Song of the Day: Uplifting, surging, dynamic electronica and dance in this collaboration between the British producer, DJ and artist Orlando Higginbottom and his Lisbon-based contemporary Luis Clara Gomes
Read moreSong of the Day: Metric - Just the Once
Metric
Song of the Day: Described by the Canadian band as regret disco, and a song for when you need to dance yourself clean, ‘once’ is an ambiguous term in this catchy, clean indie-electro pop by the four-piece
Read moreSong of the Day: Yard Act - The Trench Coat Museum
Yard Act
Song of the Day: The Leeds post-punk quartet return with a blistering new single about constant social shifts in perception, ownership and recognition through the metaphor of a classic piece of clothing, with frontman James Smith’s biting lyrics alongside a driving dance-punk energy
Read moreSong of the Day: N'Deko - Exile
N'Deko: Falle Nioke and Joe Goddard. Photo by Louise Mason
Song of the Day: A mightily catchy and soulful fusion of West Africa folk and London electronica as Guinea singer Falle Nioke joins up with Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard in their debut single, one about Falle’s melancholy in missing his homeland
Read moreSong of the Day: Aphex Twin - Blackbox Life Recorder 21f
Aphex Twin - Blackbox Life Recorder 21f
Song of the Day: Fabulously oddball and mesmeric electronica by the legendary British pioneer Richard James, who returns with his first music for five years, part of a double A-side single ‘Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room F760’ out on 28 July via Warp Records
Read moreSong of the Day: Quantic - Run (featuring Andreya Triana)
Quantic and Andreya Triana: Run
Song of the Day: Prolific British musician and producer Will Holland returns with a rapturous disco number with his trademark mix of Latin and African grooves, funk and jazz, here also featuring the wonderful soulful delivery and co-writing of the singer from south London
Read moreSong of the Day: Jessica Winter - Choreograph (Limerence EP)
Jessica Winter
Song of the Day: Stylish, classy, genre-spanning, passionate pop by the soaring voiced singer-songwriter from south London from her latest EP, Limerence, wrestling various perspectives on the difficulties of love. Out on Lucky Number Music
Read moreSong of the Day: Say She She - C'est Si Bon
Say She She - C'est Si Bon
Song of the Day: Written in classic hot summer 70s disco, funk and soul vibe, complete with cheeky tinkly bell, a tribute to that era’s club culture with a flavours of Paris, London and New York’s Chic by the Brooklyn female-led band. Out on Colemine Records
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Song of the Day: Florian Picasso - The Edge
Song of the Day: Florian Picasso - The Edge
Song of the Day: After yesterday’s Surusinghe number, a Saturday offering of dynamic and mesmeric electro-house dance music comes from the charismatic Vietnam-born, Cannes-based DJ and producer, who is also the great grandson of the famous Spanish artist Pablo Picasso
Read moreSong of the Day: Surusinghe - Skit
Surusinghe
Song of the Day: A lively snap track for Friday packed with clever, innovative, intricately woven stop-start electronica, breaks, beats, sharp bass lines, textures and percussion in this latest single by the Naarm/Melbourne-born, London-based artist from her forthcoming new EP
Read moreSong of the Day: Sahalé - Djiin
From the cover of Sahalé’s Best, the album out on Inner Symphony
Song of the Day: A mesmeric piece of crisp, calming, meditative Middle East-inspired electronica by the artist Dimitri Tadeusz Wolski, from a new compilation out of Berlin label Inner Symphony, Sahalé’s Best
Read moreSong of the Day: La Féline - Dancing
La Féline’s latest album, Tarbes
Song of the Day: Smooth, supercool, catchy French disco pop and funk for a Saturday by Lyon’s singer-songwriter Agnès Gayraud, also French philosopher and journalist who graces a range of styles
Read moreSong of the Day: Underworld - And The Colour Red
Underworld - And The Colour Red
Song of the Day: British electronic dance music veterans Karl Hyde and Rick Smith return with a mesmeric, infectiously brilliant banger filled with oddball phrased-in sounds and gnomic phrases
Read moreSong of the Day: The Blessed Madonna - We Still Believe
Going back to go forward: The Blessed Madonna’s new version of We Still Believe
Song of the Day: Fabulously uplifting celebration of inclusive club culture and rejection of intolerance and fascism with in new version of an older track by the American DJ, producer and musician Marea Stamper, joined by Chicago house legend Jamie Principle
Read moreSong of the Day: Debby Friday - So Hard To Tell
Debby Friday
Song of the Day: Breaking out of a harsh, crash-smash electronica opening, this self-chiding number by the Toronto-based singer and rapper morphs into a beautiful, graceful soulful number and comes from her forthcoming album, Good Luck
Read moreSong of the Day: The Psychotic Monks - Crash
The Psychotic Monks from Paris
Song of the Day: A striking, menacing, dark, hypnotic fusion of electronica, techno, post-punk and industrial noise, with reversed sounds and shades of Underworld by French band in a song about exhaustion on tour and mental health within the music industry
Read moreSong of the Day: Villager - Lemons
The new Villager EP, Blind Eye
Song of the Day: Juicily enthralling, shapeshifting electronica by the artist Alex Young from the recent EP, Blind Eye, with a special twist on techno with soundscapes that strip down into syncopated rhythms and shuffling garage hi-hats. Out on Pretty Weird
Read moreSong of the Day: Alison Goldfrapp and Claptone - Digging Deeper
Alison Goldfrapp & Claptone’s collaborative single
Song of the Day: Building gradually into an irresistibly dancey, breathy, sensual rave disco by the legendary singer joined here by the German DJ and producer duo
Read moreSong of the Day: Future Utopia - We Were We Still Are (featuring Kae Tempest)
Kae Tempest with Fraser T Smith aka Future Utopia
Song of the Day: “We built this city on what we stole, and then it ate us whole..” With brilliant lyrics and delivery by Kae Tempest, a fabulous surf-style guitar and beats, the title track from the forthcoming EP by the British super-producer Fraser T Smith
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