[Hip/Hop] Adele – Rolling In The Deep (Jamie xx Remix) feat. Childish Gambino

This delightful remix of British Soul Singer Adele’s “Rolling in The Deep” has been brought to us by Jamie XX of The XX.

If you’ve ever watched 30 Rock, you’ve already heard the words of Childish Gambino, who under his birth name of Donald Glover, is one of the show’s writers. He is a surprisingly capable MC on this song, showing up at almost three minutes into the song to bring it to a close.

The XX have won the Mercury Prize in the UK and Adele is a Grammy Winner. Childish Gambino, therefore, is the hidden gem in this song and possibly its greatest asset. Listen to the song and if it piques your interest as much as it did mine, check out Gambino’s free album “Culdesac” at www.culdesac-album.com.

Adele – Rolling in the Deep (Jamie xx) ft. Childish Gambino

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[Electro] Porter Robinson – The Wildcat

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is definitely a quote Porter Robinson takes to heart. After the beatport topping runaway success of “Say My Name”, Porter Robinson returns with “The Wildcat” which keeps all the same heavy, aggressive electro beats we have come to know and love. Even though he is still relatively new to the dance music scene, his maturing style shows obvious traces of great Electro/Dance influences, from the multilayered build reminiscent of Wolfgang Gartner, to the brain trauma inducing drops à la Skrillex. With “The Wildcat” Porter Robinson delivers another hard-hitting club filler, and shows no signs of slowing down quite yet.

Beatport: Porter Robinson – The Wildcat

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[New/Folk] Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues

Seattle-based folk outfit Fleet Foxes made quite their mark on the quite active indie-folk scene when they released their debut album in 2008. Perhaps what set them apart from every other entry into that year’s folk scene, including Bon Iver’s genius For Emma, Forever Ago, was their ability to sound beautifully natural both in the studio and on the stage. They have even gone on to inspire the equally fantastic and talented First Aid Kit. It brought me great pleasure to wake up this morning to the sight of a new song and a new album being announced by the group. The new album is entitled Helplessness Blues, and while it may not be coming out until May 3^rd, they have given us the titular track to tide us over until then.

Judging solely based on the titular track, it seems as if we can forget being worried about a sophomore slump. The track possesses all of the beauty of their past efforts and somehow manages to be even more beautiful—and longer—than all of them. The forzando that you reach about halfway through the track I can only describe as magical, and will leave you even more eager to continue on for the duration of the track. “Helplessness Blues”—the song—is excellent, and if it is any indication of what is to come on the full album, then I suspect that this will be yet another year of glory for Fleet Foxes.

Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues

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[Electro] Fake Blood – Medieval (original)

With a new Fake Blood original production, you never really know what to expect.  Theo Keating’s (aka Fake Blood) style has consistently evolved from his early days in Simian to the more dance-friendly act we now know him as, yet he never sticks to a specific genre. From the disco based nostalgic feel of “I Think I Like It” to his dance floor aimed club banger “Mars”, Fake Blood always brings something new to the table, and “Medieval” is no different. Staying away from the big buildups of Mars, yet keeping the strong bass line, “Medieval” gets straight to the point. The melodious backbone makes this track a good listen both at home and on the dancefloor.

Fake Blood – Medieval

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[Music Video] Sleigh Bells – “Rill Rill”

Sleigh Bells -Rill Rill

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[DUBSTEP] Benny Benassi & Gary Go – Cinema (Skrillex Remix)

Warning – this song will get you going a bit mental! Taken from Benny Benassi album “Spaceship” featuring British born Gary Go’s vocals – dubstep monster Skrillex has ripped this track apart with some hefty beats that we first heard from a YouTube clip of Skrillex live. This is definitely a club banger and the drop is just insane. This year is set to be a big one for Skrillex who’s massive screeching sounds are annihilating bass hungry venues across canada on his latest tour.

Benny Benassi & Gary Go – Cinema (Skrillex Remix)

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[Trippy/Dubstep] Audio Visual Cymatic Frequencies

Cymatic Frequencies by DK from Solid Steel on Vimeo.

The Solid Steel radio show regularly features AV mixes alongside the audio and this week DK gives you another treat for eyes as well as your ears with his full on Audio Visual mix ‘Cymatic Frequencies’.
It’s packed full of musical highlights from 2010, Ninja Tune & Big Dada XX celebrations and of course the odd classic thrown in for good measure, all with added visuals (most of them created for each track). No other radio show regularly gives you this ‘visual version of a mixtape’

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[Indie] U.S. Royalty – Monte Carlo

Hailing from Washington D.C., the appropriately named U.S. Royalty have been rightfully making a name for themselves around the music blogs with their recently self-released album Mirrors. Sounding like a more tightly arranged and soulful version of fellow indie rockers The Daylights mixed with the delightful—and previously featured—The Steelwells, it’s hard not to imagine U.S. Royalty becoming a sensation both live and in the studio.

On “Monte Carlo”—the third track on their new album—you get a prime example of their old-fashioned, soul-filled, indie rock. The track is nearly five minutes long, and it does not make you regret a single second of it.

U.S. Royalty – Monte Carlo

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