Fare Soldi (2)

Fare Soldi released another cracking mixtape last week that I haven’t been able to turn off. Much similar to their first with an Italian disco feel as only they know best.

Download from Big Stereo and it’ll all make sense.

Tracklisting:

1) Tony Esposito “Pagaia”
2) Agent Sumo “Ain’t got time (to stop)”
3) Van She “Kelly (Shinichi Osawa rmx)”
4) Fare Soldi “Survivor (Saint Pauli rmx)”
5) Stacy Lattisaw “Jump to the beat”
6) Mr.Oizo “Cut dick”
7) Righeira “Vamos a la playa (Burntpiano rmx)”
Bag Raiders “Nil By Mouth (Knightlife Remix)”
9) The Grid “Swamp thing”
10) DreDay “Chat Noir”
11) Bobby Brown “My prerogative (Breakdown rmx)”
12) Dam-Funk “Galactic fun”
13) In Flagranti “Abash crock”
14) Michael Mind “Baker Street”
15) Sebastian Ingrosso “Bodybeat (Steve Angello rmx)”
16) Spencer & Hill “Housebeat”
17) Cyber People “Void vision”
18) Fare Soldi non dimentica.

Great Escape 2010

Great line up news for Brighton’s Great Escape festival has been slowly leaking out over the past few days. Seems like the main headliners so far will be Ellie Goulding, Delphic, Slow Club, Broken Social Scene and Marina & the Diamonds. Drum and Bass and breakbeat giants Chase and Status are also on the bill, suggesting that the festival may be a little more varied in music genres than previous years.

Get your tickets here before the price goes up anymore, at a rather reasonable £45 for a whole weekends worth of music.

New Hot Chip

I can’t work out the new Hot Chip  album… Most of you will have heard Take it In and the title track One Life Stand but the album is my least favourite to date. I’ve only listened to it a couple of times so I’m sure it’ll grow on me, and I still can’t wait to see them in February for the millionth time. I’m always going to be a fan, and can at the moment say that other than the tracks mentioned before that these are the best on the album:

Hot Chip – Theives in the Night

Hot Chip – We Have Love

Hot Chip – One Life Stand (Drums of Death Remix)

Album is out 1st February and you can pre-order it here.

Florence Covers

It was a busy year for Florence & the Machine, with a massively popular album, Mercury nomination, huge amount of live gigs and seemingly being untouchable, she rounded off the year with Jools Holland covering the great My Baby Just Cares by Nina Simone. Also below is her great cover of Robert Palmer’s Addicted to Love. I’m hoping she’s as busy this year as she was last…

Florence & the Machine – My Baby Just Cares for You

Florence & the Machine – Addicted to Love

Flax + MEN

Lauren Flax has broken down MEN’s Simultaneously by adding a whole heap of Harps and strings, and kicking out the synths and snares just when you though it wasn’t going to get exciting. Superb.

MEN – Simultaneously (Lauren Flax remix)

Clique 2010

So Clique bring us two new mixtapes for the New year, one for going out and one for staying in. You can decide which you’d rather be doing on New Years Eve and these will help you either way.

Usual Clique fun mixes from the year if you click the picture below…

Catch Up

Sometimes, I feel like I’m seriously out of the loop. I’ve had pretty limited internet access for the last few months but it’s no excuse as to why I haven’t blogged about Angus & Julia Stone more recently. Hailing from Sydney this brother and sister duo are to folk as Rennie is to Christmas (trying to add a hint of seasonality to the somewhat Scrooge-like blog).

Having been producing music since 2006 with yearly EP’s out since their debut Chocolate and Cigarettes, they’ve been pretty busy. 2010 sees a new album Down the Way released in the early party of the year, and it’s about time Angus and Julia see some more recognition for their consistently mesmerising music.

Angus & Julia Stone – And the Boys

Angus & Julia Stone – Hollywood

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Fighter Plane

A pretty stunning and simple B Side to accompany Ellie Goulding’s new single Under the Sheets:

Ellie Goulding – Fighter Plane

Lovely.

Quicksand

Of all the La Roux remixes that have come out following her album this year, this has got to be the best. Alex Metric working his usual magic on a remix, adding a different slant and heading the song up to hopefully be played out on the dance and disco scene by steering away from his usual electro feel.

La Roux – Quicksand (Alex Metric Remix)

Quicksand is being re-released at the end of the month, with this remix and one from Boy-8 Bit and Mad Decent. Treats eh.

You’ve Changed

Earlier this year Lauren Flax featured Sia on her huge tune You’ve Changed, and Sia liked it so much that she decided to do her own version for her new album, and leak it all over Twitter. I just can’t work out which version I like better..

Sia – You’ve Changed

Lauren Flax ft. Sia – You’ve Changed