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Serph - Snow (Noble)
Soweto Kinch - On The Treadmill (Soweto Kinch Recordings promo)
Soweto Kinch - Raise Your Spirit (Soweto Kinch Recordings promo)
Eskmo - Cloudlight (Ninja Tune promo)
Lorn - Until There Is No End (Brainfeeder promo)
DJ Earl - Sounds of Footwork (?)
Downliners Sektt - Dirty Meinz (Disboot)
Take - Converations With Yesterday (Proximal Records)
Games - Heartlands (Hippos In Tanks)
Matthew Dear - Honey (Ghostly International)
Christopher Willits - Sun Body (Ghostly International)
Hint - Give It Up, Instrumental (True-Thoughts promo)
Dam-Funk - A Day At The Carnival (Proximal Records)
Space Dimension Controller - The Love Quadrant (Kinnego)
Afrology - Togo Soul (Free Download)
Crewdson - Mime (Slowfoot promo)



Words:

I like this weeks show. Every week I check the new promo arrivals, add a couple of new purchases and maybe some old favourites until I hit 60 minutes of music and then I arrange the tunes into a sensible order and then in one live take mix them (if possible), loop them or just run them together and say a few words about the music, hoping I sound half sensible whilst being informative. If there is a mistake then that goes in as well. Generally I think the show is of reasonably consistent quality but some weeks it just comes together better than others and this week is definitely one of the better ones.

Serph starts proceedings this week a great young producer and musician from Tokyo he is one to watch and his Vent album works start to finish flitting through the worlds of pop, jazz, electronica and soundtracks to great effect, hopefully it will soon get some proper worldwide distribution to avoid the expensive Japanese import price tag. Soweto Kinch swiftly follows and if you don't know this young Sax playing MC from the UK you need to rectify that quick, he is a rare talent look out for his new albumThe New Emancipation coming soon on his own self titled record label, it's one of the freshest jazz albums of the year. Eskmo is another great young electronic producer from San Francisco with some nice musical touches look out for more from him on Ninja Tune. Lornisn't sleeping after the summer release of his album onBrainfeeder and has just dropped a new EP with a couple of little remixes on and some new material and I'm particularly liking the 'Until There Is No End Track' which is displaying a nice soulful side to this otherwise quite agressive beat maker.

The Juke bandwagon is well and truly rolling so I thought I'd help give it a little push with a track from the deeper side of the scene courtesy of DJ Earl and a more cerebral track from this largely raw, lude, uncultured scene quite surprising coming from a teenager! Downliners Sekt are coming out with some downright dirty, dark and uncompromising music and 'Dirty Meinz' is definitely one for a certain time and place, I'll let you decide where and when. There is a great new compilation showcasing the LA beat making scene's talent roster called Proximity One: Narrative Of A City and it's a great listen start to finish and will undoubtedly be one of my compilations of the year, check the Take and Dam Funk tracks for a taste of what to expect.

Games are otherwise known as Oneohtrix Point Never & Joel Ford and you need to know about this genre bending space cadets as the Heartland track illustrates whereas you probably alread know a bit about Mathew Dear of whom I'm not a massive fan but the 'Honey' track from his new album is definitely tickling my lobes in all the right places. Christopher Willits is a Ghostly Internationallabel mate of Dears and his new album is a thing of gentle, natural folk beauty mixed up with some nice electronic touches and well worth getting your hands on. Now the 80's are well back in fashion and Hint has just released his little musical homage to the soulful side of the decade, 'Give It Up'.

I couldn't resist dropping another Space Dimension Controller track this week and I'm sure it's not going to be the last on the show, I'm liking his style. Afrology is an interesting little project out of France which due to it over reliance on samples in unreleasable so it's up for free download and is a nice little blend of Africa and hip hop sampleology. Crewdson is the latest release on Slowfoot records, those nice people that brought Robert Logan to the world and it's a fitting end to a heavily electronic biased show.