Radio Magnetic are proud to present the Shallow Rave podcast, bringing together members from Black Lantern Music, Little Rock Records (currently on hiatus) and a number of other projects. With a heavy focus on experimental and Net Audio releases, Shallow Rave covers everything from hip-hop and experimental music to dub and straight-up techno.

Their first for Radio Magnetic, and fourth experiment so far, this episode features a guest mix of stately dark electro and dream-pop from hip-hop witch house producer BLACK CEILING (Aural Sects / I Had An Accident / Black Lantern), and an extensive interview with Scottish hip-hop legend Loki who talks about his work with Volition, an organisation using rap to transform the lives of young Scottish people, upstaging Shakespeare and his experiences in the battle rap scene.

Tracklist

1. Death Grips – I’ve Seen Footage – Epic / Thirdworlds
2. Loki – Malady - Volition
3. mmpsuf – The Sailors - mmpsuf.lt
4. 808 State – Quincy’s Lunch (Testa) - 808state.com
5. Gravediggaz – Today’s Mathematics – Empire / BMG
6. Verseomega – Killface Feat. Loki - soundcloud.com/verseomega
7. Gasp – Boy Meets Girl - gasp.bandcamp.com
8. Loki – Wall of Silence - Volition
9. Spell Hound – I Challenge You - Aural Sects
10. Deadbeat & Dannel Tate – Lazy Jane - BLKRTZ
11. Mungo’s Hi-Fi – Indian Sun - Scotch Bonnet
12. Nina Kraviz – Ghetto Kraviz - Rekids
13. Bass Clef – Hackney-Chicago-Jupiter  - Punch Drunk

BLACK CEILING – CHLOROPHYLL MIX

1. Desire – Part II
2. White Ring – Eternia
3. Cosmetics – Soft Skin
4. L.A. Vampires – Instrumental
5. Geneva Jacuzzi – Clothes On The Bed
6. V O I D – Beta tape Warp
7. Stoned Boys – Ship Of Bones
8. Clark – Future Daniel
9. S. Maharba – Pianomouth
10. GH?L - Stonewish
11. Asakusa Jinta – Teppen

For more tracks, mixes and treats, visit soundcloud.com/danocean

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Men & Machines number 5, straight from the depths of Laandaaan.

Those of you living down south can catch Men & Machines playing at ReviveHER in Dalston this Friday 25 May, along with Lord Of The Isles, Gatto Fritto and Voices Agency.

For more information on the event and to buy tickets head over to Resident Advisor.

Tracklist

1. Pachanga Boys – Legs – Hippie Dance
2. Shoes – Afrobeat Remix Project 2 – Shoes
3. Situation – Gangster Love – Situation
4. Alisha – All Night Passion (Club Mix) – Vanguard
   
5. Barnt – Geffen – Comeme
6. Helix – Drum Track – Night Slugs
7. Bongo-O-Matic – Another Rhythm – Discomagic
8. Afefe Iku – Mirror Dance – Yoruba
9. NY Stomp – The NY House Track – Illusion
10. Ralphi Rosario – I Want You – Jack Trax
11. Randomer – Real Talk – Numbers
12. Rebolledo – Positivisimo Feat. Raquel Wolf – Comeme

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We’ve been excitedly following the Scottish Album of the Year Award since it was announced last month. Just this week, a panel of judges met and decided on just ten shortlisted albums from the longlist of 20 Scottish albums, all released in 2011. The winning album will be announced at an awards ceremony at Glasgow Film City on Tuesday 19th June, where each of the shortlisted acts will receive a £1,000 prize, and one luck winner will pocket the sizeable  £20,000 award. All ten shortlisted finalists will receive an artwork from the winner of a unique SAY Award art commission. The art commission, will be created by graduates from one of Scotland’s art schools.
In alphabetical order, the shortlisted nominees are:

• Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat “Everything’s Getting Older”
• Conquering Animal Sound “Kammerspiel”
• Happy Particles “Under Sleeping Waves”
• King Creosote & Jon Hopkins “Diamond Mine”
• Mogwai “Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will”
• Mungo’s Hi Fi “Forward Ever”
• Remember Remember “The Quickening”
• Rustie “Glass Swords”
• Tommy Smith “Karma”
• Twin Atlantic “Free” (public vote winners)

Jim Gellatly’s latest New Music collection includes tracks from Marvel Heights, Xavia, Davey Horne, Mike Nisbet, Matt Norris & The Moon, Finding Albert and The Son(s).

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*photo of Marvel Heights courtesy of elogan-photography

Tracklist

1. Mike Nisbet ‘El Frida’ web
2. Xavia ‘Lust’ web
3. The Son(s) ‘If I Hear You Talk Apostrophes Again…’ web
4. Matt Norris & the Moon ‘Roots Below’ web
5. Fluorescent Hearts ‘Tell Her You Love Her’ web
6. Davey Horne ‘Teaser’ web
7. Finding Albert ‘Smiler’ web
8. Marvel Heights ‘Make No Waves’ web
9. Sonic Hearts Foundation ‘The Storm’ web
10. Marionettes ‘Panda Bears’ web

After yesterdays post on the Beacons Festival outlining our top 10 reasons to attend, those scamps over at Beacons HQ have only gone and released a fresh batch of artists to the line up.

We wouldn’t usually complain about such good news but now our 10 reasons to go is grossly inadequate, forcing us to outline another 5 reasons to be in attendance of what is shaping up to be one of the highlights of our summer.

The new artists announced today include Julio Bashmore, who will be headlining the Resident Advisor Stage on the Friday night, Rinse FM DJ and 502 Recordings label boss Oneman, Andrew Weatherall and Glasgow (by way of Bangor) boy Koreless.

Oh and if your still not sure, remember weekend tickets start at just £60.

If yesterdays top ten list didn’t get your juices flowing, todays announcements are sure to make you need new pants.

New Additions to Lineup

**THE FELICE BROTHERS, JULIO BASHMORE, REAL ESTATE, ONEMAN, CLOUD NOTHINGS, KORELESS, WILLIS EARL BEAL, ANDREW WEATHERALL “A LOVE FROM OUT SPACE”, JACUZZI BOYS, STOPMAKINGME, WEIRD DREAMS, BLEEDING KNEES CLUB, TALL SHIPS, BLACKLISTERS, SOULJAZZ SOUNDSYSTEM & LUVJAM **

Full Line up

WILD BEASTS / PATRICK WOLF / ROOTS MANUVA / JUNIOR BOYS / GHOSTPOET / ERRORS / JESSIE WARE / FRANKIE & THE HEARTSTRINGS / MAYA JANE COLES / FACTORY FLOOR / PEARSON SOUND / CASS MCCOMBS / WILLY MASON / D/R/U/G/S / PEAKING LIGHTS / XXXY / KWES / OUTFIT / STAR SLINGER / CLOCK OPERA / LUNICE / SUBMOTION ORCHESTRA / BOK BOK / 2:54 / JAM CITY / KING KRULE / MAZES / STILL CORNERS / STAY+ / GROSS MAGIC / BOS ANGELES / GRASS HOUSE / ARTHUR BEATRICE / HOOKWORMS / THE WAVE PICTURES / AU PALAIS

A very small number of early birds tickets are left at just £60 for the weekend, including camping (£55 for students). Once these have gone there will be a batch at £74.50 and then full price tickets will be at £84.50.

Tickets are available to purchase from: The Beacons Festival website (below), HMV, Seetickets (below), Resident Advisor, Leedstickets.com, Jumbo Records and Crash Records.
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Beacons Festival:  17 – 19 August, 2012 

If you like the sound of spending your weekend listening to great music with the Yorkshire Dales providing the backdrop, then Beacons Festival 2012 should be top of your to do list this summer. Martin Moffat explains why it’s a must.

The intimate, boutique music and art festival, situated in the conveniently named Funkirk Estate, is set to play host to a impressive lineup of artists that belies the festivals size. For such a small festival, Beacons is jam packed with artists who will undoubtedly make the pocket friendly entrance fee worth every penny.

Here’s our top 10 (yes 10) reasons why you should go to Beacons Festival this year.

Wild Beasts – Headlining Saturday night at Beacons, the Mercury Prize nominated band will no doubt put on one hell of a show. The release of their third album Smother on Domino Records last year has propelled the band to new heights including embarking on a world tour seeing them play across America, Europe and Australia. Not a bad follow up to their Mercury Prize nominated album Two dancers (which missed out on the award to the XX) if you ask us.

Roots Manuva- UK Hip Hop don Roots Manuva is a man who should need very little introduction. The London born hip hop veteran of Witness (1 Hope) fame has been about for over 15 years with eight studio albums under his belt. It’s safe to say his set should be all killer.

Factory Floor – This London based trio have been causing quite a stir since their first release in 2008. Their sound has been described as “something akin to being in a playpit, with Kraftwerk, Nico, Drexciya and Dopplereffekt all kicking the sand up in your face.” Intrigued? You should be.

Maya Jane Coles - If like us you are sad enough to spend the majority of your day hunched over a laptop trawling the internet for good music then you will undoubtedly have heard of Maya Jane Coles. If you are lucky enough to have a life that lets you socialise with real people and go out to clubs, you will still have heard of MJC. Not content with topping the best of lists for almost every self respecting electronic music publication around last year, the young London based producer has been all over the UK and Europe destroying clubs with her DJ sets and productions. Keep your eyes peeled for her forthcoming entry to the DJ Kicks series.

Pearson Sound - David Kennedy aka Pearson Sound (formerly Ramadanman) is an artist who has been on the forefront of British electronic music for some time now. One third of the essential Hessle Audio imprint (alongside Ben UFO and Pangaea) this man is in a league of his own. With an excellent Fabric Live mix under his belt, alongside a slew of ridiculously on point productions and remixes this man cannot be fucked with. Oh did I forget to mention this man can DJ like the best of them? Well he can.

Lunice – Lunice is a Boss, plain and simple. This Canadian has been heralded as the future of Hip Hop by some and one of the baddest mother-fuckers alive by others. Releases on LuckyMe, Mad Decent and Young Turks have made this man one of the most sought after producers around at the moment and his live shows are simply indescribable. Seriously, I’m not just saying that for hype, if you haven’t seen this man live you won’t understand. Check out his Boiler Room Performances and you will see what I mean.

Jessie Ware – There are a lot of things I cold write about Jessie Ware, although the majority of them could not be printed in any publications without a parental guidance label slapped across the front of it. What I can say is that Jessie Ware is beautiful and massively talented. If you don’t believe me check out the tracks she has featured on, working with artists like SBTRKT, Joker and Sampha. Her single, Running, was recently given the remix treatment by Disclosure creating one of the biggest tracks of the year so far, oh and she has an album due to drop this summer on PMR. I think that should be enough.

Bok Bok - Night Slugs label boss and all round badman DJ, Bok Bok is nothing short of a club weapon. Alongside his parter in crime L-Vis 1990, this man has been controlling dance floors for the last few years with his Night Slugs label dropping anthems from the likes of Girl Unit, Jacques Greene, Mosca and L-vis 1990. With a new series of releases on the way with the Club Constructions series Bok Bok is sure to be wreaking havoc in a dance near you for some time to come.

XXXY – Manchester’s Rupert Taylor is one of the finest producers in the game at the moment. The past year has seen him releases tracks on labels such as Fortified Audio, All City and Ten Thousand Yen. His EP You Always Start It/Ordinary Things was one of our favourites of last year and his forthcoming release Everything/ I Know this Can’t Be Love on Well Rounded Records later this month is sure to provide two of the biggest tracks of the summer.

Jam City – Londoner Jack Latham has been releasing a steady stream of quality releases on Night Slugs and has an album on the way which is due for release in May. His releases have caused quite a stir in the music world incorporating elements of Grime, Dubstep and House to deadly effect. His recent single, The Courts, is no exception and features and awesome video to boot.

Full Line up;

WILD BEASTS / PATRICK WOLF / ROOTS MANUVA / JUNIOR BOYS / GHOSTPOET / ERRORS / JESSIE WARE / FRANKIE & THE HEARTSTRINGS / MAYA JANE COLES / FACTORY FLOOR / PEARSON SOUND / CASS MCCOMBS / WILLY MASON / D/R/U/G/S / PEAKING LIGHTS / XXXY / KWES / OUTFIT / STAR SLINGER / CLOCK OPERA / LUNICE / SUBMOTION ORCHESTRA / BOK BOK / 2:54 / JAM CITY / KING KRULE / MAZES / STILL CORNERS / STAY+ / GROSS MAGIC / BOS ANGELES / GRASS HOUSE / ARTHUR BEATRICE / HOOKWORMS / THE WAVE PICTURES / AU PALAIS

A very small number of early birds tickets are left at just £60 for the weekend, including camping (£55 for students). Once these have gone there will be a batch at £74.50 and then full price tickets will be at £84.50.

Tickets are available to purchase from: The Beacons Festival website (below), HMV, Seetickets (below), Resident Advisor, Leedstickets.com, Jumbo Records and Crash Records.

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Jim Gellatly from In:Demand Uncut presents more New Music from Scotland… including Homework, French Wives, Holy Pistol Club, Quickbeam, Madhat McGore… and erm… M83?

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*photo of Quickbeam

Tracklist

1. Madhat McGore feat Lioness ‘We’re On Top’ web
2. Waiting On Jack ‘The Stand’ web
3. Holy Pistol Club ‘Underground’ web
4. The Holy Ghosts ‘Ol’ Snake Hips’ web
5. Quickbeam ‘Seven Hundred Birds’ web
6. Homework ‘Thoughts’ web
7. Scott McWatt ‘Take Me Home’ web
8. R.i.P ‘Static’ web
9. French Wives ‘Month Of Sundays’ web
10. M83 ‘Reunion’ (Mylo Remix) web

The Radio Magnetic blog brings you the latest gigs, clubs, festivals and music news from throughout the UK and worldwide.

Jai Paul returns to give our speakers a work out with Jasmine on XL Recordings.

It’s a fact of todays music industry that you can become a success over night. The constant hype machine that is the internet can propel an artist to dizzying heights faster than you can say ‘premature’. All it takes is the right blog to say the right thing and before you know it you are the best thing since Lana Del Rey.

Jai Paul is an example of this hype in action. When BTSTU was released in 2010 the blogs went wild, and with good reason. The track was an impressive debut that grabbed listeners by the ears, forcing them to bob their heads in a neck endangering motion that would make Busta Rhymes proud.

The track was then picked up by XL with BTSTU (Edit) seeing a proper release in April 2011. It has been one year (almost to the day) since then and not much has been heard from Mr Paul, musical or otherwise. Usually by this point some juicy information from his personal life would have reached the public domain, (perhaps he used to work on the fish counter in a Morrisons in Blackpool?) but while BTSTU stayed firmly overground, Jai Paul appeared to go underground leaving many wondering if he would ever release any new music. That was until last Friday when Jasmine appeared on Jai’s Soundcloud, since then the track has had almost 250,000 listens.

Jasmine is another impressive show of Jai Paul’s skills as a producer/singer and will no doubt prove to many that the hype train that left the station back in 2010 is now well on course for the young Londoner. The fact that BTSU gained support from big names like Beyonce and Drake suggests that mainstream success should be no problem for the elusive artist. His newest offering is off to just as strong a start grabbing the attention of the likes of Mount Kimbie who posted on their twitter about the track ‘Love it when someone just nails it.’.

With such wide ranging support for an artist who has only released one song I think it’s safe to say I’m not the only one who can’t wait for his album to drop.

Check out Jai Paul’s Jasmine on Soundcloud.

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Diplo and the Red Bull Music Academy are collaborating again – after the success of the Notting Hill Carnival shindigs they put on together each August – by putting on a series of aftershow parties to accompany Diplo’s upcoming futuristic dancehall vibe tour with London’s Switch under the super-pseudonym Major Lazer. Check out the promo vid below.

Touching down in Glasgow on Sunday 22 April at Chambre 69, after dates in London and Birmingham, expect an exclusive DJ set from Diplo plus some extra special guests to be announced nearer the date. As many of you will already know if you’ve ever been to a Diplo show it can be a riotous event with an diverse mix of musical melodies which will have you moving around the dance floor before you’ve knocked back your first Jager bomb. Any man who threatens to make a reggae record with Snoop Dogg, as has just been announced, and has you wandering if in actual fact it might be pretty decent has got to worth a look right?

We really do highly reccomend you getting yourself a ticket to this, and here’s is how you can do so. For each of the events, a limited amount of guest list spaces will be made available to ticket holders of the Major Lazer gigs.  To be in with a chance of getting hold of one of these spaces, ticket holders should head to www.redbull.co.uk/diplotour at 10am on Thursday 5 April.  All other tickets will be available to buy on the door at each venue (subject to availability) with discounts for anyone with a Major Lazer ticket.

We’ve also managed to get our hands on a pair of tickets which you can win by answering the question below. Answers in the comments box please and good luck!

Competition

What’s the name of Major Lazer’s debut LP called?

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3. The prize is 2 x pairs of tickets.
4. Competition will run until 4pm on Thursday 19 April. The competition winner will be notified by 6pm.
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The Radio Magnetic blog brings you the latest gigs, clubs, festivals and music news from throughout the UK and worldwide.

Just a quick one to let you all know that it’s our 11th birthday today! We will let you know about our celebrations soon, but in the meantime, enjoy 11 of our favourite tunes from the past wee while.