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DOWNLOAD: These Are Powers - World Class Peoples
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Nigh on six minutes of propellant drone havoc here from Brooklyn trio These Are Powers, sounding like they've crammed a gang of electric eels into the innards of a jackhammer and/or used a particle accelerator as an instrument for club music. It's cribbed from a new 12-inch for RVNG, which means another immaculately-crafted vinyl package with cover art we'd gladly hang on our wall. Get one for yourself here.
AROUND THE WEB: 02/09/2010
The Tripwire hung out at Adam Green's place.
XLR8R posted their current cover story on Matias Aguayo.
Paste rang up Best Coast to talk 7-inches and Neil Young.
The FADER posted some footage from a recent Atlas Sound show.
Hot Chip's unaired performance of "Take It In"–with the Roots!–is on the Late Night With Jimmy Fallon website.
No Age played a bunch of unreleased songs for Daytrotter.
Discobelle coralled all the pertinent info on Riva Starr's Essential Mix.
5 Magazine interviewed Kid Sister and Green Velvet/Cajmere together.
Pitchfork premiered a new Soft Pack video.
self-titled rapped with Toro Y Moi about Blink 182 and other stuff we're less interested in.
And Palms Out posted a new single from Udachi, which includes a remix from Nadastrom.
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Moneybrother - Born Under A Bad Sign
Northern Soul was a rough-and-tumble British thing, but far be it from the Swedes to not do anything more cleanly than its originators. Moneybrother aka Anders Wendin has already won a Grammy, notched a number one album, and, somewhat bafflingly, launched his own brand of soup–all in his home country of Sweden. With "Born Under A Bad Sign" (not an Albert King cover, but produced by Bjorn Yttling of Peter Bjorn & John) and the new album from which it stems, Real Control, Wendin's looking to make inroads into the U.S., which shouldn't be too hard since "Come On Eileen" is still on like ninety percent of the jukeboxes we encounter. The LP's out in April via Bladen County.
DOWNLOAD: Syntaks - Blue Sunshine + Video
Heavy-on-the-sublime Danish duo Syntaks don't need pretty, ethereal videos for us to enjoy their music, but who doesn't like pretty, ethereal videos? Directed by Syntaker Jakob Skott, the above clip for "Blue Sunshine" (from the Ghostly-released Ylajali) layers warped found footage over slo-mo portraits of Anna Cecilia, Skott's bandmate and partner. So, add "romantic" to that previous list of adjectives. An MP3's below for take-home vibes.
DOWNLOAD: Massive Attack - Paradise Circus (feat. Hope Sandoval) (Gui Boratto Remix)
The wait for Massive Attack's Heligoland ends tomorrow, but what's a release date these days without a few preceding spoilers? Again, it's only a remix, captained not by unknowns but by Kompakt's Brazilian sentry Gui Boratto, whose aptitude for emotive, hyper-precise rhythms makes him a perfect foil to the traditionally melancholic Bristol legends. So, how's it sound? Like slack-jawed Spaghetti Western techno.
Massive Attack - Paradise Circus (feat. Hope Sandoval) (Gui Boratto Remix)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Motor - Kick It (Malente Remix)
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We're glad this one landed on the Friday schedule, because trying to untangle its blitz of hammer drums and cannon synths would be rather daunting on Monday morning. So, go forth into the weekend with Malente's Motor rerub and reimagine yourself as a joyriding android, recklessly destroying everything in your path. Just don't, you know, actually do that.
Motor's new album, Hyper Machine, is out now via Dim Mak.
DOWNLOAD: Thieves Like Us - Never Known Love
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Deviating from the butterfly-like, still-partying-in-the-morning singles of 2009, Paria via Sweden and America trio Thieves Like Us go all nighttime slow dance on "Never Known Love," which sounds like Depeche Mode covering Kate Bush plus like twenty smoke machines. If that imagery isn't working for you, they've also put together a video that involves skulls, lions, circus performers, Roman ruins, fire, and more smoke machines. Their new album, Again And Again, should surface sometime later this year.
DOWNLOAD: Rifoki - Sperm Donor
Like a few RCRD LBL staffers, Steve Aoki and Sir Bob Cornelius Rifo of The Bloody Beetroots spent their youths sweating to hardcore. (Now's the time to mention that one of Aoki's old bands, This Machine Kills, totally, uh, killed.) So, that the banger-hawking, stage-dive-prone DJs convened in an Italian studio to revisit their past, as it were, shouldn't baffle anyone, though it probably will. "Sperm Donor"–the thrashy, ear bleedingly rad preamble to their forthcoming EP–will weed those skeptics out.
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