There’s been a lot of buzz recently surrounding the British singer and songwriter, Laura Mvula, so much so that some critics have even coined a new genre, ‘Gospeldelia’, to fully describe her soulful and rather therapeutic sound. We, on the other hand, are not going to even try. Instead, we just recommend you listen…
Many exciting things lie ahead for the 26-year-old artist this year; her debut studio album entitled Sing To The Moon is set for release at the beginning of March, with her first major headlining UK tour soon to follow.
In the spring of last year, Lakisha Kimberly “Kish” Robinson a.k.a Kilo Kish surfaced onto the New York music scene, bringing along with her a poetic and slow-tempo take on hip hop through her debut self-released EP, Homeschool. For 2013, the 22-year-old female rapper and vocalist is back with some new material and an additional musical project entitled k+, a collaborative mixtape featuring a long list of creative contributors, producers (and friends) including SBTRKT, Earl Sweatshirt, A$AP Ferg, CRONOS, Childish Gambino and The Internet.
Kilo Kish will be playing several UK shows next month.
Cold New Yorkers keep warm with the tropical sounds of Jubilee. The Miami native moved to New York ten years ago and once worked as a make-up artist, keeping ladies like Lauryn Hill and the Penthouse Pets looking immaculately fierce. Present-day DJ/producer, Jubilee now pursues music full-time and can make the stiffest of bodies turn out a little sweat and bounce.
I first met the cool Brooklyn resident on a wintry Tuesday in January while sitting in East Village Radio’s very small, mirrored studio. Jess played an exclusive set for Chillin’ Island and I tried to be discreet about my dance as I slowly sipped on an apple cider from Juicy Lucy. Her music is hot.
She is also co-hosting Radio Lily’s new Mixpak show with Dubbel Dutch and Dre Skull every Tuesday and if you know Miss Lily’s —the notorious dance-while-you-dine restaurant located in downtown NY — expect to receive one big party via their internet broadcast.
In the meantime, Jubilee will keep you going with her New York Fashion Week Playlist and top tips for the city that never sleeps. Your sultry, mini getaway awaits.
“I kept this one pretty girly and sexy. It”s a list of things I would play to dance to, want to hear right now on the runway and listen to while getting ready to go out. Also includes some great talent from New York.”
1/ Cassie All Gold Everything Remix f Trina and Lola Monroe 2/ Salva x Brenmar- Let me Bang 3/ Brooke Candy – Everybody Does 4/ Boody & Le1f- Soda 5/ Ciara -Goodies (Kingdom Remix) 6/ Pearson Sound vs. Rod Lee- Working With Refix 7/ Tifa-Champion Bubbler 8/ Theophilus London Ft Rihanna – Jump (Club Cheval Remix) 9/ Jubilee-Overtown 10/ Dubbel Dutch – Self Help Riddim 11/ GIRL UNIT- Ensemble 12/ Wavy Spice- Bitch I”m Posh 13/ Gita- Let That
Listen to Jubilee”s playlist .
IRL — A list of Jubilee’s top 5 people, places, and things
www.theresadapra.com
Designer of all things, unbelievable, and the most fun and good-looking girl I know.
radiolily.com
Obsessed with Miss Lily”s restaurant as well as their radio station. I just started hosting a show on there every Tuesday with Mixpak Records.
naomiyasudanyc.com
I swear by Naomi. My nails are always on point thanks to her.
yelp.com/biz/bozu-brooklyn
I have been going to this place since I moved to Brooklyn. Definitely a favorite. Great drinks and weird tapas twist on Japanese food.
We’ve fallen a little bit in love with the Parisian artist Melody Prochet, a.k.a Melody’s Echo Chamber. Her debut self-titled album is bursting with mesmerising vocals that overlay lo-fi psych-rock sounds, perfectly coinciding with the fact that it was produced by Kevin Parker, the Tame Impala frontman and current King-of-psychedlia.
Melody commences a tour of Europe later this month.
Twin Sunday Soundtrack – MØ
Commercial electro-pop with soulful synths and catchy melodies is the sound of MØ, Scandinavia’s latest rising star who has already been dubbed by many as the next Grimes. That’s certainly no bad thing in our book!
MØ’s debut album is expected for release in the UK later this year.
This weekend we’ve been losing ourselves in the sounds of Tamaryn, a San Francisco based singer who fuses shoegaze with dream-pop through ambling guitar riffs, steady emphatic beats and soft ethereal vocals. Tamaryn and her creative partner-in-crime, Rex John Shelverton, will be touring Europe next month, opening with a London show on January 31.
With attitude by the bucketful and insanely catchy songs like 212, Azealia Banks has undoubtedly left her mark on the music industry. It looks like she is no less short of conquering the world of fashion as well.
Already counting the likes of Karl Lagerfeld as fan and having performed at Chanel’s pop up store party in Tokyo, the rap star can now include the house of Alexander Wang on her list of fashion collaborations. For the new Fall 2012 T by Alexander Wang campaign video directed by Daniel Jackson and styled by Alastair McKimm, the 21-year-old performs her latest song Van Vogue whilst decked out in the brand’s casually cool threads.
It seems that the world can’t get enough of Azealia Banks right now and with projects and tunes like this, it’s easy to see why.
Ralph Lauren is a brand that has always been synonymous with traditional Americana style. However, thanks to its Denim & Supply diffusion line and the resulting collaboration with EDM recording artist Avicii, the household label shows that an urban aesthetic is just as much part of its repertoire.
The 22-year-old DJ not only stars as the face of the Fall 2012 collection, but has also created an exclusive remix of his new single Silhouettes for the accompanying campaign film.
Showcasing an effortlessly relaxed style throughout, the brand proves that it can do contemporary just as well as classic.
Beatrice Eli is our newest scandinavian pop crush. Hailing from the cool of Stockholm, kitted out in her cute as tough baseball jackets and hi-tops, the 24-year-old has found her home amongst the shop fronts and basement bars of Dalston.
Her synth-ballad track The Conqueror is out now and you can watch her snow-set estate video here. With an EP due to follow soon, we asked Eli what tunes she”s currently listening too besides her own music…
1/ The Recipe – Kendrick Lamar ft Dr Dre
Me and my roomy have been obsessed with this for weeks. Everything is just perfect with this song, the “Twin Sister” sample, Kendrick Lamar”s flow, lyrics, voice and the quite obvious Kendrick Lamar ghostwritten Dr Dre verse.
2/ Bandit – Neil Young
I”m a bandit so this is my #1 comfort song.
3/ Anyone Who Knows What Love Is (Will Understand) – Irma Thomas
Discovered this thanks to Charlie Brooker”s Black Mirror. Can”t get enough of straight forward “you hurt me but I still love you” soul ballads.
4/ Thunder Bay – Hudson Mohawk
When it comes to beats Hudson Mohawk is the truth.
5/ Liberation Frequency – Refused
I was too young when this came out and never really got in to them until I saw them play in NYC a couple weeks ago, now I wish I was making hardcore/punk music.
6/ Forget – Lianne La Havas
Something hypnotizing about this song, makes me forget to breath.
7/ Rudimental – Feel The Love
First time I heard this I danced around by myself in the studio. I love big emotional beats, this is everything. AND, the video, HOW amazing is it?
8/ Nikki and the Dove – Last Night
This romantic Prince-ish song makes me wanna get married.
9/ The Bravest Man In The Universe – Bobby Womack Futuristic soul with someone that”s been in the game for decades. I just think that whole concept is great but I also really love the production and the song.
The brainchild of singer Francesca Ross and instrumentalist Ian Watt, electronic pop duo I AM A CAMERA is responsible for infectiously catchy songs such as Commuter Love and their most recent single Factory Boys, set for release on May 27.
The duo met by chance in a club in Manchester, shortly before starting the band in October 2010. “We ended up chatting late into the night about everything from our favourite lyrics to Coronation Street to drum machines. We started writing together shortly after and that”s how it began. We knew straight away we were onto something,” recalls Ross.
Influenced by the likes of Astrid Kirchherr, Paisley Park and Arthur C. Clarke, I AM A CAMERA underpins their hypnotic beats with dreamy yet dark lyrics, visually captured in their atmospheric music videos.
Twin spoke to Ross about the inspirational appeal of the everyday mundane and her nine favourite tunes of the moment…
Describe your music in three words.
Beats, Drama, Strings.
What inspires you?
We”re inspired by everyday life. The most mundane things can be made in to a sinister subject. It can be a photo we”ve seen or a story on the news, even a sinister-looking woman on 60 Minute Makeover. We like to find the stories behind things.
Do you ever find that the city of London feeds into your work?
We live, eat, sleep & dream in London. We are inspired by the things that go on in everyday life so it inevitably feeds through into our work. The people around us become the subject of songs without even knowing it. It’s a huge city with so many individual stories and events. We”re always pondering over what goes on behind closed doors, what people are really thinking about and their darkest secrets.
How would you describe the creative collaborative process?
It differs with each song. Sometimes it will be one of these stories that sparks an idea. Otherwise, when I get to the studio and Ian will have stacks of chords & beats to work on and we just go from there.
What is the story behind the song Factory Boys and its music video? Factory Boys is inspired by the true story of The Dupont Twins, two teenage boys who made their way from living on a gas station in a small town to the legendary New York club Studio 54. They went from being penniless one day to being paid by Warhol in Screen Prints to hang out with him the next. Amazing. We made the video ourselves by filming on our iPhones & iPads. We set it up like our own home studio. It”s inspired by the pop art and fabulous imagery that surrounds that time in New York and the glamorous debauchery of Studio 54.
How do you perceive positive and negative aspects of producing music in this digital age?
It”s positive because you can access so much and interact with so many people. We can upload a video in our studio in London, then within five minutes someone has blogged about it in Russia. We love that. The negative side is scary hackers stealing what’s not theirs.
What does the future hold for I AM A CAMERA?
The immediate future holds us making an amazing first album, lots of touring, new material and great hair.
1/ La Femme – Sur La Planche This band is from France, in case the name didn”t give it away. It sounds like the B-52″s on a night out with Bis. In France.
2/ Morrissey – Suedehead I have a slight fascination with redundant sea side towns. This song sums this up entirely for me whilst bringing some Manchester vibes at the same time.
3/ Canyons – When I See You Again (Nick Zinner Remix) This is a beautiful song from The Canyons, made even better by Nick Zinner”s remix. He”s really turned it around and made it in to a danceable track with shakers & electronic claps. The perfect track to get you ready for summer.
4/ Kleenex – Ain”t You Swiss post punk, best filed between The Raincoats & The Bush Tetras. I love how the sections are so different and how they stumble into each other.
5/ Bananarama – Aie A Mwana Loving this extended version. Bananarama”s first single in the pre SAW days, a cover of a song by Black Blood. The released version was actually a demo, & apparently this song also inspired the band’s name.
6/ Friends – I”m His Girl It”s all about the bassline in this song. That and the old school vibes in the video. Makes me want to get back to New York asap!
7/ Bronski Beat – Smalltown Boy This was their debut single, it”s got such memorable riff which set the precedent for future dance music.
8/ Seasfire – Falling I went to see them play in London recently. This song really stood out, it”s full of raw emotion, contrasted only by its clean instrumentation.
9/ Donna Summer ft. Giorgio Moroder – I Feel Love One of the greatest songs ever recorded! The sounds and production are so ahead of their time. I recently watched a programme on the origins of disco, and it made me realise how much music owes to this genre and this man.
At times, Marianne Faithfull the Sixties legend has threatened to overshadow Marianne the real and living person. But after over thirty years in the spotlight, and the former pop ingénue has battled addiction to continue to put out records.
It’s fitting then that her curated exhibition at Tate Liverpool should be titled Innocence and Experience and nothing better sums up the show then a 1976 Mapplethorpe image of Faithfull, seemingly uneasy as she transitions from her Sixties naïveté to a dark awareness of life’s depths.
Having selected works from the Tate Collection, Innocence and Experience reflects upon Faithfull’s artistic influences, as well as those over her private life. Dark and romantic, the works in this exhibition are brought together by a curator whose life will be forever intertwined with art and performance.
Innocence and Experience curated by Marianne Faithfull is at Tate Liverpool 20 April – 2 September 2012 tateliverpool.org
In the space of a few short years, Gemma Cairney has gone from fashion graduate to styling Florence and the Machine before a complete volt face into radio and TV presenting.
On the eve of her first breakfast show for Radio 1, Twin caught up with the rising star and asked for her top eight tunes…
You were a fashion stylist for a number of years and styled a number of musicians – was music always an inspiration to you?
Subconsciously, definitely. I”ve always shied away from considering myself a “muso” of any sort, but I”ve always adored it. Especially dancing to it.
When I was styling I knew some musicians and we all wanted to work together so we orchestrated some fun photo-shoots, that’s how it started really.
What have the past three years been like for you, the career change, finding yourself in front of the camera and on the radio?
Bonkers. I like trying things that make me excited and my stomach churn. When you try new things, I”ve found you continue to meet new inspirational people along the way. I was 22 when I decided I wanted to do more than just fashion and that I should try radio presenting. I loved it. The past three years has just been a continual stomach churn.
What”s your everyday mantra?
It”ll be alright.
What does being on Radio 1 mean to you?
A mind boggle of joy.
What else are you excited about for the future?
I have two documentaries coming out later this year that are quite serious, it will be good to share what I”ve been sinking my teeth into for quite a while now. Obviously, getting settled into my new Radio 1 role and lastly (the most boring) is putting up some cork tiles in my house! So that I have fixed notice board & can get more organised.
Gemma”s top eight tracks…
1/ Erykah Badu ft. Common – Love of My Life (Ode to Hip Hop)
I”ve been in such sparkling awe of Erykah Badu from around aged seventeen onwards. I just thought she was amazing, all of her songs hold such special nolstalgia for me. I remember finding out that she”d once been out with Common and I could hardly cope I found it so cool.
2/ Dub Phizix – Marka
This is new(ish) record that we played on 1xtra and I was gripped by the genre journey I was taken on. That sounds stupid, but if ya haven”t heard it listen and you”ll see what I mean.
3/ So Solid – 21 Seconds
The sheer frothing peak of garage raving. This tune is massive.
4/ Spice Girls – Spice Up Your life
Just beacuse I so did, most probably a generational thang.
5/ Mikey J and The Female Allstars
Rock the mic – female musical power in its current form.
6/ Barry White – Can”t Get Enough of Your Love
I used to swoon around the lounge to my mum”s Barry White section of her cd collection on repeat.
7/ Lauryn Hill ft. D”Angelo – Nothing Even Matters Such a beautiful song. You JUST get it. Not to mention how stand out brilliant the album it”s from is.
8/ TLC – Creep
It was hard to choose between TLC and Destiny”s Child – who I”m obsessed with – but I had the Crazy Sexy Cool album on cassette before Destiny”s Childs” Writing”s On The Wall, so they win.
Listen to Gemma”s playlist
From 7 April 2012, listen to Gemma Cairney at the weekend, 7am-10am, on BBC Radio 1.
French sweetheart, actress and musician, Stephanie Sokolinski makes emotionally charged and soul searching songs her way. With her debut album I Thought I Was An Alien out now, Twin asked SoKo, to name the nine songs that are important to her…
1/ The Wire: Outdoor Miner
My favourite punk song. It gives me motivation when I”m down. It makes me want to make music!
2/ Youth Lagoon: Afternoon
Afternoon song. I”ve listened to this album so much since it got out. Instant crush kind of music that makes me feel peaceful that makes me travel.
3/ PJ Harvey: The Last English Rose
Favourite track off her new album. I”ve listened to that song on repeat so much! It makes me wanna dance and shout in a mic and wake up in a good mood !
4/ The Shivers: Beauty
So much beauty. The song I wish I wrote. The song I wish someone wrote for me. The feelings I wish someone would have for me.
5/ Talking Heads: Road to Nowhere
My favourite morning song. A smile on my face all day is almost guaranteed if I wake up with Talking Heads!
6/ Kings of Convenience: Winning the Battle, Losing the War
These harmonies…these words…breaks my heart.
7/ My Morning Jacket: Hopefully
“Hopefully it occurs to me that there”s one thing I cant stand. That”s the thought of a single day, without your head in my hand.” Perfect lyrics, perfect love song. My Morning Jacket”s always touch my heart.
8/ Kurt Vile: My Sympathy
Kurt Vile is the one artist I”ve listened to the most this year. I can never get sick of his amazing finger picking…voice.. melodies…lyrics…
9/ Cass McCombs: Full Moon or Infinity
Cass McCombs is the one person I wish I could do music with. This song is the most comforting song I can think of listening to.
If you aren’t already listening to Grimes, then it’s time to catch up. The 23-year-old Montreal based musician, aka Claire Boucher, blurs the lines between singer and producer by making and recording her own records. Delivering influences from lullabies to Nicki Minaj through her lisping four octave range voice, Grimes whispers of vulnerability but is powerfully mesmerising.
Totally committed to the creative process, for her fourth record offering, Visions, Boucher blacked out the windows and merged night with day for three weeks. Oblivion, featuring a compulsively watchable video by Emily Kai Bock, is a floor-filling pop song with shadowy undertones. We love her strong brows and free-spirit style. Look out for Grimes in Twin’s new issue next month.
It was while Dubliner Julie Chance was DJing in a Paris dive bar in 2010 that she encountered Australian Jon Dark. Bonding over shared musical sensibilities, they exchanged records and ideas before booking flights to Berlin and their musical project kool thing was born.
Pulling together musical references from grunge to prog rock, kool thing blends atmospheric synths with new wave bass. Their singe EP Light Games was released earlier this year and they’re currently working on a full-length album.
Twin asked Chance to name her favourite nine tracks right now…
1/ Sinéad O”Connor – Black Boys On Mopeds
Sinéad has a new album out called How About I Be Me (And You Be You) and it”s brilliant. Being born and bred in Dublin I had to include Sinéad. Always outspoken and a head of her time, one of my all time heroines. This song is an oldie but a goodie from the 1990 album I Do Not Want What I Haven”t Got.
2/ Elliott Smith – Angeles
I was first introduced to Elliott Smith when I was visiting New York some years ago. The rawness of his lyrics and the frailty of his voice struck a chord deep inside me that has stayed with me ever since.
3/ The Smiths – Reel Around The Fountain Probably one of my favourite bands of all time. Enough said. This is the first song off their first album.
4/ Nick Drake – River Man While studying photography in Cork I was introduced to Nick Drake by a classmate. I”ve always had a penchant for a sombre song and Nick Drake delivered them in abundance. I fell in love with him instantly.
5/ Judee Sill – The Kiss An ex-girlfriend got me into Judee Sill a few years ago. Judee Sill wrote the most beautiful bewitching songs and could have been as big as Nick Drake if she had been recognised more but wasn”t for whatever reasons. Her life ended prematurely due to drug addiction and we are left with only two albums. This song is from the 1973 album Heart Food.
6/Amy Winehouse – Love Is A Losing Game Another one of my heroines, we lost Amy last summer and she broke my heart along with millions of others. In 2008 students at Cambridge University were asked in their final exams to compare the lyrics of Love Is A Losing Game with Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleigh, Milton and Wordsworth for literary analysis. This YouTube vid is of her performing the song at the Other Voices Festival in Dingle, Ireland in 2006.
7/This Mortal Coil – Sixteen Days/Gathering Dust I don”t even know where I got this from but I have it on vinyl now and I always include it in my DJ sets. I love Cocteau Twins and Elizabeth Fraser”s vocal on this is just haunting.
8/Trust – Candy Walls Moving firmly into the present now, our friend Maya Postepski from Austra just dropped her new album from her other project Trust and I”m really into this track, Candy Walls, its so good!
9/Lower Dens – Brains Lower Dens have a new album coming out in May I think. I loved the first one so I”m pretty excited about the next. This song is from the forthcoming album.
What would you do if a man approached you in the street and asked you to put on his headphones? For 167 out of the 200 people Michael Burdett asked, their response was to listen. What met their ears was a version of Nick Drake’s soaring Cello Song, not heard for over 30 years.
In the Seventies, Burdett was a post-boy at Island Records when he came across a dumped tape intriguingly labelled, “Nick Drake, Cello Song. With love.” It was 20 years before he actually listened to it, discovering an earthy version of Drake’s famed song and another few years passed before he decided what to do with his discovery. Inspiredly, instead of releasing it into the online ether, Burdett travelled the length and breadth of Britian, stopping some famous people and some not on streets, hills and work places to offer them a chance to hear the song. Each time, he took a portrait of the listener.
The results are now on display at the Idea Generation gallery in East London. The Strange Face Project, takes it’s name from the first line of Cello Song and also refers to the expressions Burdett observed of his listeners and a fitting ode to one of music’s lost talents.
The Strange Face Project is at the Idea Generation gallery until Sunday, February 12. ideageneration.co.uk
As an actress, Samantha Morton is known for her arresting performances and as a director, her video for minimalist rock duo The Kills, elicits the same intensity of emotion.
Shot in monochrome 35mm film in a cramped photo booth, the video for their song The Last Goodbye is an exploration of Jamie Hince and Alison Mosshart’s ten year working relationship. Mosshart’s luminous beauty, often hidden behind huge hair and glasses is fully exposed, while her voice tilts beautifully at melancholy notes. While The Kills rarely enjoy the video making premise, the simplicity of Morton’s premise allows Mosshart and Hince’s friendship to be the star.
For our final rewind, Twin names the art shows, books and music that made it big, as well as those waiting to enter centre stage…
Francesca Gavin – Art Editor
For me this has been the year of Mark Leckey – both his solo show at the Serpentine and an hypnotic installation at the Printemps de Septembre in Toulouse. I’ve been obsessed by his work for years and think he has a massive influence on a whole younger generation on artists with his fascination with pop culture, technology, music and screens. I like many others wait with excitement at whatever comes next.
In 2012, I’m really looking forward to surviving the apocalypse and visiting the Marrakech Biennial in February. Some really great artists are in the line up including Aleksandra Domanovic, Jon Nash and Matthew Stone and I think its going to be a fascinating trip.
Elsewhere 176 new monthly programme of emerging artists, Yayoi Kusama and Edvard Munch at the Tate Modern, Rashid Johnson’s big shows at Hauser and Wirth NYC and London throughout the year, Urs Fisher at Palazzo Grassi in Venice, and the Berlin Biennial (which can only be an improvement on two years ago which was uber-dull).
Aimee Farrell – Features Director
In terms of writers in 2011 it has to be Caitlin Moran at the top of the list. How To Be A Woman managed to make feminism funny and accessible.
In 2012 I’m excited about Rachel Cusk. Her Granta essay about life after marriage, which throws a feminist light on the institution of divorce has been developed into a major new work of non-fiction, called Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation. Published by Faber the book will be a series of meditations on women’s mid-lives and family life after divorce.
Last year marked another 12 months of female dominance in the music industry, whether it was Beyonce at Glastonbury or Adele taking America. There were strong albums from the likes of Feist and a great debut from songstress Anika. For me though, the highlight was PJ Harvey storming the Mercury Music Prize for a second time. Let England Shake easily summed up the zeitgeist for 2011 and proved that there are still important albums being made.
For 2012, there’s a feeling it’s going to be the year of the viral superstar. We’ve already had Azealia Banks’ 212 and Lana Del Rey’s Video Games, now we need to hear the albums.
With Christmas over, the party’s only just starting. Twin asked DJ Mia Moretti to serve up some New Year tunes to launch us into 2012. Originally from Oakland, the 27-year-old currently resides in New York and plays parties and fashion shows across the globe. “My highlight of 2011 was playing inside the I.M. Pei pyramid at Louvre,” she says. “I can’t wait to hear new original music in 2012.”
On New Year’s Eve she’ll be spinning tracks at The Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas opening for Stevie Wonder. Twin asked Mia for her nine must have tracks…
1/ HOLY GHOST! – I Wanted To Tell Her This cover of Ministry’s early 80s hit with both Nancy Whang and Juan MacLean featured on the track (and in the video) is the perfect combination of throw-back jam and nu-disco. What a way to start 2012, right?
2/ KATE BUSH – Wuthering Heights A lot of people hate Kate Bush, but I think she sounds like a sweet angel calling from heaven.
3/ STEVIE WONDER – Do I Do On NYE I’ll be in Las Vegas opening for Stevie Wonder, this is one of my all time favourites.
4/ JESSICA 6 – White Horse If I had to pick a band of the year, it would be Jessica 6. This track was released in the beginning of 2011, but it is just as current, if not more, than it was a year ago. Its touches of funk, disco-pop, & filtered house make it an instant classic.
5/ MIDNIGHT MAGIC – Beam Me Up (Jacques Renault Remix) Everything Jacques Renault remixes has a nice disco feel, but this track is especially dancey and extremely catchy.
6/ LITTLE DRAGON – Ritual Union (Tensnake Remix) It’s the year of the Dragon, so I thought this Little Dragon track was appropriate.
7/ DJ MIA MORETTI & CAITLIN MOE – So Beautiful (Sex Ray Vision Remix) This is my debut single, it was just released last week. Here’s a sexy remix from a couple of kids that go to Stanford and make intellectual dance music. Just kidding, I made that last part up.
8/ MAYER HAWTHORNE – No Strings (Classixx Original) Mayer Hawthorne is also playing the NYE show I am playing with Stevie Wonder. He’s been on tour opening up for Chromeo, his live show is a treat if you ever have a chance to see it. This remix is by two of my favorite LA DJs, Classixx.
9/ FLEETWOOD MAC – The Chain I hope that in 2012 you break all the bad chain and latch together all the good chains in your life.
The festive season always gets musicians in a flurry of Yule spirit and this year there’s been no shortage of Christmas song offerings from the likes of Dog is Dead and She & Him. Twin’s favourite is by Summer Camp, who for a second year running has proffered a special Christmas prezzie to fans.
This year it’s a simply smashing mash up of Paul McCartney’s Wonderful Christmas Time and Mariah’s classic karaoke high-hitter All I Want For Christmas Is You. Featuring Eighties synth and Elizabeth Sankey’s signature cool vocals it’s all we want to listen to on Christmas Day.
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