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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.
Well look at that, not even a full 24 hours pass and we have
yet another new James Blake tune to share. After hearing the radio rip
of the dub version of “Voyeur,”
we get “Digital Lion,” a tune that features Brian Eno. So far the three songs
we have heard from the forthcoming L,P entitled Overgrown, are quite different
from each other but all still uniquely James Blake. This one being the most
chaotic of the three with its rapid fire pitter patter drums.
Some new music from James Blake comes courtesy of DJ Benji B. “Voyeur” is actually the dub
version of a cut that will appear on his new LP, Overgrown,
which drops April 8th. The tune starts with those signature emotive
vocal loops and synths but then things quickly go into overdrive in the
best way possible, check it below…
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.
DJ Benji B teamed up with writer and composer Grant Windsor for an hour long BBC Radio 1 special in which a 16-piece string ensemble play along side a variety of electronic and hip-hop tracks. Benji B handles the decks while a string section provides new layers to some of 2012′s biggest tunes and more. Check out the full tracklist and video below, let’s hoping an audio rip of this gets released.
Tracklist:
Dwele – A.N.G.E.L Flying Lotus – Do The Astral Plane
Ossie – Love Crazy
D-Malice – Gabryelle Refix
Bok Bok – Silo Pass
Wiley – Highs n Lows
S-X – Bricks
Timbaland – Ayo Technology (Instrumental)
Africa HiTech – Out in the Street (Snippet)
TNGHT – Higher Ground Kanye West, Jay-Z & Big Sean – Clique Drake – Headlines
Jeremih – All The Time
Raphael Saadiq – Skyy Can You Feel Me James Blake – Love What Happened Here Radiohead – Everything in its Right Place
BONUS: HERE is another similar performance from a year ago.
Tri Angle artist The Haxan Cloak recently created a mix for
Vice Italy featuring several of his own remix’s for artists like James Blake
and Jeff Grace along side tunes from the likes ofEvian Christ and Oneohtrix Point Never. Google Translate provided this
quote from the article on the mix …
"I could tell you that I do not listen to the radio enough to
know what's currently in the standings. I'm a disaster in keeping updated musically.
But I like the last Drake."
So there you have it, maybe we will get a Haxan Cloak remix
of the Hip Hop star in the future! Full Track list below…
01: The Haxan Cloak - Untitled
02. Andy Stott - Dark Details
03. Chris Clark - Farewell Track
04. Evian Christ - MYD
05. James Blake - The Bells Sketch (haxan cloak remix)
06. Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
07. Jeff Grace - The House Of The Devil (haxan cloak remix)
08. Jonny Greenwood - Oil
09. Haxan Cloak - Untitled Film Score
10. Grouper - Alien Observer
Welcome to Onomatopoeia’s yearend best of 2011. While our first posts began only 6 months ago in June, we felt that half a year on the blogosphere warranted the mandatory best of list. Since this is our first in what will hopefully become an annual tradition we had to take some time to figure out some of the in’s and out’s on how we wanted to go about it all. After some discussion amongst the contributors we decided to go with individual lists of 13 rather than one communal list. Why thirteen? We figured one choice per month at twelve months in the year with an extra 13th choice for good measure.
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...
Need to waste a couple hours? I suggest trolling through (NYC indie-radio) WFUV 90.7's "The Alternative Side" Youtube channel for hours of live in-house performances featuring the likes of Vetiver, YACHT, Art Brut and more. The videos feel really intimate and low-key but also do a good job of showing how alot of the music is made close ups on finger work and up close vocals. It was hard but I picked out a couple to share.
Man Man - "Haute Tropique"
Beirut - "Port of Call"
James Blake - "Unluck"
WFUV (90.7) is currently doing a donation drive until Oct. 21st and offering a live compilation album featuring some of these tracks and some other goodies. Worth a look at. Check it out here.
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….
Yesterday morning Jamie xx took to the Radio 1 Essential Mix decks for 2-hours of non-stop electronic music. There’s some great material here from James Blake, Aardvarck, Pangaea as well as Jamie’s own reworking of Radiohead’s ‘Bloom’ and Gil Scott Heron’s ‘I’ll Take Care of U’, stream and tracklist below…
Orbital – Belfast
Phanes – Lucky Woman
Ifan Dafydd – No Good
Harvey Mandel – Christo Redentor
Koreless – Lost in Tokyo
Floating Points – Sais
Wiley – Colder (Instrumental)
Fantastic Mr. Fox – Untitled
Pärson Sound – Untitled
DJ Deeon – Fine Hoes
Luke Vibert – Analord
New Look – Janet
John Tejada – Unstable Condition
Univac – Untitled (Track 1)
Aardvarck – Nosestep (Original Mix)
Jean Jacques Smoothie – 2 People
Instra:mental – Pyramid
Grimm Limbo – Fortune Favours the Brave
R A G – Rage (Spaventi &Aroy Raw Mix)
Ronnie Dyson – All Over Your Face
Jamie xx – Far Nearer (Bootleg)
Axel Boman – Purple Drank
Loosse – About You (feat. Yolanda)
Anette Party – Moreno (feat. Anita Coke)
Gino Soccio – Dancer
Mr Beatnick – Synthetes
Funke, Sacha vs Nina Kraviz – Moses (Stimming Remix)
Jamie xx &Gil Scott Heron – I’ll Take Care of U (Special DJ Version)
Genius of Time – Houston We Have a Problem
Austin Eterno/The xx – I Remember Shelter
James Blake – Libra (Edit)
Pangaea – Bear Witness
Holly Miranda – Slow Burn Treason
Peter Horrevorts – Siren
Chuck Roberts – My House (Acappella)
Virgo Four – Do You Know Who You Are?
Morning Factory – Diane’s Love
Karen Pollack – You Can’t Touch Me (Roc &Kato Vocal Beat Trip Mix)
War – The World Is A Ghetto (Special Disco Mix)
Marshall Jefferson – Mushrooms (Justin Martin Mix)
Radiohead – Bloom (Jamie xx Rework)
Two very popular people in indie music these days, James Blake & Bon Iver just dropped the much talked about 'Fall Creek Boys Choir' and BBC Radio 1 has premiered the track. Listen to it below...
According to a press release, "Over the past year James has cited Justin as a key influence and it was via a chance meeting at this years SXSW festival in Austin, Texas that the seed was sown for a future collaboration." The track was "formed in the spring over email." It features Justin Vernon on vocals and James Blake on production. It will be available on iTunes on August 29.
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..
