The xx are four 19 year olds from south west London, England, formed in 2005. They met at Elliott School, notable for alumni including Hot Chip, Burial and Four Tet. They were placed at number 6 in the 2009 NME The Future 50 list.Their debut album, xx, was released on Young Turks Records on 17 August 2009.Though the band had worked with both Diplo and Kwes. ‘xx’ was produced by the band themselves. The band has toured with The Big Pink and Micachu. Their single Crystalised was featured on iTunes (UK) as Single of the week, starting from 18 August 2009. The band is scheduled to appear at the 2009 Reading and Leeds festivals.

Check them out over their MySpace : www.myspace.com/thexx

i’ve just recorded this for fun, while the rest of clash the disko kids go hiding in studio making fierce techno beats. Enjoy, we’ll be back stronger!! – Kurt

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This Is Not A Disco Mix by clashthediskokids

Tracklistings:

01 Music Go Music – Warm In The Shadows
02 Fan Death – Cannibal
03 Blondie – Heart of Glass
04 Hercules & Love Affair – Blind
05 Downtown Party Network – Heart Break Dancing
06 Has – Milankovich
07 The Gossip – Love Long Distance (Riva Starr Remix)
08 Florence & The Machine – Rabbit Heart (Leo Zero Remix)
09 Eine Kleine Nacht Musik – Feuerprobe (Rory Phillips Remix)
10 In Flagranti – Louvere For Yo
11 The Juan Maclean – No Time
12 Abstraxion – Chandler Bing
13 Hugg & Pepp – Penguini
14 Jori Hulkkonen – Bend Over Beethoven
15 Sebastien Leger – Seaweed
16 Lazersonic & Zak Frost – Aquaplane
17 Rhythm Droid – Sunrise On Planet Tokyo
18 Empire of The Sun – Walking On A Dream (Clash The Disko Kids & Ming “Lo-Fi Dreamy” Remix)

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Fan Death are the best new disco act we’ve heard. The best and the most authentic-sounding: they’re not nu rave, or an indie-dance band, or a guitar group using a funk undercarriage. They’ve got the slightly wonky strings, elegant mid-tempo rhythms and female vocals of disco, recalling the music’s golden age – ie. between the release of Donna Summer’s Love To Love You Baby in 1975 and the ritual burning of disco records in that baseball stadium in Chicago that signalled the death of disco in 1979. They’re a girl duo who recognise that all the best disco records were sung by women, and they sing in the blank, distracted manner of all the finest disco divas. Really, they hardly sing at all – they open their mouths and pout and this spookily, exquisitely blank, almost Teutonic sound comes out. And, again like all the finest disco acts, they’re anonymous, a blank canvas on which listeners can project their ultimate fantasies of romance and dancing, their wistful feelings of longing and regret. They make us think about the allure of sorrow, the sadness of the glamorous life and what the Pet Shop Boys used to call “the void at the heart of dance culture”.

They’re an art project, using mystery and some amateur myth-making to cover their artful tracks because disco at its best wasn’t knowing, it was directly emotional. We know very little about them; we’re not even sure who they are or what they’re called. They’ve taken the name Fan Death from an old South Korean fear that electric fans, if left running overnight in a closed room, can cause death by suffocation, poisoning, or hypothermia. They say they’re from Grey Gardens, but there’s no such place: it’s the title of a 1975 documentary about two women who lived at Grey Gardens, a decrepit 28-room mansion in the wealthy Georgica Pond neighbourhood of New York. A bit of detective work reveals that they’re actually from Vancouver in Canada. Their debut single, Veronica’s Veil, refers to the Catholic relic which, according to legend, belonged to Veronica from Jerusalem who encountered Jesus on the way to Calvary and wiped the sweat from his face, leaving an imprint of his image on her veil.

Some actual, proper facts: Fan Death are the protégés of glam-trash DJ Erol Alkan, who on his remix gives the single extra electroclash-y oomph on the handclaps and bass. They’re adored by superstar tastemaker Diplo. They’re the subjects of blog hysteria. And in a press release they declare their intention to be to “make music that recalls the greatest era of electronic pop: Depeche Mode, OMD, New Order, Human League, Soft Cell and Pet Shop Boys. Great songs that happened to be electronic, not soulless, repetitious club music that seems to dominate these days.” Meanwhile, that graceful figure sashaying across the dancefloor gazing forlornly at his reflection in the mirrorball is John Travolta as Tony Manero.

New track has trickled out from lady disco duo Fan Death. “Cannibal” is business as usual for Fan Death, all disco strings and melodrama while Dandi Wind’s breathy vocal struts straight into the center of the track, although if you listen carefully, you can also hear Marta in there too. Fan Death’s Myspace Page claims that they’re working on an EP, a full length, and videos for all of the faithful who’ve been staving off starvation witth the singles the girls have let dribble from their lips, but you’ll have to do with “Cannibal” until the real meal comes.

- sources, Bigstereo & Guardian

Fan Death – Cannibal

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Another new Radiohead song out of nowhere?  ”These Are My Twisted Words” Take a listen below

Today’s electronic dance culture is due for a melodic transcendence from the shadowy, industrial electro that has been hammering away at the scene. As dance floors begin to buckle under such weighty beats, the Belgium-based band aptly named Aeroplane is dedicated to elevating its fans toward a higher musical space undefined by standardized genres. They reach for freedom from constraints of predictability, weaving currents of psychedelic guitars, pop keys, disco beats, catchy bass lines and melancholic waves into a singular connection of modern beat-driven music.
At the controls of Aeroplane are Stephen Fasano and Vito Deluca, a duo whose combined experience gives life and emotion to the music. Vito brings with him a producer background that pulsates the hands and heart of Aeroplane, and Stephen’s DJ roots vibrate the eyes and soul. Their unique collaboration of sound and purpose is channelling appreciation from among the biggest DJs and producers around, and the 2007 release of their first 12″ entitled “Caramellas/Aeroplane” (Eskimo Recordings) has generated a jet stream of increasing momentum. Subsequent releases have kept their ring tones looping with remix requests from artists like Cobra Dukes, Das Pop, Lindström, Cut Copy, Grace Jones, MGMT, Bloc Party, and Friendly Fires. Projects like these reinforce the integration of electronic music into the omnipresent indie scene. Blends of Cosmic Nu Disco, Psychedelic, Balearic, Emo, etc. are forming a new era of musical hybrids, and explorations are officially under way. After all, machines are human too…

Aeroplane’s orbit originated from an unlikely dot on the globe called Walonie, in the southern French part of Belgium. Stephen’s ravenous musical addiction led him to a record pusher named Vito, whose shop became the launch point for their combined vision. As a duo, they fuel up on every ray of light that breaks through their similar backgrounds. Of mutual Italian descent, both were born and raised amid the smoky gray of the industrial Brussels suburbs. Their music dissolves those clouds and celebrates a cosmic hope they’ve carried with them, each determined to find harmony in life among family, friends and fans.

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We’re so into Mayer Hawthorne’s stuff lately. It’s really a wonderful album and it’s on our repeat playlist.His debut album, A Strange Arrangement is due for release on CD and LP on Stones Throw Records on September 9, 2009.

Mayer Hawthorne – Maybe So, Maybe No from Stones Throw

Check out the trailer for “Counting In Fives” a documentary about The Horrors.

‘Warm in the Shadows’ rounds out the trio of three-song 12″s that Music Go Music have released over the course of 2008-09. It’s both a fitting end-piece to the trilogy, and a remarkable expansion of the group’s sonic and emotional breadth. There is a casual, but undeniable magic to these songs, and it flows around and out of each note of every melody.

Title song ‘Warm in the Shadows’ is dance music, as envisioned by a group with a greater allegiance to pop archetypes than to the hymns of the dance-floor. It’s a step in a different direction; an invitation to shake, coupled with a gentle evocation of the pain of wrecked love (“what kind of heart would break so easy as my own”). It’s a case history and a cure for both the lovesick and the lovesick-to-be.

The B-side offers up stories of exotic depravity consuming itself in ways both savage and deceptively elegant. The gypsy rhythms of’ ‘Thousand Crazy Nights’ undergird a tale of dog-piled revelers instructed to “feel with your face, let eyes be your hands” whilst “trapped in desire’s agro dance.” ‘Love, Violent Love’ is a psychedelic voyage through a land of raving mobs who “spiral past control” once their love is at last requited.

This collection of songs is further proof of the power of the transformative embrace in which Music Go Music holds what is dear to them, and the singular vision that they impart to it

Here’s the latest video from Major Lazer. Check it out!

Major Lazer “Pon De Floor” from Eric Wareheim on Vimeo.