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How was your year? Did you fall below the poverty line? Did you occupy something? Did you punch a Tea Partyer in the groin for ensuring the American Dream may forever languish behind your fading childhood memories? Maybe you lost your job because of real-life pressures or perhaps you stopped watching The X Factor and started recording your own shit. Whatever you did, here’s a few songs you might not have heard this year, because clearly you suck:
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News of any new Burial music is treated in some circles like mana from heaven, and it’s hard to argue with the believers. This 2+ minutes snippet taken from Rinse.FM is presumably off the dubstep deity’s forthcoming Kindred EP on Hyperdub. It’s undoubtedly Burial, but perhaps a touch more baroque than his typical minimalist tone. Either way, it’s a beauty.
Last week, the b-side of Massive Attack’s collaboration with Burial, “Four Walls,” sent chills up the back of our necks. Now we get to hear the flipside, a reworking of “Paradise Circus” off of their Heligoland album. And while it might not send shivers like the listening, it’s definitely stands as a worth companion to “Four Walls.” Maybe Burial needs to remix and entire Massive Attack album ala Mad Professors version of Protection.
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Radiohead seem to have come to a new point in their storied career, where their own music seems almost secondary to the fact that they bring a constant awareness of new sounds to a mass audience that might not otherwise invest the time in finding new music themselves.
To that end, Thom Yorke took to the mixing board for this week’s BBC 6Mix with a two hour selection of songs that are “inspiring” him right now. And while there’s a lot of obvious selections in the set—J Dilla, Caribou, Jamie XX, Flying Lotus—the real tresures are found in the inclusion of artists such as Dabrye, Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbaur, Tapes and Steve Poindexter, whose music flies under all but the most dedicated music fan’s radar.
There is also of course selections from the recently released TKOL 1234567 remix collection, as well as a not before heard “club” mix of Jamie XX’s version of Radiohead’s “Bloom.”
You can glance the tracklist after the jump and stream the full session on the BBC website.
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No one would expect a collaboration between the moodiest of moody dubsteppers, Burial, and perpetually paranoid trip-hoppers Massive Attack to be a barrel of laughs. But this 12-minute epic takes the sound of both artists into depths we rarely hear.
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