Grasscut - Muppet
(Download) Ninja Tune ZENDNLS244, 2010-02-15
Grasscut return with the second single from their forthcoming debut album. Continuing their theme of exploring the essence of our culture, on Muppet Andrew Phillips and Marcus O'Dair deal with losing your ability to communicate, something Phillips describes as "a very English kind of frustration".
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Grasscut - Muppet | Comments: 0
Monday, February 15 2010
Andreya Triana - Lost Where I Belong | Comments: 0
Monday, February 8 2010
Andreya Triana - Lost Where I Belong (incl. Flying Lotus Remix)
(Download) Ninja Tune ZENDNLS254, 2010-02-08
Welcome, please, Andreya Triana. The singer whose past credits include work with Mr Scruff, Flying Lotus, Theo Parrish and Bonobo releases the first single from her forthcoming debut album, Lost Where I Belong. "Lost Where I Belong", like the rest of the album which will follow, is produced by Simon Green aka Bonobo, this track being co-written with Fink. The album came about before Bonobo and Triana worked on a track for his lastest album and ended up touring the US together. A beautiful, subtle slice of jazz and folk-inflected soul, Lost Where I Belong is, Andreya explains, a microcosm of what her album is all about. "The underlying theme of the song is even though we can strongly and clearly know what our purpose is in life we can still get a bit lost along the way and struggle sometimes". Bonobo builds subtle live strings, brass and effortless-but-understated drum work around the gorgeousness of Triana's voice and lush harmonies. The remix comes from sometime associate and collaborator Flying Lotus who takes the original vocal out into the (LA) galaxy - all space fizzes and filtered drums - before Andreya roots it right back down again with an acoustic version which shows just how affecting her voice is, with Fink and Bonobo both lending a hand on guitar and double bass. No diva-histrionics here - just an attempt to let the melody and lyrics do the talking.
Bonobo - Eyes Down - out march 8th on Ninja Tune | Comments: 0
Monday, February 1 2010
Bonobo - Eyes Down
(12"/Download) Ninja Tune ZEN12258/ZENDNLS258, 2010-03-08
Simon Green aka Bonobo returns with one of the key cuts from his forthcoming album, Black Sands. Drawing as much on the rhythms of two-step as the lush soundscapes for which he's best known, Eyesdown also features a remarkable vocal from Andreya Triana and enough fuzzed-out sub-bass for a binful of dubsteppers. Classic and contemporary, melancholy and exhilarating all at once, Eyesdown sounds like the kind of record Massive Attack could be making if they were starting out now.
Dowload the MP3 for free on ninjatune.net/bonobo/eflyer.php
Poirier - Low Ceiling | Comments: 0
Monday, January 25 2010
Poirier - Low Ceiling
(12"/Download) ZEN12253/ZENDNLS253, 2010-01-25
Having put his own mark on soca (Soca Sound System) and run some big riddims (Run The Riddim), the tropical Rick Rubin, the man called Poirier (Pwa-ri-ay), returns with a 3rd installment, Low Ceiling, to cap off this series of EP's which will form the basis of his forthcoming album Running High.
Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit | Comments: 0
Monday, January 25 2010
Jaga Jazzist - One-Armed Bandit
(CD/2LP/Download) Ninja Tune ZENCD152/ZEN152/ZENDNL152, 2010-01-25
The nine piece Norwegian jazz-rock-experimental behemoth that is Jaga Jazzist return to the fray with their stunning new album, One Armed Bandit. All galloping rhythms, and grandiloquent reach, main man Lars Horntveth describes the new sound, tongue-a-little-in-cheek, as "Wagner meets Fela Kuti!" Certainly we find it harder to imagine a better soundtrack being written for the first Nollywood Viking epic.
Bonobo - Black Sands - out march 29th on Ninja Tune | Comments: 1
Saturday, January 23 2010
Bonobo - Black Sands
(2xLP/CD/Download) Ninja Tune ZEN140/ZENCD140/ZENDNL140, 2010-03-29
Simon Green aka Bonobo returns with his fourth, most eagerly-anticipated
and most accomplished album to date, the magnificent Black Sands. Green proves once and for all with Black Sands that he is an artist
and producer with his sights set on much higher prizes than to rule any
dusty subgenre of dance music. This is a record of epic reach and
massive emotional pull, all held together by Green's understanding of
composition and arrangement of live instruments (most of them also
played by him) as well as his complete mastery of the tricks and
techniques of the digital age. Black Sands is the most contemporary
record he has ever made.
Emika - Drop The Other | Comments: 0
Monday, January 18 2010
Emika - Drop The Other
(12"/Download) Ninja Tune ZEN12240/ZENDNLS240, 2010-01-18
Drop The Other, the first EP from Emika - and already making a late shout for one of the year's most auspicious debuts. Even before release, Emika's has received airplay from tastemaking DJs like Zane Lowe + Mary-Anne Hobbs. On Drop The Other, eerie, near-classical piano collides into glitched-out edits and skitering drum patterns, while speaker-shattering lows rub against Emika's own hushed, cryptic vocals, the iconoclastic blend marking her an artist that makes a habit of defying expectation. Just when you think you know what you're hearing, Emika flips the script: the cinematic sound architecture evokes the deepest techno, but the tempo moves too slow, the beats too jagged; the sub-bass, meanwhile, could shudder the most underground dubstep club, but it's paired with haunting, syncopated vocal hooks that suggest Aaliyah's work with Timbaland taken to its darkest extreme.
Poirier - Running High - out april 5th on Ninja Tune | Comments: 0
Monday, December 28 2009
Poirier - Running High
(2CD incl. bonus remix disc/Download) ZENCD154/ZENDNL154, 2010-04-05
Rhythms have been run, Soca systems have been sounded (not to mention air-horns), ceiling's have been brought down, and now it's time for the man called Poirier (Pwa-ri-ay) to rewind and come again (selector that he is...)... A twelve month period has seen the release of three EP's, all showcasing very different (yet at the same time very coherent) sides of Poirier's production...from digi-dancehall bangers, to hyper Soca rhythms, and techno/Caribbean hybrids. That same time frame has also seen Poirier reaching to all parts of the globe to drop his signature "all things bass" sound on ever increasing crowds. Whether as a solo DJ or with one of his various MC's by his side, he's murdered it in pretty much any place you can pronounce on a map, and along the way has cemented his status as one of the top names in an ever growing group of producers rocking dancefloors with a globally curated pastiche of sounds. Now it's time to drop the culmination of those last twelve months into his 7th full length (2nd for Ninja Tune)... the two disc Running High album.
Funki Porcini - Plod | Comments: 1
Monday, December 28 2009
Funki Porcini - Plod
(Download) self-released, 2009-12-01
Funki Porcini is mastering his new album for Ninja Tune right now and it's sounding fantastic. In the meantime Mr Porcini has rounded up a selection of tracks that won't make it onto the album, but are great anyway. He calls them "A series of bits and bobbies", you can check them out and buy them at his bandcamp page...
DJ Food - The Shape Of Things That Hum | Comments: 0
Monday, December 28 2009
DJ Food - The Shape Of Things That Hum
(12"/Download) Ninja Tune ZEN12252/ZENDNLS252, 2009-12-14
DJ Food aka Strictly Kev - one of Ninja Tune's true veterans and powerhouses - returns with the next installment from his forthcoming, long-awaited album, Stolen Moments. And while the personnel of "DJ Food" has changed over the years, as has the musical vision, the name is always a guarantee of the utmost quality.
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