FOUR TET – APRIL MIX
On this fine Tuesday, we want to share the love from last night’s Four Tet show in New York and share this mix he just put up last night and it’s already being extremely popular, for all the obvious reasons. You’ve got your playlists ready for today.
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MISSING COACHELLA? SONGZA TO THE RESCUE
How often do you ask yourself or your trusted friends “What should I be listening to right now?”. Sometimes you ask Pandorra or Spotify but you have to give them your own answer first… Plus all the ads, accounts, blah blah… Well, now there’s an app that picks your playlist based on your mood! Sunday afternoon hello hungover? No problem, it will play you some Hank Williams and Blake Shelton. Swaggin down the block on a Wednesday afternoon? It will play you some Bay Area Rap and club classics. Saturday night seduction session? Songza got your back with Mount Kimbie and How To Dress Well. Missing Coachella cleaning your apartment right now? Songza has all Coachella artists in featured playlists right now. The best part – free, no audio ads, and it actually has a very cool interface.
Download Songza and be ready to discover new and re-discover old music that always suits your mood and fits the occasion.
No CommentsDUBS FRIDAY: MACHINEDRUM, FALTYDL, HYPE WILLIAMS
A one-off demo FaltyDL posted on his SoundCloud yesterday but has since hit the download cap, no worries we got you covered.
H-SIK is playing the Viral Radio 5 Year Anniversary party tomorrow night in Amsterdam.
Rizzla recently gave away a free self-titled EP on Kingdom’s Fade to Mind label.
Hype Williams will also be playing the Viral Radio 5 Year Anniversary party tomorrow along with Vladislav Delay.
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DIMENSIONS FESTIVAL LINE UP
How’s this for a festival line up?
Little Dragon, Carl Craig Presents 69 – live, Moodymann, Four Tet – Live, Theo Parish, Mount Kimbie – Live, Marcel Dettmann, Ben Klock, Joy Orbison, Dyed Soundorom, Gold Panda, Cassy, Scuba, Surgeon, Shackleton, Jimmy Edgar, Todd Terje, Levon Vincent, Roman Flugel, Floating Points, Andrew Weatherall, Mala – Digital Mystikz, Kode 9, Morgan Geist – Metro Area, Axel Boman, John Talabot, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Ryan Elliott, Pearson Sound, Nathan Fake, dBridge, Loefah, Boddika, Kyle Hall, Benji B, Ben UFO, Blawan, Kassem Mosse, Space Dimension Controller, 2562, Portico Quartet, Pinch, Huxley, Machinedrum, Joel Mull, Iration Steppas, Untold, Mungo’s Hifi, Deadbeat, Jack Sparrow, Author, Pariah, Pangaea, Sigha, Objekt, Midland, Alexander Nut, Anstam, Funkineven, Locked Groove, Fatima (live), Amit, Dub Phizix, Loxy, Synkro, Consequence, SP:MC, Barker, N>E>D, Paul Spymania and David Martin.
Dimensions has not yet happened, and is already about to become our favorite festival of 2012. Pack up your swim trunks and bikinis, you’re going to Croatia!!!
1 CommentWIN TICKETS TO MODESELEKTOR SHOWS IN SAN FRANCISCO, BOSTON, CHICAGO OR MONTREAL.
Modeselektor is embarking on the North American leg of their “Monkeytown” tour, hitting San Franisco this Friday and crowning the tour at Coachella on April 22nd. We’re so excited to see them perform their new album songs, that we’re giving away tickets for their shows in San Francisco, Boston, Chicago and Montreal. All you gotta do is tell us where you want to attend the show – post in the comments below.
MODESELEKTOR TOUR DATES:
Fri. April 13 – San Francisco, CA @103 Harriet
Sun. April 15 – Indio, CA @ Coachella
Tue. April 17 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Wed. April 18 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
Thu. April 19 – Boston, MA @ Royale NightClub
Fri. April 20 – Montreal, QC @ Metropolis
Sat. April 21 – Chicago, IL @ Metro
Sun. April 22 – Indio, CA @ Coachella
DUBS FRIDAY: DJ Q, GREENWOOD SHARPS
BBC Radio 1xtra’s DJ Q recently gave away brand new EP via his Tumblr.
Taken from Greenwood Sharp’s debut EP, Things Familiar.
WATCH THE COOLEST NEW VIDEO – BENGA “I WILL NEVER CHANGE”
The coolest video we’ve seen in a looong while with the simple idea and a very tedious execution was created for Benga’s “I Will Never Change”. The directors, or should we say the geniuses, Christopher Barrett and Luke Taylor, took 960 vinyl records, measured, cut to fit the correct size and then animated: “To animate the wave form, we built it and then carefully removed each individual record. This had to be done very gently as any shift in the position of the sculpture would result in the failure of the animation and as we had to literally destroy each piece of vinyl to get it off, there was only one chance to get it right. Once the sculpture was finally built, the animation process took about 30 hours.”
Damn, boys did an amazing job, and Benga, please don’t you ever change.
1 CommentBIG UP TWELVE – NEW ISSUE FEATURING SCUBA, SEPALCURE, BURAKA SOM SISTEMA, COOLY G AND MORE
Cover art by Sougwen.
Hello Big Up lovers, fans, subscribers, supporters, readers and observers! The day has finally come. The new issue – the lucky Twelve – is officially released, hot off the press, smelling and looking good, thanks to the beautiful cover art by Sougwen, extensive features on Scuba, Sepalcure, Cooly G, Buraka Som Sistema, Renaat Vandepapeliere, and art by Alexis Marcou, Joe Fenton, and Erosie.
The “Black & White” or “Monochromatic” issue is now available in our online shop (in instantly e-mailed digital version and 2-day shipped print edition) and you can of course subscribe to the whole year of Big Up to receive it right at your door before everyone else. The new issue will be available in all good books and music stores nationwide and through your online music retailers in UK beginning this week.
We’ll be celebrating in our favorite New York club Cielo, with extended sets from our favorite Deep Medi crew – Mala, Quest + one very special guest featured in our previous issue – at our favorite Deep Space party on April 9th. The night is expected to be an event of epic proportions for all in attendance, so please don’t make up any excuses, and spend $20 on your best experience this April, this spring, or even this year.
Nuff said.
No hype.
One love.
Tickets here.
Buy Big Up Twelve here.
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P.S. Mad love to every single one of you who put their time and effort into making this new issue happen. You all know who you are and we freaking love you to bits! This one’s for you.
No CommentsDUBS FRIDAY: CHAIRLIFT, THUNDERCAT, RAS G
Ras G edits Thundercat’s “Daylight”.
Chairlift gets Gerry Read treatment.
NEW VIDEO FROM IAMAMIWHOAMI – “PLAY”
Brand new video from sometimes stunning, sometimes creepy, but always mysterious and masterfully produced iamamiwhoami. The 21st episode in the sequence, entitled “Play” is just as beautiful and just as bizzare as the rest of them. Enjoy.
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