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Exclusive Remixtape: Plants Plants – ‘Drug Test II’

A year after the release of their first EP, Plants Plants (Stuart Francis and Howard Whatley) are back with their second extended player, which is out on June 18th. EP 2 was produced by Jas Shaw of Simian Mobile Disco, so you can expect typical electro indie sounds – glitchy …

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Introducing: The First Fleet

The First Fleet are four people from various parts of Australia, who moved here to pursue careers as musicians whilst promoting Antipodean coffee culture. I met one of them when I was buying a soya flat white off of him in Salvation Jane, you see. And a promo copy of …

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Introducing: Bo Saris

Maya Jane Coles must be rolling in it right now – she’s only gone and remixed ANOTHER SONG, putting a dance beat on something that could in its original form be described as ‘alternative’, making it listenable for the numpties that can only listen to David Guetta-ised chart hits.

Coles …

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Live Review: Grimes @ Islington Mill, Manchester, 10/05/2012

The consensus amongst us, the sardine-slotted voyeurs in attendance for Grimes’ Islington ‘bleep-boop’ rally was of some dazed inferiority. Her set was definitely too short. But it was also definitely really hip. So it twisted my investigative noodle to hear people openly mix the breathy declaratives “it really was a …

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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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Introducing: We Were Evergreen

We Were Evergreen are an absolutely delightful new twee French band who wield such instruments as the ukelele (always a winner), banjo, glockenspiel and… TELEPHONE. Boy how we want to see how such a melange of instruments works out live, but if it’s anything like their too cute live sessions …

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Interview: Slugabed

Slugabed is one of the acts at a special Tiger Beer gig tomorrow night. So that meant it was compulsory/obvious to ask what meal he most likes to pair with a bottle of chilled bottle of lager. He gave the equally compulsory/obvious answer of “curry”.

But, as far as Slugabed …

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Live Review: The Horrors @ Chinnery’s Southend, 09/05/2012

A return to old stomping grounds of yore in hometowns is a nice novelty, particularly if it’s to a few hundred people when a few weeks later normal service is resumed when playing to thousands at Brixton Academy.

And so it is thanks to Jack Daniels and their themed JD …

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Review: Fabriclive 63 – Digital Soundboy System

Digital Soundboy Soundsystems remain in the forefront of club scene bass culture with their out-of-this world creations. Shaped by English DJ and producer Shy FX, Digital Soundboy has clearly made its mark in the UK music market, crafting some of the biggest club hits in the past ten years. Showcasing …

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Album Review: Cold Specks – I Predict A Graceful Expulsion

As the beautiful and haunting Holland comes to a close, the plucked guitar gradually fades away and Al Spx is left alone to sing ”And to dust we will all return.” Welcome to ‘doom soul’, a term devised by Spx to describe the sound of Cold Specks; one which sees her …

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