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Elderkin, whose video work has been featured on this site for both Bon Iver
and Frank Ocean videos has shot the latest set of visuals for James Blake's exceptional opening track off his latest LP of the same name, "Overgrown.” I've been pretty obsessed with this track and album in general for the last
week so it was great to get this new video that see’s James walking though
forest and hills haunted by shadowy cloaked figures.
I first shared the work of Welsh producer Ifan Dafydd about
two years back on our sister site Red Cup, at the time there wasn’t much
information on the man out there but he has been steadily making a name for
himself as one of the more intriguing
production talents. “llonydd” sees the producer teaming up with vocalist AlysWilliams (who also graced the producer’s choice tune some months ago entitled
“Celwydd.”) Ifan chops her vocals into eerie fragments, something he does
better than most and the results are first class, so give it a spin below and support
the artist when you can by purchasing some of his tunes.
Only a day or two after releasing a stream of his new single,
“Retrograde” James Blake drops the music video of the noteworthy tune. Director
Martin de Thurah,who also helmed the St. Vincent and David Byrnes video for “Who”
and Feist’s “Anti-Pioneer”, provides the equally memorable video.
After some time away from the spotlight James Blake made his
return today with the premiere of his new single “Retrograde”. The song is set
to appear on Blake’s forthcoming LP, Overgrown, out on April 8th. Always
the master of negative space James cleverly builds “Retrograde” up from a
melody he coo’s during the opening bars, building his beat up around it and
throwing down some appropriately soft vocals to bring it all together.
Well this is a pleasant surprise. Generator, Northern Film& Media, and Dustfarm teamed up with Young Turks and XL Recordings for this
new “Trials of the Past” video for SBTRKT. I say pleasant because the tune has always been
my favorite track on the London Producer’s LP and not because of the subject matter seen in the video, I'd use awesome to describe this fun and gory sci-fi inspired treat.
SBTRKTdropped off a new tune entitled
“Terminal” without more than a link on his Facebook and the brief description
of “tales from the studio." Check out the playful tune below …
This week marks the 10th anniversary of BBC's 6Music. Lauren Laverne and her morning show have been setting up camp at London's famous Maida Vale studios and having numerous Musical guests in to perform. On Monday SBTRKT did his thing and you can now enjoy the entire 30 minutes below…
James Blake has a new EP coming out on December 11th called Love What Happened Here and today we get to hear a little preview in the form of a radio rip of track “Curbside.” The tune is built around the same deconstructed percussion that characterised the young producers early releases, enjoy...
SBTRKT hit up thee BBC studio’s this week to drop his take on the legendary Essential Mix. Check out the stream below. He premiered a brand new track towards the end of the show: “Runaway” which I included a separate stream for as well.
Tracklist:
SBTRKT — Pharaohs
Shed — Leave Things
Hudson Mohawke — Cbat
Radiohead — Bloom
Flying Lotus — Dance Of The Pseudo Nymph
Radiohead — Lotus Flower (SBTRKT Remix)
Boddika — Grand Prix
Blawan — Lavender
Joy Orbison & Boddika — Swims
Disclosure — My Intention Is War
SBTRKT — Wildfire (Objekt Remix)
Mosca — Bax
Adonis — No Way Back
Objekt — Clk Recovery
Boddika — Syn Chron
Sbtrkt & Sinden — Seekwal
Pearson Sound — Stifle
Mr Tickle — Grinding
Untold — U29
Call Super — Timora (Objekt Remix)
SBTRKT — Stopover
Djedjotronic — Computer Jerk
Lone — Raptured
SBTRKT — Sanctuary
Roy Davis Jr. — Gabriel
Mike Dehnert — Isolateur
Pixellord — Iron And Cream Pt 2
Drake — Fireworks (Deadboy Remix)
The Roots — Antiquity (feat. Miguel Atwood Ferguson)
Tinie Tempah — Pass Out (Sbtrkt Instrumental Remix)
Ike Release — Outrun
Fantastic Mr. Fox — Over
Dark Sky — The Lick
Jacques Greene — Another Girl
Masters at Work — Blood Vibes
Machine Drum — U Dont Survive (Sbtrkt Remix)
Roni Size & Reprazent — Destination
Sully — Give Me Up
Rustie — Surph
SBTRKT — Runaway (Essential Mix Exclusive Debut)
D'Angelo — Greatdayindamornin'
Radio 1's Essential Mix hosted James Blake last night for the first time and over the two hour session, James drops a load of his own music, as well as tracks from Salem, Drake, Africa Hitech and Stevie Wonder! Everything from classical music through to hiphop, dubstep to soul, enjoy below….
TrackList:
Erik Satie — Gnossienne No.5
James Blake — Olivia Kept
James Blake Versus Drake — Half Heat Full Versus Up All Night
James Blake — Pan
SALEM — Trapdoor
Snoop Dogg — Drop it like it’s Not (Harmonimix)
[unknown] — Unknown
Klaus — Tarry
D’Angelo — One mo’ Gin
[unknown] — Sicko Cell
Blawan — What You Do With What You Have
R&S Records
James Blake — No More Than A Road (Dub)
James Blake — At Birth (Dub)
The Chain — Suffer For Your Art
R&S Records
Peverelist — Roll With The Punches (Harmonimix)
[unknown] — Navigator
OutKast — Return of the G
Africa Hitech — Out In The Street
DJ Nate — 3 Peat
James Blake — Deeds
Gavin Bryars — Three Elegies for Nine Clarinets II
Gavin Bryars — Three Elegies for Nine Clarinets III
Odi et Amo — Johann Johannsson
Grouper — Vessel
James Blake — Untitled
James Blake — Untitled
[unknown] — What Was It
The Tallest Man on Earth — Love Is All
SALEM — Redlights
Rev. James Cleveland — Jesus Saves
Trim — Confidence Boost (Harmonimix)
James Blake — Evening Fell Hard For Us
James Blake — Placing Us
James Blake — Words We Both Know
Arthur Russell — Love Comes Back
Stevie Wonder — You and I
Last night Gilles Peterson dropped a brand new James Blake track which is set to appear on his upcoming Enough Thunder EP. Enjoy the radio rip of “Not Long Now” below….
Taken from SBTRKT’s eponymous debut "Pharaohs" (feat. Roses Gabor) has been given a brand new video courtesy of director Tim Brown and producer Jonny Kight. The footage features the mysterious masked producer alongside Roses Gabor whilst her wispy vocals wrap themselves around the minimal beats of the track, enjoy..
Where do I even begin…This is the mother load, EVERY Essential Mix from 1993 – May 2011. All 919 of them, featuring anyone and everyone, you are welcome!
Here is a nice little video of London producer SBTRKT along with Sampha performing the soulful electro “Hold On” at this year’s Reading festival in the U.K., enjoy.
Stuck inside with the threat of Hurricane Irene looming outside so keeping with the atmospheric chill electronic theme I’m gonna go back to 2010 with Suddenly Sunshine's "Summer Days" (Isan’s remix), enjoy and stay dry NY!
An unofficial collaboration from SBTRKT and Shabazz Palaces in the form of this Drumma Boy remix of underground smash hit “Wildfire” by SBTRKT. There have been some odd combinations as of late but this is probably one of the strangest with Shabazz Palaces providing some rhymes over Little Dragon’s vocal and key elements from SBTRKT’s original composition, enjoy below….
Last night dubstep wonderkid James Blake made his U.S. television debut on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, where he performed “The Wilhem Scream”, enjoy the clip below…
New York radio station WFUV hosted a session with current golden child of dub music James Blake recently, and they brought along a film crew to capture the moment. This clip gives an up-close look at how the live version of cover song “Limit to Your Love” is assembled, with one of Blake’s band members tooling away on a sampler while the singer croons over a simple piano motif. Check it out in the clip below..
