Collider

This is the new video for Jon Hopkins' 'Collider', off his incredible recent album Immunity. It's uncomfortable to watch at times, but absolutely the most gripping video I've seen in a while. Matching the song in intensity, it shows a girl (presumably on many, many drugs) driven wild with violent energy, to the point where the whole experience seems to resemble a seizure. The rape-like scenes add to the feeling of raw, uninhibited adrenaline. Did I mention drugs?

Fat Freddy's Drop

A brilliant track off the 2009 album, 'Dr. Boondigga & The Big BW' by New Zealand reggae outfit Fat Freddy's Drop. I've saturated this blog with their compositions since its birth and I don't intend to stop any time soon.

Heroes of Electronica

Thanks be to sampling, synths and the enhanced bass line.

1) Taku - 'Terms & Nujabes'

2) Little Dragon - 'Sunshine' (Shlohmo Remix)

3) Lapalux - 'Forgetting And Learning Again' 

4) Nicolas Jaar - 'Variations' 

5) Lone - 'Airglow Fires' 

Joanna Newsom

I shaped up overnight, you know,

The day after she died,

When I saw my heart, and I tell you, darling

It was open wide.