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MONDAY MUSIC: JAMES BLAKE

No video yet, but James Blake recently premiered on BBC Radio One a new track from his forthcoming album Radio Silence – we can’t wait.

MONDAY MUSIC: MASSIVE ATTACK

An unexpected reunion of Tricky joining Massive Attack for Take it There, on their latest EP Ritual Spirit, returning to form five years after their last offering.

DIRTY

‘What happened after New Orleance?’
The bootylicious points out the aftermath of Katrina disaster and the long history of slavery.

Aladdin Sane

‘…putting out there the possibility of looking different!’
Tilda Swinton on the influence of David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane.

MONDAY MUSIC: DAVID BOWIE

STARMAN

Reminiscent of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, David Bowie is genderless and belongs to a time that is beyond our perception… A sad day, indeed. Rest in Stars!

FOOTSTEPS ON THE DANCEFLOOR…

…remind me baby of you.
Gently drifting through this saturday night with Teardrops by Jamie XX, In Colour (2015).

NESTED

Half-Waif ’s music has an ethereality that feels the good kind of religious. The free expansiveness of her music belie an exquisite compositional technique that create a variegated almost architectural soundscapes for the careful listener. For fans of Austra.

REVISITED: OBSCURE RECORDS

To start the new year in sonic style, why not spend some time on revisiting the back catalogue of Obscure Records – Brian Eno’s short-lived record label from the mid-1970s that nonetheless released some ambient classics, including his own masterpiece Discreet Music. All available for streaming at Ubuweb, or why not order our very own [...]

MONDAY MUSIC: YUNG HURN

Ketamine-fueled non-lyrics and a crank disposition: Yung Hurn from Vienna says ‘nein‘ to pretty much everything, and we love it.