RIP Gil Scott Heron

Gil Scott Heron & Jamie xx - Running

Rest in Peace, music has lost a true legend, you will be missed.

The Weeknd - The Morning

The Weeknd is a Toronto based R&B artist called Abel Tesfaye. His tune 'The Morning' is dripping with sex and excess, infact his whole debut album 'House of Balloons' exudes lust and millenial nocturnal living, sometimes sombre, sometimes winning, always louche. 

The Weeknd creates lush, emotionally charged tracks about love, drugs, sex, deciet and other explicitly erotic subject matter that's hypnotizing in it's high quality production and patient delivery. Abel sounds like a far more interesting Drake and is set to bring some self-assured sophistication to R&B, he's not quite humble yet not brash and ostentatious finding an accessible medium between being confident and crestfallen.
Props to 1DimensionalMan for the heads up on this one. 

The Line-Up & White Powder Gold

I went to this night back on the 29th April and the full review's just gone live on the Brighton Source site.

"New Night 'The Line-Up' aims to give recently signed bands the chance to build up some live gig experience, and in turn to give the crowd an opportunity to catch emerging talent before they blow up, so you can look back and say "I saw them before they were famous" - which always feels good. 

Tonight the emerging talent are London indie duo White Powder Gold. Jamie and Jermaine renounce the typical skinny jeans and mop bucket hair associated with landfill indie and their brand of music is similarly rebellious. Their performance is raw and unpolished and all the more visceral for it." 

Koya - Infected Tooth Mix

Dunkndisorderly sent me this mix via Facebook and it's full of rude riddims and some of the dirtiest new dubstep allowed on the airwaves. Koya are four electronic DJs and Producers from London and just from this mix's tacklist you can see they take influence from artists who don't hold back like Spor, Noisia and Reso.
Last year Koya had releases on labels Monkey Dub Recordings and Rankadank Records, whilst also playing sets supporting Flux Pavillion, Subscape, Funtcase, Reso and Sigma. This year they've got props from non other than Radio 1 dance music darling - Annie Mac, so 2011 is set to be the year Koya blow up with their monstrous dubstep productions.

  Koya - Infected Tooth Mix by Koyamusic


Tracklisting:

Koya - Still Alive
DJ Madd - Better With You (Akira Kiteshi Remix)
Katy Perry - E.T. (Noisia Remix)
Dodge & Fuski - Come Again
Boyson - The Crunch
Reso - Otacon
Laid Blak - Red (Chasing Shadows Remix)
The Prodigy - Firestarter (Coda Remix)
Koya - DB105
Nero ft. Alana - Guilt
Noisia - Alpha Centuri (Excision & Datsik Remix)
Koya - Surrounded
Freestylers - Cracks (Flux Pavilion Remix)
Koya - Untitled
Lethal Bizzle - Pow (Acapella)

Deadboy - Wish U Were Here

New release from the Numbers gang set to drop next month - Deadboy's 'Wish U Were Here' - some more smooth grooves from the heartbreak garage kid, this tune is gonna get rinsed this summer, perfect for sun kissed afternoons on the beach. 

Deadboy's 2-Step melancholia first blipped on my radar last year with tracks like 'Heartbreaker', 'If U Want Me' and 'U Cheated', and the tear jerking, dancefloor filling DJ keeps going from strength to strength playing bigger crowds with every booking and producing some of the sexiest future R&B tunes out there. This mix he did for May Anne Hobbs is pretty juicy too.

  Mary Anne Hobbs mix by Deadboy

Distance - Falling ft Alys Be

DJ Distance has been a major dubstep player since 2007 with his Chestplate imprint and genre defining tunes like Night Vision, now his evocative productions are rippling through the underground and up into the commercial realm. 'Falling' featuring Alys Be is more radio friendly than his earlier work but still retains that tough drum loop and rough & ready bass, this time with Alys' mournful vocals layered over the top. 

Find Distance on his Myspace