Minotaur Shock

....is amazing live. Just went to see him in Brixton. very very special.

Wale - New Soul

I usually don't go in for hip-hop and this tune has been blogged to death, but I thought it was worth putting up as a great example of how to re-invent a sample and build a tune round it.

This is an excellent VJ Mix for Joy Orbison's remix of Love Cry by Four Tet.

It was performed by a friend of mine, Steve King.

Four Tet - Love Cry (Joy Orbison remix) - VJ MIX from Heartbeat on Vimeo.

You gotta love Kompakt

Another heinously massive track off the new Kompakt Total 10 compilation...the drop at 4:45 screams aural orgasm

The Antlers - Kettering

This song utterly blew me away. I had to lie down with the lights off the first time I heard it...Achingly raw, beautiful melancholy.

The Antlers - Kettering

Here's a great live performance too:

Ninja Tune

Happy New Year!

I'm delighted to be able to announce that I signed to Ninja Tune just before Christmas. Ninja are a fantastic label with a great history, and have been one of my favourite labels for a long time, so I'm over the moon that they saw something in the music I've been making. They have some mindblowingly good artists, including The Cinematic Orchestra, Bonobo, Mr. Scruff and Roots Manuva, it really is a huge priviledge to be able to join them.

There's the pesky matter of a degree to finish first, but I'm starting recording in earnest in the summer and hopefully the first album will be out early 2011. I'll keep you updated! In the meantime I'm going to be redesigning the PRDCTV website to be less crap when I get a minute, and carry on running Geometric of course...Jack's EP is out soon, it's sounding big!

Alex

DJ Koze - 40 Love

Bet you've never heard a game of tennis made into minimal techno eh...