Live Review: RBMA x Major Lazer Carnival Party @ Notting Hill, 27 August
As we picked our way through vibrant Carnival crowds…
As we picked our way through vibrant Carnival crowds…
After teaming up with Detroit House guru Theo Parrish last year…
Back again for their annual carnival warm up party…
Red Bull Music Academy and Major Lazer will be dropping their anchor at Notting Hill Carnival…
Since we last wrote about Marika Hackman (back in December 2011)…
After an explosive start to The Upfront Project, we returned…
When it comes to Grime, Trim is one of the old faithfuls…
Launching last Friday (27/07/12), The Upfront Project is showcasing a plethora of Electronic artists every Friday at The Lightbox in London over the next 5 weeks. Marrying together the world’s most exciting..
After 3 years of silence from the English trio, Experimental-Indie band The Invisible may well have escaped your memory. To give your mind a little jog, their debut album was nominated for the Mercury Prize and selected as the critics choice for iTunes album of the year back in 2009, being hailed as the ‘British Broken Social Scene’ and ‘masters of Ambient Pop’. Since then the band have been keeping busy working on other projects, with frontman Dave Okumu co-writing and producing Jessie Ware’s debut album ‘Devotion’ (released 20th August 2012) and drummer Leo Taylor recording on Adele’s multi-platinum selling ’21’. But after a long wait the band have finally regrouped to release follow up record ‘Rispah’ (out on Ninja Tune), a dedication to Okumu’s late-mother. This remix, by London producer Floating Points, fuses the dreamy vocals and guitar riff found in the original track with ambient synth lines that rise and fall over the ghost of a garage beat, elongating each strand of frequency to 7 minutes of ultimate chillout.
When a track sampling Coldplay’s Yellow dropped in our inbox the other day, courtesy of London producer Rainman, we were a bit sceptical, but fear not. This glitchy, dripping, cosmic rework stands well alongside the original.