Massive Attack Played with Veggies

The xx: Crystalized (Gorillaz Cover)

The Existential Adventures of Tim Maia

The Existential Adventures of Tim Maia: Nobody Can Live Forever from SuperHeroes Amsterdam on Vimeo.

NGUZUNGUZU: Warm Pulse (stream)

Danny Brown: Change

The Gas Lamp Killer: Flange Face ft. Miguel Atwood-Ferguson

Flying Lotus ft. Erykah Badu: See Thru U

Rudi Zygadlo: Melpomene

Great song. Great video.

Rudi Zygadlo - Melpomene (Planet Mu - 2012) from Planet Mu on Vimeo.

Frank Ocean: Thinking Bout You (SBTRK remix)

Purity Ring: Belispeak Video

Blood Diamonds ft. Grimes

Darkside: stream the new self titled EP

Darkside is the collaboration between Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington. I highly recommend this EP. There label Clown and Sunset describes the duo and ep: "Dave’s indie rock bravado and Nico’s electronic percussion came together in a series of Brooklyn recording sessions. In their dim basement studio, Dave’s soprano licks and Nico’s falsetto converged as they formed a three track, self-titled EP." Check out this well produced video for the first song A1:

Kindness: "House"

Flight Facilities: With You

Uh... Yes please.

Modeselektor & Thom Yorke

I like the song. My interpretation of the video though is that the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is Being John Malkovich, then ends like a Black Swan. (?) Just a guess.

Modeselektor & Thom Yorke - This from FutureDeluxe on Vimeo.

Grimes

Purity Ring: download Lofticries, Shrines & Odebear

I am looking forward to Purity Rings first album release, Shrines, on July 24th. (Album artwork above). It will be released via 4AD and Last Gang records. They are a male/female duo that make electronic pop music with some ghostly vocals.
4AD describes the duo: "Purity Ring make lullabies for the club, drawing equally from airy 90s R&B, lush dream pop, and the powerful, bone-rattling immediacy of modern hip hop. Megan’s remarkable voice is at once ecstatic and ethereal, soaring joyfully through Corin’s carefully chopped beats, trembling synths, and skewed vocal samples."
You can download three songs from their upcoming release, just to get you going. The first is Lofticries and I think is my favorite. Download here.
You can download the latest singe Odebear from Purity Ring's website.

You can also download another favorite Ungirthed from a link on there Tumblr.
The Shrines tracklist will be:
01 Crawlersout
02 Fineshrine
03 Ungirthed
04 Amenamy
05 Grandloves
06 Cartographist
07 Belispeak
08 Saltkin
09 Obedear
10 Lofticries
11 Shuck

ARCA: Download "Stretch 1"

Arca is a Venezuelan beat producer on the UNO label. He makes dark rhythms that have a splash of hip hop (weird on this website?). He is giving away his free EP "Stretch 1" here at his site. I like track five, "Ass Swung Low", but it has one of the creepiest music videos ever, in a non-stereotypical way.

"Variations"

It is few and far between when Music Television (MTV) releases something related to music. Even fewer is it something you want to watch. This is one of those moments, so get it while you can.

Nicolas Jaar featuring Will Epstein and Dave Harrington, Nicolas Jaar
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Nicolas Jaar featuring Will Epstein and Dave Harrington, MTV Hive

AlunaGeorge

AlunaGeorge is a female male duo. They released an EP last year with two songs, that was pretty good. They have a new EP coming out April 23rd via Tri Angle called "You Know You Like It". The artwork for that upcoming album is below.