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New Music: Teki Latex - Zodiac (Motez Edit)
Housemaster Motez drops a new edit and announces a massive world tour.. A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of watching one of the smoothest cats in Australian electronic music, Motez, throw down a v-large B2B set with Howard from Disclosure at the World Bar as part of Sweat It Out's showcase night during EMC Play. Sometimes B2B sets feel like each person is just trying to one up the other, but this one just felt like two dudes with a massive collection of quality tunes having a very very good time spinning them together. It was part of a huge year for Motez, whose been releasing some killer originals, getting named Stoney Roads' inaugural Producer Of The Year, and just had a recent stint in the US. Today he's announced (via the Stoney lads) that he's headed back overseas after a few Aussie dates (including our own Wonderland this weekend), and dropped a tasty little edit of Teki Latex's Zodiac: UPCOMING AUS' SHOWS: Dec 19 - Factory, SUNSHINE COAST, QLD Dec 20 - Wonderland, PERTH
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New Music: Porter Robinson - Years of War (Golden Features Remix)
The Golden Features goose has laid two golden eggs today; a remix and an original.. Golden Features entered the music scene as a storm-cloud of mystery in February of this year, attracting the curiosity of music commentators everywhere, who began penning speculative articles (Golden Features Is Big In Australia Right Now – But Who Is He?) It didn’t take long for that cloud to crack open (Golden Features reveals his secret identity!) and for Sydney producer Tom Stell to rain down showers of tantalizing electronica upon us; as 2014 progressed, Stell continued to drench us with moody bass and strike us with lightning hooks: Tell Me, Guillotine, Factory... throw in a bunch of incredible audiovisual shows at festivals and clubs across the country and as we near the end of 2014, Stell’s indelibly carved a strong statement in the Australian contemporary electronic landscape. Someone whose always backed Stell from the beginning, and was one of the first to say the Golden Features EP was "aweso
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Video: Electric Mantis - Flips and Flops (Ego's Where The Wild Things Are AV Edit)
It's an visually treat that's only sweetened with the chopped re-work style.. Visual connoisseur and sample extraordinaire DJ Ego is a master of bringing together weird and enjoyable sounds into one noisy mix of passion. Alongside a good dose of eye candy to measure. Just take this edit of Bound 2 featuring Kanye West's video clip mixed into Seth Rogan and James Franco's parody. He's also just released an audio-visual re-work of Electric Mantis' Flips and Flops, sampling Alt-J and Barack Obama having a testy pop. The edit is stylised around Where The Wild Things Are and the plethora of moving and still images from it is a visual treat. This track is the first from Between Dreams, a video mixtape that Ego plans to release in January 2015.  TOUR DATES 10 Jan - Flinders Social, Townsville 16 Jan - Plantation, Coffs Harbour 23 Jan - Cats, Rocket Bar, Adelaide 24 Jan - The Cliff Dive, Sydney 30 Jan - Homestead, Hobart 31 Jan - Capitol, Perth 6 Feb - Cant Say, Melbourne 13 Feb - Alhambra Lo
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Video: Chela - Handful Of Gold
Chela drops an 80s' styled video for her latest track, Handful Of Gold. We've all got those places that we go to where the owner will let us get away with more than usual and know our order instantaneously because we've shown up at the store for years. There's this Indian kebab store near me that doesn't even bother asking me what I want, all I have to do is walk in the store and they know what it is I want. Chela's music video for Handful Of Gold is exactly the case as we see her pop and lock in a Taco store in the middle of the night. It has that drunk-with-all-your-friends-feeling but I don't think I've ever looked so happy at that time more extremely hungry. Either way it oozes that playful 80s' feel with some interesting fashion choices to boot.  Follow Chela: FACEBOOK
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New Music: Two Can & Father Dude - Double Edge
Two Can has teamed up with Father Dude to drop a burning future R & B track titled Double Edge.. Two Can have teamed up with singer Father Dude to drop some searing hot future R & B in the form of Double Edge. The track appears on the Hegemon SoundCloud, which also features songs from Just a Gent and GRMM, giving Double Edge a stamp of authenticity before it's even played. The merging of the soulful vocals of Father Dude and the future trap-orientated sound of Two Can makes you sit up and pay attention. Indeed, the melodic piano keys that leads into a trappy breakdown are complimented by the sugar-sweet vocals of Father Dude. And if you're digging the song you can also download the track for free HERE.  Follow Two Can: FACEBOOK Follow Father Dude: FACEBOOK
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Video: Belle & Sebastian - Nobody's Empire
Belle & Sebastian have just released a video for their track Nobody's Empire.. Belle & Sebastian have just released a video for Nobody's Empire which makes use of pieces of archival footage, fan-sourced film, and footage from the album cover shoot. The song itself is reflective of Stuart Murdoch's medical issues and his struggles as a young man with them. It's a rather endearing piece of indie-pop, with it's the mellow tempo, a steady flow of piano keys and light licks of a guitar. And Murdoch's airy voice suits the steady change in footage especially the use of VHS footage. Nobody's Empire is taken from Belle & Sebastian's forthcoming album, Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance, which will be released Friday 16 January in Australia. Follow Belle & Sebastian: FACEBOOK
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New Music: Kevin Gates - Luca Brasi 2 Mixtape
Emotional thug Kevin Gates finishes 2014 strong with the Luca Brasi 2 Mixtape.. Louisiana rapper Kevin Gates and 2014 XXL Mag Freshmen Class member Kevin Gates is hard at work on his album for Atlantic Records right now, but in the meantime he's not leaving us hanging, finishing up 2014 strong with the delivery of his Gangsta Grillz mixtape, Luca Brasi 2, hosted by DJ Drama. It's the follow up to his 2013 breakthrough mixtape The Luca Brasi Story, and his most recent release since By Any Means, which came out earlier this year (he also jumped on a track with Rustie not too long ago). He’s joined on the tape by Atlanta's Rich Homie Quan (Word Around Town), R&B upstart August Alsina (I Don’t Get Tired #IDGT), B.O.B. (Talk on Phones), Red on Da Track for Perfect Imperfection and John Gotti (which also made it onto the tracklist for By Any Means), Rico Love, Bobby Johnson, B.O.B. and Bobbie Black. "Kevin Gates, I'm everybody's sworn favourite": for those new to Gates, his appeal lies mostl