Bloggerheads Part Deux (Show 2) - Featuring Balam Acab, Fever Ray and Justin Bieber

Here it is is the second episode of Bloggerheads! A brand new episode of the radio show curated by some of the best tastemakers around. We did a second episode because 1200 of you listened to, or downloaded the first one (thanks!)

For those that haven’t heard it before it gives voices to some of the biggest Bloggers in the game right now. You’ve read them, you like their taste in music, and now you have a chance to hear what they’ve got to say, and check out their latest musical recommendations. It also has jokes in it. And really fucking good tunes.

Recorded today, the second episode of Bloggerheads brings together Noam from Dont Die Wondering, Robin from 20 Jazz Funk Greats and Sian from Neu Magazine . We discuss dubstep, Drag, Juke and naked pictures of Wayne Coyne’s wife.

You can download it here to listen to on your computer, or takeaway to hear whenever you like on your iPod.

Or listen right now on the Sound Cloud below.

Bloggerheads Part Deux (show two) by abeano

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Tracklisting

Katy B – On A Mission
Balam Acab – See Birds
Addison Groove – Footcrab
Ramadanman – Work Them
Fever Ray – Mercy Street
Justin Bieber – One Wish (Nike 7Up remix)
Jef Barbara – Wild Boys
Mane Mane – Twinkle Sir
Gold Panda – Snow & Taxis

Thanks to Roman for the studio wizadry and good vibes.

Gold Panda - Snow & Taxis

The best thing about ‘Snow & Taxis’ is that whilst it’s never going to fill your mind with images of black cabs trundling through Central London in winter, the sparkling bells that come in after a minute do have the magical effect of making you half believe that outside your window is a glacial paradise complete with horse and carriage and twinkling fairy lights.

With Gold Panda’s debut album Lucky Shiner out in October, here’s hoping ‘Snow & Taxis’ is indicative of an LP crammed with yet more magic moments from our new favourite knob-twiddling wizard.

Download Snow & Taxis here .

Egyptian Hip Hop - Moon Crooner

It’s been over a year since we blogged about Manchester’s Egyptian Hip Hop. Their forthcoming new EP on Moshi Moshi shows how much more intriguing outfit they’ve become in the intervening 12 months. Produced by Warp’s Hudson Mohawke, it’s full of ambition, experimentation, hooks, verve and vim. Hear lead track ‘Moon Crooner’ below….

Or download ‘Moon Crooner’ here .

Ramadanman - Work Them

Look I know I’m late on this , but Ramadanman ‘Work Them’ is a tune, and plain inescapable at the moment.

Vampire Weekend - White Sky (Cecile remix)

Following on from his remix of Amari’s Tiger Milanese wunderkind Cécile gives Vampire Weekend perhaps their best ever remix, by completely reinventing ‘White Sky’. Pitching down Ezra’s vocals and re-imagining the song entirely as a Baleric style near 7 minute epic.

Download White Sky Cecile remix here .

Everything Everything - MY KZ, YR BF (Memory Tapes Remix)

In which Dayve Hawke re-imagines Northern oddballers Everything Everything in glorious technicolour and drops the temperature on the flustered original. Twisting the already quite hard to decipher vocals into blurry balls of gibberish, the Memory Tapes man turns Jonathan Everything’s Geordie bark into something more spiritual and woozy before tackling the dancefloor synths of the original and spitting them back out as a hazy slow jam for discerning hipsters.

Download MY KZ, YR BF (Memory Tapes remix) here .

Chromeo - Don't Turn The Lights On

The video for the second cut from Montreal duo Chromeo’s third album Business Casual sees Dave 1 and P-Thugg (plus a whole host of companions) looking wide-eyed and snake-hipped amidst a whole load of out-on-stalks freakiness. Eyeballs in mouths? A pair of solitary, bodiless eyes floating around town, peering into bathrooms? Yep, it’s a far cry from the steamy visuals of last single ‘Night By Night’ and definitely one to make you squirm.

Video aside, ‘Don’t Turn The Lights On’ is Chromeo at their best – shiny, lust-driven pop that hides a deeper, darker side. There’s heartbreak written all over the gleaming synths and despair in our boys’ voices as they pine for a lost love. We can only hope the sound of them moving on is as lush as this.

D Double E - Streetfighter Riddim

I’m a big fan. Via The Fader .

The xx - Shelter (John Talabot's Feel It Too Remix)

Mercury nominees The xx have been on the receiving end of what feels like hundreds of remixes and refits since the release of their debut album last year, from the bizarre (here’s looking at you, Shakira) to the beautiful, so it’s no surprise that yet another one has cropped up. This time, Barcelonian John Talabot is taking the once sobering Shelter to task and twisting it into something much more appropriate for sunnier climes.

Where once there was space for the few notes present to reverberate and cut through the silence, there’re now handclaps and Balearic beats. No longer a comfort for the broken hearted, Talabot’s made Shelter an irresistible, sunkissed ode to spending summer nights on the dance floor.

Shelter (John Talabot’s Feel it too Remix) by John Talabot

Spitting It Concrete Like The Golden Sun God

spitting it concrete like the golden sun god WU LYF from LYF on Vimeo.

The video for the exhaustingly-titled ‘I Got Dem Wu Wu Teef Busted Spitting It Concrete Like The Golden Sun God’ sees our favourite spotlight-shy Mancunians come over all cinematic in a clip that sees men in uniforms rise from the sea, make island natives bleed in technicolour via the use of some old school truncheons and then get chased back to the waters by those same, somehow unscathed natives. Strange doesn’t even begin to describe it.

As for the song itself, it’s yet another astonishing addition to the Wu Lyf hymnbook. The now ubiquitous gutteral howl that leads the rest of the congregation is still the main focus here, conducting the alt-choir with gut-wrenching emotion. “Spill no blood, spill no blood/Close to God, close to God”, Wu Lyf chant with such powerful urgency that you’d have to be half dead not to get swept up in it all. We still don’t know too much about who the hell this lot are but if that means getting more great stuff like this, then so be it.