Pastures Of Plenty

A smart, low key edit of Odetta's 'Pastures Of Plenty' from LA producer C.Love for you today; raised by angels and devils in the land of chrysalis and crystal apparently..

Viva Bastardo May Mix

After a brief hiatus, Viva Bastardo is back on Cowbell Radio from 26th May. To celebrate this we've put together a mix to really get your Saturday night juices flowing. Tune in from 7pm via the website or the tune in app.

Viva Bastardo May Mix 2013 by Just Press Play on Mixcloud

Four Tet: Unspoken

Cor blimey, Four Tet's 'Rounds' is ten years old this year. To celebrate Domino records are re-releasing the album with a bonus live set from the time, all the details here.
Nice interview with the man up on Pitchfork too, I've often wondered why he took the step from making the type of stuff on 'Rounds' to the more dancefloor oriented gear he makes today;

"In the UK now, there’s hardly any magazines or anything, and nobody writes long pieces, but there was a lot of that stuff going on at this time. Once the "folktronica" tag was applied, it was a disaster for me. You’d have a magazine like Mojo come to me and-- rather than find out what the record was about-- they’d already decided, like, "We need a folktronica piece, maybe we can get two or three of the acts that we think fit into this mold and write about it." But they were writing about a scene that didn’t exist-- scenes come from the musicians, not from the magazine. So they’d choose a bunch of people who had no common connections at all and squash them together. Looking back now, I’m even more annoyed by it. Ultimately, it had an effect on the music I made afterward. It was like a direct rebellion against "folktronica." I had to move away from it"

Full interview here. Also didn't realise that 'Rounds' is made up entirely of samples.
Here's the promo version of 'Unspoken' which couldn't be used at the time due to an uncleared Tori Amos sample, grab the Wav on Soundcloud.

Too Old To Be New, Too New To Be Classic

Nice short film celebrating 12 years of DFA featuring the labels artists old and new.

Blood Shot!

Compiler of one of the finest mixes of the 90's, David Holmes, has taken to Soundcloud with much gusto; his second mix in as many months has just gone up, it's a scuzzy blend of psych freakbeat that fits perfectly with this glorious sunshine that England is currently experiencing. Enjoy it while it lasts.

Spiders (Kidsmoke)

Open Eye Signal

Is Jon Hopkins following the same path as Four Tet? From elegant beat maker to dancefloor destroyer? Could very well be on this evidence, taken from new album 'Immunity' which is out soon on Domino Records.