No Pain In Pop

Just is

Hashim B easy and on point. Sometimes it’s pretty wonderful not to have to see something, or rush to anything. This is from Dublab’s new Echo Expansion comp, out on LP/CD on the 18th of August through Porter Records. Buy your copy here to keep Dublab in scenery like that ^. It’s where they belong.

Full tracklist - including Flying Lotus, Blank Blue, Ras G, Daedelus and Take - after the fold.



MP3: Hashim B - ‘Tokyo to LA Steez’

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Tags: blank blue, daedelus, dublab, flying lotus, gaslamp killer, hashim b, porter records, ras g, take

Five imaginary musical futures: alternatives to 2009

Photography by the inordinately talented Hannah Elisabeth

2009’s already been talked out, so halt your tongues and tuck in cheeks for five sights of music running on splintered time, rails leading most to bass-weight and rhythm.

Article originally published at DrownedinSound.

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Tags: 14-0848 mimosa, ben adams, beyonce, bhangra niche, black flag, bradford cox, burial, busy signal, calvin klein, dancehall, darkstar, dc hardcore, deerhunter, empire of the sun, felix's machines, fen and ramsey, flying lotus, funky, futurist, george russell, gregory's girl, harry partch, hudson mohawke, james bulley, jg ballard, kode 9, leprosy, luigi russolo, mad max, madlib, moondog, motown, myths of the near future, philip k. dick, pierre bastien, psychedelic horseshit, rick rubin, rustie, sasha fierce, siltbreeze, simon sellars, situationist, soca, soul jazz, t2, telepathe, the bug, timbaland

Dublab Transmit…

Our max questing comrades at Dublab have taken to the air.

*FUTURE ROOTS RADIO* is airing every Friday from 10pm-1am PST (Saturday 6am-9am GMT) on KPFK 90.7FM in LA, 98.7FM in Santa Barbara or live at kpfk.org anywhere.

Dublab have beckoned studio guests; sets forthcoming from Nosajthing, Lucky Dragons and Exile before the rib-fluttering proposition of a Flying Lotus/Cut Chemist connect on the 30th of January.

Listen to the first transmission at the Dublab archives. Find more details after ‘the jump’.

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Tags: cut chemist, dublab, exile, flying lotus, lucky dragons, nosajthing, the gaslamp killer

2OO8 ≠ 32

Photo: Tom King

It’s hard not to feel berk or beast when attempting to cram 12 months into 700 words, so we won’t even try. This late in the day there’s going to be omission to an extent that outstretches the impatient collateral of memory loss, especially as the mind wanders back to recall a year of live music that’s without peer in my 23 on this earth.

So, there’ll be no divvying up of 2008 between movements and moods here. Just a necessary trawl through the shipwreck, flotsam fished from choppy waters and beacon buoys twinkling in the ocean of our terrible collective memory.

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Tags: 20jazzfunkgreats, abe vigoda, aids wolf, alice coltrane, apple pips, arch m, baby venom, bo diddley, bradford cox, darkstar, flowdan, flying lotus, harmonia, harvey milk, health, holy fuck, mark brown, martyn, my bloody valentine, nite jewel, no age, no shows forever, oneman, panda bear, primavera sound, ramadanman, rustie, sam butler, skull disco, teengirl fantasy, telepathe, terrence dixon, the bug, the dovers, the samps, theo parrish, trg, wild beasts, wiley, zomby

Phallic Tyranny

A titan of our times with an arsenal of space loops and sultry sonic pinches, Flying Lotus’s clipped pandemonium makes you just want to get down and dirty with Dale on the dancefloor, don’t it? Friday’s a time for phallic blows and erotic strobes, so eat up some ‘Parisian Goldfish’ and get crunked. Go on, no-one’s looking.
Directed by Eric Wareheim. Thanks to Warp. Head here for more.

Tags: flying lotus, tim and eric