June Mix.

Whatever seems to be making your sunset this month, whether it be an anthemic masterpiece, or reverb jammed solo to keep you going through the sunshine on that agonising wait to the true start of global music Mecca.  

Here's a few hyped mixes that should get you through without a bitter sunburn,  but rather a glowing tan to feed through the last of June. 

Lukane

Within the past six months, Chicago based rapper Lukane has had some overly delightful soundtracks to propel him far into the triphop scene. Having staggered across one of his main produced records, 'Go The Distance' it for sure, brings across a whole new shine to rap that is brilliantly experimental. Take the opening wobbly keys to open the cascading melody to back Lukane's, "freedom was defined/even in your mind you think you're free../"They were all distractions". He fights with the common ground that life strives through all to melt against the glistening synthesisers and polish this record tops of with. Lukane could rap the most gnarly lyrics and it would still undergo as a masterpiece; to jam house, ambiance and electronic experimentalism all along the lines of rap is, in itself genius.





Dusky

Although we are now looking at a more commercial house perspective, Dusky have a climatic edge which enables them to  blatantly stand out amongst the other Radio 1 wannabe EDM on late night playlists. Newest additions include, 'Love Taking Over' with it's

enlightening tempo to help lift this track into the far boundaries of ambiance.  London based Alfie Granger-Howell and Nick Harriman have already dug into the 'Deep House' definition for their first EP, 'Careless' . Whilst delivering, Dusky manage to conjure just about the fulfilment of what you crave from a classically 'house' record. 'Rise For Love' is the echo whammed, keyboard loaded jam you could desire any time of the sultry evening. Each track explores a new anti-climatic wavelength to dive under, taking 'Experento Juggler' into your ears it's more surreal and diverging. 'Words Later On' is another magical fuzz of fragmentation to keep you up for the remainder of the weekend, this putting the EP as a whole in great mixture.  I'm hoping to catch their live set at Glastonbury within the WOW Stage, so if you're heading down this way be sure to watch out for their Sunday afternoon slot!.




Alex Banks

The element layered within this track also took me by surprise. Finding a new source of potential material from Jen Long and Ally Mccare's Monday midnight slot on Radio 1 was definitely an asset for the future. In fact, Brighton based Alex Banks had released his début, 'Illuminate'  this year (http://www.monkeytownrecords.com/alexbanks)  and ever since has been working on various mixes;such as the luring '300 Seconds to Mix'. It throws in foundations to be built upon the 'Cafe Del Mar' sound and inevitably has a fluent and innovative approach. The ghostly vocals soon contrast to the heavy house decomposition to split the record in half. Other works such as the fragmented 'Control' rolling over once again the simplistic, drifty vocals of Elizabeth Bemholz, Banks seems to suit collaborations pretty well looking at his work with Bonobo and other names under various labels. Himself being signed to Monkeytown records, he even has the impressive assumptions with London Grammar's intellectual music complexion. 





White Lung

The sort of band he rips every punk band out of proportion I've found in the past 6 months, without exaggerating, White Lung have the supremely developed energy that many down-

the-gutter grit bands urge for. 'Down it Goes' being one of the most hyped over their recent album 'Deep Fantasy' which after to records on Deranged Records are now on Domino Recordings. Stuff the candy-fied American punk we can find on an every day basis because the Canadian Mish, Grady, Anne-Marie and Kenneth spit it out exactly how it is.  It's nowhere near as irritatingly anthemic as practically the majority of the  puke up punk scene. Even if you could call it that. Both 'Down it Goes' and 'Snake Jaw' throttle their drums straight into the unstoppable, "You drag me behind/like a bitter squirming swine" and the monstrous solos that will tremor your vessels no matter what amplitude you're ears are palpitated to. I may be way behind on just how fulfilling their sound is, having clumsily missed them at Dot to Dot festival last month but just because they started out in 2006 by no way means their loss in momentum, rather the complete opposite-get the mosh going. 






Wolf Alice

Now, if you aren't completely tuned in with the power of London's Wolf Alice then yes

you're not 'there'... but no fear. Delving through for new material I came across a live version of 'untitled' which can really leave it down to you to make a conclusion on this track. Performing live on R1 rocks, the fat, crunchy riff to follow with Ellie Roswell's bitter vocals catches on like a house on fire within the studios. Before you waltz into any festival this summer in the UK, you'll be ignorant to ignore these guys.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b045qc8m





Paume

A young Parisian producer once stepped into his independent retrospective, the results being that of what 'Follies', a track from his upcoming EP 'Transalpine' has to offer. His experimentalism with fragmented cheers and distorted reflections of just how Paume influences such works of art really pays of in this vivid spectrum of back alley house. Whether rustic house is something of new development. The Parisian helps this to overlay again and again into 'Infra', the clash tempo colliding at a gradual pace into the mixed, electrified vocals. However,  the lead track on his debut, 'Transalpine' itself, vibrates the intellectually fueling energy that comes so naturally to Paume. Ultimately where innovation in new house starts.





Jamie xx
 
The exclusive first play of 'All Under One Roof Raving' was aired tonight on Radio 1's Annie Mac and having heard it, it's another exquisite dosage of the south-Londoner's eeiry beats. However until the podcast arrives we are still drizzled with the soulful beat of 'Girl' , tracing and re-looping over the refrained echo all to make this record the near glistened shine to 'Sleep Sound'. Keep your'e eyes peeled on this one.



KHUSHI

London based delicacy KHUSHI, have popped up retrospectively amongst my search. Their rather basic structure in their works comes across as strangely vivid and colourful against the soft drums and  ghostly synths of alt-pop futurism. It's quite difficult not to find some loving emotion within the gentle progressions indie of 'In The Sun' . The Londoners give the quirkiness in all its beauty and glimmer in, 'Phantoms'. If you think London Grammar mixed with some more leaps into a less whistling nature then it would be no shock to compare the two alike. The enlightening glisten their EP, 'Phantoms' gives all the radio ready melodies to help capture above the delicately intimate moments that KHUSHI are used to.