LV’s Super Good Tsugi Mix MP3
Our French is kinda bootsie so we’re not gonna venture to comment on what this Tsugi post is saying other than Brit producer dude LV likes the new school of dubstep and something about Botox? Is that some kind of beat machine or are they talking about Nicole Kidman’s mad eyebrows in those Chanel ads? But we definitely speak “bass” and “LV” this interpolation of wobble, heady low-end, a welcome sprinkle of UK garage and spliced-in vocals from ganja’d rappers, classic jazz dudes and reggae jammers is overlaid with an excellent record crackle. It feels perfect for right now, a murky beat swamp foretelling what will come after the apocalypse: OUTER SPACE. Tracklist after the jump.
Download: LV’s Tsugi Podcast
Darkstar, “Aidy’s Girl Is A Computer (Kyle Hall Oats b So Good Mix)” MP3
- story Peter Macia
- photo AJ Wilhelm (F64)
The FADER Internet and FADER Magazine collide in this new remix of Hyperdub band Darkstar, who Scott Wright wrote about recently in his Dollars to Pounds column, and Detroit house wunderkind Kyle Hall, who is a Gen F in our current issue. In fact, Wright wrote about this very Darkstar song, and we wrote about “I <3 Dr. Girlfriend” in the magazine. Close enough to perfect synergy as we can get. Hall’s remix has been streaming on Darkstar’s MySpace for a little bit, but 88 Days has the mpfree. Or you can pay pennies for the single and the remix over at Juno and support them all.
Download: Darkstar, “Aidy’s Girl Is A Computer (Kyle Hall Oats b So Good Mix)” (via 88 days in my veins)
Dollars to Pounds: Darkstar
- story Scott Wright
Listening to Hyperdub’s new retrospective 5 Years Of Hyperdub you’d be forgiven for thinking they’re in the clairvoyance business. A kind of record label Allison DuBois, they have spent the past half decade releasing music that sounds like the future (and probably solve convoluted ghost crimes in their sleep). Their latest act of sonic soothsaying involves Darkstar. The London-based duo is the label’s first band, a move that sees them striking deeper into the unknown. Is Hyperdub the new XL Recordings? Could be. But while Darkstar is a band, it’s still a Hyperdub band. Listen to the haunted mechanics of new single “Aidy’s Girl’s A Computer” here and admire the silent running of these 21st century man machines. I spoke to James and Aiden about sci-fi, Radiohead and Pitchfork’s 480th best single of the ‘00s.
Download: Darkstar, “Aidy’s Girls A Computer”
Stream: Burial, “Fostercare”
Yes, this is absolutely the thing we want to listen to first thing in the morning in autumn. Deeply layered, subtle and stoic beats swimming among backwards looped samples of some serene siren wooing. This could be construed as creepy (uh, “Fostercare” dude? Have you seen The Orphan?) but it’s one of the more visual tracks Burial’s done, a somber, amniotic journey. According to Fact Mag this is from the forthcoming Hyperdub compilation. So was this just like, lying around? You can totally imagine Burial chilling in some City of Lost Children-style gothic factory wearing a monocle and frantically creating a jillion more amazing tracks of this caliber. Like Henry Darger but totally not creepy. He could call them his “inventions.” No but really, what is going on in this dude’s brain?
Stream: Burial, “Fostercare”
Video: Zomby, “Mercury’s Rainbow”
- story THE FADER
Zomby has been filling up our dark dance daymares since February of last year when he was featured in an early edition of Bass Odyssey. Since then the eclectic UK producer put out the maniacal Where Were U in ’92? LP and continues to pummel brains with releases on some of our favorite labels like Hyperdub, Mad Decent and now, presumably Ramp since they put up this new 2001: A Space Odyssey video edit for “Mercury’s Rainbow.” (via NPIP)
