Pop on over to their site at phuturelabs.com for free music galore sprinkled with reviews, competitions and random banter.

Tracklist

1. Phantogram – When I’m Small – Ghostly
2. Breakage – Open Up – Digital Soundboy
3. The XX – VCR (Matthew Dear Remix)
4. Distance – Beyond – Chestplate
5. Kuedo – Starfox – Planet Mu
6. The Set Up – Lizard (Ronin Reconstruction) – Nerve Breaks
7. Epyptrixx – Battle for North America – AAAHH!! Real Monsters
8. Noisia – Split The Atom – Vision
9. Four Tet – Love Cry – Domino
10. Donaeo – Riot Music (Skream rmx) – Digital Soundboy
11. Floating Points – Peoples Potential – Eglo
12. Seafar – GLA (FSOLDIGITAL.COM)
13. Seafar – High Tide at Point Ormond (FSOLDIGITAL.COM)
14. Midmir – Whiteout – Retronym
15. Fur – Witches – Waaga Records
16. Fur – Hidden – Waaga Records
17. Essell – Daydream – Soulseek Records
18. Echoes Escape – 10 (unsigned)
19. Fur – Friends (Solar Bears Remix) – Secret Station
20. DFRNT – Decay – On The Edge
21. Jose James – Blackmagic (Joy Orbison’s Recreation) – Brownswood
22. Y2D – Autonomy – Nerve
23. Black Van – Yearning (Emperor Machine Mix) – DFA
24. Caribou – Odessa – City Slang

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In Greek mythology, Leda was the daughter of the Aetolian king Thestius and wife of Tyndareus, king of Sparta. As you may have guessed by now Zeus fancied her. I mean who didn’t he want a piece of ? As always Zeus had a cunning plan to seduce her. Turning himself into a swan, he fell into her arms for protection from a pursuing eagle. Later that night, as Leda lay with her husband, Zeus cosummated their relationship.

If all this bird based beastiality is starting to get to you, fear not as we’ve also got a stack of brand new tunes for your listening pleasure. Whether it be the ambient dubstep of Ginz and Kool Money Kwame or the Scottish indie delights of We Were Promised Jetpacks you’ll find something to entice you into our Orbit.

To buy a selection of music from this week’s Orbit and some of Matthew Sweeney’s musical recommendations visit the Orbit MP3 shop.

Tracklist

1. Love.Stop.Repeat. – Something for Mary – Make Your Own Adventure
2. We Were Promised Jetpacks – A Far Cry – Fatcat
3. Foals – Spanish Sahara – Sub Pop
4. All the Damn Kids – The Books Stop Here – Elvis Lives
5. Sasha – Every End Has a Start – Not Yet Retro
6. Broken Social Scene – World Sick – Arts & Crafts
7. Shout Out Louds – Fall Hard – Weekender
8. Bruce Stallion – Drugs = Bad – Coin Operated
9. Urchins & Spoek – Tickets (Kid Kaio is High Remix) – Palms Out Sounds
10. Django Django – WOR – Bonjour Branch
11. Caribou – Odessa – Merge
12. Flying Lotus – Computer Face / Pure Being – Warp
13. Ginz & Kool Money Kwame – Wet Wipe Riddem – Earwax

Edinburgh’s Departure Lounge have got a very special night planned for Saturday 24 April. Three exceptional guests on one line-up for their annual Saturday soiree at The Caves (they normally take over the venue on Fridays). And we’re going along to record it and chat to these fine three guests on the night. You should get down there too.

The event at the end of April will see Bass Clef, the 9 piece Hypnotic Brass Emsemble and the SoulJazz Orchestra join Departure Lounge regulars, Astroboy, Jiminez and Mr Zimbabwe for what looks like the best line up for a night out in Edinburgh this year so far, by far. Expect bass, afrobeat, dubstep, dub, funk and soul in this night of afrocentric vibrations: ancient and future.

Check out July’s rather excellent Departure Lounge mix from Astroboy and Jiminez on Radio Magnetic to get you in the mood and get yourself along there in April.

Its starts at 9pm at The Caves in Edinburgh and tickets cost £11 and are on sale now. Keep your eyes on the site in the weeks following the gig for live sessions and interviews.

Tracklist

1. Latin Dub Soundsystem – Lost
2. Novalima – Mujer Ajena
3. Clube Balanco – Paz e Arroz (Dona Nega Rubdown)
4. Manteca – Tremendo Boogaloo (Fluid Mechanics Mix)
5. Lenny Fontana – Spread Love (Nu Tone Remix)
6. Lightning Head – Preguntas Por Que (Zoundcolector & Ku Mix)
7. Roots Manuva – Again & Again & Again
8. Black Dillinger – Big Trouble
9. Mungo’s Hi Fi ft. Soom T – Did You Really Know
10. Gnawa Diffusion – Frik Fashion
11. King Ayisoba ft. Kwaku-T – Modern Ghanaians
12. Q-Tip ft. Amanda Diva – Manwomanboggie
13. Widdy – The Nodding Song
14. Kraak & Smaak ft. Ben Westbeech – Squeeze Me
15. Brenda Boykin – Hard Swing Travellin’ Man (Smoove Mix)
16. Sepalot ft. Ladi 6 – Go Get It (Jiminez Edit)
17. Pinnawela – You Can Dance
18. Wunmi – Keep It Rockin’ (Afro Dub)
19. Fela Kuti – Suffering & Smiling (Beatsy Collins Mix)
20. Luisito Quintero – Music For Gong Gong (Rebtuz Edit)
21. Pimps Of Joytime – Street Sound (Nickodemus Mix)
22. Ursula 1000 – Descarga El Discoteqa
23. Jiminez – Common Politics
24. Quantic & His Combo Barbaro – Un Canto A Mi Tierra

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Got an opinion or wanna get in touch? Digby@mixmag.net!

Tracklist

1. Black Box – Ride On Time (Zombie Disco Squad remix)
2. Ryan Crosson & Guti – You’ve Got Me ft. Don Fuego (Supplement Facts)
3. Tom Ruijg Random Spoon (BangBang!)
4. DANCE NEWS WITH NICK
5. Calibre and ST File -  Devil inside.  (Footprints) Sully, In some Pattern. Polargeist – Home From The Can
6. INTERVIEW – The Whip
7. Something In The Way – Kenneth James Gibson (Culprit)
8. Moonbootica -
9. Polargeist – Home From The Can (Tensnake Mix)
10. Ralph’s BIG Tune: Ellie Goulding – Starry Eyed   (Penguin Prison Mix)

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Aside from minor technical glitches, Team Little Rock deliver another smash and grab of white labels, new hotness and stone cold classics.

Catch Team Little Rock live in The Black Sparrow on Saturday 6 March, alongside House Machine (Live) and Monsieur Delarge (Inner City Acid), celebrating the release of AC/ID. Free entry, 7-12. Expect acid house to be given a thorough rinsing in the coming weeks too.

Tracklist

1. Akira Kiteshi – untitled #2 – unreleased
2. Joy Orbison – The Shrew Would have cushioned the blow – Aus Music
3. Pangea – Sunset Yellow – Hessle Audio
4. J-lab – From the Hip – Unoiki
5. Danton Eeprom - Confessions of an English Opium Eater – Infine
6. Disrupt and Soom T – Dirty Money – Jahtari
7. Sul.a – La Machine – Unoiki
8. Ronin – My Own Summer – Nerve Breaks
9. Melt Banana – Shield for Your Eyes, A Beast – A-Zap
10. Drums of Death – Ozzzy! – Unreleased
11. Raggatrax – Bad Man Flavour – Unknown
12. Ceephax Acid Crew – Emotinium – Planet Mu
13. Autechre – Slip – Warp
14. Harvey Presents Locosolus – Gunship – International Feel
15. Ska Dows - Yes Yes Yes – Cheapskate Records

Together they create and curate online photo exhibitions and present weekly podcasts hosted on Radio Magnetic.

On the first Tuesday of every month, We Sink Ships will feature something they love – it might be a band, a label, an artist, a gallery or a venue – then Neil will play out with 45 minutes of electro-disco-wonk-pop.

The following Tuesday each month, We Sink Ships will invite a guest DJ to record a set which will be preceded by an introduction to the guest.

On the 3rd Tuesday of the month, Heidi will take her turn to play some music but not before they’ve discussed a monthly Nick-Hornby-esque top 5.

Finishing off the month, the 4th show will be something a little different; with the return of Neil’s record label, We Sink Ships are presenting the Too Many Fireworks podcast, featuring music from the label, past and present, plus Neil’s latest ambient, minimalist or alternative-classical favourites.

Podcast 2 of episode 2 features our very special guests, Leeds’ own Worriedaboutsatan. Heidi and I have a chat with Gav and Tom from the Yorkshire electronicists and then they offer up some lovely music in the form of a 45 minute “meta-podcast”. We hope you enjoy listening as we love it.

Tracklist

1. Scuba – Ruptured (surgeon remix)
2. Burial – Near Dark
3. Worriedaboutsatan – You’re In My Thoughts (Ithica Trio Remix)
4. Her Name Is Calla – A Sleeper
5. Moderat – A Slow Match
6. Falconetti – Body Of Water
7. Nine Inch Nails – Right Where It Belongs (version 2)
8. Hood – They Removed All Trace Of Anything That Had Ever Happened Here
9. New Order – Ceremony
10. Debussy – Clair de lune

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The first Big Dada outing of 2010 and produced in a land down under, this Antipodean special is a tasty treat indeed with the usual combination of exclusive new material to whet the appetite as well as interviews, archived hip hop goodness from 2005 and new tracks from Juice Aleem, Lotek and Poirier.

Tracklist

1. Infesticons – Plane Anthem
2. Juice Aleem – Hologram – Si Begg’s Lost In the Hologram Mix
3. Lotek – Control Alt Delete
4. Jammer – Better Days
5. Juice Aleem – Higher Higher – Offshore Remix
6. Poirier – Marathon
7. Infesticons – Kick Anthem

BD Vaults: 2005

1. Too Cold – Roots Manuva
2. Seat Yourself – Roots Manuva
3. Colossal Insight – Roots Manuva
4. Wormholes – Busdriver
5. What You See – Lotek Hi Fi
6. Evacuate The Whitehouse – NMS
7. Lift Off – Part 2
8. Will It Ever – Part 2
9. Backyard Betty – Spank Rock

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Starting the new year with a new enthusiasm but a similar lack of free time your rather apologetic host, mlr, delves deep into the current crop of tunes doing the rounds inside his laptop for the first Sonic Router Radio of 2010.

Keeping as much attention as possible on fresh material he’s able to guide listeners through an upfront mixture of tempos and bass heavy styles – featuring new cuts from EPROM, 1000 Names, Pariah, Mosca, Shortstuff & Hyetal and so many more.

In celebration of sonicrouter.blogspot.com’s 1st full year in the game; mlr warms up for the team’s 1st birthday party in Bristol on Saturday 6 Feb.

No commercials. No mercy.

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Tracklist:

1. Lauren Pritchard – Stuck (Guido Remix) [Island]
2. Airhead & James Blake - Pembroke [fothcoming Brainmath]
3. Slugabed – Ultra Heat Treated [forthcoming Planet Mu]
4. Rekordah – Burger Sauce [Pollen]
5. Maximillion Dunbar – Bare Feet [forthcoming Ramp]
6. Raekwon ft. Lyfe Jennings – Catalina [EMI]
7. Low Limit – Traperkeeper [forthcoming Numbers]
8. EPROM – Lick Out [forthcoming Rwina]
9. 1000 Names – Saturn Race [forthcoming Black Acre]
10. Pariah – Badu [forthcoming White]
11. Lil Wayne – A Milli (Harmonimix) [forthcoming White]
12. Shortstuff & Hyetal – Ice Cream [Punch Drunk]
13. Mosca – Gold Bricks, I See You [fabric]
14. Martyn – Friedrichstrasse [fabric]
15. Deadboy – U Cheated [Well Rounded]
16. James Fox – Put It Back (Ramadanman Remix) [TAKE]
17. Martyn - Hear Me (Zomby Remix) [3024]
18. XI - 000 [forthcoming Immerse]
19. Kuedo – Starfox [forthcoming Planet Mu]

As well as indulging their customary fascination with Muslimguaze, Team Little Rock  bring new hotness from Ali Renault, Texture and Blood of the Bull, as well as the usual cross deck mixing.

Trip-hop, techno, avant-garde and the usual sonic stew. Little Rock celebrate the launch of their debut vinyl, AC/ID, on Saturday 7 March  in the Black Sparrow (North St, Glasgow, 8pm-1am) with House Machine (live), Inner City Acid DJs and Team Little Rock DJs. Can you jack?

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Tracklist

1. Muslimguaze – Fez Tishan – Unknown
2. Wu Tang Clan – Uzi (Pinky Ring) (acapella) – Loud Records
3. Juno 6 - Sirene – Tropic
4. Das Blaue Monster – Kümmern – Der Kleine Grune Wurfel
5. T&A - Megasnake #6 – unreleased
6. Micoland and Holly Bretton – Simple Needs – Dead Channel
7. Silkie – Headbutt Da Deck – Deep Medi Music
8. EDit – Crunk De Gaulle Ft Busdriver, TTC and D-Styles – Alpha Pup
9. Texture – Impact ft Harlequinade – Black Lantern
10. Opus(one) – Beyond – ESP
11. Patrick Cowley & Jorge Socarras – Memory Fails Me (Oni Ayhun RMX) – Macros
    
12. Muslimguaze – You have limbs and Baksheesh – Unknown
13. Blood of the Bull – Be Mine – Winning Sperm Party
14. Ali Renault and The Niallist – Needs – Unreleased

Myself, Nick and Ralph return with the first podcast of the new year. It includes an interview with DJ Eddie Halliwell who talks about his recent Fire It Up radio project and pies. News editor Nick has all the latest on Mixmag’s drug survey and Editor at Large Ralph recommends his Big Tune of the month. Thanks for listening!

Digby x

Tracklist:

1. Kenneth Bager – I Can’t Wait (Toby Tobias Club Mix)
2. Britney Spears – If U Seek Amy (U-Tern Disco Mix)
3. Geoim – Sugar Coated Lover (Brackles Mix)
4. NEWS
5. Friendly Fires – On Board (Joakim Remix)
6. Basement Jaxx Feat Lil Louis – One More Chance
7. Gramophonzie (DJ Sneak Remix)
8. EDDIE HALLIWELL INTERVIEW
9. KO Debout’ – Debruit
10. Kid Cudi – Pursuit Of Happiness
11. Pantha Du Prince – The Splendour
12. RALPHS BIG TUNE: Tensnake – Coma Cat

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