The year of 2010 is already producing a bumper crop of great music. This week we bring you future beats from a garage and funky perspective, equally innovative grime from a Philadelphia based producer that stands out from the crowd, a veteran pop idol returning with a great track made better by an edit maestro, bass music from both sides of the Atlantic, and a pop song so magical one dose will have you feeling good for hours.
New Warp Records signing Babe Rainbow follows the revisionary path that you’d associate with the label, taking the sounds of dubstep, garage and the Aphex Twin and crafting them into something all his own/Babe Rainbow-Screwby
Banging remix from Starkey of Atlanta based rapper Gorilla Zoe. Underpinned by an amped up 808 beat, and complete with high drama synth stabs, this is the sort of production Timbaland and Dark Child used to make/Gorilla Zoe-Lost (Starkey remix)
The original of this track from the ex-Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker is on the Steve Albini produced Further Complications, but it is all about this typically clever edit from Parisian Pilooski/Jarvis Cocker-Discosong (Pilooski mix)
This is both a great return to a simpler dance floor approach from Booka Shade, and further evidence of the fantastically upfront talent that is Boy 8-Bit. Out now on Get Physical/M.A.N.D.Y. & Booka Shade-Donut (Boy 8-Bit remix)
Another shift in direction from a talented dubstep producer, this time it is TRG, who’s re-jigged sound fuses his deep harmonies with the sound of UK funky. Not unlike recent output from Untold and Ramadanman, this is out on Tempa Records/Cosmin TRG-Since Last Night
Yeasayer’s magnificent Odd Blood looks like a contender for album of the year already, and this track is an anthem of optimism already, but this subtle retouch from Alan Wilkis simply tightens up the beat a little and captures the best bits, and might be an early contender for remix of the year in its own right/Yeasayer-Ambling Alp (Alan Wilkis remix)
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