New Burial tunes

There's a Burial/Fly-Lo collab on Fly-Lo's myspace

And here are two more from last week's Benji B 1xtra show:

Pangea

Pangea

This guy is pretty much boshing out exactly the kind of shit I love at the moment: punchy but deep rolling 2-step patterns runnin ~140bpm. The You & I / Router 12" was in my imaginary (I never wrote it down) top five of 2008, and can be heard on his myspace along with another unreleased tune called Memories which is et for a March release.

If you can't wait till March then this is out Friday on Hot Flush recordings:
Bear Witness / Mosaix

For the week ending 22/02/09

Either I'm slacking or the last two weeks have been pretty dry. Only one for this week and it's another one from French label '7even recordings':

Likhan - Redlight / Quiet Riot

Not much to say except I think it's probably an early contender for 12" of the year.

For the week ending 01/02/09

Mount Kimbie to start with this week. Something very Mogwai-esque about these tunes, particularly the title track:
MOUNT KIMBIE - Maybes

T++ and Peverelist remixing for Shed on this one. Peverelist predictably brings a relentless energy to the tune, while T++ gives it a soakdown in his characteristically dark, paranoid techno:
STP - The Fall (remixes)

And lastly some largely synthetic hip-hop grooves from Harmonic313, one half of the Global Communication duo who featured on Warp's Detroit-techno influenced 'Artificial Intelligence' mix tape from way back in 1994. The Detroit influence persists, and not just in the form of Cybotron and Drexciya inspired techno, but also in the form of late Detroit hip-hop legend J-Dilla. You can feel Dilla's presence from the first snarling bass synth, which makes for the almost eerie moment on track 8 when his vocal sample comes in and Phat Kat (another Detroit head) drops his name. All in all a carefully constructed homage to the last two decades of Detroit, but not the least bit derivative because of it.
HARMONIC 313 - When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence