It's pretty rare that I get a PR email about a release and just chuck it straight up on the blog, but when someone sends you a banger like this you just gotta get behind it:

The Living Graham Bond ft Shon B - Werk by Fat! Records

BLAM. Solid set of remixes too but for me the original just smashes it. Warehouse Bird is a bit more of a DJ tool in comparison but still a very cool slowish wonky rave affair.

Check this mixtape from Graham too, excellent stuff

High Pressure Low Frequencies Promo Mix - May 2011 by The Living Graham Bond

New EP of originals & remixes from Analogik released on 21st February... check it:

Analogik - A great mix by Jenkamusic

Like Budzillus (who appear here as remixers), they're amazing at combining a cutesy videogame / chiptune sound with organic balkan, gypsy, and sometimes country melodies and instruments (I'd like to name this genre right now: Gyptune).

The combination of lo-fi synth bleeps, traditional melodies and dubby basslines in Saltefanden & Don Texas reach that musical holy-grail: Monkey-Island-ness, especially Saltefanden which is so damn LeChuck I can hardly stand it. Amazing stuff. Cowboy Song is a wicked Western Ska skank with a big sinister breakdown, and Ali is a papery, vintage balkan dub.

The remix pack is strong too, with dEbruit teasing even more bleeps out of Saltefanden to create a wonky hip hop instrumental, and Budzillus adding a bit more bounce to Ali. Check the Dokkedal/Dixen remix of Ali for some heavy 4-4 dub/step pressure - this is probably my favourite of the remixes on offer. El Remolon serves up a slow dutch house / fast moombahton reworking of Don Texas, whilst Bo Marley's remix of the same tune is a sparse electro dub with the brass melody transposed onto 8bit beeps.

There's some limited free downloads of the dEbruit remix at Generation Bass, hurry on over & grab it.

download Girl Robot - Old Amiga Fun

I just uploaded a free album of some of my stuff from waaaay back, well, circa 2002 this is - back when I was Girl Robot (well I still am, sometimes, in theory) and rocked out the lofi-8bit-dub-techno with my Amiga and a couple of bits of supercheap hardware, ah those were the days... Here's a couple to stream:

wer flo wer by Girl Robot

robots dem love by Girl Robot

The whole album is only in 128 unfortunatley, you have to understand that when I started getting involved with music online, we really didn't have that much storage space either online or off - anything more than 128 was just overindulgence... I've only got over this in the past couple of years really, meaning that loads of music of which I literally have the only copy in the world is in relatively low quality... OOPS. If anyone does want any of these to play out, I have a feeling I still have WAVs of one or two - definitely not all - on a hard drive somewhere, hit me up & I'll try to find them!

Anyway check out the album here...

download Girl Robot - Old Amiga Fun

Enjoy!

Just come across this mix on the Hijack Bristol forum by someone called JE3Z-LUNCHBOX... It's a wicked selection of swinging balkan electronic craziness, loads of tunes I can't identify, good work sir... if you find your way here, any chance of a tracklisting??

Here's what he had to say about it:

Its good to see that more people are getting into the whole electro swing, gypsy beats scene.
Thought id make my contribution with a seriously phaaaaat mix of said awesomeness.


LUNCHBOX PRESENTS! THE BIG BOX OF SWING MIXTAPE!
GYPSY BEATS, JAZZY TREATS, DUBBY BASS, STEPPY WOBBLES AND TIMELESS CHIPTUNE INFLUENCES MAKE THIS MIX A MIND NUMBING FEET STOMPING CARAVAN CRASHING TREAT.GET IT WHILE ITS HOT!

Download it from Divshare!

Shazalakazoo - Live in Amsterdam (2010) by shazalakazoo

This speaks for itself really, 2 solid hours of Balkan Folkstep Bangers from carnivalesque balkan soca-dancehall-house to hardcore balkan junglistic fever... all in Shazalakazoos inimitable style... for free!

This is some pretty disgustingly huge latin-electro-jazz-house right here...

Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP - We No Speak Americano (mediafire link)

Buy the 320 at Spank Records

Been getting a whole bunch of hits from Kenya today since my post on Muthoni The Drummer Queen (still my hero) yesterday so I thought I'd return the favour and check out some more Kenyan stuff... here's a little selection of links to what I've come across (all with downloads!):

Two tunes via Ghetto Bassquake, both called Hey Baby:

Chiwawa - Hey Baby - raw Swahili hip hop..

Marya feat. Colonel Mustapha-Hey Baby - Cheery afro-pop..

This dude Matthew Hiscock got in touch yesterday to play me some of the stuff he's been doing, and man, he's been doing some good stuff! Chilled electro-step-breaks-lushness, according to Matthew 'It’s a bit of LuckyMe and a bit of Joy Orbison' but since I've not listened to those guys I can't comment on that... The whole sound is simultaneously warm and cold, bright sunshine on snowly mountains, or something like that.. reminds me of early 808 State for that reason (808 State's Gorgeous album - one of the best albums evar - has permanently burned mountains onto my inner retinas after it was the only tape I had with me on a skiing trip).

Here's Matthew's new EP for streaming, and he's been kind enough to send a download link for you as well, see below... I'm particularly loving Big Big Big.

EP2  by  matthewhiscock

Made this little remix last night:

johnny_ripper - phantom (andykisaragi remix 0.1)

It's a reworking of 'Phantom' by johnny_ripper from his album of industrial-ambient-soundscapey stuff, null/void. You can download the album, plus all the stems to the tracks for your own remixes, here. My mix is a little more upbeat than the original, turning it into a sort of electro-industrial-reggaeton affair...

My brother just pointed me towards Four Tet's essential mix (not linking it as it won't be there in an hour or so, but I'm sure you can find a torrent) and particularly to the tune at about 57 minutes in, because he quite rightly thought that I'd love it. It's a crazy 70s cutesy afro-electro-pop tune and it's a bit of a revelation... I've managed to sniff out the full mp3:

William Onyeabor - When the Going is Smooth and Good (apologies, it's a vinyl rip not done by myself, and the first 30 seconds or so contains lots of skipping. It's very late and i can't be arsed to do an edit for you!)