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2011
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25 Dec
2011 has been a fantastic year for us, thank you all for your support! Without you guys we wouldn’t be able to continue with this music game.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from all of the Tru Thoughts team. xx
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19 Dec
Merry Christmas from Lanu & Tru Thoughts… (continued)
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15 Dec
France, Germany, Luxembourg, Austria, Slovenia… (continued)
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14 Dec
The Best of Mark de Clive-Lowe mixed by the legendary DJ Spinna includes 34 tracks of MdCL productions, remixes and collaborations with Kenny Dope (Masters At Work), DJ Spinna, Phil Asher (Restless Soul), Zed Bias and more. The mix takes you on a journey covering an array of genres including downtempo, soul, breaks, and house. Stream / download below
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12 Dec
New single by Zed Bias… (continued)
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05 Dec
Belleruche, Rodney P, Anchorsong & Riz MC plus Robert Luis (DJ)… (continued)
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01 Dec
Sonically innovative and lyrically sharp music… (continued)
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30 Nov
Thanks to all who voted!… (continued)
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29 Nov
Back up soon!… (continued)
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28 Nov
Debut album from Anchorsong… (continued)
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24 Nov
Quick – help “Roosevelt Blues” feat. Megan Washington get playlisted!… (continued)
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23 Nov
Golden Morning (Mark de Clive-Lowe Remix)… (continued)
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22 Nov
DJ Mag remix of the Year poll… (continued)
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21 Nov
The new single from Nostalgia 77…… (continued)
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21 Nov
Go grab it from your fave store…… (continued)
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18 Nov
Up on YouTube… (continued)
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17 Nov
Final installment, on with the dancing… (continued)
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16 Nov
Part 2 of 3… (continued)
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15 Nov
One Day, One Sound, One Cloud … (continued)
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15 Nov
Out worldwide next week!… (continued)
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14 Nov
Limited Edition 10th Anniversary vinyl only release… (continued)
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14 Nov
Beverley Knight tour starts today… (continued)
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10 Nov
First of 3… (continued)
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08 Nov
36 Hours… (continued)
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07 Nov
First new material since ‘Night Walks’… (continued)
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04 Nov
Sunday 6th November with Cerys Matthews… (continued)
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02 Nov
Free download from XLR8R / exclusive UKG mix from Urb… (continued)
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31 Oct
Plus new video for ‘Antiphon’… (continued)
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26 Oct
If you missed it you can check Zed’s mini mix for Annie Mac’s BBC Radio1 show here
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24 Oct
Get Plum Rain, the new single, for free… (continued)
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21 Oct
Friday 21st October on BBC Radio1… (continued)
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21 Oct
Free single out Monday!… (continued)
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20 Oct
Video now on YouTube… (continued)
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19 Oct
Send us your ideas… (continued)
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18 Oct
Up on YouTube… (continued)
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18 Oct
CMJ showcase presented by Revive Da Live & Giant Step
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17 Oct
Record Exchange, Weekend Breakfast show, Sunday 16th October… (continued)
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17 Oct
Official worldwide release… (continued)
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14 Oct
Tickets selling fast… (continued)
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13 Oct
In association with Fat Beats… (continued)
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12 Oct
BBC Radio 1 between 2 and 4am… (continued)
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11 Oct
Track by track on his blog… (continued)
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10 Oct
Complied by Robert Luis… (continued)
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06 Oct
Up for stream / download… (continued)
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04 Oct
On Pop Hiss, the LA Times Music blog… (continued)
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03 Oct
New single by Mark de Clive-Lowe… (continued)
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30 Sep
BBC Radio 1 / 1xtra Sunday 2nd October – now on the iPlayer… (continued)
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28 Sep
Check this great interview with our man Quantic over on the National Geographic website.
The Best of Quantic is out now! Go buy it.
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27 Sep
Send him your sounds!… (continued)
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27 Sep
Lauren Laverne’s mpfree of the day… (continued)
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26 Sep
Go grab it!… (continued)
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25 Sep
6th October, alongisde Don Letts Prince Fatty and more… (continued)
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23 Sep
Starts now, runs til mid October… (continued)
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22 Sep
Thursday 22nd Sept, alongside Sy Smith… (continued)
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21 Sep
11 UK dates this November… (continued)
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19 Sep
Download the new single for FREE!… (continued)
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16 Sep
September / October / November… (continued)
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09 Sep
Or buy now from Etch Shop… (continued)
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08 Sep
Tune into Ken Bruce’s show today!… (continued)
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07 Sep
Stream ‘Trouble in the Streets feat. Mark Pritchard’… (continued)
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05 Sep
Competition winner announced later today!… (continued)
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04 Sep
Rap remix… (continued)
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02 Sep
We have been very busy signing new acts and working on new music this year, and one of the acts we have been speaking to for a few years now is the Hot 8 Brass Band. We had some fantastic success with their debut album (featuring the huge cover version of Marvin Gaye’s Sexual Healing and their own fantastic tunes) with them performing at Glastonbury and throughout Europe, performing on the Culture Show on BBC 2, live on the BBC with Mark Radcliffe and Lauren Laverne, recording with the Basement Jaxx, and playing some major shows.
We are therefore pleased to announce they have re-signed to us for a worldwide physical and digital album deal, and publishing deal with our partner company Full Thought Publishing (see their showreel here).
The Hot 8 are busy working on new tunes, and we have an incredibly special Oscar nominated guerrilla artist lined up for their artwork, it is also nicely timed as they are all over the HBO series Treme (from the makers of that most fantastic TV show The Wire, yeah, you know the one).
They are also back in Europe for the first time in a few years and this is the first announcement of some Irish dates.
Oct 27th – The Village, Dublin
Oct 28th – Bodega, Cork Jazz Festival, Cork
Oct 29th – Bodega, Cork Jazz Festival, Cork
Oct 30th – Bodega, Cork Jazz Festival, Cork
They are also planning further tour dates into 2012 so please contact Futureboogie Agency on joe90@futureboogie.com
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01 Sep
Best UK R&B / Soul Act… (continued)
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31 Aug
Australian tour dates… (continued)
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30 Aug
More still to be announced… (continued)
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29 Aug
Robert Luis takes you through the history of Quantic… (continued)
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29 Aug
Fairplay / Phoneline… (continued)
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24 Aug
Winner Announced!… (continued)
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22 Aug
Quantic Twitter Madness… (continued)
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19 Aug
Amazing 7” record box added to the prize… (continued)
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19 Aug
Nostalgia 77 Live, Belleruche, Hidden Orchestra & Smerin’s Antisocial Club in a field!!!… (continued)
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18 Aug
Featuring Skream and Mark Pritchard… (continued)
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18 Aug
Quantic Mondays Pt.7 will be special… (continued)
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17 Aug
How Hip Hop Changed The World… (continued)
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16 Aug
In Australia & New Zealand… (continued)
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15 Aug
Send us your pictures!!… (continued)
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15 Aug
Featuring Megan Washington… (continued)
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10 Aug
We wanted to make a statement to say that our thoughts and love go out to all the labels affected by the fire at the Sony DADC warehouse in Enfield, London this week. Many labels who we admire, work with and respect have been seriously hit by this fire.
For an indie label you have a lot of back catalogue and sell small numbers regularly, those labels who lost stock will never be able to replace some of their catalogue as the demand would be less than the costs of manufacturing a new run. That means that this music will never get manufactured again; a big loss to all of us in the music loving community.
Where you can please support the labels on this list…
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10 Aug
Announced live on Gilles Peterson’s show… (continued)
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09 Aug
Unfold Radio featured… (continued)
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08 Aug
Limited Edition 7” pre-order…… (continued)
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08 Aug
available now on Bandcamp… (continued)
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07 Aug
Live from The Big Chill … (continued)
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04 Aug
5 hour set, Free Entry… (continued)
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04 Aug
Now on Youtube… (continued)
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03 Aug
Decon Records, Fat Beats, One-Handed Music, Stones Throw, Tru Thoughts, Wah Wah 45s and Wax Poetics.… (continued)
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01 Aug
It’s competition time!… (continued)
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01 Aug
Broadcast across Europe to one million people… (continued)
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29 Jul
Stream both tracks on the new single… (continued)
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25 Jul
FREE TRACK!… (continued)
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25 Jul
Single out now, free download on CMJ… (continued)
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21 Jul
Winners announced! Venue changed… (continued)
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20 Jul
Listen again… (continued)
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18 Jul
Album pre-order up… (continued)
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18 Jul
Sing (If You Want It)… (continued)
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15 Jul
Compiled by Robert Luis… (continued)
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13 Jul
Head over to the Lanu Bandcamp page to grab his new single ‘Fall feat. Megan Washington’ for FREE!
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12 Jul
New video online… (continued)
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11 Jul
Countdown starts here… (continued)
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09 Jul
Northern Girls… (continued)
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08 Jul
Natural Self heads out to the States for three dates in July…
July 9th: Eighteenth St. Lounge – D.C. INFO
July 22nd: The Lift w/ King Britt- SF INFO
July 23rd: The Lift w/ King Britt – LA INFO
He also just dropped this great remix of John Legend’s cover of Adele’s ‘Rolling In The Deep’.
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07 Jul
Announced on Huw Stephens BBC Radio 1 show… (continued)
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06 Jul
Plus new video!… (continued)
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06 Jul
Quantic and his Combo Barbaro at Koko, 27th July… (continued)
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04 Jul
UK and Europe dates this summer!… (continued)
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30 Jun
in the Live Lounge with Trevor Nelson… (continued)
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27 Jun
Go grab this summer dancefloor anthem, finally available for digital download! Buy direct from us here.
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24 Jun
Zed Bias, Benji Boko, Hidden Orchestra… (continued)
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20 Jun
Debut Benji Boko album OUT NOW… (continued)
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16 Jun
Tru Thoughts Official Store… (continued)
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13 Jun
with play from Annie Mac, Benji B, Trevor Nelson and more…… (continued)
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13 Jun
Get em quick… (continued)
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10 Jun
This June… (continued)
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03 Jun
Best Video Clip, St Kilda Film Festival 2011… (continued)
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01 Jun
Robert Luis 5 hour set – Saturday 4th June… (continued)
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25 May
St Kilda Film Festival… (continued)
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24 May
Head ovet to the Alarm Press website to read an excellent interview with Lanu.
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23 May
Where My Heart Is (Feat. Maxi Jazz)… (continued)
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17 May
Lots of Tru Thoughts action this August… (continued)
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16 May
The Godfather of UK Hip Hop… (continued)
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16 May
Nostalgia 77 and Natural Self DJ Sets… (continued)
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14 May
London… (continued)
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09 May
OUT NOW… (continued)
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06 May
Vinyl out on Monday… (continued)
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03 May
Now Wednesday 18th May… (continued)
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30 Apr
In our very own Brighton on 3rd May… (continued)
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27 Apr
For free remixes, mixes and up to date news… (continued)
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20 Apr
Benji Boko launches competition for his video that features Maxi Jazz… (continued)
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20 Apr
On AOL for the next 6 days… (continued)
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19 Apr
Shoe-gazing at the Stars… (continued)
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18 Apr
New video now up… (continued)
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16 Apr
Support your local! Pick up some wax!… (continued)
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15 Apr
You can now subscribe to the Tru Thoughts presents Unfold radio show as a Podcast via the iTunes Store. Click on “Advanced” then “Subscribe To Podcast” and copy and paste the link below into the URL box:
http://podcast.tru-thoughts.co/podcast.xml
Simple as that!
(You can use the same link for your RSS feed as well)
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14 Apr
Cheap tickets for Tru Thoughts Fans!… (continued)
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11 Apr
The Making Of Phase 1… (continued)
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08 Apr
Released later this year… (continued)
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07 Apr
Exclusively from iTunes / ‘Beautiful Trash’ FREE in Starbucks… (continued)
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04 Apr
“3 Amp Fuse” epitomises the London trio’s knack for fashioning a sound that is both catchy and unusual, and cooks up the perfect pop storm; opening with emphatic kettle drums and a driving bassline topped off with Kathrin deBoer’s bittersweet, world-worn vocals and suspenseful, staccato strings, it builds to a shuddering crescendo in three minutes on the dot.
Bag it here
Check the video here
“I really love these tracks” – JOHN KENNEDY (XFM)
“Belleruche – a great band with a great singer” – HUEY MORGAN (BBC 6MUSIC)
“Portishead meets Blondie in this blues-soaked sleazathon” – THE TIMES
And don’t forget, they are on tour at the moment heading to all the following places…
April
07 Rock School Barbey, Bordeaux
08 Des Lendemains Qui Chantent, Tulle
09 St. Nazaire, VIP
15 Geneva, Mad
16 Fribourg, Nouveau Monde
May
03 Pop Up Playgroup, Ocean Rooms, Brighton
06 Yardbird Jazz Club, Birmingham
07 Thekla, Bristol
12 Boileroom, Guildford
13 Jericho Tavern, Oxford
14 Koko, London
19 The Roadhouse, Manchester
20 Hifi club, Leeds
21 Fruit, Hull
26 Shipping Forecast, Liverpool
27 Studio 24, Edinburgh
28 Cluny, Newcastle
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03 Apr
Congratulations to Joe Acheson on his nomination for Best Feature in the Sony Radio Academy Awards.
Head here for more info.
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03 Apr
Advert starts in the UK on Sunday 3rd April… (continued)
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01 Apr
Saturday 2nd April, Green Door Store, Brighton… (continued)
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31 Mar
Video now up on You Tube… (continued)
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30 Mar
Win stuff!… (continued)
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30 Mar
Sunday 3rd April @ The Prince Albert… (continued)
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23 Mar
France, Switzerland and UK … (continued)
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23 Mar
Supporting Jaga Jazzist Weds 30th March… (continued)
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21 Mar
New Nostalgia 77 album OUT NOW!… (continued)
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18 Mar
Plus, we re-release ‘Sing (If You Want It)’… (continued)
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14 Mar
Quantic remixed by Daedelus, Cut Chemist and more… … (continued)
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14 Mar
Return of the Wob… (continued)
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11 Mar
Mercedes Benz, Apple, Mazda… (continued)
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10 Mar
March 2011… (continued)
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08 Mar
Get it for FREE and buy ‘Her 12 Faces’ for £5.99… (continued)
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07 Mar
Beautiful Trash is iTunes single of the week… (continued)
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04 Mar
New video, single out 4th April… (continued)
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03 Mar
1000 Mixcloud Followers … (continued)
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28 Feb
Here it played live on Radio 4… (continued)
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24 Feb
Nostalgia 77 and Lanu playlists… (continued)
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24 Feb
The new Nostalgia 77 single “Simmerdown” is today’s Top Tune on KCRW, head here to download it for FREE, but be quick because it’s only available for one day.
You can buy the limited edition 7” from us here. Official release date is 28th February / 1st March. Check the video now
For those of you outside the States you can listen to KCRW online
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22 Feb
March 25th in London… (continued)
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21 Feb
New album by Wildcookie, OUT NOW… (continued)
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16 Feb
Send us your question for the jazz man, and his singer Josa Peit… (continued)
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10 Feb
Lizzy Parks, Nostalgia 77, Sara Mitra… (continued)
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09 Feb
March / April + support dates with Bonobo… (continued)
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09 Feb
Lizzy Parks spills the beans … (continued)
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08 Feb
Now on You Tube… (continued)
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07 Feb
“Beautiful Trash” is the first big single from the upcoming album, ‘Her 12 Faces’ by Lanu. With radio support from Don Letts (BBC6), Jon Kennedy (XFM), Steve Lamaq (BBC6), Jeremy Sole (KCRW), Nemone (BBC6) and heavy rotation on TripleJ this irresistible outsider pop nugget marks a stylistic point of departure for the prolific musician who is better known as Lance Ferguson, the bandleader and creative force behind acclaimed Australian funk outfit The Bamboos.
Check the video here, buy the limited edition white 7 inch here, and download the digital single here
The song features Megan Washington who has just recently gone Platinum in Australia reaching Number 3 in the Australian Album Chart helping her win two ARIA Awards (the Australian equivalent of Grammy Awards) for Best Female Artist and Breakthrough Artist.
The combination of producer/guitarist Lanu (aka The Bamboos’ band leader Lance Ferguson), with one of Australia’s biggest and brightest new musical stars, Washington, has brought about a distilled dose of modern, kooky catchiness with an edge – think the eclectic, crossover appeal of Little Dragon, Feist, Emiliana Torrini, Charlotte Gainsbourg or Janelle Monae.
You may also recognise Megan Washington from her vocals on The Bamboos’ hit crossover cover of Kings of Leon’s “King Of The Rodeo” back in 2008. Now signed to Universal, Gold-selling singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Washington has just been awarded two major gongs – Best Breakthrough Artist and Best Female Artist – at this year’s ARIAs, (Australia’s top annual awards equivalent to the Brits/Mercury Prize/Grammys). Her debut album of idiosyncratic, dramatic indie pop, ‘I Believe You, Liar’, went Gold and shot to no. 1 in the album charts on its release in her native Australia and she is now poised to top ‘next big thing’ lists in the UK and elsewhere.
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04 Feb
MusicConnex is a new event to help support new and developing artists. With high profile music people being behind it and it offering one-stop shop for artists, we recommend. The purpose of MusicConnex is to facilitate and encourage artists to take control of their career and help empower them to liberate their dreams. They aim to encourage the sharing of ideas, insight and experience to inspire each other by facilitating debate around the issues facing young and established artists alike.
For more information see www.musicconnex.co.uk
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02 Feb
Feb / March… (continued)
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01 Feb
Recorded last year in Philadelphia for WXPN… (continued)
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01 Feb
Featuring Megan Washington… (continued)
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31 Jan
Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney… (continued)
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28 Jan
Hear a new cut on Gilles Peterson this week… (continued)
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27 Jan
Major support for “Beautiful Trash”… (continued)
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24 Jan
Remixes from Falty DL, Illum Sphere, Hint, Funk Butcher, El B and more… (continued)
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24 Jan
Debut single from Wildcookie… (continued)
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19 Jan
Hidden Orchestra at No. 11… (continued)
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18 Jan
Recorded on their 2010 US Tour… (continued)
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17 Jan
First taste of Biasonic Hot Sauce… (continued)
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17 Jan
Showcasing our electronic side… (continued)
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11 Jan
BBC Radio 2… (continued)
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10 Jan
Lizzy Parks has been confirmed to play at the British Showcase at the Midem Music Conference in Cannes at the end of January. This is a very prestigious event and there are only 3 or 4 UK acts chosen each year to perform (this year The Guillemots headline) . Previous acts including Amy Winehouse, Newton Faulkner, Mr Hudson and the Library, and our friend Alice Russell.
Belleruche have also been asked to perform at SXSW in Austin, Texas, US. A fantastic event and a pleasure to have Belleruche over for it. We want to thank SXSW and the support of PRS for Music Foundation, UKTI and Arts Council England.
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05 Jan
2011, lets go.… (continued)