some ace new electro before I head off

Gotta catch a plane to Poland in a few hours, but there's just enough time to get these babies out there.

Super blog favourite Seams has a new single out Focus Energy b/w Motive order.

Focus Energy/Motive Order by seams

Obviously everyone knows that originally Focus Energy was a pokemon battle move which was a completely pointless waste of time, much like Magikarp's Splash attack.
And if you didn't know that, then you do now.
Luckily Seams' Focus Energy isn't anything even slightly resembling a waste of time. Moving on from his last EP Tourist Seams aka James Welch has taken on a more techno sound making his tunes even more danceable.

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D/R/U/G/S not busy enough playing at Glastonbury has whipped out a solid gold remix of Lykke Li's Sadness is a Blessing (seems everyone's doing it)
(mp3)

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Dam Mantle's getting ready for his WE EP release later this month with this tune Not a Word
It sounds like a dubstep children's rhyme.
Not A Word by Dam Mantle

End of the world stuff + Fixers - Crystals D/R/U/G/S remix

Before the world ends via rapture-time I wanted to share with you guys this little conspiracy theory I concocted in my head last night. As any normal person would/should be doing on a friday night I was putting together life's little pieces in true Tom Hanks style.

Here goes:

So you guys know football right? Some people call it soccer (but I don't call them people). And you know how they play it in England right? So let's look at the bottom of the Premiership table and the teams in danger of getting relegated:

Blackburn
Wolves
Birmingham
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Blackpool
Wigan
West Ham

Notice anything? That's right 3 teams beginning with B and three teams beginning with W.
Stick 'em all together and they look like this B3W. OR if you were to twist the 3 you'd get BmW = BMW (like cars)

OMG! coincidence, I think not.

This can only mean either of two things. Either it's a sign that BMW are going bankrupt "getting relegated" or it's a sign that I should shut the hell up.

Thanks for your time. I'll get my coat.

Oh but before I go, I wanted to share the new D/R/U/G/S remix of Oxford's Fixers' song Crystals. I like to think that as I saw both acts at TGE last week, that they got together and did this remix for me. So, um, thanks guys.

Crystals (D R U G S remix) by Fixers.

This is what it used to sound like:

D/R/U/G/S

"Drugs are cool." "Just say yes." "There's no harm in Drugs."

These are three quotes that I didn't hear from my parents when growing up.
But you know, I'm a big boy now, and I can decide for myself. I think.

And I think D/R/U/G/S' new Love/Lust 12" totally kills it. Out in May as a physical release, it's already up on Soundcloud to check out.

There's a certain sound going on here that just makes me think:

sweat-drenched late-as-you-can-get dancefloor, drinking Smirnoff ices topped up with vodka just because there isn't anything else to get your hands on but still calling yourself a real man. Dreading the next day because you'll get to sleep 2 hours on the floor of a train and then spend the next day doing team building excercises with people who throw up on you in the middle of the night.


or

so-early-in-the-morning-that-the-postman's-ashamed-of-your-lumbering-intoxicated-dance-moves. Yeah the sun's been up for hours, but that isn't going to stop you climbing across the ruins of a soon-to-be-demolished bridge naked. Normal people going to work, or walking their dogs, kids pointing at you going "mummy, what's he doing?" as you fall off a longboard, naked.

Good vibes. Good times.

Love / Lust 12" by D/R/U/G/S