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Go storm-chasing to the tune of Tchami's banger, Promesses.. The father of future-house will soon be back in the country for Future Music Festival, and any time we find some news that's Tchami-related is fine by us. This video clip is a couple of weeks old, but we only just stumbled upon it today so we're gonna fucking talk about it. Why? Because it's pretty beautifully shot, and tells a pretty cool (although sadly fictional story) about Oaklahama's Struckist Subculture. What's a struckist? I'm assuming it means someone who chases lightning, because that's what seems to be happening in this video. And what a merry band of misfits they are - tieing forks to their persons, dressing up in full armour, all to attract the lure of the lightning, and get some sweet electrified body art in the process. Follow Tchami: FACEBOOK / SOUNDCLOUD

PC Music's enigmatic female icon Hannah Diamond opens up in new web series.. Underground dance music has been talking in pop's language of late; with producer A.G. Cook's UK-based upstart label (well, more of a semi cultural movement, lately) PC Music leading the charge in this new conversation. Pilerats were lucky enough to have a first hand experience of the label when SOPHIE and SOPHIE's visually provocative female stand-in/mascot QT, performed at our Christmas party. While QT is usually the female most put forward in association with PC Music, her talent is mostly limited to standing around in metallic outerwear holding energy drinks. Producer / vocalist Hannah Diamond, meanwhile, has been putting in W-O-R-K.  She's recorded a series of singles, most recently Every Night back in November, has provided guest vocals for AG Cook's Keri Baby, co-edits/ directs photography for the tongue-in-cheek, visually intriguing online publication LOGO Magazine, and has modelled for London latex cl

New experimental electronica from Houston-based producer Rabit.. Tri Angle Records, whose guiding motto as music curators is "haunted by the need to find things that will haunt us", have birthed a number of high-profile releases (as far as weirder, non-convential beat music goes, in any case) over the past couple of years: artists such as Evian Christ (whom we experienced live at our music festival, CIRCO, in the festival's initial year), Forest Swords, How To Dress Well and many more left-leaning artists we really respect. Next thing coming up for this awesome label is an EP release - Baptizm - from Rabit, a grime producer from the US, who has this really distinct, mechanical sound that instantly draws you in, and has been one of the key young producers spearheading the genre's resurgence in recent years. The EP will be Rabit's debut on the label, probably his most high profile release, too, although he's been cranking out mixtapes and 12"s for a minute now, and in 2013 had a nice fea

Listen to London producer fLako's intriguing new Chilean-soul influenced beats.. fLako - Dario Rojo Guerra - is a German-raised, London-based producer, with Chilean roots, that’s been making incredible, mystical and atmospheric music for a while now. International music tastemaker Gilles Peterson once rated fLako as the ‘most highly rated emerging producer’ out right now. For some reason though; he seems to keep a low profile most of the time; despite being up there with producers such as Lapalux, or Flying Lotus, when it comes to his talent for making wonky electronic tracks. However, that looks set to change; with a new EP out now, and debut full-length on the way. It’s been nearly three years since fLako’s last EP Eclosure, although we were lucky enough to get a big dose of fLako via his work on Eglo Records' singer Fatima’s debut album, Yellow Memories, that came out on Eglo, as well as the B Side on her incredible Family / La Neta 12” – Black Dough (listen HERE). The ethereal bea

Cloud Control take us behind the scenes of their current Angus & Julia Stone support.. Angus & Julia Stone's Australian tour kicks off tonight in Perth (check their 10 essential tour on-tunes HERE), one that sees them supported by dream-pop outfit Cloud Control, and for something a little different the Blue Mountains group will be taking over the Pilerats Instagram to offer you some behind the scenes looks at their shows and a look into what they're up to over the next couple of days in Perth and then Darwin - from February 4-7. To get in on the action, follow our respective instagrams below: PILERATS INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/pilerats_ CLOUD CONTROL INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/cloud_control Given they're in stinking hot Perth for a couple of days we're expecting plenty more of the above and this: Follow Cloud Control: FACEBOOK

Some beautiful new sounds from Melbourne trio Stonefox.. This City is the second single from fresh Melbourne trio Stonefox - a three-piece consisting of vocalist Jenna Russo, guitarist Tim Carroll and drummer Monica Spasaro, and it's a beautifully restrained piece of ambient indie-pop. Wisely letting Russo's vocals carry the load, the track works in its simplicity, which is in itself credit the other band members. In the vein of other femme-led acts like Daughter and The xx, it was recorded by Simon Paul Moro, who's worked with the likes of Goldroom, Ta-ku and Vance Joy, and instantly has us looking forward to new music from the gorup. Follow Stonefox: FACEBOOK / SOUNDCLOUD

Purity Ring premiere the first video from their forthcoming 'Another Eternity' album.. We were awash with Purity Ring fever in December last year, when the Canadian duo released their first music in two years (since their 2012 album Shrines) with dreamy single Push / Pull, a track that, along with subsequent release Begin Again, demonstrated Purity Ring ability to make killer music is as strong as ever, and that has us hanging out for their sophomore release, Another Eternity, which is due out next month. A couple months on, Megan James and Corrin Roddick have just given us the visuals to accompany the track. The surreal video is directed by Renata Kaksha, and begins with Megan’s face enshrouded in darkness, before she tumbles through a cosmic ocean of purple and pink, in a visual echo of the track's lyrics: "A fever billowed with the wind / And I obeyed the sky therein." Dressed in a pink ostrich feathery-like dress, James weaves in and out of her own hair, before light begins to radi

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