Keyword results: Beats

Favela Strikes Back

15th Feb 06
Release: Live
To Cure: A quiet weekend

Listening to Diplo’s second selection of Baile funk tracks, Favela Strikes Back, isn’t dissimilar to being woken up by your mum screaming through a megaphone straight into your hungover head. But once you get over the combination of Miami bass and frantic, shouted Portuguese vocals, it’s also as refreshing as a bowl of fruit loops.

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Everything Ecstatic

21st Dec 05
Release: Album
To Cure: Hypertension

A glance at the Everything Ecstatic cover art might make us think that Four Tet has suffered from an Art Attack. Whether or not blip-wizard Kieran Hebden did get down and dirty with some acrylic paint, however, is irrelevant – Everything Ecstatic is an album much more challenging than turning your name into a neon sign but every bit as ace.

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Un Joli Mix Pour Toi

24th Aug 05

Chromeo, Chromeo, where fort art thou Chromeo?

Right here it would seem, with a massive mix to slap you out of your slumber and to stop your painful pining. Featuring Sharon Redd, Kleer, Jellybean, Herbie Hancock, Warp 9 and even Robert Palmer and Modern Romance Montreal's Chromeo are as eclectic as they are cool.

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