January 2011
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Video: Creep – ‘Days’ featuring Romy of The xx →
WatchMP3: J ROCC PREVIEWS SOME COLD ROCK STUF ON BBC RADIO 1
Rocc recently joined Benji B on his show on BBC Radio 1 for an exclusive preview of his upcoming album Some Cold Rock Stuf. He says it will be out in March. We shall see.
Beat Connection as remixed by Yonug Montana
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Twin Shadow 4AD Session →
I don’t even like this guy but this session my be a turning point.
We Are Noise. →
New Cork-based music blog. More of this please!
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Memory Tapes - ‘Today is our Life’
- up/down tempo retro pop with impressive vintage synchronised footage.
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Video: James Blake live at Maida Vale
The man who has produced 2011’s first great album performs the second track ‘The Wilhelm Scream’ from his self-titled album due February 4th in Maida Vale. You can see more at BBC.
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Squarehead cover Adebisi Shank for Quarter Inch...
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This is a total blogasm. Ireland’s most bloggable band Adebisi Shank covered by Ireland Nialler9 Song of the Year champs Squarehead. What’s fitting is the song is for another blog Ian...
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R.I.P. Broadcast's Trish Keenan
Terrible news. After reports that Broadcast singer was seriously ill, today Warp released a statement saying she passed away this morning at 9am from complications with pneumonia after two weeks in intensive care.
Broadcast’s Tender Buttons remains one of my favourite albums of all time.
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Bibio - Mind Bokeh album sampler
Exciting news: As a big fan of Bibio’s last album Ambivalence Avenue, word reaches that Warp will release a followup on April 4th internationally. A brief album sampler is above but Warp is calling it “the night-time counterpart to Ambivalence Avenue’s more pastoral, sunflecked tones”.
It can be pre-ordered here on digitally, on CD and limited double vinyl. Tracklisting...
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Ones To Watch 2011 - MOTHS
The definition of one to watch is an artist who is clearly adept at making music and impressing but maybe hasn’t gone as far as the album making cycle. MOTHS aka Jack Colleran has a good excuse. He’s 17 and still in school in my hometown of Newbridge, Kildare but he’s already made a couple of standout electronic jams. Definitely keep an eye out for more of this goodness. And...
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Choice Music Prize 2010 shortlist
The 10 albums on the shortlist for this year’s Choice Music Prize (Ireland’s Mercury or Polaris Prize international visitors) are:
Adebesi Shank - This is the Second Album of a band called Adebisi Shank (Richter Collective
The Cast of Cheers - Chariot (Self release)
Cathy Davey - The Nameless (Hammer Toe Records)
Fight Like Apes - The Body of Christ & The Legs of Tina Turner...
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Stream the Caribbean/African sound of Aurelio
I spent the morning listening to two of Subpop’s recent releases. Daniel Martin Moore’s family gospel album and this lovely little release from Honduras man Aurelio Martinez. On bleak January days like this, it’s a no-brainer to stick on something that was made far far away, like the Caribbean as this album was. The album contains Garifuna rhythms and like his people,...
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Beth Ditto & Simian Mobile Disco release EP
Beth Ditto & Simian Mobile Disco have got back together to rekindle the partnership that worked so well on ‘Cruel Intentions’ back in 2009. SMD produced a four-track EP for Ditto which came out quietly on 12” yesterday via Beatport US .
Have a listen to two whopping tunes called ‘Open Heart Surgery’ and ‘Do You Need Someone?’ as well as a preview...
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Video: Vessels - 'The Trap'
If you wondering what to expect when Vessels hit The Workman’s Club with Enemies on Friday 25th February (and The Quad, Cork on February 26th), look no further than this live video of ‘The Trap’ from forthcoming album Helioscope due in March. Sample more tracks below.
Web player by Vessels
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The Nialler9 weekly gig guide
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A list of personally recommended events taking place over the next seven days in Dublin. All times are 7.30pm/8pm unless stated. Feel free to leave your picks in the...
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Win passes to !Kaboogie's 5th Birthday this Friday
Congratulations to !Kaboogie who this week celebrate five years of putting on some of the best bass-driven music nights in town and releasing music through their label. Friday night sees !Kaboogie celebrate in The Twisted Pepper from 10.30pm with Scratcha DVA (Hyperdub), Mungo’s Hi-Fi, MC Soom T, !Kaboogie DJs and All City DJs. Admission is €7 before 11.30pm, €10 after. I have two...
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Today is the 5th anniversary of the Dubstep Warz...
Your night-time listening for tonight is the Dubstep Warz legendary Breezeblock which debuted on Mary Anne Hobbs BBC Radio One show five years ago today. Dubstep Warz was the dubstep mix which got me into the genre in the first place. It had the excitement of a new scene all over it, tunes like I had never heard before and seminal mixing contributions from Skream, Kode9 and The Spaceape, Mala,...
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Listen to Anna Calvi's debut album
Hotly tipped in recent months, Anna Calvi’s self-titled debut album is out on Friday January 14th through Domino and The Guardian got the stream of it which is now below. Her theatrical guitar-driven music impressed me at Other Voices last month. There’s a classical old-style movie night-club vibe to her music, her singing voice and her look that gives it a Mulholland Drive/ David...
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New We Are Losers - 'Cheerleader'
A new tune from We Are Losers recorded over the weekend. If you’re a fan of distorted bootlegs, get a load of Aidan Wall’s recording of the band at Popicalia last week.
The next We Are Losers gig is tomorrow night with Sacred Animals and The Holy Roman Army in Whelan’s.
Download: We Are Losers - Cheerleader
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Photo by Sara Devine.
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Glasser - 'Mirrorage' (Lindstrøm remix)
Lindstrøm does his swirling disco thing on Glasser’s ‘Mirrorage’. Basically, an extended version of an already awesome song. Cameron Mesirow aka Glasser is on a European tour from late January and plays Crawdaddy in Dublin on February 24th, a show I’m very much looking forward to and you should be too.
Glasser - Mirrorage (Lindstrøm Remix)
Here’s the original...
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Video: Chilly Gonzales - 'You Can Dance'
New booty-focused video from Chilly Gonzales. Directed by Jonathan Barré. Here’s where the video idea came from.
Follow Chilly on Twitter.
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Video: Mount Kimbie - 'Before I Move Off'
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve heard this song in mixes and playlists alone this week. Choon. Directed by Tyrone Lebon.
Download: Mount Kimbie - Before I Move Off
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D&N: The top 10 music apps
My Digital column appears in Irish Independent’s Day and Night every Friday and this post is your friendly reminder to check it out in print or online.
This week:
My first feature of 2010 for Day and Night is a list of the Top 10 music apps for iOs, Android etc.
Videos of the week: Dramatic Kitty – 13 seconds of awesomeness, Red Letter Media’s Revenge Of The Sith review, Pogo’s Joburg...
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Mixes: The Hype Machine vs Star Slinger, Clock...
As part of The Hype Machine’s annual Zeitgeist they asked some artists to make mixes from the 50 most-blogged + most-loved tracks on the site and the quality is outstanding.
Here’s the Star Slinger one. He has a new EP out too. Download: Star Slinger vs The Hype Machine - 2010 Music Blog Zeitgeist Mix
Clock Opera: Download: Clock Opera vs The Hype Machine - 2010 Music Blog...
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The Middle East - 'Jesus Came To My Birthday...
Hadn’t seen a mention of this anywhere about from Jim’s Phantom show last week.
Spunk Records will release The Middle East’s debut album this year and this is the first single from the album, ‘Jesus Came To My Birthday Party’. We talked about The Middle East on our latest podcast.
The Middle East - ‘Jesus Came To My Birthday Party’
The Middle...
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New Starfucker album - Reptilians
Certainly my favourite band out of Portland, Oregon and one which I loved at SXSW 2009, Starfucker (STRKFR) are back with a new album Reptilians through Polyvinyl.
Starfucker’s music is bouncy, immediate electro indie-pop. It’s totally infectious. Here’s new tune ‘Bury Us Alive’ followed by a couple more older tunes. If you pre-order the album on 180-gram clear...
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Adele - 'Rolling In The Deep' (Jamie XX Shuffle...
2011 looks like it’s going to be a prolific one for Jamie XX. His Gil Scott-Heron remix album comes out on February 18th and XL have just posted this official stream of Adele’s ‘Rolling In The Deep’ which is out on January 16th. More of this please! Here’s the best track off the We’re New Here remix album while we on the subject and his other latest remix for...
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Gaz Le Rock is.. Retarded Cop
By now, you should be hooking yourself up with DJ Gaz Le Rock’s weekly 30 minute rush of amazing punk and garage tunes in The Loving Room Floor on 2XM, so to that end you should now also be hooking yourself up with the former Moutpiece singer’s new project Retarded Cop.
The project started with the tune above ‘Don’t Touch That Dial’ which serves as the most...
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Raekwon to perform Only Built for Cuban Linx in...
As tweeted by Choice Cuts a few minutes ago, Raekwon will perform 1995’s Only Built for Cuban Linx in full in The Button Factory, Dublin on March 16th, the eve of St. Patrick’s Day. Nice!
Update: Tickets are €20 and are on sale Wednesday January 12th from tickets.ie & ticketmaster.ie.
There were loads of gigs announced today.
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On Repeat: Mogwai, James Blake, Toro Y Moi, Games...
A regular roundup of 5 tunes that are getting repeated plays.
1. Mogwai - ‘Rano Pano’
The first song from forthcoming seventh studio album Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will lives up to the band’s penchant ear-crunching atmospherics as big drums and distorted guitars pile into a bliss machine for just over 5 minutes. Download: Mogwai - Rano Pano
2. James Blake -...
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Video: Sea Pinks - 'Peripheral Vision'
A new tune and video from Sea Pinks (solo project from Girls Names’ Neil ) which will appear on a white label 12” on Cass Flicks later in the month. Peep his Tumblr.
Girls Names also had a spilt 7” release in November with San Fran’s Brilliant Colors which I picked up on eMusic.
Girls Names - “I Lose” by Tough Love
Brilliant Colors - “You...
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Introducing: Great Lakes Mystery
Gareth Averill has been a drummer with a good lot of bands in Dublin for a few years but 2011 sees him turn his attention to his own project Great Lakes Mystery. So with that in mind and after a full band’s debut performance at the Shock NYE party in the Twisted Pepper, Averill has debuted three tunes from GLM.
Sample the mix of brooding synths and sprightly electronica below. Look out...
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The Nialler9 weekly gig guide
A list of personally recommended events taking place over the next seven days in Dublin. All times are 7.30pm/8pm unless stated. Feel free to leave your picks in the comments.
Tuesday 4th January
The 25th annual vibe for Philo @ Vicar Street, Dublin (€40)
Christy Moore, Declan Sinnott @ Grand Canal Theatre (€39.50-€49.50)
Thursday 6th January
Hefty Horse: John Blek and The Rats, The...
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The Catchup Mashup: An epic roundup of what you...
Gorillaz released a free fan-club only album The Fall.
Klaxons released a free EP Landmarks of Lunacy, taken from those abandoned sessions rejected by the band’s label in 2008.
M.I.A released a free mixtape Vicky Leekz. M.I.A. – Vicki Leekx
Will Wiesenfeld aka Baths released a free album as Geotic which was recorded in four days. It’s a lush and ambient record.
Listen to the new...
