We all have those days where we just kind of roll out of bed like sludge, drape whatever’s laying around on ourselves, cram shades over crusted eyes and slouch outside to find post-party salvation. It’s sort of a perpetual soundtrack if you’ve ever lived in LA. Lapalux has taken that aching pulse that echoes in the mind and limbs, the glare of sun behind palm trees at one pm, and injected it into Gwen Stefani‘s 2004 single ‘Luxurious’. The result is a tropicult k-hole that throbs and crawls like some beautiful, injured beast. Stream it below, and download it here.
EB Exclusive: VCMG – Aftermaths (Gesaffelstein Remix)
We’ve been talking about this grande techno release since long. And today we’re serving the next portion, aka the exclusive pre-listening of Monsieur Gesaffelstein’s re-edit of VCMG’s instant classic, entitled ‘Aftermaths’ – more
EB Listening: Bobby Champs’ Drag Queen
Brighton’s Bobby Champs doesn’t mess around. His debut Moonlight EP specialised in brash, rough-around-the-edges-house which appealed directly to the pleasure principle. Follow up EP Drag Queen, released via Pictures Music (who include the likes of Lapalux and Rudi Zygadlo on their roster) teases his big room sound in a slightly odder direction, while maintaining the kinetic strut of his debut. – more
Wiley, Lorn, Slugabed & more on 2012 compilation by Ninja Tune, Big Dada & Brainfeeder
Nearly year end, eh? When it’s year-end-list-time at magazines and blogs, record labels usually show what they’ve got in store for the next year. So do Ninja Tune, Big Dada and Brainfeeder Records with their ‘New Artists for 2012′ compilation. And it does sound very promising, what the two traditional British bass music labels and – more
Crystal Fighters – Lapalux Remix
‘Plage’ is one of the sunnier tracks from Crystal Fighters – the Spanish foursome who look like pirates and make music that is an amalgamation of folk, electronics and some kind of latin X-factor. Which is not at all like the remix that Lapalux has created, His woozy, broken and pitch shifted version – one – more
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