Disclosure | When A Fire Starts To Burn
In anticipation of their debut record, Guy and Howard Lawrence have treated us to the second track from Settle- a classic house groove driven by a sliced up sample of an impassioned US motivational speaker.
Disclosure’s forthcoming album drops on June 3rd and will feature the likes of Jamie Woon, Jessie Ware, and Sam Smith. And if you’re around, catch them live this Wednesday in Vancouver, courtesy of the good people at Blueprint.
alh
Short Stories | On The Way/Let It Go
[Sampha]
London-based singer and keyboardist Sampha is best known for his timeless collaborations with SBTRKT on SBTRKT’s self-titled record released in 2011. More recently, he produced “What You Won’t Do For Love” for Jessie Ware and vocalized alongside her on “Valentine.”
This year, Sampha is embarking in another promising partnership with Koreless, a name that has been present on both LOW-LIFE’s 2011 and 2012 retrospectives with his tracks “4d” and “Lost In Tokyo.” Under the guise Short Stories, the duo will be unchaining two stunning tracks, releasing On The Way/Let It Go via Young Turks on January 28th. Funnily enough, we caught a listen of “On The Way” way back in 2010 during Koreless’s Boiler room set before the song seemed to disappear into thin air- we’re grateful to see it resurface. “Let It Go” was produced more recently and recorded over two days in the very same studio that The xx wrote Coexist.
On The Way/Let It Go will also be released on a limited 12” vinyl and if you’re so inclined, pre-order it here.
[Koreless]
alh
Retrospective | 2012
We are a day late on delivering this, but we had to wait up until the 31st to pull this thing together – just in case we needed to make any last minute additions (and also because we are habitually disorganized and tardy).
After a haphazard electronic congress amongst the various selectas’ in our slightly dysfunctional family, we put together a collage of the music that moved us in MMXII.
We didn’t attempt to rank these releases–nor to affix to each of them a rating–because it is our view that this sort of enterprise is not meaningful. We assure you that we have vetted all of it. Finding high-grade jams below should be straight-forward–like shooting fish in a barrel. We invite you to trust us and to peruse with an open mind and curiosity.
With love–
Selected Releases
LPs
Pink – Four Tet [Text]
Channel Orange – Frank Ocean [Def Jam]
Devotion – Jessie Ware [PMR]
Mala In Cuba [Brownswood]
Unpatterns – Simian Mobile Disco [Wichita]
Fin – John Talabot [Permanent Vacation]
R.I.P. – Actress [Honest Jon's Records]
The Keychain Collection – Gang Colours [Brownswood]
Until the Quiet Comes – Flying Lotus [Warp]
In Our Heads – Hot Chip [Domino]
Breakthrough – The Gaslamp Killer [Ninja Tune]
good kid, m.A.A.d City – Kendrick Lamar [Top Dawg]
Ghettos & Gardens – Justin Martin [Dirtybird]
Luxury Problems – Andy Stott [Modern Love]
Visions – Grimes [4AD]
Held – Holy Other [Tri Angle]
Don’t Break My Love – Clown & Sunset [Clown & Sunset]
Beams – Matthew Dear [Ghostly International]
Instrumentals Mixtape 2 – Clams Casino [Self-Released]
Total Loss – How To Dress Well [Weird World]
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EPs
Kingdoms – Fort Romeau [100% Silk]
Black Rainbows – Dark Sky [Black Acre]
Kindred – Burial [Hyperdub]
Burial – Truant/Rough Sleeper [Hyperdub]
Go To The Mo – Kill Frenzy [Dirtybird]
Last Words – Ryan Hemsworth [Wedidit]
(Self-Titled) – Jets [Leisure System]
Ready – Jacques Green [3024]
Changes – LOL Boys [Friends of Friends]
Calling Me – Dusky [School]
(Self-Titled) – TNGHT [Warp]
Disclosure – The Face [Greco-Roman]
Ghettos & Gardens (Remixes Vol. 1) – Justin Martin (Dirtybird)
Vision of Love – Bicep [Feel My Bicep]
Froth/Mercy – Boddika & Joy Orbison [SunkLo]
His He She & She – Blawan [Hinge]
Pyramid Lake/Black Ink – Airhead [R&S]
Acquiescence – Anenon [Non Projects]
Grey – Atem [Blenheim & Celtic]
Vacation – Shlohmo [Friends of Friends]
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Tracks on Heavy Rotation
Held – Holy Other [Triangle]
Au Seve – Julio Bashmore [Broadwalk]
Jasmine – Jai Paul [XL]
Prism – Jacques Green [3024]
Look Out – Homeboy Sandman [Stones Throw]
[Jacques Greene]
Control (feat. Ria Ritchie) (Joe Goddard Remix) – Disclosure [Greco-Roman]
Nova – Burial + Four Tet [Text]
Revolution – Mala [Brownswood]
Flutes – Hot Chip [Domino]
Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe – Kendrick Lamar [Top Dawg]
[Joe Goddard]
Crystal Caverns 1991 – Lone [R&S]
Higher Ground – TNGHT [Warp]
Species Out Of Control – Simian Mobile Disco [Wichita]
The Hope – Scuba [Hotflush]
So Will Be Now (feat. Pional) – John Talabot [Permanent Vacation]
[John Talabot]
Ye Ye – Daphni [Merge]
Bad Religion – Frank Ocean [Def Jam]
Dream To Me – Flying Lotus [Warp]
Always – Maths Time Joy [Live For The Funk]
Elegante – Squarehead [5ANDSEVEN]
[Flying Lotus]
Whatnot – Machinedrum [Innovative Leisure]
Please Forgive My Heart – Bobby Womack [XL]
Inspector Norse – Todd Terje [Olsen/Smalltown Supersound]
Lion (Jamie xx Remix) – Four Tet [Text]
Yoro Diallo (Lone Remix) – Egyptian Hip Hop [R&S]
[Four Tet]
The Perfect Blues (Jacques Greene Remix) – Jesse Boykins III, Melo-X [Ninja Tune]
$tripper – Bicep [Chemical]
Nissim (feat. Amir Yaghmai) – The Gaslamp Killer [Ninja Tune]
Shades – Dark Sky [50 Weapons]
Forgotton Notes – Hackman [Ramp]
[The Gaslamp Killer]
November Skies (feat. Nina Kinert) – Tomas Barfod [Friends of Friends]
The Narcississt (feat. Inga Copeland) – Dean Blunt [Hippos In Tanks]
Thrown – Kiasmos [Erased Tapes]
wen uuu – Shlohmo [Friends of Friends]
Truant – Burial [Hyperdub]
[Tomas Barfod]
Her Fantasy – Matthew Dear [Ghostly International]
Grey – Atem [Blenheim & Celtic]
What’s In Your Head – Disclosure [Greco-Roman]
Running (Disclosure Remix) – Jessie Ware [PMR]
Confidence Boost (Harmonimix Remix) – Trim [R&S]
[Matthew Dear]
All Inside – Bondax [Super]
Fuck You All The Time – Jeremih [Def Jam]
Small Talk (Four Tet Remix) – Ultraista [I Am Fortified]
Rained The Whole Time (Nicolas Jaar Remix) – Shlohmo [Friends of Friends]
The Ego – Nicolas Jaar [Clown & Sunset]
[Nicolas Jaar]
Sleepless – Andy Stott [Modern Love]
For Sake – Aeroc [Ghostly International]
Make It Good – The White Lamp [Brownswood]
Boiling (feat. Sinead Harnett) – Disclosure [Greco-Roman]
Nothing So Great – Evy Jane [Self-Released]
[Disclosure]
Default – Atoms For Peace [XL]
Blue Skies Red Soil – NeferTT [Hotflush]
Gold Soul Theory – The Underachievers [Brainfeeder]
New For You – Andrés [La Vida]
Chum – Earl Sweatshirt [Self-Released]
[The Underachievers]
Compuphonic – Maddslinky [Broadwalk]
23 (feat. Tymer) – Shadowchild [Food]
Get Free (feat. Amber of Dirty Projectors) – Major Lazer [Mad Decent]
Child – George Fitzgerald [Aus Music]
What I Might Do (Club Edit) – Ben Pearce [MTA]
[George Fitzgerald]
Kindred – Burial [Hyperdub]
Chained – The xx [Young Turks]
Leaf (A$AP Rocky feat. Main Attrakionz) – Clams Casino [Self-Released]
Timeaway – Darkstar [Warp]
Night Light (Joe Goddard Remix) – Jessie Ware [Universal]
[Darkstar]
So Many Details – Toro Y Moi [Carpark]
Born To Die (Gucci Vump Remix) – Lana Del Rey [Interscope]
Goin In (Boy 8-Bit Remix) – Zinc [Rinse]
Signal Loss – Pariah [R&S]
Jupiters – Four Tet [Text]
[Toro Y Moi]
Tissues & Fivers – Gang Colours [Brownswood]
Swims – Boddika & Joy Orbison [Swamp 81]
Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage? – Blawan [Hinge Finger]
Lost In Tokyo – Koreless [Vase]
Argonaut – Floating Points [Eglo]
[Blawan]
Video Games (Joy Orbison Remix) – Lana Del Rey [Interscope]
Blessed (feat. Kendrick Lamar) – Schoolboy Q [Top Dawg]
Sleepless (feat. Jezzabell Doran) (Shlohmo Remix) – Flume [Future Classic]
Jagged Edge – Eats Everything [Pets]
Crispy Duck – Dense and Pika [Hotflush]
[Eats Everything]
Forget (Shlohmo Remix) – Lianne La Havas [Self-Released]
Huron River Drive (Evenings Remix) – Shigeto [Ghostly International]
Terrorist Threats (feat. Danny Brown & Jhene Aiko) – Ab-Soul [TDE]
Lotus Bootleg – Jonwayne [Self-Released]
Avalanche – Just Friends [Clown & Sunset]
[Shlohmo]
& It Was U – How To Dress Well [Weird World]
Why Don’t You – Synkro [Apollo]
Ellipsis – Joy Orbison [Hinge Finger]
Flo Jam – Dusky [Dogmatik]
Meu – Jets [Leisure System]
[Joy Orbison]
Oblivion – Grimes [4AD]
The Black God – SpaceGhostPurp [4AD]
Femme Fatale – Justin Jay [Dirtybird]
Fools Good – Troy Junner [Mindset]
It’s True – Wih’lo [Self-Released]
[Grimes]
No To Love (George Fitzgerald Remix) – Jessie Ware [PMR]
Move Love – Robert Glasper [Blue Note]
Gotham Mix 1 – A.CHAL [Self-Released]
Mirror Maru – Cashmere Cat [Pelican Fly]
What You Need – Flume [Future Classic]
[Robert Glasper]
L O W – L I F E
Jessie Ware | Night Light (Perseus Remix)
[Jessie Ware]
Here is a soulful rework of Jessie Ware‘s Night Light by American-based “baby making record maker”, Pursues. Pursues takes the remix in an emotional and powerful direction contrasting the rock influenced original; he focuses on Jessie’s prevailing vocal lines and supports them with buoyant keyboard tones.
Be sure to cop the free download.
See previously: Jessie Ware | Night Light (Joe Goddard Remix)
[Perseus]
Atom
Jessie Ware | No To Love (George Fitzgerald Remix)
Jessie Ware released a handful of remixes of her single “No To Love” yesterday from Todd Edwards, Ewan Pearson, and George Fitzgerald.
On my personal favorite of the three adaptations, George Fitzgerald integrates Ware’s sultry vocals into an infectious minimalist house framework.
Wolfey
Jessie Ware | Night Light (Joe Goddard Remix)
Here is an infectious dance-floor remix of Jessie Ware’s “Night Light” by Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard. “Night Light” is a single from Ware’s 2012 LP Devotion (Universal Island/PMR).
[Joe Goddard]
Wolfey
Jessie Ware | Sweet Talk
[Jessie Ware]
Earlier this morning, English pop-soul artist, Jessie Ware, unofficially released the single, Sweet Talk, by making the track available to stream on her own Youtube channel. Sweet Talk features production from Bristolian bass-music behemoth, Julio Bashmore, and by Dave Okumu, the lead singer and guitarist of the British band, The Invisible.
Jessie Ware’s Sweet Talk is a dreamy and seductive combination between tasteful electronic-yet-organic production, and Jessie’s gentle depiction of submitting to emotion opposed to logic. The result is beautiful, achieving near perfect chemistry of atmosphere and sentiment.
Sweet Talk is taken from the Jessie’s debut album, Devotion, available to pre-order, here.
Atom
Jessie Ware | What You Don’t Do For Love
[Jessie Ware & Sampha]
At 8 o clock Tuesday morning, Brixton born Jessie Ware was kind enough to give away a free track she did with SBTRKT collaborator Sampha, a cover of the smooth jazz extraordinaire, Bobby Caldwell‘s What You Don’t Do For Love.
Download || What You Don’t Do For Love (Prod. by Sampha) – Jessie Ware [recommended]
John Doe
Jesse Ware | 110% (prod. by Julio Bashmore)
[Julio & Jessie]
Its not every day that we feature a female brit-pop act, but then again Jessie Ware isn’t you’re everyday female brit-pop act, seeing as she snagged the under-ground renowned Julio Bashmore to sit behind the mixer for her latest track, “110%,” due out on June 4th via PMR.
While you’re at it, have a listen to this particularly scintillating remix from UK duo Disclosure, put out in February of this year. I highly recommend it.
[Disclosure]
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