If you ever you needed proof that 2010 is going to belong to L-Vis 1990 then check the video for his remix of Sissy Nobby’s Lay Me Down (out now on Mixpak Records).

This is some serious shit, it’s like having every single drug you’ve ever done in your life suddenly revisit your system in one ever lasting rush, you keep waiting for it to drop but it just builds and builds and builds.

E P I C in every sense. Buy it now.

Poor old Florence, first everyone tells her to clear a space on her mantelpiece for the Mercury award and Speech Debelle swipes it from under her nose, and then she suffers the indignity of getting a rather amusing old fashioned kicking from the Quietus.

Still at least she can take solace in the fact that her label keeps coming up with the goods when it comes to picking remixers with the likes of Leo Zero and Optimo adding their quality stamp to her last few singles.

This time it’s Jamie xx at the controls, who takes time out from having smoke blown up his ass by every music critic around to knock out a rather lush remix of Florence’s cover of generally tiresome single woman’s anthem ‘You’ve Got The Love’.

Nice video too, even if the first time I watched it it froze around 0.40 and for one terrifying moment it looked like she was about to turn to camera and bellow ‘RICKAAAY’.

Just in, the video (directed by Körner Union)  for Cosmo Vitelli’s new Bot’Ox single. A strangely beautiful promo for quite a lovely melancholy track which for some reason has  me daydreaming about what it would be like to drown in a swimming pool filled with candy floss.

Now there’s a cheery thought for you.

The EP is out on Nov 9th on Cosmo’s I’m A Cliche label.

As you may or may not know earlier this year in an effort to help develop the global economic meltdown we started a record label Hot Pockets, in November we are proud to present our second release ‘The Olympic Village EP’ by Shock Defeat!

One of my favourite bands of the past few years they’ve been a regular feature at the various nights we’ve put on, we’ve been working to get this release together for ages now so I think all concerned are amazed that we’re now just a few weeks away from seeing it in the shops.

Released on coloured vinyl 7″ and as a 5 track digital EP, we’re hosting a launch party for the record on the 7th of November at the Queen of Hoxton, where you catch Shock Defeat! playing live alongside our other excellent new signing :Kinema: and some very special guests.

More details of both the party and the release to follow. But in the meantime sit back and enjoy the video for Brute Economics, created by James Lowne, who was also responsible for the acclaimed video for Mercury Rev’s Butterfly Wings.

Alternatively you can stream the track here…

Shock Defeat! – Brute Economics

Norwegian types Röyksopp’s new single featuring the unmistakable tones of Karin Dreijer Andersson (The Knife, Fever Ray) is out on November 2nd with a video  (above) from the MVA-nominated duo of Andreas and Filip Nilsson.

As is the usual it comes complete with the industry standard million or so remixes, this time including the Thin White Duke, Rex The Dog, Apparat, Danton Eeprom, Florian Meindl, LehtMoJoe, Maxime Dangles, Moguai, Pete Herbert and The Bloody Sisters (TBS)

Honestly what is it with remix packages these days? How come so many get comissioned yet we still haven’t been asked to add our good looks to a release, baffling indeed. Still if any of them are as good as Joakim’s mix of previous single ‘The Girl And The Robot’ I guess we shouldn’t complain.

Oh what’s this? An exclusive (I feel like I should have some kind of Westwood style bomb noise generator to hand here) stream of the really rather good Pete Herbert (Reverso 68/Low Motion Disco)  Mix… Nice nice indeed.

Röyksopp – This Must Be It (Pete Herbert Mix)

This month Shane Meadows‘ (This Is England/Dead Man’s Shoes) ‘Le Donk and Scor-Zay-Zee’ finally hits the screen.

Starring Meadows regular collaborator Paddy Considine as the eponymous ‘Le Donk’, a washed up roadie turned wannabe music svengali, it has been described by no less an authority than pseudo-grumble mag FHM as “The Spinal Tap of Midlands white-boy rap”.

To celebrate this milestone of British cinema we have a copy of the film’s poster signed by Shane Meadows to give away, just answer the question below and email us the answer before Friday 16th to be in with a chance of winning.

Q: Name one Blackout Crew track other than ‘Put A Donk On It’?

‘Le Donk and Scor-Zay-Zee’ will be in selected cinemas from the 9th (check Warp Films for listings) and is released on DVD on October 26th.

New video just released for the forthcoming Drums of Death single ‘Got Yr Thing’, a prime slab of kinky voodoo sexxx rap if ever there was such a thing.

For those who like particularly niche erotica fast forward to 2.50, for a terrifying glimpse of what Mr Death probably looks like in his vinegar strokes.

Anyway the single is out on Monday on Greco Roman and comes complete with remixes from Philadelphia bass-trader Starkey, peak-time Berlin house producers Jesse Rose and Oliver $ and low-slung DFA and Dissident darlings Cage & Aviary.

Having been hammering it in my sets recently I can personally vouch for it’s effectiveness in getting the girls to do thr nasty dance.

Nice new kaleidoscopic video for the excellent new single ‘Microscope Contents’ from DC Recordings‘ Kelpe, which takes his previous rhythmically handicapabled electronica and adds a dirty acid disco shuffle to proceedings.

As an extra bonus test your scenester score by identifying how many people you can recognise from their tonsils here, sadly I only rack up up 2, I must make more of an effort to be cool. Or at least leave my house once in a while.

The album ‘Cambio Wechsel’ is out on October 19th.

Strange to think it’s around 5 years since Eirik Bøe and Erlend Øye last released a Kings Of Convenience album, ok we had Erlend’s DJ Kicks which I remember being a pretty sweet ride and his Whitest Boy Alive side project has kept us entertained even if their music will be forevermore associated here with taking a hard ass pummelling, but still whither the Kings?

Well guess what? They’re back! And you thought this post was just going absolutely nowhere. The new album of Scandi-folk loveliness ‘Declaration of Dependence’ hits the shops on October 19th with the lead single ‘The Boat Behind’, the lush video of which you can see above, preceeding it by a week.

Anyway if you’re in the UK you can catch them play live at the following establishments…

October 13th – Bexhill, De La Warr Pavilion
October 14th – London, Barbican
October 15th – Warwick, Arts Centre

Pretty much avoided the video for Peanuts Club thanks mostly to the endless internet jibber jabber over Brodinski & Noob’s peaktime hooterfest

& also cos you don’t want to encourage Brodi chat when Flo is around

which is a shame because there are fewer things in life more satisfying than 6 odd minutes of looped up chimpanzee dancing to a lysergic sound track.

(Tommy Von Party knows the score obviously)

Peanuts Club finally drops next week on various formats b/w the slightly less nauseating Cajou Club and accompanied by two remixes from Renaissance Man and one from Mommas Boy though Beatport is probably selling it now for a vastly inflated fee.

Not a good week to be an ill famous person it would seem. Whilst Jacko will no doubt hog the column inches and keep the internet’s photoshoppers busy well into next week, I also wanted to pour my virtual 40 out on the curb for Sky Saxon from the truly badass The Seeds who has also passed away this week though to much less fanfare.

Hopefully the next post will be slightly less death related.

Prick tease video for fifth release on Phantasy Sounds by “mystery identity duo” which has the internets guessing like it was Fake Blood all over again….

I know we’re all about bringing you the buff and hype, but occassionally even flashing blades such as ourselves need to recharge. Personally for me this means turning the lights down low, firing up the Von Erck and immersing myself in some sublime ambient music.

One collection of tracks I turn to most often when feeling all emotional is LJ Kruzer’s ‘This Is How I Write‘, a gorgeous audio bubblebath of an album, and one that by rights should be in every home. Mr Kruzer’s sophomore effort ‘Manhood and Electronics‘ is due for release this Summer and from what I’ve heard is every bit as beautiful as it’s predecessor.

Anyway in an effort to create an online buzz, although it’s probably more like the drone of a sundrunk bumblebee, here is the video for new track Tam, produced by Octavcat’s multi talented (ask him to draw you an elephant) Jamie Bradshaw.

Dive right in, the water’s lovely.