10 Must Hear Releases
Blake Jarrell’s trance hit “Say What You Will” gets stripped down to a piano rendition accompanying the vocal prowess of Michael S., and together with Radiohead’s latest single “The Daily Mail” (released with “Staircase”), both opens KMC’s 10 Must Hear Releases proper. Norwegian synthpop band Casiokids takes the proceedings to a more up-tempo beat together with Tiga’s remix of Azari & III’s recently released nu-disco track “Reckless (With Your Love)”. Things get more heavier with trance big hitters W&W’s “Nowhere To Go” given a dirtier rework from Shogun. Swedish House Mafia collab with Knife Party and Dada Life drop their newest bass-heavy offerings while Steve Aoki moves into dubstep with a track that’s unfortunately good. Continuing into dubstep, Lana Del Ray’s “Born To Die” gets a Gemini touch and Nero’s “Reaching Out” gets a ruder courtesy of a Wilkinson remix. Check out more latest music releases on Kiss My Culture.
Video Playlist
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Blake Jarrell feat. Michael S. “Say What You Will”
Radiohead “The Daily Mail”
Casiokids “Det Haster!”
Azari & III “Reckless (With Your Love) - Tiga Remix”
W&W feat. Bree “Nowhere To Go (Shogun Remix)”
Swedish House Mafia vs. Knife Party “Antidote”
Dada Life “Kick Out The Epic Motherf**ker”
Steve Aoki ft. Wynter Gordon “Ladi Dadi (Part II)”
Lana Del Rey “Born To Die (Gemini Remix)”
Nero “Reaching Out (Wilkinson Remix)”
10 Must Hear Releases
From Major Lazer’s knife wielding rednecks music video “Original Don” -that sounds like hard-house to Sensation Black dwellers and moombahton to sample sticklers- and The Black Key’s almost zero-budget video for “Lonely Boy”, this week’s 10 Must Hear Releases does nothing but tongue twist your musical palate. There’s everything from Azari & III and Goldfrapp brand new plays to Skrillex’s remix of Avicii’s “Levels” to keep your ears glued to the speakers. No other advice needed but to max out the volume till you are reminded of your neighbor’s name.
Video Playlist
From Kiss My Culture’s YouTube Playlist
Goldfrapp “Yellow Halo”
PNAU “Unite Us”
Azari & III “Reckless (With Your Love)”
Das Racist “Brand New Dance”
The Black Keys ”Lonely Boy”
Danny Brown ”Monopoly”
Major Lazer feat. The Partysquad “Original Don”
Liquid Kaos feat. Kirsty Hawkshaw “Back In Time”
Dodge & Fuski “Python”
Avicii “Levels (Skrillex Remix)”
10 Must Hear Releases
This week’s Kiss My Culture’s 10 Must Hear Releases head towards a more experimental (Shabazz Palaces), unconventional (Lana Del Ray) and just plain weird (Caged Animals) end of the spectrum with music videos that ventures far off the norm. Tweak your expectations, open up your minds and pop open that cherry cola.
Video Playlist
From Kiss My Culture’s YouTube Channel
Shabazz Palaces Black Up (Album teaser)
Caged Animals “Piles Of $$$”
Lana Del Rey “Born To Die”
Starkey “Open The Pod Bay Doors”
Egyptrixx feat. Ohbijou “Old Black”
Maya Jane Coles “Dub Child”
Echonomist feat. Mz Sunday Luv “Real Love”
Adultnapper feat. Black Light Smoke “Idiot Fair”
Slow Club “If We’re Still Alive”
YACHT “I Walked Alone”
10 Must Hear Releases
Video Playlist
From Kiss My Culture’s YouTube Channel
DJ Shadow feat. Little Dragon “Scale It Back”
CANT “Too Late, Too Far”
Floating Points “Sais”
The Roots “Sleep”
Radiohead “Morning Mr Magpie (Nathan Fake Harshdub)”
Noisia “Could This Be”
BCee “Chameleon”
Cutline feat. Belle Humble “Runnin’”
Michael Calfan “Resurrection (Axwell ReCut Club Version)”
Deniz Koyu “Hertz”
10 Must Hear Releases
This week’s top 10 releases on Kiss My Culture’s YouTube video playlist puts together a amalgamation of indie, leftfield, drum and bass, dubstep, electro and a house number that is set to be the anthem of the season.
Two months ago, Jamie XX rework of Radiohead’s impending cult classic “Bloom” took the intrawebbies by storm, and now he makes public his second rework in the form of (Jamie XX Rework 3.) Opening with a ghostly and broody vibe, Jamie peaks it up from sunken bass and echoed chimes into funky house territory. Not wanting to lose “Bloom“‘s touch, the breakdown pits Thom Yorke’s moan over moody synths.
10 Must Hear Releases
This week’s top 10 releases on Kiss My Culture’s YouTube video playlist takes you on a journey through a kaleidoscope of sound.
Opening loud and hard with The Bloody Beetroots’ “Church of Noise,” the playlist peaks up on the intensity level immediately with a mad dubstep remix of Modestep’s “To The Stars” by Break The Noize & The Autobots and gears up towards some drum and bass from Tantrum Desire and Camo & Krooked.
New tunes from Yuksek and a follow up to Benny Bennasi and Gary Go’s club anthem “Cinema” fills the middle. Taking it down a notch, Wretch 32 drops his latest lyrical waxing and two tracks too good to miss from the mysterious Khat gets featured.
Closing the video playlist, Trentemøller’s “Sycamore Feeling” not only gets a frighteningly haunting rework from Marie Fisker but is also given an equally thought-provoking video treatment directed by Diana Tørsløv who was previously a psychologist specializing in the area of schizophrenia.
Video Playlist
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The Bloody Beetroots feat. Dennis Lyxzén “Church of Noise”
Modestep “To The Stars (Break The Noize & The Autobots Remix)”
Tantrum Desire “Reach”
Camo & Krooked feat Ayah Marar “Cross The Line”
Yuksek “Always On The Run”
Benny Benassi feat. Gary Go “Close to Me”
Wretch 32 feat. Etta Bond “Forgiveness”
Khat “Fast Food & Sour Diesel”
Khat “A.I.”
Trentemøller “Sycamore Feeling (Marie Fisker Version)”
5 Must Hear Releases
The Void
Darkness Falls
hfn Music
Heard of Mew? Sure you have; they’re a Danish alternative rock band. Heard of Michael Learns to Rock? Who cares? Anyone who can tie their shoelace since the late 80s must have heard of them. There have yet to be a particular musical group to put Denmark on the world map of music other than the aforementioned. Vocalist-keyboardist Josephine Philip and guitarist-bassist Ina Lindgreen might be the two fresh faces to give that a go.
Under the guise of Darkness Falls, the upcoming electronic duo recently released their debut album Alive In Us –filled with 12 tracks worth of melancholy so poignant you can be caught staring out the window. Assisting them in the production department is Denmark’s most successful electronic dance music export, Trentemoller. Working with them on the album, one can safely expect the DJ-producer threading dark and broody pastures –and he does so without jeopardizing the pop wave that girls ride on.
“The Void” can be considered the best representation to the duo’s sound -an amalgamation of suspenseful synths, teething riffs, dreamy vocals and the occasional triangle twangs. Buy Alive In Us on Beatport.
5 Must Hear Releases
Big Bad Wolf
Duck Sauce
3Beat
Award-winning music video director Keith Schofield has a knack for creating some of the most outlandish, mind-boggling and utterly entertaining music videos around. Think Charlotte Gainsbourg’s “Heaven Can Wait” featuring Beck, and Supergrass’ “Bad Blood” -winner of “Best Rock Video” at the 2008 UK Music Video Awards.
It seems like a perfect matrimony of creative minds when A-Trak and Armand Van Helden agreed to Schofield’s video idea for their latest release “Big Bad Wolf”. It is one thing to grow out of the success of their “Barbra Streisand” vibe but it is another to be made to look like dicks doing it.
In a recent MTV interview, Schofield didn’t expect the idea to fly, let alone having the duo fully committed to it. “Yeah, I don’t even know if that’s supposed to be out there, but that’s why I couldn’t believe they wanted to be the guys in the video! I mean, a couple days before we were about to shoot, I was telling them, ‘You know, we can cast other guys for the roles.’ I was trying to discourage them, like, ‘It’s not going to be fun. It’s going to be two full days of you sitting on your knees, having a guy straddle you,’” Schofield laughed.
5 Must Hear Releases
Osaka
120 Days
Club Mod
Cutting-edge Australian powerhouse of a label Modular Recordings have just launched their new singles imprint Club Mod, designed to take dancefloors where no dancefloors have gone before. Their first release “Osaka” is a broody acid banger of a tribal track from Norwegian quartet 120 Days. Look out for the monthly one-off releases from the new imprint, set to hold open musical doors with one foot on the dancefloors and the other into the future.
