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Out of stockThe debut solo album from Kenny Beats, released on 27th January 2023 Though best known for producing seminal albums for some of the world’s most exciting artists (Vince Staples, IDLES, Rico Nasty), on LOUIE Kenny subverts expectations with an almost entirely instrumental artist record that acts as a deeply personal tribute to...
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Out of stockNamed after their infamous Brixton club night, Rooty's release in 2001 saw Basement Jaxx continue to push the boundaries of pop and club music Basement Jaxx ·...
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The duo's long-awaited debut album is one of the most assured, propulsive full-lengths the dance world had seen since Daft Punk's Homework A set of incredibly diverse tracks, Remedy is indebted to the raw American house of Todd Terry and Masters at Work, and even shares the NuYoricans' penchant for Latin vibes (especially on the...
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Thursday 30 June - marks 25 years since the release of The Prodigy’s ‘The Fat of the Land’; an album so iconic it turned the sound of underground rave music into a global force; capturing the world's attention and dominating the charts In celebration XL Recordings announces two-anniversary releases including a limited...
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Out of stockThe Smile will release their highly anticipated debut album A Light For Attracting Attention on XL Recordings The 13- track album was produced and mixed by Nigel Godrich and mastered by Bob Ludwig Tracks feature strings by the London Contemporary Orchestra and a full brass section of contempoarary UK jazz players including...
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Out of stockBashy drumfunk, jiggly big room tech and scratchy UKG mutations from the brothers Overmono Following up their Fabric mix, the duo cycle from the splashy breakbeat stepper ‘Cash Romantic’ whereas ‘Fortune’ works up a detuned R&B ditty, ‘Bone Mics’ trades in bilgy UKG, and ‘Phosycon’ slows down to a skudgy...
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he 13- track album was produced and mixed by Nigel Godrich and mastered by Bob Ludwig Tracks feature strings by the London Contemporary Orchestra and a full brass section of contempoarary UK jazz players including Byron Wallen, Theon and Nathaniel Cross, Chelsea Carmichael, Robert Stillman and Jason Yarde The band, comprising...
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Arca doubles down on the psychosexual thrust of her ‘KiCK’ series with a more “manic, violently euphoric and aggressively psychedelic” gush of queered reggaeton energies in its wild 3rd volume Where the parallel release of KiCK ii’ was more locked to reggaeton’s 100bpm bracket, this one ramps the tempos and conceptual...
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Restless genius Arca pulls in Garbage’s Shirley Manson, No Bra, Planningtorock, and Oliver Coates for the 4th - and notably more introspective - volume of her ‘Kick’ album bounty After expending her wilder energies in searing variations of dembow experimentalism and operatic composition in previous instalments, Arca here...
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Arca ropes in Ryuichi Sakamoto's guest vox for the quietly reserved, 5th and final instalment of their epic ‘kiCK’ series The closing chapter to one of this decade’s most ambitious pop projects thus far, ‘kiCK iiiii’ completes Arca’s magnum opus with a suite of heartbreaking ballads and torch songs rendered in...
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If KiCk i is a multidimensional self-portrait that held all of Arca's many mutations, KICK ii sees her deconstruct reggaeton rhythms she grew up listening to in Caracas, balancing structure and chaos to create her most accessible work yet, without sacrificing any of her uncompromising experimentation; the rising cycle KicK iii...
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Three 12" half-speed cut black vinyl pressings of KID A (A/B), Amnesiac (C/D) + KID AMNESIAE (E/F, normal speed) bonus volume containing unreleased material, in artwork sleeves "We humbly submit KID A MNESIA It's a coming of age for Kid A & Amnesiac and it's joined by a new album, Kid Amnesiae, a memory palace of...
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On Talk Memory, the latest album from Canadian ensemble BADBADNOTGOOD and their first for XL Recordings, the trio of Alexander Sowinski (drums), Chester Hansen (bass) and Leland Whitty (guitar/woodwinds), return to their instrumental beginnings and pay homage to the musicians, composers, innovators and influences that first...
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‘still slipping vol1’ is the debut full length project from Joy Orbison Fans of Joy O’s DJ sets and radio shows will already be aware of his diverse tastes and inspirations, represented here through a roll call of delicately curated, mainly UK, collaborators that include Herron, James Massiah, Bathe, Léa Sen, Goya Gumbani...
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Out of stockDeluxe 20th anniversary edition of the 2000 debut album from The Avalanches Contains 33 tracks total - all tracks from the original album plus unreleased remixes on 180 gram 4x12 inch vinyl plus download code, poster and liner...
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Nothing New is an album of recordings that Gil Scott-Heron and Richard Russell made in New York during the sessions for I'm New Here It is comprised of songs that Gil chose from his back catalogue, just voice and piano Each song he chose was from a different album of his He carefully curated the selection, so this album is both...
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The enthusiastic reviews of We're New Here all agreed: this was more than just a remix album Jamie xx had leapt from the brackets behind the track titles to take joint credit for a project as much his vision as that of the original artist He stitched together tracks from I'm New Here, Gil Scott-Heron's comeback album, with samples...