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It’s not even Christmas yet, but the organisers of Field Day have just announced the first wave of act for their sixth festival, taking place in London’s Victoria Park on June 2, 2012.
Full details have emerged of Glass Swords, the long awaited debut album from Glaswegian producer Rustie, which is due to drop in October through Warp Records.
Exciting details have just emerged of Glasgow beatsmith Hudson Mohawke’s imminent return to live performance.
Hot tips Egyptian Hip Hop will release their debut EP, titled Some Reptiles Grew Wings, on September 20 through ace UK indie Moshi Moshi, with Juno Plus favourite Hudson Mohawke responsible for knob twiddling duties.
Artist: Dan Deacon
Title: Woof Woof
Label: Amazing Sounds
Genre: Broken Beat/Nu Jazz
Format: 12″, Digital
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Technicolour writer and producer Dan Deacon is possibly one of the most unique sounding musicians in the world. A credible and unpretentious exponent of avant-garde pop, he dazzles both on record and at live shows, where Deacon typically performs amongst the crowd armed with a table full of gadgets and pedals, as well as a mic. Anyone yet to be exposed to his sound would get the vibe from hearing “Woof Woof”, which features layers of manipulated and pitch-shifted vocals, a slowly rising Farfisa organ and drums that build and stack on top of each other to create a joyous orgy of sounds by the end.
Reigning in the wildness somewhat is a mix by Glaswegian golden boy Hudson Mohawke, who turns in a mix that’s strangely conventional for him. Not that that’s a bad thing at all, his take on “Woof Woof” is a gem – full of twisted loops of acoustic guitar, wildly pitched-up vocals and live drums. London duo Allez Allez are also let loose on the opening track of Deacon’s Bromst album, “Build Voice”, and create a powerful and epic nu-italo backing for it – with some impressively heavy synth work making it instantly loveable. A stalwart on James Holden’s Border Community label, Luke Abbott takes on “Surprise Stefani” to round off the EP, and stays true to Deacon’s fondness for elegantly building a song continuously to a huge climax.
Review: Oliver Keens
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Every month Juno collates the charts and glowing reviews from the world’s leading music magazines. Here’s a summary of the picks for November:
Artist: Hudson Mohawke
Title: Butter
Label: Warp Records
Genre: Leftfield
Format: Digital, 2 x LP
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The keenly anticipated debut from Hudson Mohawke is one of the most arresting albums of 2009. It’s hard to put a finger on the young Glaswegian’s style – there’s traces of dubstep, hip-hop, R & B and electronica strewn across the album, without any apparent regard for established musical patterns.
The result is fascinating – a restless, out-of-phase ride that heads in one direction, darts to the next, before coming back again. Hud Mo – a former DMC champ in his teenage years – could be the dubstep/hip-hop equivalent of Warp Records stable mate Jackson & His Computer Band – himself a true master of glitchy, cut and paste electronica.
Review: Aaron Coultate
