Mum Announces New Album Details

Music fans should be constantly thanking their lucky stars that Iceland exists. Between the religious experience of Sigur Ros’ made-up language, the timeless vocal workouts of Björk, and the groundbreaking dance sounds of GusGus, the island country has given us plenty to get psyched about—so get ready for more. The soft-spoken and atmospheric múm is set to release it’s fifth proper record, Sing Along to Songs You Don’t Know, this September via Morr Music/Euphono, and it comes two years in the making. The album’s press release describes the work as a “more relaxed and quietly sad” album—a description fitting of the band’s entire career. And the tracklisting looks just as sweetly strange as múm themselves.

Tracklisting:

1. If I Were a Fish
2. Sing Along
3. Prophecies and Reversed Memories
4. A River Don’t Stop to Breathe
5. The Smell of Today is Sweet Like Breastmilk in the Wind
6. Show Me
7. Húllabbalabbalúú
8. Blow Your Nose
9. Kay-ray-kú-kú-kó-kex
10. The Last Shapes of Never
11. Illuminated
12. Ladies of the New Century

Omar Faruk Tekbilek “Hasret (Flosstradamus remix)”

This destined dancefloor hit from Turkish import Omar Faruk Tekbilek bangs, clanks, and hisses—just like the steam press he used to operate before he turned his sights away from the clothing factory and locked them onto the music circuit. Luckily, J2K and Autobot of Flosstradamus were two of several producers to get their paws on his tunes for the recently released Rare Elements remix album, and as we expected, they have crunked it up a bit.

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Lopazz & Casio Casino Ambient Film Themes Vol. 1

Showcasing highlights from the film/documentary music that Berlin-based producers Stefan Eichinger (Lopazz) and Steffen Neuert (Casio Casino) have recorded for Along Mekong Productions over the last decade, this follow-up to—or, rather, digression from—Lopazz’s debut Kook Kook does what it says on the tin and does so with some panache. Apparently the two producers have recorded around 45 soundtracks, making music in Ecuador, China, Brazil, Lebanon, and Mongolia, but the tracks on this collection are nicely unified by a downbeat ambiance and gentle playfulness. As the “digital album” status might suggest, Ambient Film Themes Vol. 1 is nice rather than necessary—it’s a curio albeit an oft-lovely one.

DJ JS-1 “Nuthin”

DJ JS-1 of the world famous Rock Steady Crew has been a bright, pulsating blip pinging across the hip-hop radar as of late and this track from the second installment of his Ground Original series is the proof in the pudding. This jazzed-up number has Brother Ali, CL Smooth, and Sadat X flexing microphone muscles, as JS-1 gets busy on the ones and twos.

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Inbox: Major Lazer

This time around, XLR8R comes pon some dense lingo from Major Lazer, the playful persona of DJs Diplo and Switch. The two wax Jamaican about topics ranging from DJing New York to vending-machine jerk chicken to… burning hair with lazers at a show. Major Lazer’s debut full-length, Guns Don’t Kill People… Lazers Do, is out now on Downtown.

XLR8R: What are you listening to right now?

Major Lazer: Right now me there in me yard a listen Tokyo Bossa Nova Lounge—mad people ting.

What’s the weirdest story you ever heard about yourself?
Boy, me read a couple reports pon de internet where people a chat about me as “imaginary” and that sort of ting. Laugh me a laugh!

What band did you want to be in when you were 15?

As a youth, me did live for be in a band called The Gaylads. Them there pon Google, seen?

Worst live show experience?

Boy, one time me there in Ochi in an outdoors ting, and me go for “Bust a Blank” and forget about me lazer—burn off a bun of one Rasta woman hair, see me! She nuh too like it.

Favorite city to play in?
Me love DJ a New York. Them vibes, they you can’t get in any other city, see me?

How was the Major Lazer character initially conceptualized?
Me a no blood clot character, boss. Why you chat to me, so?

What is your favorite thing you own?

Me have lazer arms. What you think?

Name one item of clothing you can’t live without.
Me Zumbi war beret.

Do you have a favorite song on the new album?
Me love the song “Can’t Stop Now” with Mr. Vegas and Jovi Rockwell.

What did you always get in trouble for when you were little?

As a youth, me used to run away in the nighttime for go take me uncle’s DJ soundsystem. Me grandmother never really dealt too tough with them tings.

What other artist would you most like to work with?

Me would have liked for deal with Shabba [Ranks] or one of them youths. Them men are legends. Them put reggae and dancehall music on an international stage, see me?

What’s the last thing you read?

“NO PARKING”

Complete this sentence: In the future…

Man can buy jerk chicken from a machine—like a candy bar.

Stupidest thing you’ve done in the last 12 months?

Me lend the fool boy Diplo one pair a shoes, and now me have to wear flipflops to go to church on Sunday.

What’s next?

Guns Don’t Kill People…AutoTune Does

Nickodemus Sun People

This Turntables on the Hudson co-founder has proven abilities when it comes to mixing polyglot grooves into something inviting and original that doesn’t trip itself up with too many clichés. Yet with Sun People, Nickodemus fails to drop any brilliant beats, instead creating a solid but by no means exemplary album. But his grooves work like cold beer in the sunshine, a simple pleasure that could become undeniable over time. Tracks like the sauntering “Calle Sol” or “weRISEweFALLweRISE,” featuring winding clarinets from the New York Gypsy Allstars, are animated but never demand attention. This subtle album won’t automatically take a subconscious hold of sun-soaked partiers, but you could do much worse.

Captured Tracks Festival Starts Today

Those of you without a beach to comb or a BBQ to raid this holiday weekend might want to detour over to the Bushwick neighborhood in Brooklyn. That’s because the folks at Woodsist and Captured Tracks have got a special two-day fest coming your way and the line-up is absolutely killer. Noiseniks and all can get their fazers set to stun as hitmakers from the Woodsist/Captured Tracks ilk zap some fuzz and scuzz straight to your skull. With acts such as Crystal Stilts, Thee Oh Sees, Blank Dogs, Tyvek, Woods, Kurt Vile, and Psychedelic Horseshit making the sojourn, we can’t think of a better way to waste your money ($27 for both days or $15 per day at the door). Just make sure you don’t miss out on fireworks. Fun kicks off today at 4 p.m. at 979 Broadway Backyard.

pictured Crystal Stilts

Steve Bug Collaboratory

Hot on the heels of a recent singles compilation, house legend Steve Bug unleashes yet another soon-to-be-classic on his Poker Flat imprint in Collaboratory—an album that lives up to its title and finds Bug building one solid alliance after another alongside Paris the Black Fu of Detroit Grand Pubahs, Cassy and Clé of Märtini Brös., Donnacha Costello, and Simon Flower. Bug’s pairing with singer Virginia on the track “Trust in Me” has personally triggered way too many carnal cravings for a sweat-soaked romp with the latter, as it sloshes a thick, jellied coat of dub-house over a batter of funk-charged rhythms and slow, pulsating beats. Here’s to more of those from Bug in the future.

Boy In Static “Starlet (Freezepop remix)”

The new wave revivalists in Beantown’s Freezepop take aim and fire at the second single from Boy In Static’s latest longplayer, Candy Cigarette, spraying it down with a cool wash of ’80s synth veneer that harkens back to the golden days of New Order and the Factory Records gang.

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