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In another new and pretty much action packed topic that we’re staring on this blog we’ll be attempting to sift through our hazy memories of the last rave, looking at the back of record bags, checking out playlists and basically asking people that were less drunk than us to round up the tunes that went off and made the night. Posted by HumanMan » Acid , Bass , Classic Trax , Cosmic , Disco , Dubstep , Electro , House , Hype , MPFREE , Secret Weapon , Soul , Tech House , Techno , Tropical , What Went WildEric Kayne The members of Arcade Fire have always been fascinated by the subtle ways geography informs our lives. With its series of "Neighborhood" songs on the band's 2004 full-length debut, Funeral , the group unpacked the emotional and psychological baggage of seemingly bucolic landscapes, and the sometimes haunted lives of the people who live there. On its latest release, The Suburbs , Arcade Fire turns its attention to ubiquitous, cookie-cutter communities and the impermanent memories they create.
First Listen: Arcade Fire, 'The Suburbs' : NPR
Hey man, you're confusing me. So you like the girls that like other girls, and all of these girls like you, so... are you a lesbian girl? I'm JUST ASKING.
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FACT mix 171: Kingdom – FACT magazine: music and art
New York-based Night Slugger Kingdom steps up to the plate for this Friday’s FACT mix. Born in Massachusetts, Kingdom, real name Ezra Rubin, moved to New York and went about making the city his home, running the Club Vortex and ddarkk club nights. A hip-hop and R’n’B obsessive, Kingdom has been winning fans on the strength of his DJ sets, remixes and mixtapes for years, but in early 2010 he discovered a new audience with the release of ‘Mind Reader’, his Shyvonne-featuring single for A-Trak’s Fools Gold label. This week, Night Slugs released the follow-up to ‘Mind Reader’, the superb That Mystic EP.
Duncan Powell – 2010 [EXCLUSIVE] « Ego Thieves
Now we are really getting warmed up for 2010. Here is yet another World Exclusive from us. Legendary UK Garage producer Duncan Powell has hit us up with a brand new 2010 mix. This mix is simply amazing, it completely consists of all his own production. 2-Step’s back to the organic sound fused with the new influences the current Dubstep sound has attributed.
Indeed, it seems a little absurd to continue referring to the prize as the Mercury Prize, when there are other, pre-existent Mercury Prizes awarded in the fields of Professional Communications (that's PR to you and me) and Radio and International Travel Catering (the latter perhaps presented in a little plastic tray with a tinfoil lid). Then there's the Australian brewery that has a Mercury Award named after its cider, which doubtless goes down better with the general public than Speech Debelle's album did after winning music's Mercury Prize last year. So it's a touch selfish of the Barclaycard Mercury Prize to insist on retaining its original title. There is, however, a certain irony in being named after a company that no longer exists, since that is the condition to which the entire record industry now apparently aspires – what little purpose it once retained now slipping from its grasp like a handful of mercury seeping through the cracks between one's fingers.
Mercury Prize: state of the music nation - Features, Music - The Independent
Gorillaz: 'an ecological concept album that yoked Snoop Doog, Lou Reed and the Syrian National Orchestra into a coherent whole'. How slowly a year passes. It seems like only, ooh, 12 months ago that rapper Speech Debelle was first spotted on the 2009 Mercury prize shortlist. She went on to clinch the prize last September.
Mercury prize 2010: A dozen of the best to satisfy the judges | Music | The Observer
If there’s anything positive to take from 2010, it’s the incontrovertible truth that music spoiled us rotten this year. We’ve tried to keep up with most of the interesting releases this year every weekday (and some weekends) here at Pretty Much Amazing, and after spending some time with the music (true story- I’ve listened to our #1 at least 60 times), we find ourselves reflecting on 2010′s greatest long-form musical moments. We’ve narrowed a year with a flurry of great releases to a list of forty albums that have stuck with us and flourish in an industry that has all but abandoned the format. We’re also throwing in a monster giveaway at the end, so go on and check out our list:
The Best Albums of 2010 | Pretty Much Amazing - PMA at PMA | Pretty Much Amazing
Speaker Workout: Karizma on Rinse FM ~ fabricfirst blog
Yesterday the twitterverse blew up, with a multitude of tweets proclaiming Karizma ’s supreme drive time appearance on Rinse.fm to be an epic event with people like L-Vis 1990 tweeting “KARIZMA ON @RinseFM RIGHT NOW. THE CROSSOVER HAS HAPPENED, WITNESS HISTORY!” and Scratcha DVA starting the petition to get Karizma to do a monthly show pestering Rinse boss Geeneus with his @replies. Catch Karizma in Room One this Friday alongside Roska, Ben UFO, Ramadanman, Bok Bok, L-Vis 1990, Hardhouse Banton and more for the Numbers 7th Birthday.
Millionaires and local activists have joined forces across Britain to fight proposals for scores of huge incinerators that have ignited a new planning row with the Government. The building of energy from waste (EfW) plants, some capable of burning up to 90 lorry loads of rubbish a day, has set councils against each other and drawn ministers into parish conflicts. Parents and pressure groups have allied themselves to, among others, a pop star and television presenter in the fight against the incinerators, which are designed to reduce the need for landfill but have been criticised for their “devastating” presence in local environments. There are 30 EfW incinerators in the UK and 80 are believed to be planned. The skirmishes highlight the conflict between two of the Government’s key policy objectives — the move away from landfill for household and commercial waste and localism, the process of allowing decisions to be taken at the nearest point to the people affected.
