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Watch FKA Twigs hang from her own hair in new video Pendulum.. She was one of the artists we couldn’t take our eyes off in 2014; and 26 year-old British singer FKA Twigs seems intent on maintaining our attention in 2015; yesterday receiving two nominations for the BRIT Awards -  British Female Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act – on the back of her Mercury Prize nomination for her breakthrough album of last year, LP1 (out now on Young Turks), yesterday releasing her most transfixing video yet for LP1 track Pendulum.  I'm your sweet little love maker, sings FKA Twigs, as the professional dancer, clad in a nude leotard, slowly spins (a human Pendulum, one assumes), suspended in mid-air, in a complex harness of rope, intertwined with her braids, so she’s essentially being supported by her own hair. She then begins sinking into a silvery, digital liquid, which eventually completely coats her and she becomes a CGI creature; before she re-emerges in human form, donned in tough silver h

Nothing to listen to today? That’s cool, Caribou has made you a playlist of 1000 tracks.. Is this one of the hugest mixtapes of all time? Canadian producer Caribou, the producer behind one of the most emotional dancefloor tracks of 2014, Can’t Do Without You, has curated a 1000 track playlist, called 1000 Songs For You, today, as a means to give props to all the fans who’ve gotten behind him. “Roughly speaking, this is a musical history of my life,” says Snaith of the eclectic playlist, that goes literally everywhere: Moodyman, Can, Usher, Pusha T, The Zombies, Kanye West, and more. He’s asked us all to listen to it on shuffle, and hopes people will also send in their own suggestions, “in the hope (that) this becomes a dialogue rather than a monologue.” Caribou, you are such a nice guy. Read his post / stream the playlist below.

Eves The Behavior debut single, TV, reveals her precocious talent for making pop.. Laneway has a talent for putting unknown but talent-endowed Australian acts on their bill, with last year’s lineup including heartstring yanker MT WARNING for instance. And 2015 is no different with Eves The Behavior. Formerly known only as Eves, 2015 looks to be the year that she starts to fan the flames of interest. The opening subdued atmosphere of TV accentuates Eves’ voice, which orchestrates the ebb and flow of the track. Especially when the track takes on an epic quality with the thumping drums and the voice of Eves that’s neither overly saccharine nor too shrill. TV emphasizes that you don’t need to pigeonhole her as the next ‘Lorde’ because Eves The Behavior knows how to craft a damn good piece of pop that cuts through plenty fine on her own. Follow Eves The Behavior: FACEBOOK

Some new and very lush electronica from a Canberra/Seattle-based duo.. Vallis Alps are a very new duo comprising of Seattle-based producer David Ansari and Canberra-based vocalist ParissaTossif. I can’t really tell you much more than that, but one definitely gets the feeling we’ll be hearing from - and learning a lot more about – them in 2014. They’ve just self-released their debut EP (listen HERE), and Young is the first (and our favourite) cut from it:

Hayden James lines up his debut Australian live tour.. Like an early Christmas present Aussie beatsmith Hayden James dropped an absolutely ball-tearing single late last year in Something About You, and he's just announced an early-2015 tour to celebrate the fact. It'll be his debut live headline tour in Australia, one that will see him joined by producer-on-the-rise Mickey Kojak for a select series of dates over February and March. Check the dates below, and click on the poster to grab yourself some tickets now: Follow Hayden James:  SOUNDCLOUD | FACEBOOK | TWITTER More: ODESZA's Five Favourite Aussie Acts

Nothing will ever make sense again.. Read our recent interview with Pond HERE. Pond have been making waves recently with their video for Elvis’ Flaming Star and were so kind to let us ask them about how they’re big fans of The Mighty Boosh (interview above), and now they’ve gone and sent this as part of their latest video: “Probably the hardest part of making this was finding three elderly citizens who looked identical to what our computer projections told us Jay, Joe and Nick will look like in the twilight of their lives.” Spoiler: they just dyed their hair grey. But that isn’t the point, the point is that once you’ve watched the confusing, brain-self-destruct-inducing video that is Zond you won’t know what the point is. They’ve taken glam-rock and had it fertilise post-modernity and voila! Zond is also a damn good song on its own fusing their earlier massive rock breakdowns with some serious spaced-out moments. So keep an eye out for their album Man, It Feels Like Space Again coming

A new drop of diamond-life dance from Melbourne magic-maker Roland Tings.. What else to do on these sticky summer nights but boogie. And who better to bring the boogie than Odyssey? I want to be...inside ouuuutttt....out, out, out... If you'd prefer to leave your dancefloor legends back in the 70s, you've got the alternate option of checking out Melbourne producer Roland Tings, the only guy who can bring as much heat to the floor as there is in the air right now.  Have been a fan of Tings' effervescent, vintage-synth-heavy disco-house since the corker he put out on LA imprint 100% silk, Milky Way, back in 2012. If you can find a track that progresses in a more delightful way than Loose Jaw, please let me know, because the way Tings turns gentle bounce into retro piano house hook into whizz-bang bright electronic explosion in that track brings me back to it over and over again in my listening. The slip-slidey percussion of the track on the flip, Roland's Beat, is also easy to vibe. Aft