saint saviour - midnight city

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I think this might even have smashed into second place the original by M83. Saint Saviour sings. We should listen.

ane brun - worship (ft josé gonzález)

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Lifted from her new album It All Starts With One, Ane Brun released recently the fourth and final part of the video series 'One' based on songs from said album. The first two parts have yet to be released yet and hopefully when they do, the video will make more sense but at the moment I am just enjoying the bizarre visualisation of a trippy little number with one hell of a guest singer.

scroobius pip - introdiction

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Words of wisdom indeed.

alabama shakes

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I think you'll like this, especially if you are a blues fan. In fact I'll stake my inconsequential reputation on it. 

go to sleep

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It's the title that Nite Jewel has given this little mix of hers ahead of her new album to be released shortly. I guess a Sunday morning chill out is the next best thing to going back to bed so it seems apt to post here.  It's well worth persevering with if the first track seems too maudlin for your ears as it goes off on all sorts of quiet tangents. I've added the tracklisting below also.

GO TO SLEEP mixed by Nite Jewel

1. Go To Sleep - Gothic Hut

2. Take Me To Your Heart (Live) - Eurythmics

3. Do I - Baby Buddha

4. Faking Jazz Together - Connan Mockasin

5. In A Silent Way - Miles Davis

6. Suicide Notes (From Jolee) - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti

7. North Star - Daryl Hall

8. Psychic Returns - Paradise

9. The Two Of Us - Earth & FIre

10. Angela - Vitamin Z

11. Annunciation - Bill Nelson

12. White Car In Germany - The Associates

nora batty

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Ok, it's a terrible pun and almost certainly lost on any non-British blog readers of at least a certain age. I apologise because the music deserves your attention. The ever-excellent Leon Somov and Jazzu have released a new song on Soundcloud and I like it. It's quite radio-friendly, a little simpler in its construction and content than the music I've heard them make previously but I'm a great believer in the process of minimialising music to allow the musicians to make more complex statements. I know this sounds a contradiction in terms but it can be difficult sometimes to appreciate the individual nuances of a song in something like a Spector 'Wall of Sound' production. Am I making sense? Probably not and once again time for me to stop rambling.

olafur arnalds and nils frahm live improvisation

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Sometimes I make a discovery that is just so life-affirming that I begin to wax lyrical about it. I've re-written this intro about a dozen times because it seems to over-egg the description of what is essentially a simple project. To hell with the words, let's just listen to the music because this is incredible.

moody thursday

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Here are a few tunes for lunchtime.

Susan Cadogan - 'Don't Burn Your Bridges'

Portishead - 'Scorn'

Onra - 'The Arrival'

nathan fake - grandfathered

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nina kravitz - show me your time

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I can't tell you how much my ears love pure minimal techno such as this. It's so crisp, so clean, so beautiful. 

shigeto

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I've been following this band for some time now after seeing them on a show on Sky Arts. Unfortunately I could never remember the name of the show and couldn't find the footage showing the amazing drumming and simultaneous synthesising. This short clip isn't the one I saw but does do justice to the talents that they have. Brilliant stuff.

i would fix you - kenickie

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dedicated to joyce reid

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This song reminds me of Sunday breakfasts with you and Grandad. Rest in peace, Nan. 

pressure drop - warrior sound

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CHOON!

rick hopkins - take it to the house mix (part1)

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post modern escape artist

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Have I played this before on my blog? I've had this tune for a while now and I can't find anything when I do a search but I have a nagging feeling I have posted this before. Here it is anyway and apologies if it's a repeat. Actually, scrub that...I won't apologise. It's a lovely splice of Billie Holliday and hip hop. How can anyone be sorry about that?

nick pride and the pimptones remixed

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This is a classic funk-jazz album given a hip hop makeover and the overall effect is close to perfection. Don't take my word for it though. Give it a listen and your ears will thank you for it.

daniel steinberg - arms and legs podcast #4

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The latest podcast from my favourite minimalist. This just oozes soulful minimalism.

sister frica - 'one in the spirit'

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This is a haunting dub track produced by Augusto Pablo and sung by Sister Frica. This is as good as it gets, it really is.

chelsea wolfe plays rudimentary pen

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This is a brilliant collection of covers from lady of the moment, Chelsea Wolfe. I hope you don't mind my laziness but I've lifted the sleevenotes from the Soundcloud site:

1. A HANDFUL OF DUST

I will show you fear in a handful of dust

2: ECHO

language of agony, torment in sound. weeping of ancestors formed into words. the echo of anguish, primeval sorrow

3: BLACK ON GOLD / SICKENING FOR SOMETHING

lapis lazuli turquoise and amethyst black on gold viridian and jasmine tan and black ruby and cinnabar dove grey puke pink onyx and bronze vermillion and amber jade and amber black on gold 454 Angell Street Black on gold green to feel blue gawd those colors opium madness unleashed! supreme final ecstasy.

give me that decanter, eliot!

4: DISSOLUTION/REHEARSAL FOR MORTALITY

it matters not that i did seek, to conquer fear and vanquish pain, for victory belongs to grief, so into tears dissolve in vain.

in this rehearsal for mortality I learn acceptance and can no longer return with such tenacity to cling to all that is me to all that is me

5: PRAYER FOR THE UNBORN

let us rest in oblivion forever and ever amen