Archives for September 2012

It's a Friday, which means we round-up a week of free downloads...

Your final offering this week comes from Hooded Fang who are giving away the b-side to the single Vacationation. You'll find the link below with the rest of the downloads from this week...

People Get Ready - Windy Cindy

Freelance Whales - Spitting Image (Little Daylight Remix)

The Eccentronic Research Council - Her Kind Wicked Sister

Of Montreal - Micro University

Hooded Fang - Tops

Some tracks may no longer be available for download.

This week's Memory Tapes was sent to us by James Newey, who writes...

"I made this compilation for a recent road trip around Spain with a friend of mine. We were fortunate enough to be lent a car for the 2000km we covered (I suppose a huge thank you is owed there!), but disappointingly this car did not have the facility to connect an ipod. As I am a little anal about composing compilation tapes, I saw this as a great opportunity to comprise a mix for each of the long journeys we took.

"The list I am sending you was for our first trip from Madrid to Zaragoza and probably my favourite mix of the bunch. It's a fairly diverse selection peppered with many of my favourite tunes at the time. Including a few Shuggie Otis, This Is The Kit and Culture tracks and is a compilation I still listen to occasionally whilst cycling to work.

"The trip itself was brilliant and a real fond memory. Many of the tunes here will live in that happy place and it always brings a smile to my face when I hear some of the below choices."

Here's the tracks...

1. Elegy For Mr Peach - DJ Rupture

2. Elijah - Culture

3. Rockford Rock - Sound Dimension

4. Bionic Dub - Dub Specialists

5. Tramp - Otis Redding

6. Bootie Cooler - Shuggie Otis

7. Babyon`s Big Dog - Culture

8. Gangsters - Specials

9. Boogaloo #3 - Roy Lee Johnson & The Villagers

10. Boogaloo 33 - Quantic & Alice Russell

11. Me & My Woman - Shuggie Otis

12. Burning Spear - Breakestra

13. Showbiz Interlude - Breakestra

14. Soul Power 74 - Breakestra

15. You`ve Got The Love - Jamie XX Remix

16. Django Django - Default

17. I Knew - Lightning Dust

18. Humans - Rozi Plain

19. Tangled Walker - This Is The Kit

20. Danse Carribe - Andrew Bird

21. Teary Eyes & Bloody Lips - Moonface

22. Piscine - Francois & The Atlas Mountains

23. Do More Dancing - This Is The Kit

24. Les Fleur - Ramsey Lewis

Please, feel free to send Lauren your Memory Tape...

Your MPFree today comes from Of Montreal. The band are gearing up to release a rarities collection in late October called Daughter Of Cloud.

This particular track that they've chosen to give away comes from a 2006 7-inch which was a stand-alone single between the albums 'The Sunlandic Twins' and 'Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?'

Their last studio album was Paralytic Stalks from February this year.

Of Montreal - Micro University

Your MPFree today comes from The Eccentronic Research Council. Who? They are electronic pop artist Adrian Flanagan, his producer pal Dean Honer and acclaimed actor Maxine Peake.

Their album '1612 Underture' is based around the story of The Pendle Witches and the town of Pendle. This free download is an early verson of a track that eventually made it on to the album.

The band will perform a one off performance of their album this Saturday in a portable 1930s German cabaret venue made of wood called a 'Spiegelent', temporarily erected on Barkers Pool in the centre of Sheffield.

The Eccentronic Research Council - Her Kind Wicked Sister

Your MPFree today is remix from the new Freelance Whales album. Their second LP Diluvia will arrive in October and follows 2009's Weathervanes.

The remix comes from Little Daylight who in the past has remixed Edward Sharpe, Temper Trap and Niki & The Dove.

Freelance Whales - Spitting Image (Little Daylight Remix)

Gadget Of The Week: Autographer

Dubbed the world's first intelligent wearable camera, Autographer is a new type of camera which has been custom built to enable spontaneous, hands-free photo taking. It automatically decides when it's time to take a picture and you wear it round your neck. It promises to change the way we think about photography... by not even thinking at all.

Website Of The Week: Design Milk

Design Milk is an online magazine devoted to modern design. Their goal is to bring you what's fresh and new in art, amazing architecture, interior and exterior design, furniture and decor, art, furniture, fashion, and technology. It's essentially devoted to and celebrates the weird and wonderful and cool and quirky world of design.

App Of The Week: NuffnangX, Android & iOS, (Free)

NuffnangX is designed to help you find, follow and communicate with blogs and bloggers all over the world. Think of it as Instagram for blogs - so you can discover, share and interact with other users about blog content.

Gadget Of The Week: Autographer

Dubbed the world's first intelligent wearable camera, Autographer is a new type of camera which has been custom built to enable spontaneous, hands-free photo taking. It automatically decides when it's time to take a picture and you wear it round your neck. It promises to change the way we think about photography... by not even thinking at all.

Website Of The Week: Design Milk

Design Milk is an online magazine devoted to modern design. Their goal is to bring you what's fresh and new in art, amazing architecture, interior and exterior design, furniture and decor, art, furniture, fashion, and technology. It's essentially devoted to and celebrates the weird and wonderful and cool and quirky world of design.

App Of The Week: NuffnangX, Android & iOS, (Free)

NuffnangX is designed to help you find, follow and communicate with blogs and bloggers all over the world. Think of it as Instagram for blogs - so you can discover, share and interact with other users about blog content.

Your first MPFree of the week comes from Brooklyn quartet People Get Ready.

They formed, roughly, as a band a couple of years ago but are now gearing up for their debut release. Their album will be self-titled, and this track comes from it...

People Get Ready - Windy Cindy

Your Memory Tape this week comes from Robin Mann who's a boy who made a mix for a girl. Classic.

"I made this mix about three years ago now for my then girlfriend Rosie. We split up at the beginning of last year.

"Most of those tracks that feature are still what I listen to these days. I'm a Tom Waits obsessive so Rosie had to feature, and Blue Valentine is my all-time favourite record.

"Also, a few of the other artists (Dalton, Mimms) I came across whilst we were together. I guess they're all tracks that summed me up at the time."

Tracklisting:

I Just Want To Make Love To You - Etta James

The Next Time Around - Little Joy

A Lover Sings - Billy Bragg

Little Bit - Lyke Li

Girls & Boys - Blur

Young Folks - Peter Bjorn & John

Walk On The Wild Side - Lou Reed

Rosie - Tom Waits

How Did The Feeling Feel To You - Karen Dalton

I Looked At You - The Doors

I'd Have It Just The Way We Were - White Denim

Blue Valentines - Tom Waits

Cry Me a River - Dinah Washington

As Long As I Have You - Garnett Mimms

Song To Woody - Bob Dylan

Sinnerman - Nina Simone

Honky Tonk Women - Rolling Stones

Light My Fire - Jose Feliciano

For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield

Cigarettes - Lonnie Duvall

Make me smile - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel

Why not send Lauren your Memory Tape? Just email a tracklisting and the story behind it.

So far, it's been a week of newbies on the MPFree front, but today's comes from an old fave.... Diplo has teamed up with Jahan Lennon for something pretty unexpected when you consider that the last Diplo track we played was a big brazen bombastic dance track.

This new offering is a psyched-out two and a half minute jam, and is available below.

This week's tracks are:

Turnpike Glow - The Turn, The Pike and The Glow

Helvetia - Nothing In Rambling

Life In Film - Needles & Pins

Blende - Fake Love (Villa Remix)

Diplo - About That Life" (Feat. Jahan Lennon)

Some tracks may no longer be available for download.

Today's MPFree is a fine example of cosmic ordering. Yesterday we played the new single by Blende; we loved it. Then, bingo! It's up as a free download. So here it is...

The original of this track was released on Monday through Eskimo Recordings, this download however, is the Villa remix.

Blende - Fake Love (Villa Remix)

We have some understated indie for your MPFree this morning.

Life In Film are a London four piece who're giving away the title track of their new EP Needles & Pins which was released in August.

The EP was produced by Stephen Street who's also working on the band's debut album.

Life In Film - Needles & Pins

Your MPFree today comes from a three-piece based in Seattle. Helvetia released their first album back in 2006, and last week they released their seventh.

Despite being this prolific, they're new to us. If they're new to you too then you can get your free taster below...

Helvetia - Nothing In Rambling

Your MPFree today is a track Lauren played last week. Turnpike Glow are a London based 4 piece, with some of the members originally from Rome.

The whole of their debut EP - Inflatable Optimism - is available as a free download, or, you can buy it on the 8th October.

They have a few London dates coming up:

20th Sept - Club Surya, Kings Cross

18th Oct - Oxjam, Camden

Go see 'em, or, just download the track:

Turnpike Glow - The Turn, The Pike and The Glow

There's two lovely hip hop tracks sitting pretty on this week's MPFree, and the final offering comes from the new Bat For Lashes album. The Haunted Man hits the shops in October, and this is your second taste of that album following the track Laura.

And don't forget, Bat For Lashes will be playing live for us in the first week of October at Maida Vale as part of a special week of shows from the world famous studios.

Your tracks this week are:

Cymbals Eat Guitars - Hawk Highway

Snowblink - Unsurfed Waves

The Black Opera - All Over Disguise (Apollo Brown Remix)

Oddisee - From Largo With Love

Bat For Lashes - Marilyn

Some tracks may no longer be available for download.

Your Memory Tape this week is a formative one, and comes from Dave Porthouse...

"It was 1980-81, I was 16-17 and attended Monkwearmouth College. I Made friends with a top bloke called Anth Dunn who went on to be bass player with Martin Stephenson and the Daintees.

"Anth was so switched to what was happening at the time and did me a couple of great tapes."

The tracklisting is as follows...

1. Eye of the lens - Comsat Angels

2. Wardance - Killing Joke

3. Decades - Joy Division

4. Why she's a girl from the chainstore - Buzzcocks

5. M - The Cure

6. The Puppet - Echo and the Bunnymen

7. Original Sin - Theatre of Hate

8. Simply Thrilled Honey - Orange Juice

9. Chance Meeting - Josef K

10. We Could Send Letters - Aztec Camera

11. Independence Day - Comsat Angels

12. We Love You - Psychedelic Furs

13. Did You See Her - Pink Military

14. Stepping Out - The Fall

15. Dead Pop Stars - Altered Images

16. Celebrate - Simple Minds

17. Ghosts - Positive Noise

18. Going Up - Echo and the Bunnymen

19. Ceremony - New Order

20. Complications - Killing Joke

21. In Shreds - The Chameleons

Hey, why not send Lauren your Memory Tape? Go on...

Your MPFree is another offering of producer and rapper Oddisee; he's clearly very generous with his music as we used his track Paralyzed as an MPFree back in May.

This free download is a new track inspired by his home town Largo in Maryland.

He's playing on Friday at the Jazz Cafe, but unfortunately (not for him) it's sold out.

Oddisee - From Largo With Love

Your MPFree today comes from The Black Opera; a faceless hip hop collective who formed with "the purpose of uniting opposing worlds and making perfect harmony through multi-genre artistic expressions."

The original of this remix comes from their second album Enter Mission, which is part of a trilogy of albums; the first being Overture, and the next being Libretto of King Legend due later this year.

The Black Opera - All Over Disguise (Apollo Brown Remix)

Tuesday MPFree comes from a duo from Toronto called Snowblink.

Their second album Inner Classics was released yesterday via Arts & Crafts, and this free download comes from it.

It's basically some lovely dream pop produced by Chris Stringer (who, in the past, has produced Timber Timbre).

Snowblink - Unsurfed Waves

App know-it-all Stuart Dredge returns to talk you through some of the best bits out this week:

Habu Music

Habu Music is the latest smartphone and tablet app promising to help you discover new, amazing music. Its twist: the music is presented by mood, with playlists based on things like 'sensual', 'peaceful', 'cool' and 'rowdy'.

Indie Shuffle

This is another 'smart playlists' app that aims to serve up new music, but this time based on the popular Indie Shuffle website. Choose a song in genres like indie rock, hip-hop and electronic, hit play, and enjoy (in theory) a stream of goodness.

John Cage Piano

Celebrate the 100th birthday of composer John Cage by playing a virtual version of his 'prepared' piano - basically this involved putting a load of old metal bits and bobs under his piano's strings to "create an entirely new instrument". And now you can do it on an iPad with no nails or bolts required.

Your first MPFree of the week comes from indie New Yorkers Cymbals Eat Guitars. We played their first few singles on the show a couple of years ago, but the release of last year's album Lenses Alien went right over our heads.

This free download is a described as a 'spare track' which is produced by John Agnello who's worked with the likes of Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr. and Kurt Vile.

Cymbals Eat Guitars - Hawk Highway

The BBC Music Video Festival starts today and runs across Autumn. The idea of the festival is to showcase the best music videos of the year and to highlight some of the new music and filmmaking talent out there.

This year, videos have been submitted from around the world and special selections chosen by Drowned in Sound, The 405, BUG/Promo News and Radar Music Videos.

Featured videos come from Grimes, Jack White, Feist, First Aid Kit, Alt-J, Bloc Party, Bombay Bicycle Club, Bonobo, Fleet Foxes and The Shins.

If you want to get more hands on and you're in the east of the country, then there's a load of events happening in Norwich. You can find out more by visiting The Forum website.

Anyway, to get involved, Lauren has picked out just a few of her fave videos ever made since the beginning of time, and we've posted them all below for you to watch/enjoy.

Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues

Beastie Boys - Sabotage

Fatboy Slim - Praise You

Pixies - Velouria

Daft Punk - Around the World

Lauren's other choices were ZZ Top - Legs and Aphex Twin - Window Licker.

Links:

BBC Norfolk's Sam Hill writes about the BBC Music Video Festival

BBC Music Video Festival on Facebook

BBC Music Video Festival on Tumblr

It's Friday! So it's MPFree day! How wonderful. Your final track comes from Brooklyn-based duo Tony Castles. Next month they release the EP 'Sharon Stone' through Das Racist's Greedhead label. Here's an early taster for you...

Your tracks this week are:

Frankie Rose - The Fall (Fort Romeau Remix)

Frank Friction - Satisfied

Anna Calvi - The Wall

Liars - Point Your Pistols To The Sigh

Tony Castles - One Tone Man

Some tracks may no longer be available for download.

This week's Memory Tape is all about a musical education, as Phil Booth explains...

"I thought I'd send you two mixtapes that i did for my daughter, Ella. These mixtapes were influenced by a person you had on the mixtape section previously who wanted to give his kids a musical education.

"I have been considering doing a third version - but then I worry that i am leaving her with no scope for discovering this stuff for herself like I had to do."

Here's the tracklistings...

Disc 1:

1999 - Prince

London Calling - The Clash

Strawberry Fields - The Beatles

She Bangs The Drums - Stone Roses

Heart Of Glass - Blondie

Golden Years - David Bowie

The Snake - Al Wilson

Three Little Birds - Bob Marley & The Wailers

Superstition - Stevie Wonder

Antmusic - Adam Ant

The Message - Grandmaster Flash

Fiesta - The Pogues

Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners

Gangsters - The Specials

A Town Called - The Jam

Lazy Sunday - The Small Faces

Out Of Sight - James Brown

The Perfect Kiss - New Order

The Prince - Madness

This Charming Man - The Smiths

Disc 2:

Be My Baby - The Ronettes

Oblivious - Aztec Camera

Shout To The Top - The Style Council

Hallelujah - The Happy Mondays

Higher & Higher - Jackie Wilson

Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack

12 Reasons Why I Love Her - My Life Story

The Look Of Love - ABC

The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum - Fun Boy 3

Liquidator - Harry J Allstars

Happy Hour - The Housemartins

Love Action - The Human League

Picture Book - The Kinks

The Magic Number - De La Soul

Ride A White Swan - T Rex

Fall On Me - REM

New Year's Day - U2

My Generation - The Who

Running Waters - Martin Stephenson & The Daintees

Seven Days Is Too Long - Chuck Wood

Hounds Of Love - Kate Bush

The Model - Kraftwerk

Cars - Gary Numan

Hey, here's an idea, why not send Lauren your Memory Tape? Tis easy.

Your MPFree this week is the final track from the Adult Swim Series of 2012 free downloads. And what a way to end!

Liars released their last album WIXIW back in June, and this is already some new material from them. It's pretty dark; but pretty brilliant.

Liars - Point Your Pistols To The Sigh

Your MPFree today comes from Anna Calvi. This track is a cover of The Wall by The Invisible which Anna has decided to give away for free.

It was recorded in New York back in May of this year. Don't forget, The Invisible will be joining us for a live session on September 24th.

Anna Calvi - The Wall

Your MPFree today was a tip-off from The Pharcyde; probably because it's the solo project of one of the members of the group.

Frank Friction is the alter-ego of Bootie Brown. On this tracks he's teamed up with Parisian producer Kurser who's also worked with the likes of De La Soul.

As you might expect, the version we played on air is a radio edit, and the version you'll download below contains strong language.

Frank Friction - Satisfied

Frankie Rose seems to be the golden girl of the remix set at the moment. Your MPFree today is a reworking of The Fall; the closing track to her album Interstellar which was released in March.

The remix comes courtesy of Fort Romeau aka UK electronic artist Mike Norris. His album Kingdoms also came out in March this year should you be moved enough by his work to dig a little deeper.

Frankie Rose - "The Fall (Fort Romeau Remix)