A couple of week ago we had Mayer Hawthorne’s cover for James Pants – Thin Moon. Now is James Pants turn to cover one of Mayer Hawthorne’s tracks – Green Eyed Love.via.

James Pants – Green Eyed Love

And the official video of Mayer Hawthorne’s Green Eyed Love

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Rokolectiv 2010 // Facebook
FESTIVAL FOR ELECTRONIC MUSIC AND RELATED ARTS
23 & 24 APRIL // THE ARK
22 & 25 APRIL // National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC)
Bucharest

Rokolectiv’s 5th edition takes off from 22nd to 25th of April at The Ark and MNAC with an exquisite line up of 16 live performances, installations and panels breaking Bucharest’s routine. Needless to say, this year’s festival remains focused on combining electronic music with related arts, bringing a raft of fresh international talents over and revealing new local projects. Whether it’s about deep house, techno, spaced out disco, psychedelic rock or out-pop, the festival remains faithful to its mission of bringing the social life to the core of the stage and providing a high-spirited, light-hearted meeting point for self-determined creative brains.

Friday night is slightly more streamlined towards the dancefloor, with Move D (DE) set to play both a live and a seductive DJ set at The Ark and DJ Sprinkles (JP) called to put his subversive deep-house fingerprint on the night. Swiss trio Sinner DC will round off the evening with their live drumming, real-time sampling, toy organs and slide guitar & bass.

Saturday takes off with Nacho Patrol’s hypnotic trip to the sci-fi Africa born in Legowelt’s mind, and slowly goes back down to the floor with Omar S’s raw and abrasive vibes. Danilo Plessow, the guy behind Motor City Drum Ensemble, will keep you encapsulated in Detroit’s spirit while pointing you out towards the future.

Sunday at MNAC, Ars Electronica award winners Antoine Schmitt and Jean-Jacques Birge will conduct an ingenious opera performed by the ears, lights and small loudspeakers of 100 very smart rabbits. The UK duo Mount Kimbie are due to change the ambient with their moody bass rumbles and shifted vocals in what may be called a post-Burial 2step performance. Turzi’s five people band will finally start their psychedelic rock assault to heat up the audience for Baltimore’s craziest and most eccentric live performer, Dan Deacon and his pagan dancefloor rituals.

Rokolectiv is as always compiled with the friendly support of the local partners and like-minded festivals from the ICAS network. The Hague’s festival TodaysArt gave a hand this year for showcasing a fresh bunch of Dutch artists. If Legowelt and Nacho Patrol need no introduction, you may want to keep your eyes and ears open for the organic house combo Juju & Jordash and the genre defying live performance of Syncom Data.

And, last but not least, make sure you’ve gained your right to party by first coming by at MNAC on Thursday 22nd for Terre Thaemlitz’s special panel. An iconoclastic character whose seditious artistic fuck you projects revealing the disarray of creative industries, as well as his ironical outspokenness on social, transgender and queerness issues make him a guy you’d like to meet.

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LA weekly:

On Friday, Downtown’s Alpha Pup Records announced the pending release of Only Mountain, a new full-length by L.A. beat scene affiliate Take.

We know what you’re thinking: With so much new music coming out of the Low End Theory crew (Flying Lotus, Gonjasufi, Free The Robots, et al.), how are you going to keep track of it all?

But Take makes it easy. His soundscapes are beat-driven, sure, but they’ve got a bit more to do with late-’90s electronic music like Boards of Canada and Squarepusher. Of course, the Dilla-esque dingy hip-hop rhythms are there, as are the modern bass hits and airhorn blasts — it’s just that the crystalline synths and bloopy etherea take precedence.

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In June 2009, his debut album, “Drift”, put its foot down and took Nosaj Thing to stardom in just a few weeks. With dozens of rave reviews from the specialist press and outrageous sales figures in the Internet’s leading stores, this young producer from Los Angeles showed the entire world his potential with a fistful of tracks of rhythmic electronica, with acoustic echoes and structures resembling hip-hop but keeping a prudent distance from any easy pigeonholing. After remixing Charlotte Gainsbourg, The xx, Radiohead, Flying Lotus and Daedelus, he is now showing off his impressive audiovisual show, in which music, light and colour embark upon a strange relationship of synchrony between the poetic and the abstract.

For whom it might concern, Nosaj Thing will perform with his visual show @ Sonar 2010, 17-19 June, Barcelona, Spain.

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Ctrl Alt Delete is a staggering work of mind-warping electronics, fuzzed-out psych and devastating hip-hop beats. Combining dusty swap-meet samples, futuristic synthesizers and live instrumentation, Free The Robots has created a unique harmony of past sounds and future ruminations. Much like his L.A. contemporaries Flying Lotus and Nosaj Thing, Free The Robots knows no genre boundaries.

Ctrl Alt Delete, which also features Ikey Owens of The Mars Volta, has been a long time coming. Originally signed to Alpha Pup over two years ago, Free The Robots has put his heart and soul into this album. Meticulously constructed, the album is a culmination of countless late nights at Low End Theory, combined with a spirit of fearless experimentation. The result rattles with grit and swagger — a firm proclamation of Free The Robot’s sonic arrival.

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Dazed Digital: I popped over to Flying Lotus’s new crib in Echo Park to hear Cosmogramma, the follow up to 2008’s globally acclaimed Los Angeles. In this exclusive film for Dazed Digital, the producer talks candidly about his success, rip off merchants, and how his Mother’s passing affected his beats. He also got very stoned. I didn’t. Honestly.

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affinerecords.com

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a shift in the weather? (chart)

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Steve Goodman and his Hyperdub label have been moulding the sound of the underground for years now, pulling in plaudits and end-of-year polls from every which way. One of the original FWD>> residents, Steve’s always sailed dangerously close to giving grime and dubstep a sparkling shiny reputation. He quickly became a true kingpin of the scene, producing stunning tracks with and without MC Spaceape, and talking it all up on Rinse FM. Now he forges a unique path of simply bass-heavy, leftfield bangers, mixing his dancehall-infused, heavy skanking sound and taking it around clubs worldwide. He’s also a lecturer and book author, and can take credit for bringing the globe the sounds of Burial, Darkstar, Cooly G, Zomby, DVA, Ikonika, as well as RBMA stalwarts Samiyam, Mark Pritchard, and Om’Mas Keith, and Kode is on an ongoing quest to find those mixes that make him shiver. Encrypt your own algorithm to this. via.

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Flying Lotus

He’s got female relatives whose names are like passwords into any jazz and hip hop lover’s utmost respect (hint: last name Coltrane), but that’s not the only reason why Flying Lotus has attracted props like sunshine to sunflowers. Since his two LP’s for Plug Research and Warp, he’s been in-demand as producer, remixer and live performer all over the globe as part of this years Warp 20 events. Check the pulsing hum of simply sick beats, the blissed-out soundtracks of outerspace computer vistas and a cartoonist’s sense of colour, and you can see why everyone wants his tracks. As well as running his Brainfeeder label, which boasts a roster of forward-thinking beat artists like Ras G, Samiyam, and The Gaslamp Killer among others. Let him take you by the ear for a very special guided tour through what makes Brainfeeder tick with this Fireside Chat straight from RBMA 2010 in London.

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Here’s a guest mix from Fulgeance of Musique Large for Cosmopolyphonic’s 10th podcast. Tracklist after the jump. via.

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Download La Mixette #29 How They Fall by Huess from Musique Large. Tracklist after the jump.

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Martyn @ RBMA 2010 London.

Starting out from Rotterdam, with releases on Marcus Intalex’ Revolve:r, Play Music and Bassbin, Martyn continued on to carve out his own little niche of the musical universe. His deep dubstep tracks have always been infused with a love for house music and warm techno-soul. Now based in Washington DC, he still runs his 3024 label (named after Rotterdam’s postcode) along with longtime friend and graphic designer Erosie, but the music that graces it’s discography has become so original and varied as to defy categorisation. Martyn’s DJ sets that are more concerned with creating a feeling than fulfilling genre expectations. His productions continue to set him apart from the field. A true innovator.

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Arena Dnb: Logistics (Hospital Records, UK) @ Arenele Romane, 16 aprilie 2010. Facebook event.

Logistics – The Trip

Logistics – Thunderchild

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Cécile & Venice

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In hype of the mega Chibuku 10 year birthday bonanza this coming Friday, Leo Belchetz, one of Chibuku’s own resident DJs and all-round house music guru has presented us with a very special mix. As if holding a sonic seminar on the history of Chibuku, the mix guides us through the kind of silky sounds and grinding beats that have come to represent the hugely successful clubnight over the past decade.

As the man like Belchetz says himself: “Chibuku actually started as an underground house night, providing an alternative to the big room trance and funky house that dominated Liverpool at the time, and it’s that aspect of the night I wanted to reflect. So I put together the mix using only tracks by my personal favourite DJs and artists who have appeared at Chibuku over the years.” via. Tracklist after the jump.

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