Full length documentary on Fela Anikulapo Kuti – the charismatic and talented Godfather of African music, the originator of Afrobeat, who inspired a generation of musicians and nearly started a revolution in Nigeria.

New-ish single from Bonobo (it was released in September).
Andreya Triana who sang vocals on the great Flying Lotus track, Tea Leaf Dancer, is releasing her own LP on XL records very soon.

“There Is Love In You” is the new LP,  on Domino Records, by Four Tet aka Kieran Hebden – its a great album, effortlessly mixing gentle ambient folky melodies with pre/post club tracks.
The featured video is presumably named after Plastic People, the brilliant club in east London where he’s had a residency for the last [...]

Gil Scott-Heron, musician and poet, has released his first LP in 14 years today on XL records. After releasing two seminal LPs in the 70s, he spent a long time in obscurity (and prison). Scott-Heron influenced a generation of hip-hop artists thorough his music, his proto-rap style poetry and his political and civil rights activism, [...]

Radiohead – Reckoner (Jonny Miller Remix)
This is a wonderfully different take on the Radiohead track ‘Reckoner’ – Jonny Miller somehow turns it into a slow wintery disco burner (and as an added bonus the limited edition vinyl comes with a great screen-printed cover).

Little Dragon hail from Gothenburg, Sweden. They are high school friends: Swedish-Japanese singer Yukimi Nagano, Erik Bodin, Fredrik Källgren Wallin and Håkan Wirenstrand.
This track, Twice, is taken from their self titled debut LP. They have recently released a follow up and equally great album,  Machine Dreams. Enjoy!
The animation is by Johannes Nyholm.

Fever Ray is Karin Dreijer Andersson, the sister of THE KNIFE siblings.
Fever Ray makes incredibly emotional music that I can’t stop listening to.
Fever Ray „composes best in that state any new parent will recognise, awake but exhausted, where reality blurs into imagination and ideas flutter in and out.“
Fever Ray does not show her face in [...]

So keeping up the tradition of not playing snowy crappy music over the holidays, here’s a cover of Guns and Roses’ classic Sweet Child O’Mine by Taken by Trees.
Taken by Trees is a solo project by former lead singer for the Swedish band, the Concretes.
Merry Everyone!

Very original video from Japanese band Sour.
The cast were selected from their fan base, from many countries around the world. Each person and scene was filmed purely via webcam.

Carrying on the covers theme of recent ‘7 inches of week’, this week’s is Candi Stanton’s classic You Got the Love covered by Florence and the Machine (and then remixed by The XX).
‘You Got the Love’ was originally released in ‘86 but was never a big hit; it was made famous in the early 90’s [...]