Your Digital Daily for Monday, November 09, 2009

Kele Okereke enlists Hudson Mohawke for solo album

Monday, November 09, 2009 in Features by EB Team about Bloc Party, Hudson Mohawke, Spank Rock

Kele Okereke enlists Hudson Mohawke for solo album

In a surprising development, Scottish electronic producer Hudson Mohawke will take on a production role for parts of Bloc Party singer Kele Okereke’s solo dance album.

Details are sketchy, but we do know that Mohawke recently talked to Radio 1 and confirmed the news saying, "It hasn’t been finalised yet, but I’m doing a bit of stuff for the album. He’s doing the record with one of the guys from Spank Rock."

The album will reportedly be dance orientated, due to Kele Okereke’s growing love for house, techno and all that’s in between. Fittingly, Kele recently collaborated on Dutch trance king Tiesto‘s indie crossover album Kaleidoscope.

Videodrome #14 – This week’s best videos

Tuesday, August 09, 2011 in Columns, Features, Videodrome

1. Teebs – Moments (directed by Paul Trillo) Beautiful video for “Moments” off Teebs‘ Ardour LP which continues to remain my go-to record for lazy late night talks and lucid dreams. /// 2. Excepter – The Open Well (directed by Anna Maria Helgadóttir) Love this track, which is a selection from Excepter‘s 17-hour performance at – more

Kele – On The Outside Looking In

Wednesday, July 14, 2010 in Features

Only five years ago, a little band with a big sound entered the music industry almost unnoticed, through what seemed like the back door. They did so ever so quietly and politely, yet had a colossal impact on the scene at the time. That band was Bloc Party. Indie music has a tendency to have – more

Tiesto tries his hands at rock

Thursday, September 17, 2009 in Features

Dutch techno DJ Tiësto has seemingly taken a liking to indie music. Considering the fact that Tiësto is a champion of cheesy trance, this piece of news is particularly hard to swallow. Tiësto has dropped the turntables and enlisted the help of one of Icelandic’s finest singers, Sigur Rós’ Jónsi Birgisson, alongside the very unusual – more

Melt! Festival finalises lineup

Friday, June 05, 2009 in Features

Germany’s Melt! festival just announced the exciting final acts of their celebrated three-day-long event, which takes place July 17-19. As previously reported, the lineup is awesome. We already knew Aphex Twin, Klaxons, Foals, Oasis and Bloc Party were taking over the Main stage, but now Röyksopp, Phoenix, Animal Collective and Kasabian have been added as – more