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Another week, another round up of the best, brightest and most interesting new vieso for you, our discerning readers. It’s been a good week for new vids coming through, so it was hard to pick, but here are the ones we think you need to check out.
Grime guru Wiley follows Dizzee’s lead in remixing a nineties dance classic as he ropes in Emeli Sande to give the White Town classic Never Be Your Woman a fresh angle. This is good, so share it with your friends!
Brakes/Electric Soft Parade man Thomas White’s new solo album is on the way. To give you a taster we thought we’d share the video for the idiosyncratic single The Last Blast.
KCAT recently released her debut solo single, Boys Don’t Cry. Here’s the promo clip for a slice of unashamed pop that bodes well for the fashionista’s future.
Noisia’s Machine Gun is a slab of brutal slab of razor sharp electro tinged dance music. Couple that with a cutting edge video and you’ve got an audio visual treat. Don’t beleive me? Check it out for yourself…
Lastly, here’s a slice of smooth R&B from McLean. With a subtle, velvety voice and an ear for a tune, he’s crafted a tune that will probably spend a fair amount of time at the top of the charts. Check out My Name below.
Noisia have undoubtedly created a cult following in recent years thanks to: underground hits like ‘The Tide’, ‘Gutterpump’ and ‘Exodus’ – various high profile remixes for the likes of Moby and The Prodigy – a critically acclaimed mix compilation for Fabric – and a DJ-ing schedule that makes you feel tired just looking at it! That following is expected to multiply in 2010 as we are pleased to announce their debut long-player ‘Split The Atom’ is finally ready for release, the first offering of which ‘Machine Gun’ is an anthem of epic proportions.
Widely known and acclaimed for their Drum & Bass prowess, the 128 bpm ‘Machine Gun’ may come as a surprise to some, not so much a pleasant surprise, more like a surprise that will make you jump! ‘Machine Gun’, so called because, simply put, the guys thought the cacophony they’d created sounded like a Machine Gun, is a veritable aural attack, guaranteed to blow you away. From the anthemic introduction to the explosive drop, ‘Machine Gun’, which is also featured in the Wipeout HD Playstation 3 computer game, is 4 minutes and 8 seconds of speaker ripping, beat heavy bliss that will more than whet your appetite for their ‘Split The Atom’ long-player.
The remix package includes: Amon Tobin, Spor and 16 Bit, the vinyl version of which will be released on April 19th.
In addition to the release of the single, Noisia will be releasing four Drum & Bass tracks from the album on a Vision Recordings EP and four non-Drum & Bass tracks on a Division Recordings EP. This vinyl will have extended versions of the tracks and will be released on April 5th.
Tracklist for Vision Recordings EP:
A. Shellshock ft. Foreign Beggars
B. Sunhammer ft. Amon Tobin
C. Thursday
D. Hand Gestures ft. Joe Seven
Tracklist for Division Recordings EP:
A. Split the Atom
B. Alpha Centauri
C. Machine Gun
D. Red Heat
