Owiny Sigoma Band

I have been enjoying this band for a while now. A group of musicians from London went to Nairobi to collaborate with some local Kenyan musicians. This is what became of it. Enjoy!

Pick and Mix

So here's a few tracks that have been doing the rounds on my ipod of late. Here goes.....

An indie track with a psychedelic edge - Black Hills by Gardens and Villa - 



A dark and brooding folk/indie track - Dustbowl III by Other Lives -

  Other Lives - Dustbowl III by tbdrecords

A quality stripped down remix of Radiohead's Little by Little -

  Little By Little Caribou RMX by Radiohead

Just in case this blog post was getting a bit too serious, an uplifting and catchy (if not particularly sophisticated) hiphop tune from Brooklyn based Blue Belt that has a Nina Simone sample that will stick in your head for days-

    Anymore (Mastered) by Blue Belt

There's a few remixes of Metronomy's The Bay out there, but this one is worth a listen -

  Metronomy - The Bay (The 2 Bears Remix) by The 2 Bears

And finally one from Parov Stelar's latest EP of dance-floor-jazz-swing-bangers -

  Parov Stelar - Paris Swing Box by etagenoir

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Jai Paul

Just a quick one - whilst flicking over radio stations I stumbled across this tune which was being played, perhaps surprisingly, on Radio 1 and I immediately had to go and download it. I hope you feel the same

  Jai Paul - BTSTU (Edit) by Jai Paul 

Also worthy of note - Jai Paul's provisional driving license photo -

Moonbahton & Jack Penate

Just came across this courtesy of Mad Decent's Soundcloud round-up (No. 32)

Diggin' it lots:

Jack Penate - Tonight's Today (Ophex 'Julianna Barwick' Remix) by Ophex

Slow Motion

Greetings bloggites, my dissertation is done and dusted and I have many free times to share with you some tunes that got me through the last few months.

First up, I was introduced to this track by Panda Bear by my girlfriend, and I'm moderately obsessed by it. Its a lovely, spacey sort of track that suits the sunset period of any barbeque perfectly, aptly fitting that half hour in which food is being digested and alcohol and music are becoming the focal point of the evening.

Panda Bear: 'Slow Motion'

Next up, another tune courtesy of my girlfriend. I'm guessing the world is familiar with Friendly Fires, but they're news to me. This tune reminds me of old school, Parliament funk mixed with Chromeo and a dash of Metronomy near the end. If that sentence is not an perfect example of music blog name dropping I don't know what is.

Friendly Fires: 'On Board'

Finally, while I'm certain that most readers of this blog are familiar with To Kill a King, being somewhat affiliated with them in various ways, for those of you who are not, their recent cover of Maps is a rare example of a reworking that, in my opinion, improves and betters the original. I particularly like the harmonies in the backing vocals, and the piano part is reminiscent of Cinematic Orchestra's Ma Fleur. A class record, and a cute video shot by frontman Ralph Pelleymounter, of who Zane Lowe recently exclaimed "We've got ourselves a reader!". Take of that what you will.

To Kill a King: 'Maps'

Rolling in the deep remix...

Yo yo yo-

Has been far too long, but this remix by Jamie XX of Adele's tune, with a tasty little verse by Childish Gambino in the middle is super nice. I do love a good glockenspiel type thing..

Commoners and Kings

Here's a vid from an entertaining series of spoken word pieces I stumbled upon called Commoners and Kings. This guy, Jason O'Neil, is particularly good: