RETURNING: M83 - Midnight City

Here is a track receiving endless electronic love at the moment. Named after a spiral galaxy, M83 really will send you up to the heavens with this euphoric slice of dream pop. The brainchild of Anthony Gonzales from Antibes, France. M83 continue to carve their shoegaze niche with a little more punch than you'd expect.


The surfacing taster track"Midnight City" is taken from their upcoming album HURRY UP, WE'RE DREAMING, and this nugget hits the spot with all the killer synthesised pop production that we've come to expect from MUTE records. It really is a solid effort from M83, with backing vocals that are some-what reminiscent of an in prime Kate Bush, supplying a rhythmical backing that only aids the inevitable head bobbing. Furthermore - as the icing on the cake - there is a blast of Bowie Rock Sax towards the end and it's high time somebody brought back the saxophone in pop music!


HURRY UP, WE'RE DREAMING is released on the 18th of October on MUTE.


You can download M83's "Midnight City" for free HERE.

Midnight City by M83

NEU: Lost Highway..

BINARY were formed by London based David Troster, who coincidentally happens to be a molecular biologist. What affect that has on the song writing god only knows. Their new song "Turquoise" is big and brooding, with "Bad Seeds" style desert riffage and epic production to match. Rhythmically it is not the most dynamic song in the world with a consistent drudging tempo and some might say the vocals lack the individual, idiosyncratic charm of many a great band gone by. But, saying that, with production and style like this you may be surprised to hear it's their first effort.  Onward and upward?

Binary play their first show on the 11th of August at the Shacklewell Arms, Stoke Newington. 

Turquoise by BINARY

PAST: La Cire Poussiéreuses..

It's time to dust off some old Hip-Hop Français, in a time, frankly, when popular hip-hop has been mauled, mutated and disfigured beyond recognition. Other than your Stones throw's and other off the beaten track independent labels, looking to the past seems one of the finer options. French hip-hop ruled the roost in the 90's with it's quintessentially Parisian sounding jazz cuts and souly backing vocals. Here are a few gems to keep your Hip Hop taste buds tingling...


MC Solaar - Obsolète (Prose Combat - 1994 - Cohiba Records):

DJ Cam ft. Channel Live - Broadcasting Live (The Beat Assassinated - 1998 - Columbia):

IAm – Bouger La Tête ( L'ecole Du Micro D'argent - 1997 - Capitol):

NEU: Touch me, i'm sick!!

THE DIRTY NIL are about to take you back to 1994 when your testosterone levels were a big bowl of wrong and your jeans were sand-washed and stinkin'. This is brilliant, with guitars louder and chunkier than Beth Ditto after a wholesome sunday lunch. If you've got any youth left in your decrepit old wreck of a body, you are going to enjoy this. The track in question "Fuckin' Up Young" sounds like it's been brewing in a cauldron from the early nineties full of super fuzz big muff and beer cans. There is even a overdose of early Weezer in there for kicks. You can buy the single HERE and it wont go breaking the bank. Do it now!

The Dirty Nil - Fuckin' Up Young by keirekeire

RETURNING: Stormy Seas

THE RAPTURE are back with another new single from their swanky, soon to be released album IN THE GRACE OF YOUR LOVE. Bearing no connection to Enja's 1988 hit,  "Sail Away" far from bobbing off into the distance, drives forward with bulging melancholic lines, fizzing Moog and The Rapture's much loved - but some what over used - disco chicka-chi hi-hat. It's what you might call, a bit of an anthem, with lyrics about scaling ice cold mountains and never looking back, it ends up sounding more festival shout along than The Rapture of old.

GRACE OF YOUR LOVE is set for September release on DFA records.

NEU: Computer Love.

Danielle Johnson, aka Computer Magic, has been a busy bee. "Running" from her new Ep Electronic Fences has all the subtle-sweet melodies one could wish for. Danielle or Danz as she's known had humble beginnings as a DJ doing the rounds in New York city, but has since been beavering away down at her family's Florida home. What she has created down in the sunny state is filled with innocence and charm that is sure to win you over. Her mousey voice could be a downside for some, but with the muted synth and strings that lollop from start to finish, it all amalgamates into something surprisingly satisfying and imaginative.

Head on over to WHITE IRIS RECORDS and grab a copy of Electronic Fences on limited 12" vinyl (While you still can!)

Something new for your eyes and ears:



Computer Magic - "Running" from Consequence of Sound on Vimeo.