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Preview: Roundhouse Rising

ZOMG! LFW AW12 is dawning upon us already; it seems like only yesterday that we were running from Somerset House to various ambiguous West London venues snapping and iPhone noting this Spring/Summer’s fashion, coffee cups permanently fused to our hands.

We cover lots of bits and bobs during Fashion Week…

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Album Review: Goapele – Break Of Dawn

Bay area songstress Goapele’s Break Of Dawn is her first long player in almost six years. Having first graced our ears way back in 2001 with Closer, followed up five years later with Change It All, she has earned respect from the likes of Kanye West and Erykah Badu. …

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BOTW Interview & Exclusive Download: Birdy Nam Nam

As y’all know by now, Birdy Nam Nam are our BOTW. We spoke to one quarter of the troupe, Little Mike, about DJing, electronic music, all sorts. You can read what we said below. You may find it quite interesting. Plus, if you get to the end of the interview

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A Mixtape Medley From 2011

Ahh the art of the mixtape, an assemblage of personally selected songs usually reflecting the musical tastes of its compiler or sometimes linked by a theme or mood. Whether it’s to make a statement, an ode to loved ones, or just streams of your beloved tracks, we heart mixtapes in…

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Mixtape: Marques Toliver – ‘Studying For My Ph.D’

If your music taste is anything like Marques Toliver’s, in the impossible way that it can be confined to one genre, then you’re in for a treat this afternoon. Pushing the boundaries of the mixtape’s capabilities, Marques combines Roberta Flack’s ‘I am the Girl’ along with ‘Keep it Between Us’ from…

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New Song Alert! Azealia Banks – Liquorice

Azealia Banks is by far our fave artist to be tipped for success in 2012. And we’re not alone – not only has she been given the mark of approval by NME (she’s been chosen to take the much-coveted headline slot of the NME Tour), but ZeZe has also been…

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Friday Mixtape #15: MNEK

The astronomically talented seventeen-year-old producer MNEK created an exclusive mixtape especially for us here at Planet Notion, and boy is it good! In fact, we have been listening to it all week to lift our spirits and get us into the christmas party mindset. Aplomb with RnB dancefloor fillers old…

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Interview: Willy Moon

You’d be wrong in thinking this is a still caption of Pat Boone in the 50s – with that slick white suit, the pristine quiff and those cheekbones contoured like stone. But this is where the parallels between separate characters from separate eras end because you are in fact ogling

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EP Review: Solomon & Finder – ‘Lust’

When a crispy new band offers its debut EP to the public for free, naturally you’re going to be a tad skeptical about its excellence. Indeed the odd free promotional single, as well as a ‘pay as much as you wish’ mantra if you’re name is Radiohead is part and…

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Album review: Pyramid Vrita – ‘The Story of Marsha Lotus’

‘The Story of Marsha Lotus’ by Pyramid Vrita is an extraordinary but frustrating record.  Pyramid Vrita is the alias of Hal Williams perhaps better known as one half of the Jet Age of Tomorrow, half of the Super 3 and a member of Odd Future. He’s 19 and…

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