FACT mix 297 is an ominous session of clouded-over pop by Blue Daisy. He will play at the Viral Radio Weekend in OT301 on 25 November.
From FACT Magazine website: “Hailing from North London, Blue Daisy hasn’t released much – until this year’s debut album, The Sunday Gift, he’d put his name to four singles and one split, all on Black Acre – but he’s made it count, quietly honing a smoky form of pop music that owes as much to back room ’90s icons like Portishead, Tricky and, going further back, the Cocteau Twins as it does the structural freedom of Flying Lotus and Samiyam’s twisted hip-hop.
The Sunday Gift is, frankly, the best thing Blue Daisy’s done by miles. A mostly collaborative project, it finds him assembling a small team of trusted vocalists and neatly sidestepping the beat scene or dubstep associations that some cast on him; unlike the work of many of his peers, this is genuinely dark, harsh music that barely makes sense outside the night hours, and Blue Daisy doesn’t need to sample speeches from sci-fi films to prove it.
His FACT mix, sub-titled ‘Soundtrack of the Night Sky’, doesn’t have a tracklist, but it’s in the same vein as the album: downcast pop, haunted hip-hop and tons of reverb. It’s great, basically. Download it below, and read the following Q&A with its maker while you do so.”
(via FACT mix 297: Blue Daisy – FACT magazine: music and art)
Free download: Jonwayne ‘King’ (Alpha Pup, 2011).
New release by the uptempo cousin of Samiyam. We’re fans, and we hope to see him in Europe soon.
Los Angeles has for years been one of the most futurist electronic music cities on this planet. But even for a city of the quality and quantity as LA, 2011 has been an outstanding year of releases and performances.
Behind the household names of Flying Lotus, Daedelus, Gaslamp Killer, Ras G, Samiyam, Daddy Kev and Nosaj Thing, swarms a myriad of boutique musicians as Baths, Shlohmo, Free the Robots, Matthewdavid, Jonwayne, Asura, Kone and ELOS - and there are many more.
A grand transatlantic salute to Brainfeeder, Alpha Pup, Non Projects, FoF, Leaving, and all the other labels holding it down in Los Angeles, for staying the course in supporting and sharing Zeitgeist surfing electronic music.
2011 has been your year. We look forward to seeing all of our friends in Amsterdam soon again.
Viral Radio 02 at Red Light Radio
00:00 Kuedo - As We Lie Promising (Planet Mu)
01:10 Thundercat- Goldenboy (Brainfeeder)
03:31 Mono/poly - Needs Deoderant (Ninja Tune)
07:39 Kone - Chunky Dust (Alpha Pup)
10:22 Shlohmo - Just Us (Alpha Pup)
12:35 Samiyam - Escape (Brainfeeder)
15:36 Free The Robots - The Mind’s Eye (Alpha Pup)
19:40 Kuedo - Salt Lake Cuts (Planet Mu)
24:21 ELOS - Flying Sky Fortress (Alpha Pup)
27:11 Slugabed - Goose (Ninja Tune)
32:18 Kuedo - Ascension Phase (Planet Mu)
34:13 Lunice - Glow (LuckyMe)
37:10 DJ Diamond - Digimon (Planet Mu)
38:44 Kuedo - Onset (Escapism) (Planet Mu)
39:56 DJ Diamond - I Choose You (Planet Mu)
43:07 Shlohmo - Trapped In A Burning House (Alpha Pup)
45:51 Om Unit x Lorn - Obsidian (Soundcloud)
49:35 Zomby - Resolve (4AD)
53:05 Dimlite - Flourish (Ehstrahwlogy)
53:41 Tropics - On The Move (Planet Mu)
Playlist of Viral Radio 02 at Red Light Radio.
00:00 Kuedo - As We Lie Promising (Planet Mu)
01:10 Thundercat- Goldenboy (Brainfeeder)
03:31 Mono/poly - Needs Deoderant (Ninja Tune)
07:39 Kone - Chunky Dust (Alpha Pup)
10:22 Shlohmo - Just Us (Alpha Pup)
12:35 Samiyam - Escape (Brainfeeder)
15:36 Free The Robots - The Mind’s Eye (Alpha Pup)
19:40 Kuedo - Salt Lake Cuts (Planet Mu)
24:21 ELOS - Flying Sky Fortress (Alpha Pup)
27:11 Slugabed - Goose (Ninja Tune)
32:18 Kuedo - Ascension Phase (Planet Mu)
34:13 Lunice - Glow (LuckyMe)
37:10 DJ Diamond - Digimon (Planet Mu)
38:44 Kuedo - Onset (Escapism) (Planet Mu)
39:56 DJ Diamond - I Choose You (Planet Mu)
43:07 Shlohmo - Trapped In A Burning House (Alpha Pup)
45:51 Om Unit x Lorn - Obsidian (Soundcloud)
49:35 Zomby - Resolve (4AD)
53:05 Dimlite - Flourish (Ehstrahwlogy)
53:41 Tropics - On The Move (Planet Mu)
Clark played live at the second Viral Radio event at Trouw Amsterdam on 3 April 2009. Those first events were all stellar: Kode9 & the Spaceape, then Clark, followed by Flying Lotus, Gaslamp Killer and Samiyam. Amazing events in an incredible venue.
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A small video interview by Pitchfork with 2012 favourite Laurel Halo (via Dirk Geurs on Twitter.)