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SUNDAY NIGHT GROOVES

Every Sunday, we curate a batch of eclectic tracks for your listening pleasure. This weekend, we couldn’t have asked for better weather in Philly. We’re taking our inspiration from the warm days for this week’s playlist with new tunes from Aussie producer Paces, British artists Disclosure x Friend Within, LA duo Scavenger Hunt, mysterious LA trio DESSERT, rapper Kwane x singer Margot x producer BOOTS, London’s A-Minor, Melbourne’s Hoodlem, Toronto’s PARTYNEXTDOOR, London duo Alpines, British singer Kwabs, Pittsburgh’s Emerson Jay, and LA based artist ZHU. Enjoy …

  1. Paces - Can’t Touch Me Feat. Madeline Vida [d/l]
  2. Disclosure x Friend Within - The Mechanism
  3. Scavenger Hunt - Bones
  4. DESSERT - Player
  5. Kwane - Into The Gray (feat. Margot) [prod. by BOOTS]
  6. Bipolar Sunshine - Where Did The Love Go (A-Minor Remix)
  7. Hoodlem - Old Friend
  8. PARTYNEXTDOOR - West District [d/l]
  9. Alpines - No Other Lover
  10. Kwabs - Something Right
  11. Emerson Jay - Feelz You [d/l]
  12. ZHU - Paradise Awaits

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SUNDAY NIGHT GROOVES

Every Sunday we curate a playlist of eclectic tracks for your listening pleasure. We suggest enjoying this one with a glass of wine and an open mind.

  1. Star Slinger - I/IV [d/l]
  2. Sam Smith - Nirvana (Until The Ribbon Breaks Re-Imagination)
  3. James Vincent McMorrow - Red Dust
  4. Ella Eyre - Love Me Like You
  5. Sampha - Happens (SevnthWonder Edit)
  6. Disclosure - Latch (DJ Premier Remix)
  7. Wake Owl - Candy
  8. Young Fathers - War

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A CHAT WITH DISCLOSURE - PART 1 I caught up with London-based electronic music duo Disclosure – brothers Guy Lawrence and Howard Lawrence – before their show at Union Transfer in Philly for an interview for our friends at Pigeons & Planes. We talked...

A CHAT WITH DISCLOSURE - PART 1

I caught up with London-based electronic music duo Disclosure – brothers Guy Lawrence and Howard Lawrence – before their show at Union Transfer in Philly for an interview for our friends at Pigeons & Planes. We talked electronic music, the duo’s current life on the road, their upcoming album, and their one wish.

What influence has London’s underground music scene had on your musical taste and production?

Guy: We started making music because of what was happening in the underground. In 2008/2009, dubstep was fully involved in England in all the clubs, house wasn’t really that relevant anymore, and garage, U.K. garage had gone away a long time ago. Garage—that means something else here, doesn’t it?

Howard:  Yeah, I think they call it two-step.

Yeah, dubstep here has taken on a different meaning to some people too. Think Skrillex.

Howard: That’s what dubstep is now.

Guy:  Yeah, that’s what dubstep is now. Basically, dubstep was good in the U.K.  In America, it’s not what we know dubstep as. Dubstep in America, it’s more aggressive, a bit more shoutier, like rock music.

Howard:  Like rock music.

Guy:  Like death metal.  When we were first listening to dubstep, it was more like dub, reggae dub. I was listening to Skream, Benga, Mala, and Loefah. They were the main pioneers. When I turned 18, that’s what I started hearing in clubs. Later, I went out to a few house raves and I realized that house music was much more the type of music I wanted to make. So I went home and showed Howard. At first, we started out by copying the people who were around then. Skip forward four years to now and we are probably making music that sounds a lot more retro and older. We wanted to know where those guys who were playing modern house music got their sound from and what their influences were, and now their influences have sort of become our influences. Old Detroit techno, old Detroit house, old Chicago house, that’s what it all leads back to. If you get into dance music, you always end up there—listening to old house music.

After you heard house music, is that when you felt compelled to make your own music?

Guy: Well, we had always made music. We started playing instruments when we were very young. Our parents got us into playing music. I’ve played the drums and guitar since I was 3 years old. Howard plays bass and piano.They didn’t get us into dance music, they just got us into playing.
 
Howard: We’ve always been in music, always. But hearing that Detroit stuff, dubstep, and the newer house stuff, it made us want to make songs in that format but not necessarily that type of music. There are club songs and then songs in the style of club songs, which is kind of what we make. Like “Latch” isn’t really a house song, it’s a song that’s produced like a house song.

Disclosure feat. Sam Smith – “Latch”

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PACES FOR PORTADELPHIA

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Australian producer Mikey Perry has been on his grind. Under solo moniker Paces, he’s been releasing future bass and trip hop tracks while touring alongside the likes of TNGHT, Kaytranada, and Ryan Hemsworth. He also continues to release hip hop-leaning tracks and tour as part of production duo Surecut Kids.

Perry first caught our ears under his Paces moniker with his remix of YesYou’s “Frivolous Life.” Later, we fell in love with his Pact EP.  Now, we’re happy to learn the feeling is mutual as he’s made us an exclusive mixtape. Clocking in at 20+ minutes, this mini-mix is filled with party-starting dance tracks and smooth sounds so as not to overheat you.

Check out the tracklist and get to know Paces below.

Tracklist:

  1. Chiefs - I Just Been (Drinking, Smoking)
  2. FKi X Dj Sliink - AMDAM IV 
  3. PACES - LEAVE (Palace Remix)
  4. SNAKEHIPS - Make it 
  5. Trippy Turtle - Southside Deep 
  6. FKi, Natasha Mosley & Alkebulan - We Might (PACES Bootleg) 
  7. Ta-Ku - I Miss You

[D/L]

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How did you get into music?

As a kid, my dad used to take me surfing all the time. He was into NWA for a while so we used to blast it on the way to the beach. I was fascinated by all the swear words but it was also the start of my love affair with hip hop and the many genres that it opened the door to.

You’re from Australia’s Gold Coast. What’s the music scene like there? [Also, will you send us a pic of your favorite beach?]

Australia has a good music scene overall. If someone like me can make a decent living from music, I really can’t complain. Although some places are better than others. On the Gold Coast where I live there is just nothing at all for my type of music. But if you travel to Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, etc. you’ll find really strong, diverse music scenes.

Here’s a pic of my favourite beach - the one straight in front of my home.

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Who are your influences? Are you influenced by your contemporaries? 

I’m influenced by so many people, constantly. Sometimes if i’m stuck on a song I’ll listen to 20 seconds of whatever song is at the top of my iTunes and often i’ll find inspiration in that. It’s a good way to break out of writers block. But as far as specific people who influence me at the moment, these guys: Cashmere Cat, Ta-Ku, Lunice.

Who would you most like to collaborate with?

The person who I’d most like to collab with is Beth Gibbons from Portishead. They’ve been my favourite group since I was 16 years old. If I ever did get the opportunity to have her sing on a track I’m sure I’d find it hugely intimidating!

What’s next for you?

I’ve just finished a new single so that should be out in the world in the near future, followed by another live tour. I’ve got a few collabs underway too. Plenty of projects to keep me busy!

If you could have one wish, what would it be? 

Just that my friends and family would always be safe, healthy and content. Is that counted as one wish or three?

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A CHAT WITH MATHS TIME JOY Tim Worthington makes electronic music under the moniker Maths Time Joy. If you haven’t already, check out his excellent Valentines Mix here. Portadelphia: What/who was your inspiration for the valentines mix? Maths Time...

A CHAT WITH MATHS TIME JOY

Tim Worthington makes electronic music under the moniker Maths Time Joy. If you haven’t already, check out his excellent Valentines Mix here.

Portadelphia: What/who was your inspiration for the valentines mix?

Maths Time Joy: I guess the inspiration was a lot of 90s rnb influenced music, there’s kind of a resurgence recently of music from that era which is cool.

Portadelphia: Your sound is pretty sexy/seductive, how did that sound evolve?

Maths Time Joy: Thanks, it’s never been a conscious decision to make music that sounds sexy. I always try and make music with soul to it, and I guess having elements of rnb will always come off in that way.

Portadelphia: Coming off the success of your [free] Hideaway EP, what’s next for you? (I think you’re 22 at this point, right?)

Maths Time Joy: I’m 23 now, there’s a few different things I’m working on right now, I want to put out a single next on a label. I’ve also been doing a few remixes recently, and working on some production for other people. I want to get into producing for other people more, that’s something I’ve always been into alongside being an artist myself.

Portadelphia: If you could have one wish, what would it be?

Maths Time Joy: I guess it would be to be able to do this for a living, getting paid for doing what I love.

Check out Maths Time Joy’s back catalogue here and look out for more music from this rising producer. He’s one to watch in 2013.

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A CHAT WITH DISCLOSURE - PART 2 What kind of music did you listen to when you were growing up? Guy: To be honest, when I was young, I rarely listened to music for enjoyment; I listened just to learn how to play my instruments. It wasn’t until I was...

A CHAT WITH DISCLOSURE - PART 2

What kind of music did you listen to when you were growing up?

Guy: To be honest, when I was young, I rarely listened to music for enjoyment; I listened just to learn how to play my instruments. It wasn’t until I was like 14 or 15 when I started listening to hip-hop that I started listening for pleasure and got into the way that those guys made beats. It would be just 8 bars and I thought it was weird because my whole life I had been listening to verse, chorus, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, middle 8, chorus. But in hip-hop you just make eight bars and I thought, “Wow, that’s really easy” so I started producing beats – just beats. I was listening to things like DJ Premier and Gang Starr and basically everyone that J Dilla had produced but I didn’t know then that it was one guy that produced all of it. When I found out I was just like, “This guy is incredible.”

Yeah, Dilla is fantastic.

Guy: Cool. There’s a guy called JayLotus on soundcloud. Basically, he just loves J Dilla and Flying Lotus and he just copies them.

Fly Lo is going to be here in a couple of weeks.

Guy: Really? Damn. I’ve only seen him once. I’d love to see him again.

Howard: Yeah, when we were growing up, we just listened to music to learn to play our instruments. Guy would listen to prog rock that had amazing drumming in it. I was listening to funk and jazz because that music has the best bass in it.

Do you have friends that are in music and if so, do they have any influence on you?

Guy: None of my old childhood friends are musicians really. I used to be in a band with some mates from college. We just played like house parties and stuff like that but it never really went anywhere.

Howard: I think it does effect us though because we do make songs that we think our friends will like.

What are your strengths and weaknesses versus his strengths and weaknesses and how do you go about combining your strengths?

Howard: I do more of the chords and melodies and lyrics. This guy [pointing to Guy] hates writing lyrics. [Laughs] He usually does the drums and the production. But we both do a bit of everything.

Guy: Yeah, sometimes, Howard will do a whole song and I will just mix it for him. Other times, I will make a whole song, sampling and everything, and then give it to Howard to see what he thinks.

Artful Dodger - Please Don’t Turn Me On (Disclosure Remix)

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A CHAT WITH DISCLOSURE - PART 3 Your album is dropping this spring, right? Guy: Yes, we’re going to drop the album in June. We’ll have a full-length release in the U.K. and then an EP in the U.S. We don’t know all the full details because we haven’t...

A CHAT WITH DISCLOSURE - PART 3

Your album is dropping this spring, right?

Guy: Yes, we’re going to drop the album in June. We’ll have a full-length release in the U.K. and then an EP in the U.S. We don’t know all the full details because we haven’t had the meeting yet but that’s the plan.

Do you have a working title for the album yet?

Guy: Not yet. We will probably call the EP something simple like “The Singles.” Nothing amazing. But the album title, we’re still fighting about that.

Do you live together back home?

Howard: I live at my girlfriend’s house.

Guy: I still live at home. We haven’t had time to move out. I haven’t even seen my mom for like a month. We’ve just been so busy.

Do you guys work out, try to stay healthy while you’re on the road?

Guy: No. I’m very unhealthy. I drink a lot of beer, do a lot of partying.

Howard: I keep saying I’m going to join a gym but like he said, we just haven’t been home in such a long time.

I’m thinking about joining this yoga class where they heat the room to 110 degrees.

Guy: Oh, so you sweat it all out.

Howard: Ugh. That sounds awful.

Guy: I’ll start exercising when I’m fat, let it build for a while. [Laughs]

I know you have to get ready to go on stage in a few minutes so final question: If you could have one wish, what would it be?

Howard: I would go for the ability to spawn objects—like money and beer.

Guy: That is a good one. I would choose the ability to fly.

Howard: Yeah, to fly, that’s a good one too.

Are you changing your answer?

Howard: No, I would just spawn a hover board.

Guy: That’s not a real thing. You can’t spawn things that don’t exist.

Howard: Says who? Are you making the rules now? [Laughs]

Catch the delightful Disclosure brothers on tour, including at Coachella, Primavera Sound, Sasquatch, and several other festivals around the globe. Dates here.

Disclosure feat. AlunaGeorge – White Noise

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