It’s no excuse, but we’ve been Metronomy-touring for the last few weeks. Threw this up on New Year’s Day. First original tune I’ve put out there in a little while, but there will be a whole bunch more this year.

It got some love on Okayafrica today, which I’m super-excited about ’cause Okayafrica and the whole Okayplayer camp have a take on music that’s best referred to as DOPE.

The site’s blacked out today as part of the online protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act in the US, but I’d click on the image above anyway to find out just why SOPA’s attracting so much fuss.

HELLO FROM TOKYO. Got my first DJ shows here tomorrow and on Friday. Did a mix for Block.fm that went out a few days ago. Seriously happy that I got to play a bunch of my friends’ music as well as fitting in more of my stuff than I’ve ever put into a mix before. Oh, and anime references!

You can click on the image above to have a listen on their site.

UPDATE: You can now listen to this on my Soundcloud too.

TRACKLIST

Yoko Takahashi – A Cruel Angel’s Thesis

Diagrams – Hill [OLUGBENGA EDIT]

Esben and the Witch – Hexagons IV [OLUGBENGA INSTRUMENTAL EDIT]

EAN – Unknown Remix

Jahil Beats – Let It Go

Jay Z + Kanye West – Primetime

Unknown Mortal Orchestra – FFunny FFriends

MF Doom  – Overture / Vaudeville Villain

Skream – FNKONOMIKA

Gesaffelstein – Viol

Nine Inch Nails – God Given

Foals – Fugue

Caribou – Odessa

Azaelia Banks – 212

OLUGBENGA – ITOC

Bobby Tank – Cybo1

Ramadanman / Pearson Sound – Work Them / Glut

Jim Kroft ft. Lianne La Havas – Ulysses [OLUGBENGA EDIT]

OLUGBENGA – Deeper Hidden Meaning

Swallowing The Seas – Cast Doubt Away

They’re like buses, right? No new remixes for a while and then two come at once. Very pleased to be able to set these loose (at last). People who’ve been checking my blog and mixes will know that I’ve been a big fan of Three Trapped Tigers since their inception about four years ago. Main man Tom Rogerson is a good friend of mine (we met playing in Jeremy from Summer Camp‘s old band). I was over the moon when they asked me for a remix and I picked my favourite song from their album. The whole thing – Route One Or Die – comes highly recommended, though. Download my mix below.

Diagrams is a new project from San Genders, who some of you might know from folk/electronica types Tunng. I’m a fan both of Tunng and their label Full Time Hobby. So the prospect of a remix was a tasty one indeed. The original version of Hill is a 5/4, Tom Waits style delight and also well worth checking out. My remix is gonna be on the flip-side of a 7-inch that’ll be out before too long. In the meantime, have a stream on moi.

Metronomy toured with Ghostpoet back in April this year and we really seemed to hit it off. We both got shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize and at last night’s Awards ceremony I got a chance to catch up with him. I was reminded of this little edit from the end of my JAND mix for Drownedinsound.

” Life is too short to store up grudges / Life is too long to make no plans.”

Easily my favourite lyric by anyone this year. Stops me in my tracks every time I hear it sung.

The drum break on this edit is taken from a Bloc Party tune… You might hear a bit of Kele screaming in the back there too.

Got a couple of other exciting remixes in the pipeline. They’ll be up here before long.

Tootles.

NEW REMIX ALERT.

As always, a little late off the mark with this one. For anyone who’s reading this… hello from New York. We’re here promoting the US release of the Metronomy record.

A little while ago, one of Esben and the Witch’s managers got in contact with me about possibly doing a remix. As I was a fan anyway, the answer was ‘YES’. This is the result. I went slightly crazy working on it in the windowless room that is my studio.

It was debuted on Lauren Laverne’s BBC 6Music morning radio show. She called me ‘an all-around good egg,’ at which point I very nearly quantum-leaped.

Enjoy!

I certainly did.

Little Nigerian-themed mix I did for old pals Drownedinsound as part of their Africa Afternoon a couple of weeks back. Wrote a short article about the mix too which you can read by clicking this.

I grabbed lots of little samples from all over the place, but here’s the basic tracklist:

K’Naan – TIA
Wale feat. K’Naan – TV In The Radio
Rukus feat. Soul Brother – I’m Nigerian
Zee feat. Nosa – Standing
Oyinkansola feat. BrymO – Love Wan TinTin
Bloc Party – Ares
Blak Twang & Silvastone – Survival
Naira – Fly Hustle, Fresh Grind
Vocal Slender – Owo Yapa
Ghostpoet – Liines [OLUGBENGA ARES EDIT]
AKS – House Called Home

Before Cocknbullkid was making world-beating pop she was making world-beating bedroom jams, often handling the production herself. As we gear up for the excitement that is Adulthood - her debut album proper – she thought it would be nice for people to get hold of all those old tunes.

She asked if I was up for making a mixtape and I was more than happy to oblige.

FREE DOWNLOAD ALERT.

Oh, and here’s the tracklist.

1. Mother
2. The Vote
3. Roses
4. Cure
5. Cocknbullkid + Radioclit
6. Black Sky
7. I’m Not Sorry
8. Impossible
9. Attention
10. The Head
11. Shake
12. Alternative Disco
13. Sinners
14. On My Own

had A LOT of fun making this. hopefully you can hear it.

Neon Asylum is a cool, cool DJ. I think this is gonna be on a remix EP at some point. Who’s afraid of 140bpm?

new/old-ish remix.

actually, not really a remix. an amalgam of three tracks from Napoleon IIIrd’s great album Christiania. The whole Brainlove catalogue is worth checking out, actually.

Karl Nova is an old friend of mine. Like I’ve known him since I was 14. He’s a great rapper. Very graciously, he let me chop him to kingdom come.

Sorry Karl!

oHIo.

exciting things afoot. so exciting in fact, that I’ve been neglecting the blog.

BUT NO LONGER.

above you can find the remix I did of Error Operator’s Mistakes Mk3 as a way of saying thanks for the great re-imagining he did of Like An Angel With No Mercy.

it’s on a nifty little iTunes EP that’s onsale here now and also includes remixes from worriedaboutsatan (NO CAPS FOR THOSE CHAPS) and Magnavolt.

i did some singing on this one, which is always fun.

also just putting the finishing touches to a Napoleon IIIrd remix which should be making its way to your ears before too long.

picked up the keys to a studio I’m going to be sharing with this dude. No more complaints about sub-bass from my neighbours.

#woot