dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip to release the beat heavy lit-pop tour de force The Logic Of Chance on Sunday Best Recordings
New single “Get Better” out now featuring remixes from 2 Bears (featuring Joe Goddard), Jakwob, Errors and Villa; and a video directed by Richard Heslop – who’s credits include videos for everyone from Happy Mondays and The Smiths, to Ace Of Base and the Shamen!
With the free-flowing rhyme’n’bass opener Sick Tonight, old school dancefloor hip-hop of The Beat and the euphoric Italo-disco of Get Better,le sac Vs Pip have delivered a second album of beat led polemics; instantly danceable, yet increasingly vital, The Logic Of Chance is a great leap forward for alternative conscious pop.
With a microscope on violent crime stats (Great Britain), a declaration on the individuals role in a Democracy (Stake A Claim) and the perils of late night rail travel (Last Train Home), there is little slight of hand or ironic shape pulling here; Scroobius Pip delivers direct and true on the state of the nation, while dan le sac delivers his most advanced and eclectic soundtrack yet.
Despite growing up in the same Essex village Stanford Le Hope, the pair’s paths had barely crossed before they shared a Christmas season working at the Lakeside branch of HMV. After a brief creative courtship – sharing Myspace links and remixes – their very first collaboration struck gold. Hot off the CDR burner, their first song Thou Shalt Always Kill was sent to XFM’s John Kennedy in demo form and within 24 hours Kennedy had played the track on his show. Pip swiftly set up a myspace page with their solitary track… “Suddenly it went crazy - everyone was emailing the track to other people, so the only thing to do was borrow £200 and make a video.” That video has now chalked up 2.5million views on youtube and the single’s hastily arranged release on Lex cracked the Top 40.
Shunning the inevitable major label overtures, Messrs le sac and Pip opted to sign to Rob da Bank’s Sunday Best label, ensuring that their critically acclaimed debut album became one of the leading independent releases of 2008. Released in May ’08, Angles arrived just 12 months after the first fruits of their partnership had hit the airwaves. The duo’s welcome but unexpected rise, saw them working on tracks for their debut in the back of Pip’s Toyota Space Wagon, in between the growing list of festival, TV and radio engagements. That this ad-hoc germination should produce such a cohesive and thought provoking work, is testament to dan le sac’s production work and the enduring appeal of Pip’s word play.
Angles entered the Top 30 and in the subsequent 18 months, the duo has toured Europe and the US to an expanding live following. Visually and musically dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip defy any prefab industry model, their towering structures of Casio enthused electro-hip-pop often cutting against the conventions of Radio programming. And yet they have become airwave and chart regulars, producing the salient singles Beat That My Heart Skipped, Look For The Woman and the Radiohead sampling A Letter From God To Man.
dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip – “Get Better [Villa vocal remix]”
Headmistress | Spring/Summer 2010 Collection
Get ready to be dazzled by the Headmistress Spring/Summer 2010 collection. Drawn from her experiences living in London, UK, Jillian’s S/S’10 collection is a clear reflection of England - where ladies have been sporting headpieces for centuries. Focusing on all things feminine and colourful, Jillian’s pieces use an abundance of lace, sheer silks, Liberty floral prints and of course her signature vintage glass buttons. This Spring, Headmistress launches her first bridal mini-collection, that is sure to have ladies heads spinning this wedding season!
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You can also check out Headmistress on her website, blog and twitter.
Massive Attack - ‘Heligoland’ Out in Canada on February 9, 2010
Massive Attack have announced details of their fifth studio album ‘Heligoland,’ due for release in February 2010. It features guest vocals from Damon Albarn, Hope Sandoval, Martina Topley-Bird, Guy Garvey and Tunde Adebimpe. Long time cohort Horace Andy makes a return alongside Massive Attack founding members Robert Del Naja and Grant Marshall. Damon also plays bass on ‘Flat Of The Blade’ and keyboards on ‘Splitting The Atom’ while Portishead’s Adrian Utley plays guitar on ‘Saturday Come Slow.’ The band also collaborated with DFA’s Tim Goldsworthy on selected tracks. The cover artwork features an original image by Robert Del Naja.
The track listing is as follows:
Pray For Rain - featuring Tunde Adebimpe
Babel – featuring Martina Topley-Bird
Splitting The Atom – featuring Robert del Naja/Grant Marshall/Horace Andy
Girl I Love You – featuring Horace Andy
Psyche – featuring Martina Topley-Bird
Flat Of The Blade – featuring Guy Garvey
Paradise Circus – featuring Hope Sandoval
Rush Minute – featuring Robert del Naja
Saturday Come Slow – featuring Damon Albarn
Atlas Air – featuring Robert del Naja
Over the last three years Robert Del Naja has written and produced soundtracks for a number of films and documentaries, including ‘Trouble In The Water,’ ’44 Inch Chest,’ ‘In Prison My Whole Life’ and ‘Gomorra,’ the latter for which he won the David Di Donatello Award for Best Song.
This year Massive Attack won the Outstanding Contribution to British Music Award at the Ivor Novello Awards. The band have also announced a few more UK dates and a percentage of the ticket money will be donated to the HOPING Foundation.
Corinne Bailey Rae - Your First Taste of the New Album…Check it Out Everyone!!
For your first sampling of Corinne Bailey Rae’s new album The Sea (now coming out in North America on January 26, 2010) - please check out the video for her spine-tingling performance of new song “I’d Do It All Again” on Later with Jools in the UK this week. I highly recommend taking the time to watch this!
Keb Darge and Paul Weller team up on “Lost & Found – Real R’N’b and Soul”
Here we are again with the second helping of “Lost & Found” gems. This time the focus is on underground dance music from black artists in the fifties and sixties. The maestro’s for this ride through the glorious past: Keb Darge and Paul Weller. Personal collections revealed…a golden age revisited.
Keb Darge has compiled more compilations for BBE than any other DJ selling close to 200,000 CDs and vinyl over a 10 year period. The legendary out-spoken Scotsman has been around the Northern soul & funk scene since the start and began his career as a dancer. (In fact, he’s the one responsible for first bringing the scene to London). As time when on and tastes changed Darge landed at Madame Jojo’s (in London’s Soho Disctrict) where his weekly party quickly ascended (and remains to this day) to the leading funk night in London. In 1996 BBE and Keb Darge teamed up to start releasing the now infamous Deep Funk and Funk Spectrum series that spawned a whole host of imitators. Today he holds two weekly spots at the club (Legendary Deep Funk –Fridays / Lost & Found –Saturdays, where he focuses on his current passion – underground 50’s music), travelling around the world DJing and running the label Kay Dee Records with Kenny Dope. He has achieved legendary status by far with a 40’s to 70’s musical knowledge second to none that’s perfectly reflected on all of his BBE compilations.
Paul Weller is an acclaimed Rock star and Soul music collector. Starting out with the very successful punk-rock band The Jam (1976-1982), Weller then went on to branch out musically to a more soulful style with The Style Council (1983-1989). In 1991 he re-established himself as a successful solo artist, and continues to remain a respected singer, lyricist and guitarist, a fact reaffirmed by his recent awarding of the 2009 Brit Award for ‘Best Male Solo Artist’. He is also the principal figure of the 1970’s Mod revival and is often referred to as the Modfather. Weller has stated a wide range of influences throughout his musical career, frequently listing The Small Faces, The Beatles and The Who, as well as 1960s and 1970s soul music. Paul is also no stranger to the world of compilations and has contributed to the Back To Mine and Under the Influence Series.
Keb and Paul met over music, of course. It was a Keb Darge DJ set at a friends birthday party where Paul first approached Keb and mentioned how much he was enjoying the set. The two struck up a friendship and began DJing together at Madame JoJo’s and in Europe. As he always does with DJs, Keb kept a close eye on what Paul was pulling out of his record box.“Not a duff tune in sight, with records ranging from classic floor fillers to the super obscure. He was not tainted by any collectors’ scene attitude, just played the tunes he liked,” Keb says.
So here you have one great disc divided into two unmissible halves. Best of all, this music is selected by avid fans and great students of scene. It’s a positive education into where we are to day and how we got there. Enjoy!
BBE releases Keb Darge & Paul Weller present Lost & Found – Real R’N’b and Soul on January 19, 2010
Discovery: The Glove Leather Safari Jacket
One of London’s best kept secrets is General Leather whom have been trading for 30 years in Cental London (Marylebone).
Their luxury leather jackets and coats are still handmade in London. General Leather mantra is incredible craftsmanship and attention to detail. This is why they have been around for 30 years and can still offer a truly 100% made-in-London garment.
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Massive Attack EP To Be Released in Canada on October 6, 2009
Massive Attack have announced the release of their first new material in three years – an EP of four new tracks due for release in October. The lead track ‘Splitting The Atom’ features Robert Del Naja, Grant Marshall and Horace Andy, while TV On The Radio frontman Tunde Adebimpe guests on ‘Pray For Rain’. The EP also has remixes of two new tracks. ‘Psyche’ featuring Martina Topley-Bird is given the re-rub by Van Rivers & The Subliminal Kid who have recently remixed Bat For Lashes and The Big Pink, while the Guy Garvey fronted ‘Bulletproof Love’ is stripped back to a minimalist reworking by Christoff Berg, who alongside Van Rivers & The Subliminal Kid produced the Fever Ray eponymous album.
The band will release their fifth studio album In February 2010. This time around sees collaborations with Damon Albarn, Hope Sandoval, Martina Topley-Bird, Guy Garvey and Tunde Adebimpe. Long time cohort Horace Andy makes a return alongside Massive Attack founding members Robert Del Naja and Grant Marshall.
Over the last three years Robert Del Naja has written and produced soundtracks for a number of films and documentaries, including ‘Trouble In The Water’, ’44 Inch Chest’, ‘In Prison My Whole Life’ and ‘Gamorra’, the latter for which he won the David Di Donatello Award for Best Song.
This year Massive Attack won the Outstanding Contribution to British Music Award at the Ivor Novello Awards.
Massive Attack will headline this year’s Bestival on September 11, ahead of their first full UK tour in three years that begins on September 17 in London; their last was in support of the ‘Collected’ album which was released in 2006. More recently their live appearances have included Glastonbury in 2008 where they were one of the main headliners and Meltdown at London’s Southbank Centre last summer, which Massive Attack also curated.
SHAME ON BLACK EYED PEAS
Did Black Eyed Peas straight up bite Adam Freeland? View the video and decide for yourself…