air france calls it quits

AIR FRANCE called it quits today via their tumblr page. been listening to these guys since the beginning... but their opening sentence brought it all to a close stating, "we’ll make this brief, because it hurts too much."

a sad day for music. a sad day for the flavor creative.

“Sort of like a dream? …No, better. Sort of like a dream, isn’t it? No.”
 

F+TM - 'never let me go' (clams casino remix)

kidnap kid - 'vehl' (video)

this was a real standout track from LE HOT SHIT's MIXTAPE that i posted last week.

luckily, after some digging around, i found that it comes with a just-as-excellent video.

it probably goes without saying that relton's KIDNAP KID is easily becoming one of my favorite new finds of the year.

more here, here and here.



BONUS: some extra tracks from his soundcloud clip

crystal fighters - dreams of disco (mixtape)

CRYSTAL FIGHTERS released a killer mixtape today - probably in lieu of keeping some of us hanging with anticipation while waiting for their full-sophomore release - no word on a release date yet.

their EP and video for 'PLAGE' are out today too.

Tracklist

Fallulah - I Lay My Head (Shook remix)
Crystal Fighters - Champion Sound (Mustang remix)
Todd Terje - Inspector Norse
Beataucue - Slow Down (The Japanese Popstars remix)
Noob - Spell
Yacht - I Walked Alone (Jacques Renault remix)
U-Tern - You Don’t Know Me
Gingy and Bordello - Body Acid (KiNK’s on Acid remix)
Appaloosa - Patchwork (ATTAR! dub)
Edit Murphy - Metro
Eliphino - More Than Me
Moon Boots - Off My Mind
Edit Murphy - Keni
Miike Snow - Paddling Out (Le Crayon Dub rework)
Lutzenkirchen vs. Andrea Doria - Freak Me (Phonat remix)
Feed Me - Trichitillomania
Ifan Dafydd - No Good

kids - 'my sincerest apologies'

Kids - My Sincerest Apologies from David HJ. Lindberg on Vimeo.

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orbital ft. zola jesus - "new france"

they're back - and what's not to love about this new video, track and featured vocalist? it all comes together for a big smack of goodness overload.

ORBITAL's new album WONKY is set to release on april 2nd.



BONUS: the making of the 'new france' video


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grimes at sxsw

#crack4hipsters

GRIMES performs on a rooftop at sunset at SXSW.



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le hot shit playlist

LE HOT SHIT's latest HOTLIST mixtape is killing it.

rebecca & fiona - "dance"

swedish bubblegum electro forever.

rebecca & fiona forever.

Rebecca & Fiona - 'Dance' from Laerke Herthoni on Vimeo.

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BONUS VIDEO: "jane doe"

brenmar - 'slow grind, deep hustle vol. 2' an r&b mix for dummymag

a new BRENMAR mix just in time for the weekend - via one of our other fave music-mag-blogs out there - DUMMYMAG.

neon hitch - "F U betta"

i think NEON HITCH truly likes to writhe on things - i don't believe she's just  doing it for this video's sake.

i'm posting the uncensored/unedited version of the track for posterity's sake below.

sleigh bells - "irreplaceable" (beyonce cover)

SLEIGH BELLS stopped by zane lowe's show on BBC1 and performed a great rendition of BEYONCE's "irreplaceable". just proves what i've said all along -alexis' voice has the technicality and power to sing anything.

2forJoy - "choke"

we expect tons more great stuff from this london-based songbird in the future, but she's satiated our current thirst with this now-completed beautiful video.

this was the teaser video that she put out a couple of months ago announcing herself to the world.

more here.



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deportees ft. lykke li - "a new name to go by"

as i've mentioned many times before - i will ALWAYS post ANYthing having to do with LYKKE. =)

this time she's teaming up with DEPORTEES to create a great steel-drum laden ballad that seems seasonally perfect to sweep you away to some carribean island, if only for just for several minutes.

the golden filter - "kill me"

HIGH5COLLECTIVE have put together this creepily awesome video for THE GOLDEN FILTER'S "KILL ME" taken from their SYNDROMES soundtrack/ep.


The Golden Filter - 'Kill Me' from The Golden Filter on Vimeo.

BONUS: another vid from the HIGH5COLLECTIVE

Dev - Kiss My Lips feat. Fabolous (music video) from High5Collective on Vimeo.

burial + four tet - "nova"

i can't seem to get enough of this new collaboration track from two of my favorite brit producers of the moment, BURIAL and FOUR TET.

here's what THE GUARDIAN is saying: "At around midnight last night Kieran Hebden, aka Four Tet, tweeted "TEXT013" – Text being his record label and 13 being its next release. This got some people pretty excited. Shortly after he tweeted "TEXT013" again, but this time with a link to a SoundCloud page unveiling his latest collaboration with Burial. Funnily enough, this got a lot of people very very excited, the song hitting nearly 40,000 plays in under nine hours. Nova is the third time the pair have collaborated following their 2009 12in Moth/Wolf Club and last year's split 12in with Thom Yorke, Ego/Mirror. As with those tracks, Nova is a typically dense and warm-sounding sonic experiment that floats in on a bed of gurgling vocal samples and rippling atmospherics before a keyboard riff emerges after 90 seconds. For the rest of the song that riff and the distant vocal snippets interact to create something beautiful, compelling and perfect for a Monday."

santigold - 'the master of my make-believe' album cover artwork

the making of SANTIGOLD's new ablum cover THE MASTER OF MY MAKE-BELIVE

apparat - "candil de la calle" (apparat dub remix)

bonus: "BLACK WATER" (video) the track also made it into one of our mixtapes last summer here.