, with "Repeaterbeater" being the first, albeit brief, piece we've heard. If it's anything to go by, this will be yet another inimitable album of distracted, rapturous pop that half of our friends won't understand and the other half will adore. If Reznor's tweets are anything to go by, it will be a "grower." Our money is on it just being awesome.

Sounds like: Muse, Nine Inch Nails, The Cooper Temple Clause

Mew - Repeaterbeater

Mew's RCRD LBL Page

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EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: MSTRKRFT - Heartbreaker (feat. John Legend) (Laidback Luke Remix)

Posted 7/2/2009 10:52 AM by Kev Kharas

Tags: house, club

Five years ago, when "You're A Woman, I'm A Machine" was about to be unleashed and they were in their prime, commercial house didn't seem like a viable option for DFA 1979. But, as the filth and rage continues to morph slowly into sun-fired, clubland content, here we are half a decade later, Jesse F. Keeler calling in John Legend to lend vocals to "Heartbreaker", (presumably because it sounds weird when you Autotune feral grunts and snorts). The track, reworked here by Dutch DJ/Producer Laidback Luke, sounds made for daytime radio, a drive-time victory of post-work delirium and heartbroken lyrics sung by a man who couldn't sound less heartbroken if he tried. I suppose there isn't much to get yourself down about when you're John Legend.

Sounds Like: Daft Punk, Crazy Cousins, Fedde Le Grand

MSTRKRFT - Heartbreaker (feat. John Legend) (Laidback Luke Remix)

MSTRKRFT - Bounce Ft. N.O.R.E. (A-Trak Remix)

MSTRKRFT's RCRD LBL Page

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DOWNLOAD: White Lies - Death (Crystal Castles Remix)

Posted 7/2/2009 10:17 AM by Kev Kharas

Tags: electronic, pop

Never ones to pussyfoot, Crystal Castles have taken White Lies' request to remix "Death" as a cue to transform it into one of their own tracks, Harry McVeigh's vocal messed with so that the singer seems sliced at the throat and buried alive beneath shifting synth thrusts and impatient drum muck. The more vigilant among you may remember this track from last year, but this is a new edit, bloodlust revived, shining, fresh meat to stuff in your ears.

Sounds Like: Pictureplane, a murderous garden strimmer,  HEALTH // DISCO

White Lies - Death (Crystal Castles Remix)

White Lies' RCRD LBL Page

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