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As previously mentioned on these here pages JR Seaton is a man of impeccable taste, he’s called JR for fcks sake!

For further evidence look no further than the new release on his Nocturnes imprint from Brassica who normally has the prefix ‘Sometime Dissident Artist’ attached to him in sentences on the internet. ”New Jam City” from this release is a glorious late night preserve that ripples throughout with analogue bliss.

Download: Brassica – Late Night Jam

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From Domino:

“A gentle duet between Panda Bear and himself, “You Can Count On Me” glimmers with third world melodic overtones, an ethereal uplifting number that is over before you become too familiar. “Alsatian Darn” on the other hand is a much different creature…a slightly foreboding track with an off-beat melancholy chord progression that occasionally lets the light break through with a jaunty two-step, if ever so briefly”

Panda Bear’s You Can Count On Me 7″ is out October 19 on Domino. Limited to 500 copies. Pre-order here.

mp3: Panda Bear :: Alsatian Darn (live at Pitchfork Fest 2010)

We’re pleased to announce that the latest from Swiss-producer-vocalist-visionary Dimlite – a four track EP entitled My Human Wears Acedia Shreds – is in production and will be out later this year. A sneak peak, made available by Dimlite on Vimeo, is embedded below; tracklist and more information to follow soon.

Dimlite – My Human Wears Acedia Shreds from Ehstrawlogy Produkte on Vimeo.

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The Big Pink are the latest act to curate a compilation for !K7′s Tapes series.

The tracks for the disc, which is out October 18, have been selected by band’s Milo Cordell.

“Doing this mix was a complete pleasure because I grew up recording mixes for myself and friends,” he says. “My goal has always been the same: to make something that transports you somewhere completely different.”

The salient theme of the mix is the kind of haunting electronic music and shattered psychedelia that the US underground is throwing up almost ad nauseam right now – drag, witch-house, hypnagogic pop, call it what you will. Salem, who first rose to prominence partly on the back of a 7″ release on Cordell’s Merok label, set the tone with their immense ‘Dirt’. “Someone asked me to describe what Salem sounded like and I said, Its the sound of america slowly dying”.

Many rising stars are represented on the mix – GR†LLGR†LL, oOoOO, Balam Acab, etc – but there’s also space for more established names like The xx, These New Puritans and Gang Gang Dance, who contribute both the original track ‘Ego War’ and a remix of The Big Pink’s ‘Velvet’, not to mention two emissaries from the UK dance scene – Actress and Joker.

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There’s a DIY aspect to most of the 16 tracks,” continues Cordell. “Many are nothing more complicated than a person tinkering on a laptop…In the ‘70s, punk had a DIY ethos, but you still had to have a band, you had to go to rehearsal rooms and practice. Now people are making music six feet from their beds. That’s going to have a certain honesty. It’s almost easier than DIY. I imagine 90% of music on the compilation was made in someone’s bedroom. That’s always appealed to me and my label, Merok. We’ve always championed this generation of musicians that make music in their bedrooms. It’s where people feel most at home.”

Tracklist: 1. Slow Dancing 2. Love Distance – Move On The Rain 3. Gang Gang Dance – Ego War 4. Joker – Snake Eater 5. Active Child – Body Heat (So Far Away) 6. Henny Moan – Vreg Dreams (Little Slow Mix) 7. Sewn Leather – Smoke Ov The Pvnk 8. Balam Acab – See Birds 9. yusuf b – kiss the nite 10. ZVA – Nothing 11. No Bra – Minger (These New Puritans Remix) 12. jj – Let Go 13. Salem – Dirt 14. Light Asylum – Shallow Tears 15. The Big Pink – Velvet (BDG Remix By Gang Gang Dance) 16. Actress – Hubble 17. oOoOO – Mumbai 18. The xx – Fantasy 19. Horse Macgyver – Tetanus Wine

Promising US rock duo give away instrumental EP, Fires of Comparison

Feeling glum? Watch this video for Magic Kids' "Super Ball". Magic Kids tour the UK this October.

Recorded during a noisy half an hour in South London, it's the the return of the Neu Magazine Digest. Tracks from Holy Other, Ghost Hunter, Slow Motion Shoes, AIAS, Sweet Bulbs and Wise Blood.

It’s far from a bold statement to claim that Snoop Dogg’s 1993 debut album, Doggystyle is one of the all-time great hip-hop albums. And it’s definitely not bold to claim that the California icon hasn’t made an album that’s touched it since.

Well, over fifteen years since the release of Doggystyle, Snoop’s announced that his next album will be a sequel – Doggystyle 2. He did this at the end of a video filmed in the studio with premier rap producer Swizz Beats (surprisingly productive for Snoop, whose Ustream sessions usually involve him rolling joints and watching television), who recently made waves with his remix of Kanye West’s ‘Power’ and will be working on Doggystyle 2.

According to Snoop, in said clip, “the album is Doggystyle 2: The Doggumentary … [Swizz] just laced my boots up for my new record. Motherfucker gave me some gangsta shit, some Crips shit, some r’n'b shit, some hip-hop shit, some hard shit, mean shit.” It’ll be eighteen tracks long, and you heard the man – features a lot of different types of shit.

So can Snoop break a decade-and-a-half plus bad streak and come out with another great record? Probably not. But God knows we’ll be among the first in line to see.

Slew Dem member and one of grime’s best DJs with a selection of treats to download on his blog

One of our favourite up-and-coming producers, Subeena‘s style in unfixed and ever-evolving.

Having begun her career making dubstep with a capital D, her recent work has been more exploratory, tending towards stripped 4/4 rhythms and generally less oppressive atmospherics.

This track, a remix of promising New York five-piece Apache Beat (pictured), is basically low-slung house, militaristic drums offset by an uncommonly deft arrangement and sensitive treatment of her source material. Rather than foregrounding the original track’s vocal or doing away with it completely, the Londoner uses it almost an instrumental texture, prompting you to focus on the pure sonic character of the words rather than their literal meaning.

Download: Apache Beat – Another Day (Subeena Remix)

Sub Pop has signed Seattle’s Shabazz Palaces, with the group’s “debut full-length expected and anticipated in 2011.” If you don’t already own SP’s two amazing EPs, you can listen to a few tracks at Sup Pop’s Soundcloud page.

Shabazz Palaces – Blastit

I don't think I even had an email address in the year 2000 but then again I'm not a trendsetter like Rockfeedback. They turn 10 this year and are throwing a big party to celebrate.

Karin Dreijer Andersson has chosen a pretty strong look for Fever Ray's new shows. Tweed skirts, ill fitting suits, city boy glasses and pearls replace her previous spooky earth mother look. "Like Wall Street Zombies they are now back to juice out the last drips of humanity" says collaborator Andreas Nilsson.

The second in Sky Larkin's Mixtape series. Katie has picked some of her favourite tracks including Gowns' "The Rope", Ellen Allien & Apparat and J Dilla's "Workinonit". We'd like to take this opportunity to admit that we also own Kaito album.

Manchester clubbing staple The Warehouse Project has announced its first ever London show.

Taking place on Friday October 29, it will be ran in conjunction with Delphic, who are performing and, we presume, have some role in booking. The venue is Ewer Street Warehouse, which is actually on Great Suffolk Street, SE1. Early bird tickets are available now, priced at £10 – the rest of the names are still to be announced.

In addition to this, a further Manchester date has been announced for December 15, headlined by Skream and Benga, and featuring Toddla T, Ms Dynamite and more.

For full details of this year’s Warehouse Project, click here.

Olde English Spelling Bee this week releases new LPs from Autre Ne Veut and Big Troubles.

Both could be described as disjointed pop records, but there the similarities end. Autre Ne Veut’s self-titled album draws sincere and straight-faced upon plastic 80s soul and AM-friendly synth-pop, effervescent but deeply weird harmonies riding densely clustered neo-tribal drums that recall Forest Swords, LA Vampires, early Animal Collective et al.

Big Troubles’ Worry follows their recent single for OESB, and is a well-judged, C-86-derived hail of guitar jangle and distortion that will undoubtedly appeal to fans of Ariel Pink and Real Estate.

Digital editions of both albums are available now; the vinyl is available from tomorrow, Friday 3 September. For more information, videos and other details, click here.

You can stream the Big Troubles album in full via their Bandcamp page here. Videos for their ‘Modern Intimacy’ and Autre Ne Veut’s ‘Soldiers’ below.

Autre Ne Veut tracklist: 1. Tell Me 2. OMG 3. Wake Up 4. Two Days Of Rain 5. Drama Cum Drama 6. Emotional 7. New Depth 8. Soldier 9. Demoneyez 10. Loveline

Worry tracklist: 1. Video Rock 2. Modern Intimacy 3. Bite Yr Tongue 4. Slouch 5. Georgia 6. Freudian Slips 7. Drastic and Difficult 8. Creeper 9. Desire For A Certain Thing To Happen 10. Feel Nothing 11. Boomerang 12. Lord Composure 13. Opposites 14. Astrology Screen Savers

As if it their deep-seated love of John Carpenter’s music wasn’t already obvious, French synth freaks Zombie Zombie have decided to release an album of cover versions: Zombie Zombie Plays John Carpenter.

John Carpenter, as most of you will know, is the visionary director of such classic and abundantly weird Hollywood chillers as The Thing, Assault on Precinct 13 and Prince of Darkness. He invariably created his own soundtracks for his films, using analogue synths to convey dread and suspense in a manner that has proved to be hugely influential not just on film scores but on electronic music at large.

Zombie Zombie – the duo of Etienne Jaumet and Cosmic Neman – have long been vocal in their admiration for Carpenter’s work. For Plays John Carpenter, out October 11 on Versatile Records, they’ve hooked up with producer Joakim; according to a press release, the album “combines live, militaristic rhythm, minimal synth lines and intimated fear to push the legendary film-maker’s vision into something horrific and beautiful, dark yet beguiling.”

They gamely tackle the frankly unimprovable main themes from Assault On Precinct 13 and Halloween, and also two pieces from Carpenter and Alan Howarth‘s Escape From New York and Escape From LA scores. The album closes with a version of The Thing theme, originally composed by Carpenter and Ennio Morricone.

Tracklist: 1. The Bank Robbery (from Escape From New York) 2. Escape From LA (Main Theme) 3. Assault On Precinct 13 (Main Theme) 4. Halloween (Main Theme) 5. The Thing (Main Theme)

Neon Noise Project‘s latest party takes place new London venue XOYO on Saturday 2 October.

The night is headlined by punk-funk standard-bearers We Have Band, who will be performing material from their recently released debut album WHB. Also playing live are Stateside-hailing synth-wavers Human Life.

DJ duties are taken care of by Institubes mainman and all-round electro floor-filler Surkin, Ed Banger’s DJ Feadz and Kitsune’s Punks Jump Up. Over in Room 2 it’s all about The C-90s, Tronik Youth and JBAG (Jerry Bouthier & Andrea Gorgerino).

The night runs 9.30pm-5am; for more information and tickets click here (£10 early bird passes are available until September 5).