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EXCLUSIVE: Seye – Africa In London Mixtape

Up and coming artist Seye (pronounced ‘share’) has put together a mixtape especially for Planet Notion. It’s a combination of very cool lo-fi tracks of African origin mixed with more modern pieces. People forget that Africa is where a lot of music started; it is when Africans started to inhabit …

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Camden Crawl Special: Keep Shelly In Athens Mixtape

ALERT! ALERT! It’s Camden Crawl this weekend and that means people other than tourists, goths, greebos and punks will be making the annual pilgrimage to the main strip of the most musical district of North London to watch bands play in overcrowded venues. YAY. (I’m going and it should be very fun …

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Introducing: ZZ Ward

ZZ Ward is an up-and-coming artist from Oregon in the US. She’s a total breath of fresh air, an authentic blues artist (Ward cites legends such as Muddy Waters and Big Mama Thornton as influences) with a twist of hip-hop, putting a contemporary spin on a genre that’s been around …

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Mixtape: Misha B – Why Hello World

Yep, that’s right, X Factor alumnus and all-round fierce lady Misha B unleashed her new mixtape onto the internet just a couple of hours ago. Called ‘Why Hello World’, it commences with Ms B singing the title lyrics and teasing us with a minute’s preview of one of her original …

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N57 Test Driving: Laurel Halo – Quarantine

As Ina Cube (alias Laurel Halo) moves labels from Hippos In Tanks to Hyperdub, her compositions move from instinctively beat-led tunes to experimental melodies and sinuous rhythms. Through her first full-length release Quarantine, the listener is lead through aquatic beats into bleak underwater caverns echoing with bubbling synth.

Certain …

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Do You Remember Where You Were When… #1

In this new weekly column, Luke Morgan Britton gives a rundown of the past seven days in music news. This week, he talks about Coachella, calls Kanye a douche, tells us why Record Store Day may have dire financial consequences for young poor people (that’s most of us, then), and discusses

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BOTW Review: Slugabed – Time Team

On Time Team, under his Slugabed alias, 22 year-old Greg Feldwick has created a world of widescreen colour and squelched sounds. It’s fun, it’s vibrant, it’s inventive and most of all it’s pretty damn good. It’s not like this is an overnight sensation. Since 2008 releases for the Ramp Recordings …

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MORE! The Latest Update on Lovebox 2012

It’s been a decade, yes, a decade since Lovebox appeared onto the music and dance scene. But unlike your typical summer festival this iconic event is a celebration with unreal dance floors and even more unreal acts.

The three day extravaganza will feature the insane bass, crazy synths and body …

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BOTW Exclusive Download: Kankick – Say (Slugabed Remix)

Our BOTW, Slugabed, remixed a track by hiphop producer Kankick. The tune’s called ‘Say’ and you can download it from our Soundcloud widget below. Don’t forget to return later in the week for an interview with Slugabed, our review of his new album and  a video for his new single …

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Introducing Our BOTW: Slugabed

Slugabed, the alias for the 22 year old Greg Feldwick, originally from Bath, creates a mesmerising mass of electronic, spaced out airs, beeping beats and a powerful swarming sound of prominent bass, intense energy and melodic note trinkets. It is an exploration of complexity within electronic music, pushing the …

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