Christmas may be over for another year but the pressies just keep comin' and one of our fave indie labels Young Turks have wrapped up a goodie - a new xx demo!
According to the trio, 'Open Eyes' was made “whilst creating our new album and we just wanted to share it with you”. You can stream the unreleased demo right here. The xx’s second album is expected in 2012.
Wednesday, 28 December 2011
Monday, 26 December 2011
Friday, 23 December 2011
Sunday Best: Increase The Peace, Vol. 5 - bargain digital compilation album!
We proudly present the 5th in our occasional series of Increase The Peace digital compilation albums – designed to showcase Sunday Best Recordings' latest and greatest cuts, plus a few gems from our back catalogue, and all at a bargain price (12 tracks for £4.99) to help people can get a flavour of what we’re all about.
Featuring music by Beardyman, David Lynch, Dub Pistols (feat Terry Hall), Grand National, Kitty Daisy & Lewis, Sound of Rum and David E. Sugar, and remixes by Underworld, Jamie Woon, Doorly, Sunday Best, NICE UP! and Drums of Death, this compilation provides a delicious taster for the sounds of our high quality and ever eclectic musical output. Mmmm...
Click here to download from iTunes for just £4.99
Click here to check out Volumes 1 to 4 on iTunes
(all of which are also £4.99 or cheaper)
Sunday Best: Increase The Peace, Vol. 5
01 Beardyman – Twist Your Ankal
02 David Lynch – Good Day Today (Underworld remix)
03 Dub Pistols feat. Terry Hall – Problem Is
04 Grand National – Drink To Moving On (Sunday Best remix)
05 Kitty Daisy & Lewis – Messing With My Life
06 Sound of Rum – Best Intentions (Jamie Woon remix)
07 David Lynch – Stone's Gone Up
08 Beardyman – Where Does Your Mind Go? (Doorly remix)
09 David E. Sugar – Keep It Simple
10 Dub Pistols – Gangsters (NICE UP! remix)
11 Sound of Rum feat. Polar Bear – Concrete Pigeon
12 David E. Sugar – Although You May Laugh (Drums of Death remix)
Thursday, 22 December 2011
Wednesday, 21 December 2011
Besti-mix 79: Rev Milo Speedwagon
Every week we hope to bring a little joy into your (and our) lives by debuting an exclusive mix right here on our Bestiblog, but seeing as it's Christmas 'n all we thought we'd go overboard on the sherry and mince pies and turn the fun factor up to, I dunno, say, 11. Which is why we enlisted the ever-reliable help of beret-sporting Bestival legend the Rev Milo Speedwagon, a born entertainer whose eclectic smile-inducing sets have consistently raised our spirits over the years. It's usual for us to write an introduction to these mixes but Milo has done his own, and quite frankly, we can't top it, so, without further ado, tuck into our final Besti-mix of 2011, it's a good 'un...
"Hopefully this little mix will remind you of the joy of a carefree existence. From the wonky bass of David Essex's 'Rock On' (as played by Herbie Flowers from 'Walk on the Wild Side bass-line fame) to the exuberant funk of My Morning Jacket and Jonny Jenkins - you could say the downtempo is covered. And then there is the chuggy house of Grace Jones remixed by Aeroplane (as you can imagine, rather good) leading nicely into some reggae, breaks, booty and house... phew. Ending in a sun drenched closing number fit for any occasion."
"In general, a shonkily mixed selection, recorded live, in one take, from the Moroder Suite of De Bouviour Town. It should remind you the joy that festivals bring and the fact that we are all plonkers!"
Download: Bestimix 79 Rev Milo Speedwagon
01 Rock On - David Essex
02 The Beat Goes On - Casino Music
03 I Walk On Gilded Splinters - Jonny Jenkins
04 Metronomic Underground - StereoLab
05 Holding On To Black Metal - My Morning Jacket
06 Williams Blood (Aeroplane mix) - Grace Jones
07 Stars (Rodion & Mammarella Mix) - VISTI
08 Who's Gonna Make the Dance Ram? - Paul Andrew
09 War Dance - The Heatwave and Serocee
10 Close to Everything (Martin Brothers Mix) - Mickey Moonlight
11 Sandwiches - Detroit Grand Pubahs
12 Watch Me Dance (Weatherall Mix) - Toddla T with Roots Manuva
13 The Bay (Stop Making Me Mix) - Metronomy
14 The Bay (Erol's Mix) - Metronomy
15 Beam Me Up - Midnight Magic
16 Bustin' Out - Material / Nona Hendrix
17 Cyan - Kindness
18 Ritual Union - Little dragon
19 Da Da Da - Trio
20 Gone - Roland Bautista
Monday, 19 December 2011
Radio da Bank: Festive Festival Hangover Party
Rob da Bank decamps to Maida Vale Studios with a host of live performances from Jamie N Commons, Azari & III, Crystal Fighters and a live Christmas DJ set from Mark Ronson!
Plus Goodbye Leopold and Lost & Found perform Christmas Carols... backwards!
And if you ever wondered what was in da Bank's bin bag your prayers have been answered.
The official Festive Festival Hangover Party, da Bank styleee!
Click here to catch up with the show via the BBC iPlayer
Plus, check out the video above (and more here) for all the festive fun.
Tracklisting:
Joe Goddard — Gabriel (feat. Valentina) - Greco Roman
Florence + the Machine — Fairytale In New York (feat. Billy Bragg)
Mark Ronson Live Christmas DJ Set at Maida Vale Studios
The Bluebells — 813
Lucy Rose — Driving Home For Christmas
Jamie N Commons Live at Maida Vale Studios
Jamie N Commons — The Preacher
Jamie N Commons — Nina
JFB — Cheeseburger Bum Tits - Unknown
Radiohead — The Daily Mail
Goodbye Leopold Live at Maida Vale Studios
Goodbye Leopold — The Holly & The Ivy/Ding Dong Mashup (Backwards)
Goodbye Leopold — Once In Royal's David City (Backwards)
Emmy the Great — Christmas Day (Wish I Was Surfing) (feat. Tim Wheeler) - Unknown
Nathan Fake — Silent Night - Border Community
The 2 Bears — Work - Southern Fried Records
Azari & III Live at Maida Vale Studios
Azari & III — Hungry For The Power
Azari & III — Reckless With Your Love
Gruff Rhys — Post Apocalypse Christmas
Caitlin Rose — You Never Come Home For Christmas (feat. Keegan Dewitt)
The Brand New Heavies — Dream On Dreamer - Virgin/EMI
Crystal Fighters Live at Maida Vale Studios
Crystal Fighters — Champion Sound
Crystal Fighters — At Home
Crystal Fighters — Plage
Prince — Dance 4 Me - Purple Music
Lost & Found Live at Maida Vale Studios
Lost & Found — Silent Night (Backwards)
East 17 — Stay Another Day (Fred Deakin Remix)
Thursday, 15 December 2011
Party with The Cuban Brothers competition!
Bestival faves The Cuban Brothers always put on a great show and you can catch them next at The Westbury in London on Friday 30th December. Even better, you can enter our competition and win free entry, copious amounts of Havana rum, Cuban cigars and a VIP table so close to the stage that you'll literally be dancing with the guys. So sexy, so nice.
To enter simply email competitions@westburybar.com with the name of The Cuban Brothers' Halifax Hospital Radio hosting alter-ego.
Check the Facebook page here for more info about the event.
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
Besti-mix 78: Subgiant (Dan Hayes)
Besti-mix 78 is the handiwork of UK "live electronica" trio Subgiant aka Olly, Dan and Tushar, who've been mixing up dub, electro and house/techno as a force to be reckoned with at clubs and festivals, including our very own Bestival, since forming in 2000.
The three band members are all into quite different music, "which causes no end of argument", according to the lads, and producing this mix was a friendly fight over styles and genres. Olly wanted to put a dub/reggae mix together, Tushar wanted to go off on the Latin thing and Dan is well into his minimal house at the moment. Dan got the final word, so this session is a late night minimal and progressive affair in which Gorillaz and Groove Armada rub proverbial shoulders with Nic Fanciulli and Joris Voorn. And as you might rightly expect, it's heavy on the subs...
Download: Bestimix 78 Subgiant (Dan Hayes)
1. Snippa - Reset Robot
2. Stylo - Gorillaz
3. Together - Nic Fanciulli, Joris Voorn
4. Share It - Nightlife Promo
5. To The Point - Chris Lake
6. Look Me In The Eye Sister - Groove Armada
7. Shakedown - Joan Reyes
8. House Music Rules - Peter Brown
9. Filthy Tiger - Subgiant Promo
10. Keep on Jumping - Joey Negro
11. The Speech - Wehbba
12. Eye Speak - Ed Davenport
Monday, 12 December 2011
Radio da Bank: Buraka Som Sistema in session
This weekend Rob da Bank had Buraka Som Sistema live in session from Maida Vale studios. Plus he guided us through the Barely Believable Genre of Psychedelic Dub and highlighted his High Five - his 5 hype tracks of the week.
Click here to catch up with the show via the BBC iPlayer
Kelly Rowland — Dilemma (BNRY Mix) - White
Zedd — Shave It - Owsla
Elephino — More Than Me - Somethubnk Sounds
Man Without Country — All Is Love
Stay Positive — Fever - Ramp
Rob’s High Five – Number Five
Ulrich Schnauss and Mark Peters — Gift Horses Mouth - Bureau B
Mosca - Baxx
Nas — Can I (DJ Will Rock Edits) - Gamm
Buraka Som Sistema Maida Vale Session
Buraka Som Sistema — Eskeleto
Dusky — Stick By This - Anjunadeep
Rob’s High Five – Number Four
Zammuto — Cp30 - Make Mine
Digitalism — Circles (Dillon Francis Remix) - Diffused
Stealing Sheep — Noah’s Days - Red Deer Club
Friends — I’m His Girl - Lucky Number Music
Azealia Banks — Slow Hands
El Kid — Hypnosis - Left_Blank
Underworld — Two Months Off - Junior Boys Own
Rob’s High Five – Number Three
King Charles — Bam Bam - Island/ Universal
Alt-J — Tessellate - Loud and Quiet
Gotye — Somebody That I Used To Know (Bibio Remix) - Ghostly International
Buraka Som Sistema Maida Vale Session
Buraka Som Sistema — (We Stay) Up All Night
Laura Marling — I Was Just A Card - Virgin
Rob’s Guide To Barely Believable Genres of Music – Psychedelic Dub
The Orb — Blue Room - Big Life
Sun Araw — Crete - Sun Ark Recordings
Peaking Lights — All The Sun That Shines - Weird World
Rob’s High Five – Number Two
Post War Years — All Eyes - Labour of Love Records
Miike Snow — Devils Work - Columbia
Rob’s High Five – Number One
Sub Focus — Falling Down - RAM
Azari & III — Reckless With Your Love (Paul Epworth Mix) - Island
Sunday, 11 December 2011
Hear new Daft Punk remix featuring Ariel Pink
Remember Daft Punk's score for Tron: Legacy? Well, now, pretty much when we'd forgotten the whole thing existed, out pops a very, very good remix of one of the lead tracks, 'Solar Sailer', featuring none-other than LA indie hero and all-round underground star of 2011, Ariel Pink.
Released by US indie label Vinyl International on, yes, you guessed it, limited edition (blue) vinyl, the new 10" EP called Sky Sailor features this version plus another DP remix by TRS-80, and three other cuts. You can listen it to 'Sky Sailor' (Float Away) below.
Daft Punk, TRS-80, & Ariel Pink - Sky Sailor (Float Away) by ErnestimesBlog
Friday, 9 December 2011
Hear FACT magazine's top 50 tracks of 2011
Our friends at FACT have been counting down their favourite 50 tracks of the year all week and today they reveal their top 10, including the all important no.1 - even better, you can hear the lot of 'em and submit your own choices.
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
Besti-mix 77: D/R/U/G/S
This week's Besti-mix is the work of much-feted Mancunian producer Callum Wright aka D/R/U/G/S, who specializes in the kind of euphoric sleazy club music that is likely be ruling dancefloors in 2012 once he drops his eagerly awaited debut album. But he's no one-trick pony. Inspired by the abstract, futuristic hip-hop of DOOM as much as the languid Euro-cool techno of Pantha du Prince, tracks like the elegiac 'Love/Lust', with its subtle piano refrain, remind us of not so much of the former but rather one of Underworld's epic, psychedelic instrumentals. That, by the way, is a very good thing. You can hear it for yourself on this Besti-mix, nestled between recent club classics (Midland's mix of Caribou's 'Sun' and Ame's 'Rej') and a smattering of the finest new underground house and techno from the likes of Berlin's Ben Klock and Brooklyn's Blondes.
Trust us when we say, this is a treat for your head and hips...
Download: Bestimix 77 D/R/U/G/S
01 D/R/U/G/S - DCG
02 Alan Fitzpatrick - Face Of Rejection
03 Alex Kenji - Adelante
04 Ame - Rej
05 D/R/U/G/S - Love / Lust
06 Caribou - Sun (Midland Remix)
07 Dubfire - I Feel Speed (Audion Remix)
08 Ben Klock - Check For Pulse
09 Adam Beyer - Dactyl
10 Solar Heights - No Trace (Popof Remix)
11 Booka Shade - Regenerate
12 Britney Spears - Breathe On Me (James Holden Remix)
13 Marco Carola - Jackpot
14 M83 - In The Cold Im Standing
15 Blondes - Moondance
Tuesday, 6 December 2011
Sunday Best at the Independent Label Market: Spitalfields - this Saturday
Sunday Best are very proud to be involved in this Saturday's Independent Label Market at Spitalfields in London. In association with AIM, the event has been set up to support the labels that lost their stock in the PIAS/Sony warehouse fire earlier this year.
The rioters who destroyed the entire stock of 165 independent record labels at the Sony Warehouse in Enfield have been charged and held to account for their crimes. But the record labels are still feeling the effects of this catastrophe, back catalogues have been wiped out and hundreds of thousands of CD and vinyl sales lost.
This Saturday 10th December (11am - 5pm) Independent Label Market will bring together the heads of various PIAS distributed labels to sell their wares directly to the customers at that traditional goods exchange - a market stall.
Joe Daniel, founder of ILM and Angular Records: "We've spent the last couple of months getting back on our feet and I hope this market will be a chance for the labels to recover some of the ground lost in August and September when we had no stock. It will also be a great way to celebrate independent music in 2011 whilst wearing a silly hat and enjoying some nice mulled wine."
We've had a good clear out of the Sunday Best office in preparation for this and unearthed some real gems in the process and so our stall will feature exclusive items including signed Kitty Daisy & Lewis albums, David Lynch TPs, limited edition posters plus the very last copies of albums and singles that are sadly no longer available anywhere else.
And we'll have plenty of items at unbelievable bargain prices too. Plus we have got dan le sac coming down to help us man the stall for the day and we'll have plenty of Christmas cheer and Baileys on tap!
As well as Sunday Best, you'll also find the following fine indie labels there:
Angular,
Accidental,
Best Before,
Big Dada,
Borstal Beat,
Brownswood Recordings,
Chemikal Underground,
Different,
Domino,
Double Six,
Fabric,
Fat Cat,
Kartel,
Loose Music,
Lucky Number,
Mais Um Discos,
Memphis Industries,
Ninja Tune,
One Little Indian,
Play It Again Sam,
Rekids,
Rough Trade Shops,
Sonic Cathedral,
Soundway,
Southern Fried,
Stolen Records,
Sunday Best,
Weird World,
Wonderfulsound.
X-tra Mile,
** More labels to be announced
Also the market will be one of the first Saturday markets held in more than one hundred years at Spitalfields. With the famous Victorian market hall decked in Christmas lights, this will make the perfect setting for christmas shopping at 'Independent Label Market: Spitalfields' on 10th December.
Rob da Bank, Scroobius Pip, dan le sac & many more support the London CALMzone
On Friday 25th November, Rob da Bank and a host of other top DJs and producers including dan le sac, Zane Lowe, The Maccabees, Huw Stephens, Eddy Temple-Morris, Kissy Sell Out, The Loose Cannons and Herve, converged on Topman Oxford Circus to celebrate the launch of the London CALMzone and the new London helpline. And CALM also launched their new advertising campaign featuring Scroobius Pip, Kayvan Novak, Killa Kela, Faith SFX and Ashley Walters.
CALM, the campaign against living miserably, exists to support young men who are depressed or feeling down. The new CALMZone London helpline (0808 802 5858 - free, confidential & anonymous) and texting service (07537 404717 - please start your first text CALM1) launched on 26th November to help prevent suicide - the biggest killer of young men in London.
The new CALMZone service operates a telephone helpline between 5pm and midnight on Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, every week of the year. Calls are free (from landlines and some mobile phone providers) and the helpline is anonymous and confidential.
Rob da Bank says: "Nearly all of us must have had or will have extremely dark or suicidal thoughts at some point during our lives. It’s human nature. That's why CALM are doing such an important job - not only helping and being a friendly ear for men experiencing those thoughts, but also reminding the rest of us that the issue is happening and is out there."
Scroobius Pip features in CALM’s advertising campaign and you can read an interview with him here.
Please head over to thecalmzone.net for more info.
Monday, 5 December 2011
Radio da Bank: Zeds Dead in da mix
Toronto's finest Zeds Dead, aka DC and Hooks, deliver a storming guest mix for Rob da Bank.
Plus Rob's High Five, his 5 hype tracks of the week; get down and skanky with your morning cereal in the Saturday Skank; and expect tunes from Maya Jane Cole, A$AP Rocky, Japanese Popstars and The Maccabees.
Click here to catch up with the show via the BBC iPlayer
Zomby — Labyrinth - 4AD
Deadboy — Heartbreaker (Julio Bashmore 2009 Remix) - Well Rounded Housing Project
Unknown Mortal Orchestra — How Can You Love Me - White
Maya Jane Coles — Something In The Air - Hypercolour Records
Jon Hopkins — Abandon Window - Domino
Rob’s High Five #5
Das Racist — Happy Rappy - Big Machine
Vcg — Spock (DVS1 Voyage Home Remix) - Play All
Michael Kiwanuka — Home Again - Communion
High Highs — Flowers Bloom - Rocket Records
Rob’s High Five’s #4
Bon Iver — Towers - 4AD
Major Lazer — Original Don (Ft. Partysquad) (Crookers Remix) - Mad Decent
Crookers — Hummus - Southern Fried
Drake — Take Care (Ft. Rihanna) - Young Money Records
King Charles — Bam Bam - Island
Trent Reznor — Immigrant Song (Ft. Karen O)
The Japanese Popstars — Shells Of Silver (White Sea Remix)
Rob’s High Five #3
Man Without Country — Closet Anomymous - Kitsune
Manix — Feel Good - Reinforced
Saturday Skank
Little Roy — Lithium - Ark Recordings
Azealia Banks — 212 - White
Rob’s Guide To Barely Believable Genre’s of Music: Love Step
Two Inch Punch — Life and Death Morgana - Visionquest
A$AP Rocky — Bass - Sony
Rob’s High Five #2
The Maccabees — Pelican - Fiction
Alpines & Maya Jane Cole — Why - Phonica Records
Jessie Ware — Strangest Feeling - Island/PMR
Rob’s High Five #1
King Krule — Portrait in Black and Blue - True Panther Sound
Foster the People — Call It What You Want (Big Kids Remix) - Columbia Records
Friday, 2 December 2011
Rob da Bank on The Cure's legendary Bestival show & live album
Rob da Bank met up with Virtual Festivals at this year's Festival Awards to talk through his crowning headline booking for Bestival 2011 and how it's to be immortalised in the first live Cure album since 1993.
"We were waiting for the Festival Awards [last year], and I was checking my blackberry every five minutes waiting for The Cure to confirm and [it was] one of the best moments of my Bestival life." Rob da Bank said about finalising the booking of The Cure for Bestival 2011, a band he'd wanted ever since he founded Bestival in 2004.
Talking about the live album release, Rob da Bank said: "Robert Smith actually got in touch straight after Bestival and said he really wanted to put out the live set on our label, Sunday Best Recordings, and he wanted to do it for charity, he didn't want anyone to be making any profit from it, he wanted all the money to go to a charity of our choice which ended up as the Youth Trust on the Isle of Wight which do great work with underprivileged kids."
'The Cure: Bestival Live 2011' 2xCD album and 32 track download is out this Monday 5th December and available from iTunes, Amazon and all good record stores.
Click here to read Chris Swindells' review of 'The Cure: Bestival Live 2011' for Virtual Festivals.
Thursday, 1 December 2011
Besti-vid of the week: Beardyman 'Oh!' feat Foreign Beggars
Besti-vid of the week returns with 'Oh!', the latest production from Bestival's mad-cap superstar Beardyman, and features Orifice Vulgatron and Metropolis from critically acclaimed British hip hop, grime and dubstep group Foreign Beggars on mic duties. Although that's not to say that Beardyman didn't use his voice too, oh no, most of the sounds in the tune are actually Beardy's voice mangled beyond all recognition.
'Oh!' will be released as a single mid-January backed with a host of exclusive tracks and remixes, plus a sick video for album track 'Big Man'.
Speaking of albums... Beardyman's 'I Done A Album' includes 'Oh!' and 'Big Man' (and another 18 tracks) and is out now on iTunes and Amazon.
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