This is probably one of the most inventive, and most certainly animated, live rap videos we have seen in a long time. Mich∆el Myerz spitting his track ‘How I Got My Shrunken Head’ from his album Nightmare From The 90s. We just can’t keep our eyes off that t-shirt. Videography by Andrew Jeschke.
Brand new video from Montreal’s Montag for ‘New Found Land’ and phase 5 of his 12 month Phases Project, where he releases one single a month for a year. Each single is written and recorded within a month and comes with a video, allowing a collaboration with a different visual artist each time. Video directed by Scott Foley.
Friendzone, aka James Laurence and Dylan Reznick, are back with this super catchy, Clams Casino style track titled ‘Rest’, which is available to stream above. Be sure to grab the free download just below.
We’ve been listening to Londoner Tom Apaul for a while now and everything to date has blown us away. An exciting blend of upbeat RnB and electro, we think he is definitely one to look out for. Stream the demo versions of ‘Millionaire’ and ‘Three More Days’ above and be sure to check out his Soundcloud for some other frisson inducing tracks. Hold tight, as Tom has been in the studio rerecording ‘Millionaire’, which we will be sure to bring when it drops.
Fresh out the oven literally one hour ago is this tight collaboration from Slow Magic and Beat Culture. Just wait for the synth solo in the middle. Going to have to be quick if you want to grab ‘Once’ for free though, the limited downloads are going fast. Cross your fingers and click the link below.
‘A Thought, A Mind’, the second track from Farewell J.R, is as haunting as it is uplifting. Farewell J.R, although based in Cambridge, enlisted friends from around the globe for the track, with parts recorded in Ireland and Australia. The emotive tone of the vocals from the beginning of ’A Thought, A Mind’ obscures the final destination of the song from the listener, which gradually builds into an uplifting crescendo of organ and strings. Stream ’A Thought, A Mind’ above and grab the free download below, and also head to Farewell J.R’s Soundcloud to catch the killer ‘Mannequin Teeth’.
Can’t get enough of this dark alley rap from Haleek Maul. He’s only 15, but has already hooked up with some big in the game producers (The-Drum, Supreme Cuts) for his debut EP. Be sure to catch this recent interview with Fader, where among other things he talks about how he dropped a freestyle down the phone to Supreme Cuts who thought he sounded like a grime rapper. Oxyconteen is out June 18th on Merok. Grab the download via Soundcloud below. The guys gonna be a superstar.
mp3: Haleek Maul - 88
Today is the 29th of May, if you didn’t know, which means that today is the release day of Ditt Inre’s debut EP En Värld I Brand via the eternally blissful Cascine Records. We featured the first single off En Värld I Brand EP a couple of weeks back and now we are happy to bring you another two tracks for your listening pleasure, EP opener ‘Utan Titel’ and the penultimate ‘Jorden’. Both tracks, as i’m sure you will agree, vindicate why Ditt Inre are our favourite Scandinavians of the moment. Stream both tracks above and head to Cascine’s Soundcloud where you can get En Värld I Brand in it’s glorious entirety.
Waskerley Way graces these pages once again with the best copy & paste song title yet, ‘ṩ_r__ȿ ☣decay’. We have no idea either…but the song is sounding great, catch a mix the Newcastle man made us right here and have the download of the new song below.
Big smile on our face when we saw an email from Andrew Hamlet, one half of Pressed And (who by the by made us this rad mix), with a new project of his very own as Tom Kitty Oliver. Here’s the first warped track from Life On Loop, but we highly recommend you take in the whole thing for full effect. Grab the download or go whole hog and nab the tape over at Bandcamp.
Dials was one of the first people we ever posted about here at NT, his track ‘Morning Light’ has stuck with us to this day. Now however, we share with you a new version of the very same ‘Morning Light’, as well as completely new offering ‘Paths’. These perfect floating electronic tracks are teamed with two more to make up an EP, which is doing us just fine as the sun goes down here in London. Grab a download of the whole thing via Soundcloud below.
MP3: Dials - Dials EP
Another first class listen courtesy of London’s Fabiana Palladino. This demo of ‘Dream On’ follows up the track ‘Young Thing’ which we brought to you last week. Park up a beach chair and soak up this instantly catchy pop ditty. We can’t wait to hear more.
After their weird and wonderful remix of ‘A Real Hero’ by College ft. Electric Youth (you know, the opener on the Drive soundtrack) a while back, we have been keeping a watchful eye on the illusive Follow Me. Stream ‘Aaliyah’ above, a track not so heavy on the synth work that we usually know them for, but rather more heavy on a Aaliyah sample. It’s billed as an “EP Teaser Track”, so we are very much looking forward to the complete package.
Joe Cowie, from Bolton in the UK, makes music as Medla and Kahwe. The reasons for the two different aliases is not immediate to us, as under both he makes catchy, bouncy house beats. Cowie, who runs the Leeds/Edinburgh based Transmissive Collective, dropped this track late last night, titled ‘Driving Me Wild’, which is available to stream above. Got us looking forward to the weekend already.
Tours has taken some time out from his busy producing schedule to release a brand new single called ‘Grand Lux’, via the Collective Label Young Latitudes. A couple of weeks back, we featured Fleeta and some tracks from his debut LP Zoo, in which Tours was an executive producer, and now we are pleased to bring you Dylan Sieh’s own release that sees him go back to the more sun-kissed dream pop that is associated with his Tours moniker. Stream ‘Grand Lux’ above and grab the free download below.
mp3: Tours - Grand Lux
