Bestival 2011 feat. The Cure, Pendulum, Primal Scream, PJ Harvey, The Maccabees, Brian Wilson, Robyn, Fatboy Slim, Crystal Castles... & you?

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Besti-mix 51: Reggae Roast

The sun is shining, summer is around the corner, Wills and Kate are getting hitched, what better time then for a royal reggae knees up courtesy of one of the UK's best-loved and most vibrant reggae collectives, Reggae Roast.

Having founded Reggae Roast Records in 2009, this crew have developed a formidable sound with global recognition, and their roster includes artists such as Earl 16, Ghetto Priest and Kenny Knots, as well as remixes from the like of Rob Smith (RSD), Mungo’s Hi Fi, Richie Phoe and Dark Ark. Their exclusive, brand new studio Besti-mix provides a taster for what to expect from their sets at Bestival and Camp Bestival this year - a 60-minute excursion featuring a handful of their recent releases on Reggae Roast Records, alongside some of their favorite tracks, ranging from revival classics to upfront dubstep promos. And if you like what you hear (trust us, you will!) then keep an eye out for their forthcoming 12” EP and compilation CD album, hitting shops this June!

Download: Bestimix 51 Reggae Roast

Tracklisting:
1. Earl 16 - Reggae Music - Forthcoming on Reggae Roast Records
2. Mr Williamz & Franz Job - Viva Marijuana - Necessary Mayhem
3. Ghetto Priest - Evolution - Reggae Roast Records
4. OBF - Bood Dunza remix - Dubplate
5. Barrington Levy - Ragga Muffin remix - Life Music
6. The Hempolics - Serious - Reggae Roast Records
7. Yami Bolo - Free Mandela - Skengdon
8. Eddie Constantine - Tenement Yard - Studio 1
9. Vibes - Frenemies - Studio 1
10. Dubmatix Feat. Tippa Irie - Happy - Echo Beach
11. Sandeeno - Put Down De Guns - Universal Roots
12. Konshens - She Love Money - Irie Ites Records
13. Danman - Righteous (RSD remix) - Reggae Roast Records
14. Jupiter And Ma Shi Faï - Praising (Jah BunZer0 remix) - Dubplate
15. Dubkasm - More Jah Songs (RSD remix) - Sufferahs Choice
16. LV feat. Errol Bellot - Don’t Judge - 2nd Drop

Bestimix 51: Reggae Roast by Bestimix on Mixcloud

Kitty, Daisy & Lewis - New Single, Album & Tour!

We at Sunday Best Recordings are incredibly proud to announce the release of Kitty, Daisy & Lewis' new 2 track single I'm So Sorry' / I'm Going Back taken from their startlingly brilliant new self-penned album Smoking in Heaven.

The single is out this week and available on deluxe heavyweight 7" vinyl (45rpm), limited edition 10" vinyl (78rpm) and digital download.

The NME described it as "Beautifully analogue, this belongs in a smoky, crowded Prohibition basement. The groove is so persuasive that your legs and shoulders start to jitterbug of their own volition. I can imagine this track evoking mass hysteria at whichever venues play host to the K,D & L roadshow in the near future" while Clash mag awarded it their Single of the Week.Thanks guys!

Both vinyl editions are available via the Kitty, Daisy & Lewis online store, and in all good vinyl loving record shops.

And you can find the download on iTunes here.

Here's the video for I'm So Sorry, directed by Thomas Knights and Sasha Rainbow...


youtube.com/watch?v=SyKmukkJTVQ

The album Smoking In Heaven is released on 30th May on CD digipak, digital download and 2 x 33rpm Heavyweight 12" Gatefold LP, plus a very special limited edition hardback 8 x 78rpm 10" Record Album. Both vinyl editions will also include a free digital download of the album.

The CD, LP and 78rpm versions of the album are available to pre-order now from the Kitty, Daisy & Lewis online store. What's more, all copies on the 78rpm Record Album sold via this store will be signed by the band!

And the digital download version of the album is available for preview and pre-order now via iTunes.

Catch the band live on tour at the following dates...

    * 30/04/11 Nidaros Blues Festival, Trondheim, Norway (info)
    * 04/05/11 Crane Lane Theatre, Cork, Ireland (info)
    * 05/05/11 Button Factory, Dublin, Ireland (tickets)
    * 26/05/11 Lido Club, Berlin, Germany (info)
    * 07/06/11 Portsmouth – Wedgewood Rooms (tickets)
    * 08/06/11 Cardiff – Clwb Ifor Bach (tickets)
    * 09/06/11 Exeter – Cavern (info)
    * 10/06/11 Manchester – Ruby Lounge (tickets)
    * 12/06/11 Leeds - Brudenell Social Club (tickets)
    * 13/06/11 Newcastle - Academy 2 (tickets)
    * 14/06/11 Glasgow - King Tut's (tickets)
    * 16/06/11 Nottingham - Rescue Rooms (tickets)
    * 17/06/11 Birmingham - Academy 2 (tickets)
    * 18/06/11 Bristol – Thekla (tickets)
    * 20/06/11 Norwich - Arts Centre (tickets)
    * 21/06/11 London – Dingwalls (tickets)

da Bank's Tunes of (last) Week

Welcome to our weekly round up of Rob da Bank's 'Tunes of the Day'. Follow / like Rob on Twitter or Facebook if you want to receive his daily musical tip-offs as they pop into his hairy head, in real time...

Monday 18th April
tUnE-yArDs - 'Bizness'
Hailing from New England,Tune Yards is a 1woman band of drum loops, ukulele & a very unique singing style.

Tuesday 19th April
Tom Vek - 'A Chore'
So excited about the return of the vek (pictured) that I'm smiling like a loon.this is how you make an electronic pop record.

Thursday 21st April
FM Belfast - 'Underwear'
I've hung out with these crazy Icelandic folk, FM Belfast & they've written a kooky song about pants.

Radio da Bank: Grandmaster Flash special!

Hip-hop and all-round musical legend Grandmaster Flash dropped by Rob's Radio 1 show this weekend and smashed it with not one, or two, or even three or four, but five(!) exclusive and (dare we say it) amazing mixes - taking in everything from old-school funk and hip-hop flavours to pop, reggae and dubstep!

Honestly, we literally can't wait for the man to tear up Bestival 2011! Till then people, dig our your Kangol, doff your caps to the man like 'Flash and bust out some moves to these block-rocking beats...

Stream new Bullion 'psych' mix

As you no doubt already know, XL-signed beatmeister Bullion will be smashing our Sunday Best party on Saturday May 7, joining Photek, Actress (live) and Rob da Bank in Cable's Main Room (while our friends from FACT take care of business in Room 2).

Well, to give you a taster of what to expect from the young West London producer check out his new psychedelic-inspired "Canterbury Mix", which brings together avant-offerings from the experimental late 1960s scene of the very same name, including the likes of Robert Wyatt, Gong, and Caravan.

Happy Easter!

Bullion - Canterbury Mix by Toast Press

Besti-mix 50: IDC

When you're hailed as a 'genius' and told that this "will be your year" the pressure can get to you, but this is not a fate that seems likely to worry DJ/producer David McCarthy, aka IDC, whose Besti-mix is a broad minded and banging as you'd hope for.

Starting and ending with excerpts from one of the numerous, mysterious "numbers stations" that broadcast on radio wavelengths across the world, IDC's eclectic and exclusive Besti-mix smashes up aspects of his typically dancefloor-destroying sets (tracks from MSTRKRFT, Punks Jump Up, Arveene & Misk) with touches of some of this year's Bestival line up (Brian Wilson, Primal Scream, Robert Smith, Crystal Castles, Public Enemy), along with tracks from his his own soon-to-be-released second album 'The Sun Is Always Shining Above The Clouds', all shaken & stirred into a multi-flavoured cocktail with bits of Amorphous Androgynous, Plastic Ono Band, Duck Sauce and more.

FUN? It's written all of this summer soundtrack, and you can expect more of the same when IDC makes returns to Bestival to play Bollywood this September!

Download: Bestmix 50 IDC

Tracklisting:
01 Excerpt 1 - from unknown 'Numbers Station'
02 Our Prayer - Beach Boys
03 The Protagonists - IDC
04 'Introducing The Experience' dialogue - Jimmy Hendrix
05 Invaders - DPPLGNGRS
06 Blockhead - Punks Jump Up
07 Ghetto Burning (Arveene & Misk Dub) - Phonat
08 Power To The People / Strawberry Fields ext drum loop / Come Together - Plastic Ono Band / The Beatles / Primal Scream (IDC edit)
09 Barbara Striesand - Duck Sauce (IDC edit feat Beastie Boys 'Sure Shot' & dialogue from the film 'The Troll Hunter')
10 Beards Again - MSTRKRFT
11 Everybody - IDC
12 Love And Lust Dub - Arveene & Misk
13 Falling Down - Oasis (A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble remix by Amorphous Androgynous)
14 Not In Love - Crystal Castles feat Robert Smith
15 Kernkraft 400 (Sport Chant Stadium Remix) - Zombie Nation (IDC Edit feat Public Enemy)
16 Hey Jude - The Beatles (IDC Edit)
17 The Beat Goes On - Beady Eye
18 Excerpt 2 - from unknown 'Numbers Station'
19 Dialogue - John Noble & Joshua Jackson from the TV series 'Fringe'
20 Dialogue - Paul McCartney

Bestimix 50: Idc by Bestimix on Mixcloud

Welcome back Kitty, Daisy & Lewis, we adore you

youtube.com/watch?v=SyKmukkJTVQ

Welcome back Tom Vek, we've missed you

youtube.com/watch?v=aCfWUl5OvB0

Radio da Bank: Metronomy in session

Metronomy are in Session at Maida Vale Studios with three amazing tracks from their new album English Riviera. Joe from the band talks about the new album, touring this spring and the flashing lights they wear on stage.

Plus its Record Store Day. Rob gives you the chance to pick the 'Best Record in The World, Probably, Maybe...' by describing the covers of two records and giving you guys the chance to pick one. Surreal, but curiously enjoyable.

Checkout the tracklisting below and get yourselves over to bbc.co.uk/radio1/robdabank to listen again online to this show...

Busy P — Procrastinator (Hey Today Remix) - Ed Banger Records
Jaymo & Andy George — Midnight - Moda
Beastie Boys — Make Some Noise - Parlophone
Sukh Knight — Tribesmen (Ft. Squarewave & Mr K) - True Tiger/Nasha Records
The Weeknd — What You Need - White
Oh Land — Son Of A Gun - Savage Skulls Remix
Nat Self — Mr Monkey (Rachel Barton Remix) - Jackmode Recordings
Alex Winston — Sister Wife (Star Slinger Mix)
Marthas & Arthurs — Clamour For A Fudge - White

Metronomy Maida Vale Session
Metronomy — She Wants - Because Music

Depeche Mode — Personal Jesus (Alex Metric Mix) - Mute

UK Exclusive
Charli XCX — Stay Away (Salem’s Angels Remix) - This Is Music

Saturday Skank
Zion Train — Follow Like Wolves - Nascente

Rusko — Everyday (Netsky Remix) - Mad Decent

The 6 O’Clock Snooze
Koreless — Mti - Pictures Music

Locussolus — Next To You - Soul Clap Mix
Distance — Falling (Ft. Alys Blaze) (Sunship Mix) - Chestplate
Catherine Okada — Repulling The Strings - White

Metronomy Maida Vale Session
Metronomy — The Look - Because Music
Metronomy — Some Written - Because Music

Toddla T — Take It Back (Dillon Francis) - Ninja Tunes
Azari & III — Hungry For The Power (Jamie Jones Mix)
Kry Wolf — Begging You - Sounds of Sumo

Record Store Day Celebrations
Radiohead — The Butcher - tbd Records

Justice — Civilization - Ed Banger Records
James Vincent McMorrow — Whip My Hair - RCA

More acts announced for Bestival 2011: Santigold, Joy Orbison, Johnny Flynn, Jon Hopkins and more join the fun!

Just when you thought it couldn't happen, Bestival 2011 has only got better! Our latest festival friends joining us on the Isle of Wight this September include Philly pop sensation Santigold (pictured), whose jack knife beats, bouncing bass and soaring vocals are all that’s needed to light the blue touch paper for a fist-pumping, crowd pleasing set.



Another musical hero, albeit of a folkier variety, also joining the party is Johnny Flynn, who's quietly been making a name for himself gaining accolades aplenty for last year’s ‘Been Listening’ long payer. Elsewhere, the obscenely prolific King Creosote AKA Kenny Anderson will be teaming up with Jon Hopkins to treat Bestivalites to a taste of their lauded ‘Diamond Mine’ long player and Nu-gazers Yuck whose slacker pop has been getting those in the know all hot and bothered will be crossing the Solent to wow the masses with their glorious melodious fuzz.



In a UK festival exclusive Mr Motivator is back by popular demand, an unstoppable force, Mr Motivator will be moving and shaking his way through Robin Hill once again in his infamous 80’s onesy. Keep your eyes peeled and your limbs limber, the Motivator can strike at any time!

Other acts bringing the goods to Robin Hill include heavy dubstep purveyors Foreign Beggars, scratchy and angular Mancunian indie-popsters Dutch Uncles, blissful soundscape architect Ulrich Schnauss, silky voiced chanteuse Alice Russell, vintage country duo The Secret Sisters, gritty folk-punk seven-piece Young Rebel Set and soulful acoustic pop troubadour Chris Read.

Manning the platters that matter are a slew of selectors including genre-smashing genius Joy Orbison, ED Banger’s Busy P, the mighty Mary Anne Hobbs, the one and only Mr Nice AKA Howard Marks performing one of his extolled Dubstep sets, Radio 1 funkster Benji B, ninja mash-up master Jaguar Skills, The Heatwave Carnival with The Heatwave, Sticky, Lady Chann and special guests, DMZ's brilliant Loefah, XL signed beatmeister Bullion and many many more!



We're also super excited to introduce the all new Bestival Block Party for the Saturday afternoon. We know you all love dressing up and the Parade has traditionally been the pinnacle of the craziness on the Saturday but we’re going one step further with you guys and girls and getting much more involved in 2011. Taking inspiration from the Bloco’s or individual sections of  Brazil’s Rio carnival, the Block Party will be a parade divided up into a number of blocks, each one with its own name, identity and uniform designed and funded by you and your block mates!

Each block has a vehicle, a band and performers styled around a specific sub theme blending elements of music, fashion and icons of popular culture. Bestival is teaming up with a crowd funding site and ticket holders will then choose their parade block and donate to fund the creation and build of their chosen group. Watch this space for the Block names and ways to enter in the coming weeks…

We’ve got some crazy new spectacles for your pleasure this year including The Ambient Forest, which is Bestival’s newest area, hidden deep in the woods. By day our bearded chum and poet extraordinaire Scroobius Pip will programme spoken word for anyone wanting a break from the 4/4. Line up coming soon! After signing David Lynch to his record label Rob da Bank has invited the David Lynch Foundation to join us in the Forest with meditation workshops and leftfield musical offerings... watch this space for much more info. And lastly for the Ambient Forest, during the evening and into the night the best ambient and horizontal DJs in the world from Tom Middleton to Chris Coco, Phil Mison to Pete Gooding will play pure ambient for your brain and body.



We’re beyond mega-excited about something else completely brand new for Bestival 2011 - Swamp Shack! A festival exclusive, at the far end of the Wishing Tree field, stands a ramshackle Louisiana bayou juke joint, topsy-turvy on rickety stilt-legs and wreathed in dry ice. Created in collaboration between Trash City co-creative director Ruby Blues and Block 9, the set-design pioneers behind the legendary NYC Downlow Gay bar, The Swamp Shack is a brand new music-and performance venue, straight from the pages of a Southern Gothic fairytale...

Taking over the Cabaret tent on Friday night will be East London’s purveyors of gin-soaked entertainment Boom Boom Club. Acid-tongued host Dusty Limits will present a cocktail of hand-picked headline acts including king and queen of the educational pop mash-up Frisky And Mannish, the matador king of oral ping-pong ball juggling and songs Paul Morocco, Chinese pole and acro-balance husband and wife duo Frayed Knot Circus, striptease unicyclist gentleman Count Adriano Fettucini and many more!

There’s even more surreal fun to be had at the Blackout Gigs every evening in the Countryside Centre at Robin Hill which will see audiences kept in the dark - literally. Another exclusive to us, live performances by acclaimed acts will take place in complete darkness, and the bands' identities will never be revealed! We can’t wait!

The exclusives keep on coming as Marisa Carnesky, modern day show woman and creator of the Ghost Train, will be hosting Sunday night in the Cabaret tent with an exclusive Wunder Kabinet show. Expect performances by the weird and the wonderful, a rag-and-bone style magicians workshop of illusions, mine, drag and surreal acts, with Marisa weaving in her twisted dark comedy in between. This is cabaret but not as you know it.


         
Classic Album Sundays are also set to join the throng putting on a Communal and Audiophile Listening Experience at Bestival that will give you a rare chance to fully listen to a classic album in it's entirety on a Class A audiophile system. So grab yourself a tea, and hole up with us at the Countryside Centre for an hour of uninterrupted aural bliss.

da Bank's Tunes of (last) Week

Welcome to our weekly round up of Rob da Bank's 'Tunes of the Day'. Follow / like Rob on Twitter or Facebook if you want to receive his daily musical tip-offs as they pop into his hairy head, in real time...

Monday 11th April
Not only is Pompey famous for its footy team but KryWolf hail from the city and make some revolutionary beats like this: http://tinyurl.com/6k4syxn

Tuesday 12th April
Hottest name in future electronics, Addison Groove, mixes up our old mate Photek with addictive results http://tinyurl.com/6et3twy

Wednesday 13th April
If theyre good enough to support Fleet Foxes they’re good enough for us... in fact they're even better! http://tinyurl.com/67ssqg3

Thursday 14th April
Pop perfection from the Clock Opera camp on this remix of Architecture in Helsinki (pictured) http://tinyurl.com/6jje2j3

Sunday Best party, May 7, London - be there!

Get your tickets here people!

Bestival goes 3D!

Just when you thought Bestival 2011 couldn't get any more bleedin' exciting, we've only gone where no festival has ever gone before, and will be broadcasting seven-and-a-half-hours of the mind-blowin' experience in 3D, on your TV!

Yes, dear Bestivalite, you did read that right, 3 bleedin' D. Broadcast on Sky this coming September will be live sets from The Cure, Pendulum, Primal Scream, PJ Harvey, Brian Wilson and DJ Shadow amongst a huge and ever-growing line-up of musical treats!

"It’s amazing to be part of the world's first 3D TV festival extravaganza on Sky," says our very own Lord of the Dance, Rob da Bank. "Bestival in 3D will be a mind-blowing explosion of colour and multi-dimensional music and mayhem and it’s great to be working with Whizz Kid again to bring it to life. Having Camp Bestival too as part of the Sky festival season means we've got a great summer of TV ahead."

Teaming up with the legendary Malcolm Gerrie’s Whizz Kid Entertainment Bestival will broadcast two hours of LIVE 3D TV each day from Friday 9th through to Sunday 11th September, so you’ll be able to experience Bestival’s unique magic in 3D form – amazing!

There will also be a super-sized 90-minute Bestival Special on Sky One following the festival season’s closing spectacular, so everyone who was there can relive their glories and catch up with the bits that they’ve missed.

Taking a flavour of 14 stages of live music and capturing the crazy Bestivalites Rock Stars, Popstars & Divas fancy dress frolics, as well as all the eye-popping sights and sounds of our party paradise, the Bestival 2011 TV spectaculars will be pushing the boundaries of weekend entertainment!

We’ve still got our Sunday night headliner, literally hundreds of top drawer turns and plenty of crazy fun and games to announce so be sure to keep checking the Bestival blog for all the latest action.

Sunday Best party this Sunday at The Lock Tavern

Sunday Best return to The Lock Tavern in Camden this Sunday for another FREE party at our favourite intimate London boozer.

dan le sac Vs iBetya DJ
Star Slinger – live
Random Impulse – live
Fear of Theydon
Sombrero Sound System

Attempting to compress a taste of our Bestival and Camp Bestival festivals into a Sunday afternoon is no mean feat, but this powerful and wildly eclectic line-up should do the trick rather nicely we reckon.

Check the Facebook event here and get yourselves down to... The Lock Tavern, 35 Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AJ. 3pm - 11pm. FREE!

Radio da Bank: The A-Z of Pete Tong

This week Rob da Bank invites himself round to have a sneaky rummage about in the vast record collection of legendary Radio 1 DJ Pete Tong, then the duo head over to Tong Towers to hang out spin some tunes. As they boys rifle their way through The A to Z of Pete Tong, Rob discovers Pete's love of Monty Python, why he used to have a dog in his DJ box and how Goldie bullied him into a record deal with his pit bull!

THE A TO Z OF PETE TONG
PART 1
CLICK TO LISTEN AGAIN TO A-N
A Tribe Called Quest — Can I Kick It (Boilerhouse Mix) - Jive
Monty Python — Always Look On The Bright Side of Life - Virgin
Prince — Controversy - Warner Bros
Dillinger — Cokane In My Brain - Bellaphone
EPMD — Strictly Business - Fresh Records
Serge Gainsbourg — Initials BB - Mercury [he's French!]
Roy Budd — Main Theme (Carter Gets A Train) - Cinephile [Get Carter Soundtrack]
Joy Orbison — Hyph Mngo - Hotflush Recordings
Goldie — Inner City Life - FFRR
Depeche Mode — I Just Can’t Get Enough (Live At The Pasadena Rose Bowl) - Mute
Kate Bush — Cloudbusting - EMI
Jamie Principle — Baby Wants To Ride - FFRR [Pete Tong's Label]
Malcolm McLaren — Buffalo Girls - Charisma Records
Paul McCartney & Wings — Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five - Apple

PART 2
CLICK TO LISTEN AGAIN TO O-Z
Black Sabbath — Paranoid - Vertigo [Ozzy Osbourne]
Phoenix — Love Like A Sunset (Tong and Rogers Sonar mix) - White
The Brothers Johnson — Strawberry Letter # 23 - A&M [produced by Quincy Jones]
Roxy Music — If There Is Something - Island
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross — Hand Covers Bruise - The Null Corporation [from The Social Network Soundtrack]
T. Rex — Children of the Revolution - EMI/Reprise
Eric B. & Rakim — Paid In Full (Derek B’s Urban Respray Mix) - 4th And Broadway
Benoit & Sergio — Walk And Talk - Visionquest
One Dove [AKA Andrew Weatherall] — Fallen - FFRR
The Rolling Stones — It’s All Over Now - Decca [from the album 12X5]
Fine Young Cannibals — I’m Not The Man I Used To Be - I.R.S
Ninjaman and Florigan — Zig It Up - Profile

da Bank's Tunes of (last) Week

Welcome to our weekly round up of Rob da Bank's 'Tunes of the Day'. Follow / like Rob on Twitter or Facebook if you want to receive his daily musical tip-offs as they pop into his hairy head, in real time...

Monday 4th April
Watch the skies! Hot tune Messerchmitt in from London (un)likely lads Portasound (pictured) ..twisted indie mayhem! http://tinyurl.com/33uenwk

Tuesday 5th April
The house legend that is DJ Harvey gets a saucy rerub from Boston's finest Soul Clap... a proper groover http://tinyurl.com/6agumzs

Wednesday 6th April
I saw Catherine Okada and her band supporting James Blake at an early show & i got totally sucked in.You will too http://tinyurl.com/6f3pvms

Thursday 7th April
Not only is Pompey famous for its footy team but Kry Wolf hail from the city and make some revolutionary beats like this: http://tinyurl.com/6k4syxn

Friday 8th April
Not so much a tune as an all-star cast praising the pure majesty of the Beastie Boys who are finally returning with a new album Hot Sauce Committee II. Check the video trailer and see how many stars you can spot whilst nodding your head vigorously! I’m so excited at the prospect of the new tunes I’m gonna rip a VW sign off a passing van today and hang it around my neck. http://www.esquire.co.uk/2011/04/rob-da-banks-track-of-the-week-4/

Sunday Best party at Cable: Actress (Live) joins Photek, Bullion, Rob da Bank, FACT magazine and more!

As you all know by now, in just under four weeks time, on Saturday May 7, Sunday Best are throwing a mammoth party at London’s Cable that you really would have to be a fool to miss! Well now there's more...in the shape of a very special live guest!

And we're kind of blown away to say that is none-other than Actress. One of the UK's most innovative producers, Darren Cunningham's tracks blur dubstep, techno, electro with a fearlessly experimental mindset, resulting in masterstrokes like last year's brilliant 'Splazsh' album, released on Honest Jons and hailed by everyone from Pitchfork to The Wire, and his debut long player, 'Hazyville', released on Werk Discs.



If Actress is leading the new wave of next level UK dance music then his compatriot in Cable's Main Room, Rupert Parkes aka Photek, is certainly one of its forefathers. One of jungle and drum'n'bass' pivotal producers who subsequently made an acclaimed house album, Photek aka Rupert Parkes is a restless innovator whose influence on the current wave of cutting-edge producers is palpable at every club across the country; and his new material, heavy on the subs, is not to be missed!



Keeping the party in full swing, XL-signed beatmeister extraordinare Bullion and Sunday Best ringmaster Rob da Bank will be bringing the platters that matter to the ones and twos.



Room 2 is programmed by the "world's most incorrigibly on-it music magazine", FACT, who are taking over with a showcase for breaking new UK producers Champion, Ossie and, we can now announce, brilliant new producers Brey and Logos.



We'll be introducing you to Room 2's new kids of the block throughout this week and next so stay tuned to Besti-blog for interviews, streams and more.

Get your tickets here people, this one is gonna be a roadblock!

Sunday Best party
Saturday May 7, Cable (London)

MAIN ROOM: SUNDAY BEST

curated by Rob da Bank


Photek
Actress (Live)
Bullion


Rob da Bank

Room 2: FACT MAG

a showcase for breaking new talent curated by factmag.com


Champion (Harddrive)

Ossie (Hyperdub)
Brey (Svetlana)
Logos (Keysound)
FACT DJs



10pm - 6am


£8 Limited Advance / £10 Advance Tickets & Students door / £13 door


Cable, Bermondsey St Tunnel, London SE13JW

020 7403 7730 / Nearest Tube Station: London Bridge

Annie Mac Presents: Rob da Bank, Yasmin, Nero, Martelo and more this Saturday at Koko!

Bestival favourite and all-round Radio 1 new music heroine Annie Mac returns to Koko this Saturday with a killer line-up that includes our very own Lord of the Dance, Rob da Bank.

Joining Robby will be DJ-turned-pop-star-in-waiting Yasmin (check the vid below!), dancefloor-destroying dubstep protege Nero and bass championing, genre-trashing DJ/producer Martelo, who's opened for Jay-Z and recently toured smashing clubs alongside Toddla T and Rinse FM's Oneman.

You know this one's gonna sell out, so grab yr tickets here!



Annie Mac Presents
Koko, Sat April 9
Nero
Yasmin
Rob da Bank
Martelo

Sunday Best party at Cable w/Photek, Bullion, Rob da Bank, FACT mag and friends!

On Saturday May 7, Sunday Best heads to London’s finest dancefloor and gets its rave on with a jaw-dropping, speaker-shredding line up of forward-thinking musical mavericks in Cable's Main Room backed up by the cream of the tomorrow’s breaking new bassbin-bothering talent programmed by our friends at FACT Mag in Room 2.

Curated by Bestival's head honcho and Sunday Best founder Rob da Bank, Cable's Main Room is headlined by an all-time dance music legend in the shape of Photek, touching down in London from his new base in LA to showcase his brand new live show.

One of jungle and drum'n'bass' pivotal producers who subsequently made an acclaimed house album, Photek aka Rupert Parkes is a restless innovator whose influence on the current wave of cutting-edge producers is palpable at every club across the country; and his new material, heavy on the subs, is not to be missed!



Joining Photek in the Main Room will also be some very special guests we'll be announcing soon, and keeping the party in full swing, XL-signed beatmeister extraordinare Bullion and Sunday Best ringmaster Rob da Bank will be bringing the platters that matter to the ones and twos.

Room 2 is programmed by the "world's most incorrigibly on-it music magazine", FACT, who are taking over with a showcase for breaking new UK producers Champion, Ossie and a very special guest yet to be announced. 

Champion is the man behind some of UK Funky's biggest anthems in 'Lighter', 'Motherboard' and 'Tribal Affair', back with a vengeance in 2011 with a series of releases on his own label, Terror Danjah's label and more.



While Ossie's 'Tarantula' track put in work last year as one of the UK underground's most revered dubplates, caned by Joy Orbison, Ramadanman and the rest. With a Hyperdub single penciled in next, his status is just going to rise and rise. Catch him rinse it out at Cable first!

Get your tickets here people, this one is gonna be a roadblock!

Sunday Best party
Saturday May 7, Cable (London)

MAIN ROOM: SUNDAY BEST

curated by Rob da Bank


Photek - Live

Very Special Guests
Rob da Bank

Bullion



Room 2: FACT MAG

a showcase for breaking new talent curated by factmag.com


Champion (Hardrive)

Ossie (Hyperdub)
Very Special Guest
FACT DJs



10pm - 6am


£8 Limited Advance / £10 Advance Tickets & Students door / £13 door


Cable, Bermondsey St Tunnel, London SE13JW

020 7403 7730 / Nearest Tube Station: London Bridge

Radio da Bank: Visions of Trees in session

This week Visions Of Trees record a stunning live session.  Rob also plays new music from Panda Bear, a stomach-churning remix of Tinie Tempah and Ellie Goulding, as well as Toddla T, Justice and Explosions In The Sky.

Checkout the tracklisting below and get yourselves over to bbc.co.uk/radio1/robdabank to listen again online to this show...

Doorly vs. Utah Saints — What Can You Do For Me? - Unreleased
Skream — Where You Should Be - Rinse
Prins Thomas — NY Maskin - Full Pupp
Holy Mother — With You - Tri Angle
Actress — Gershwin - Non Plus
Alex Metric & Steve Angello — Open Your Eyes (feat. Ian Brown) - Postiva
Micachu & The Shapes Micachu & The Shapes — Chopped And Screwed (feat. London Sinfonietta) - Unreleased
Peverelist — Dance Til The Police Come - Hessle Audio
Taragana Pyjarama — Sudanese Blonde - Bella Union

Rob da Bank Session Track
Visions of Trees — Dark Circles - Live Session Track

Tinie Tempah — Wonderman (feat. Ellie Goulding) - Bare Noize Remix
Bullion — Too Right - Young Turks

Saturday Skank
Wu Tang Clan vs. King Tubby — Method Man Meets Fat Man - Macro Dubplates

Origin Unknown — Valley Of The Shadows (The Living Graham Bond Remix) - Unreleased
Explosions in the Sky — Trembling Hands - Bella Union

Six O’Clock Snooze
Okkervil River — Wake And Be Fine - Jagjaguwar

Toddla T — Take It Back - Ninja Tune
Koreless — Mti - Pictures Music
Panda Bear — Surfer’s Hymn (Actress remix) - Kompakt

Rob da Bank Session Tracks
Visions of Trees — Some Times It Kills - Live Session Track
Visions of Trees — We’ll Build A New World - Live Session Track

Friendly Fires — Live Those Days Tonight - XL
Metronomy — The Look - Because Music

The Intro-Juicer
Alice Jemima — Won’t Take You For Granted - Unreleased

Clock Opera — Belongings - Moshi Moshi
D/R/U/G/S/ — Love Lust Space - Moshi Moshi

Greatest Record In The World Right Now… Possibly, Well At Least For This Morning… Maybe
Justice — Civilisation - Ed Banger
Wu L Y F — L Y F - L Y F
Adele — Rolling In The Deep (Jamie XX) - XL

Watch LCD's last ever gig!

On Saturday, one of our favourite live bands ever and one-time Bestival headliners LCD Soundsystem played their last ever live show.

The gig lasted three and a half hours and took place at New York's Madison Square Garden, with guest appearances from Arcade Fire's Win Butler, Regine Chassagne, Jeremy Gara and Will Butler (for backing vocals on 'North American Scum'), Shit Robot and Reggie Watts.

LCD played 29 songs in total, including all the hits plus passages from the soundtrack '45.33' and bridges of classics by 10cc, Yes and Angelo Baldementi. You can watch the whole thing right here.

Setlist:
'Dance Yrself Clean'
'Drunk Girls'
'I Can Change'
'Time to Get Away'
'Get Innocuous!'
'Daft Punk Is Playing At My House'
'Too Much Love'
'All My Friends'
'Tired'
'45:33 Part One'
'45:33 Part Two'
'Sound of Silver'
'45:33 Part Four'
'45:33 Part Five'
'45:33 Part Six'
'Freak Out/Starry Eyes'
'Us V. Them'
'North American Scum'
'Bye Bye Bayou'
'You Wanted A Hit'
'Tribulations'
'Movement'
'Yeah'
'Someone Great'
'Losing My Edge'
'Home'
'All I Want'
'Jump Into the Fire'
'New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down'

da Bank's Tunes of the Week

Welcome to our weekly round up of Rob da Bank's 'Tunes of the Day'. Follow / like Rob on Twitter or Facebook if you want to receive his daily musical tip-offs as they pop into his hairy head, in real time...

Monday 28th March
One for all you poachers out there from the ace Stealing Sheep live from Abbey Road: http://vimeo.com/20310839

Tuesday 29th March
Berlin ambient-goth project Holy Other make music to get in bed with and fall asleep to smiling: http://tinyurl.com/635xstl

Wednesday 30th March
Suns out so lets get on the trampoline.Oh, Stockholm's Niva has beaten us to it with this beautiful tune: http://tinyurl.com/66jl6ek

Thursday 31st March
What a beautiful record! Clock Opera is Guy Connelly, purveyor of chop pop dicing up sounds: http://tinyurl.com/6zjcjuk

Friday 1st April
Yes I’m biased as Kitty, Daisy and Lewis (pictured) are signed to my record label but that’s because they’re incredible. ‘I’m So Sorry’ is a fantastic new song mixing up ska, soul and pop and a really clever little vid as the cherry on top. Just don’t call them rockabilly! http://www.esquire.co.uk/2011/04/rob-da-banks-track-of-the-week-3/

Kitty, Daisy & Lewis 'I'm So Sorry'

KITTY DAISY & LEWIS | Myspace Music Videos

Besti-mix 49: Filthy Dukes / Kill Em All (part two)

Having tickled our fancy with some proper wigged out oddities from the likes of Faust, Warpaint and Rainbow Arabia on last week's Besti-mix, svelte party-starters with massive record collections the Filthy Dukes are back to showcase the other string in their dual headed bow, a session of club slaying modern classics.

An overview of a three-hour Kill Em All DJ set in 60 minutes, this mix represents what you'll hear from the Dukes at their regular London parties... taking in everything from dubbed out Italo-disco to synapse frying electro via dirge driven dance punk and modular Chicago house, including quite frankly massive tunes from LCD Soundsystem, Caribou, Lone and Siriusmo. In other words, total filth...

Download: Bestimix 49 Filthy Dukes / Kill Em All (part two)

Tracklisting:
01 Klein & M.B.O. - Dirty Talk (ATOC Re-Edit) - A Touch Of Class
02 Luca Lozano - Heaven & Hell - Klasse
03 Andy Ash - Freak - On The Prowl
04 Hercules & Love Affair  - My House (Stopmakingme Remix) - Moshi Moshi
05 Filthy Dukes - Animals (Deadstock 33s Remix) - Kill Em All
06 Midnight Savari - Rimshots - Death Strobe
07 Remute - Cowbell Mania Part 1 - Remute
08 Kasper Bjorke & Tomas Barford - Cauliflower - Mirau Musik
09 Savage Skulls - Caravan - Sound Pellegrino
10 Magnets - Game Theory - Kill Em All
11 Caribou - Sun (Midland Re Edit) - CDR
12 Lone - For Ed - Boysnoize
13 Chromeo - Hot Mess (Djedjotronic Remix 2) - Turbo
14 Siriusmo - Goldene Kugel - Monkeytown
15 NT89 - Persian - Southern Fried
16 Darkness Falls - Hey! (Kasper Bjorke Reanimation) - hfn Music
17 LCD Soundsystem - Give It Up - DFA

Bestimix 49: Filthy Dukes / Kill Em All (Part Two) by Bestimix on Mixcloud

Stream: Kraftwerk live!

Bestival's 2009 headliners might well have been beamed down from another dimension so futuristic and mind-blowingly amazing was their live show, and suitably fitting given that year's fancy dress theme of Outer Space. Yes, ladies and gents, if you were there then you know, Kraftwerk really did live up to their status as dance music pioneers, if not perhaps the most fluid of dancers.

So, how's this for a Friday morning treat? A chance to check out their legendary live set from 1997's Tribal Gathering, available for stream right here...

Kraftwerk - Live PA, Tribal Gathering, Luton Hoo Estate, UK: Essential Mix - BBC Radio 1 1997-05-24 by +dB