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Weekend Music: A W E – Crystals

Some pretty interesting music here from A W E. First, the lush, slow, melodic original to wind down from your long-ass week. – wait 5 minutes – And now, the pumped-up, half-time, almost-hardcore, “wait – is that Japanese?” version –...

Cloud Control

Weekend Catch Up! Cloud Control

Filed under: another awesome piece of music that we missed in 2013. A spacey pop band from The Blue Mountains in NSW Australia, Cloud Control released a mind-blowingly good album called Dream Cave in August 2013. If you’re from Australia,...

Weekend Music: Tessela – Gateway

This song by Tessela is a lesson in the power of percussion. Ultimately, that’s all dance music is. Percussion. Whatever other trends are driving the kids nuts; whatever vocals, synths, sounds; it’s all completely irrelevant. All that matters, in dancemusic,...

Weekend Music: Wayward – Marvin VIP

UK’s Wayward has made a gorgeous mess of the Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell Classic Ain’t Nothin’ LIke the Real Thing. This is actually a remix of a remix (here’s the original version) – putting good modern use to one of the...

Jingle Cats - Meowy Christmas

A Dissertation on Jingle Cats

Twitter: @PeteHatesMusic One day in 1992, Mike Spalla quit his job to dedicate himself wholeheartedly to his craft – his music. As we celebrate the 20th anniversary of his first release (1993), it bears mentioning that he has been played on...

Weekend Music: M.I.A – Y.A.L.A

Awesome new music from M.I.A. has been leaking and bubbling out over the past few months from her new album Matangi. I don’t love all of M.I.A’s tracks, but every one of her albums has at least 2 or 3...