As Warp records newest signing, South London’s Kwes has a lot to live up to. Having made a name for himself with his own productions on Warp and Young Turks, he’s also found the time to work with some of the most exciting acts in music right now including The XX, Speech Debelle, Micachu and Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard.

With his new EP Meantime out in April he’s performing a string of dates across the UK  and it just so happens we’ve got a pair of tickets to give away to the Glasgow show, where he’ll be supported by top Glasgow based and Chemikal Underground signed producer, Miaoux Miaoux. All you have to do is answer the question below.

Competition

To win a copy of Miaoux Mioaux‘s Hey Sound CD single and a pair of tickets to Kwes on Saturday 25 February at The Art School Union, simply tell us what is the name of the mixtape series Kwes worked on with Micachu?

Answers in the comments box below and good luck!

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Listen online, stream and download the monthly Wild Combination podcast on Radio Magnetic. Presented by one of Glasgow’s finest DJs, David Barbarossa.

Ahead of the next Wild Combination, where David Barbarossa presents Sounds of Love & Lust our lovely host creates a tribute to St Valentine (patron saint of chocolate, garish underwear & stuffed bears holding hearts). With a selection ranging from the B52s to Brooklyn Express and Raw Sex to Rita Jean Brodie it’s another Wild Combination episode not to be missed.

Apply the rhythm method.

Tracklist

1. Marc and the Mambas – Sleaze
2. Organs of Love – Facefuck
3. La Perversita – I Love you S
4. Sad City – UNKNOWN
5. Brooklyn Express – Burnin’ Hot
6. Peter Brown – Burning Love Breakdown
7. Aristocrat P Child – We’re Gonna Make It
8. Diggytal and the Numbers – If It’s Love That You Want
9. That Thing – That Thing (American version)
10. Raw Sex – Give Sheep A Chance
11. Dunkleziffer – Trailer II
12. B52s – Deep Sleep
13. Rita Jean Bodine – That’s The Kind of Love I’ve Got For You
14. Jean-Yves Labat – Matrix 16

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After a bit of a long break, due to the Mogwai lads touring the globe, the Mogcast returns stronger than ever. This month we welcome Steev and Simon from Errors into the Radio Magnetic studio to present the new episode. It doesn’t disappoint. Music from Brian Eno, Wooden Shjips, Conrad Scnitzler, Chris and Cosey, Geneva Jacuzzi and Errors themselves in amongst the many belters. Enjoy!

Errors released their new album, Have Some Faith In Magic on Rock Action on Monday 30 January. Go buy it.

Tracklist

1. Obsidian Pond – Freedom Falling
2. Brian Eno – Silver Morning
3. Benoit Wildemann – Etre Les Lignes
4. Michael Hoenig – Sun and Moon
5. Conrad Schnitzler – Ballet Statique
6. Forma – 2.35
7. Amen Dunes – Christopher
8. Wooden Shjips – Lazy Bones
9. Psychic Ills – I’ll Follow You Through The Floor
10. White Fold – End of Now
11. Chris & Cosey – Chiron
12. Errors – Pleasure Places
13. In Afternam Vale – Give Me Your Money George
14. Robert Schroeder – Galactic Floor
15. d’Eon – Transparency
16. Andy Clark – Funk-U-Like
17. Computer Jay – Vice
18. Geneva Jacuzzi – Do I Sad?
19. Maria Minerva – These Days
20. Sun Araw – Impluvium
21. Errors – Blank Media

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

It’s that time of the year again, and as February comes around in the city of Glasgow once again so does the Glasgow Film Festival (GFF). Running from Thursday 16 February till Sunday 26 February and spanning across 16 different venues across the city, including a swimming pool and The Tall Ship, the GFF always offers many unique and exciting experiences for locals and visitors to Glasgow.

As well as some of the best of global cinema, both new and old, this year will transcend the big screen to include many enticing special events in addition to various live and interactive happenings. With so much going on to choose from Radio Magnetic has done a bit of research and pulled together some of the things we are most looking forward to seeing for your browsing pleasure.

Naturally the first thing that jumps out at us on the programme is the Music and Film festival section. Called a festival within the festival there is some truly enough great stuff happening, and enough to immerse yourself in that you could quite easily dedicate your whole festival experience to this one part of the GFF. Cry Parrot presents: Umberto looks a particular highlight. Umberto is a true master of the horror soundtrack, think John Carpenter’s dark and unsettling synth-work crossed with the disturbing prog-rock of Goblin. He will be flying over from Kansas for this special performance on Saturday 25 February at SWG3, the film he will be providing the soundtrack for remains a secret, but whatever he chooses we are sure it will be a terrifying night’s entertainment. We are also excited by the performance of space and electro rock pioneers Silver Apples appearance on Sunday 26 February at Mono. Formed in the New York in 1968, Silver Apples were well ahead of their time, ignoring the psychedelic rock going on around them in 60’s New York they instead opted to create a minimalist experimental electro sound that influenced countless musicians, including Suicide and Kraftwerk. We really can’t recommend getting a ticket to this enough.

There is also a retrospective of the work of revered Scottish filmmaker Douglas Hart, perhaps best known for his cutting edge promo videos for the likes of My Bloody Valentine, Stone Roses, Primal Scream and Paul Weller. And, in 2009 Glasgow indie-pop outfit, Butcher Boy performed a live soundtrack to Scottish director Enrico Cocozza’s film Chick’s Day at Glasgow Film Theatre. Glasgow Short Film festival is delighted to invite the band to perform to film again, in a special event for this year’s Festival at the Berkeley Suite. Both these music related events at the film festival should be worth checking out. And, a film sure to have a fantastic a soundtrack is the Scottish screen debut of Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy. A must-see.

Filmaticly, GFF has been offering a diverse variety of cinematic genres, styles and experiences since its inception and this year is no different. One of the best cinematic experiences you can have at the GFF is the Frightfest’s frightpass, which offers you the chance to see 11 horror films over two days. It is a truly great and unsettling happening and in our opinion there really is no better way to watch horror films than one after the other with minimal rest bite. Beginning on Friday 24 February and running right through till the following evening, it’s always a unique experience to submerge yourself in film after film in the GFT’s large cinema, breaking only to get snacks, go to the bathroom and get a quick kip before returning the following morning for further frights. Some of the creepiest highlights include the ‘found footage’ shockumentary Evidence, apocalyptic dystopian adventure, The Day and the UK premiere of chilling slasher flick Rites of Spring. The brand new strand, Crossing The Line series of experimental films also has some wonderfully bizarre looking events and films including 85A Present: Jan Svankmajer, Finisterrae and The Forgotten Space.

When a festival can lurch from the depths of horror goodness to a celebration of Weimar Republic Germany’s cabaret tradition then it’s quite obvious that it’s got some variety about it, and so it is as GFF presents Weimarvellous. Adding some glamour to the cold winter months Weimarvellous kicks off with a screening of Blue Angel in the CCA on Friday 17 February. Featuring the queen of Cabaret, Marlene Dietrich as Lola-Lola, a Cabaret performer and femme fatal who is the downfall of besotted high school tutor Immanual Rath, The Blue Angel is a true classic. With Cabaret performances in the CCA bar after the film and a chance for you to to perform in Cabaroke (Cabaret themed Karaoke) it should be a cracking night to glam yourself up and strut your stuff.

There is so much really credible and exciting stuff to see at this year’s GFF we couldn’t possibly cover it all but suffice to say that whatever you’re into, you will find something that suits you at Glasgow Film Festival 2012. The above are our top picks.

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

In association with the Hyphae festival, an innovative music platform which provides insight into the nowadays exploding digital and web-based music culture, and presented by Josh Hill (Wavy Graves) & Joe Howe (Ben Butler & Mousepad), A Global Video Party at the Old Hairdressers on Saturday 25 February from 8 – 12pm should be a terrific night of international musical goodness for only £5.

Sets will be beamed in downstairs from Jimmy Pe, Oknai, Mux Mool, Pazes and more, from locations such as Berlin, Lisbon and Brussels, with live sets from Stefan Bloemeier, Silk Cut and Ben Butler and Mousepad beamed out upstairs.

More info on the Facebook Event page.

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Free download and video of this experimental electronic remix of Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Sprit from Transformativa. Enjoy.

S.L.T.Spirit (TRANSFORMATIVA RMX) by TRANSFORMATIVA

Platform in association with Celtic Connections presents two great and eclectic nights of music on Friday 20 and Saturday 21 January. We can’t wait for this.

The first sees the fantastic cult British Indian/indie-pop outift, Cornershop headlinine. Cornershop‘s latest album, Cornershop and the Double ‘O’ Groove Of  was released to critical acclaim back in March 2011. The LP was six years in the making and is a collaboration with Bubbley Kaur, a previously unrecorded Punjabi singer. Throughout their 20 year career Cornershop have managed to successfully combine their psychedelic sound of guitar and sitar within pop songs that as well as bringing mainstream success didn’t lose any of their cultural significance.

The biggest and most popular example of this heard on their 1997 album, When I Was Born for the 7th Time and the iconic and timeless Brimful of Asha, the unique sound of which lead to praise not only from John Peel but lead them to completing sold-out tours in the UK and supporting the likes of Oasis and Beck in the United States. Watch the video for new tune, United Provinces of India, taken from Cornershop and the Double ‘O’ Groove Of below.

In keeping with Celtic Connections‘ ethos of using the festival to bring together both local and global artistic talent, supporting Cornershop will be Glasgow’s own indie-pop group, 1990s.

Tickets cost £12.50/£10 and are available from the Platform box-office as well as Monorail, Tickets Scotland and Celtic Connections.

The following night it’s the turn of Laetitia Sadier, Jo Mango and Dan Haywood’s New Hawks to take to the Platform stage.

The amazing Laetitia Sadier is best known as the lead singer of Stereolab. When the band announced an indefinite hiatus in 2009 Laetitia set to work on what would be her first ‘official’ solo album The Trip. The record was well received by critics for it’s intensely emotive look at the sometimes unexpected personal kicks life can bring. Sadier is renowned for her beautiful and sometimes unexpected live performances which you can get a preview of below.

Jo Mango is an alternative folk and acoustic band from Glasgow and also the adopted name of the group’s front-woman and primary songwriter. Mango has collaborated with musicians such as David Byrne, Devandra Banhart, Vashti Bunyan and Teenage Fanclub. During the gig Jo Mango will premiere a brand new work created especially for Celtic Connections, There Was and There was Not… a collection of songs inspired by Angela Carter’s wild and dark, Book of Fairy Tales.

Dan Haywood’s New Hawks are a new literate voice on the British musical landscape. Their epic scope marries transatlantic cosmic roots music with a poetic and soulful British folk. A rambling, rolling band whose crazed stage presence, with various players swapping instruments and psychic powers amongst themselves, has already assured them cult status.

Tickets cost £10/£7.50 and can be purchased from the Platform box-office, Monorail, Tickets Scotland and Celtic Connections.

Both events include bus transport to and from Mono to Platform, costing £4 and leaving promptly at 6.30pm!

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The latest WCSP podcast features two of the special guest DJs who will be gracing the decks at the We Can Still Picnic Hogmanay party at Mono – Wild Combination‘s David Barbarossa and Deena Erin from the Sophisticated Boom Boom. Their special NYE WCSP podcast features some of the kind of music you may or may not hear at the party!

Here’s some more info on the party too. Should be a great night.

Mono & We Can Still Picnic present a very special Hogmanay party featuring a selection of their favourite Guest DJs from the club in 2011 as well as some of their favourite acts performing live including: JONNY (Featuring Norman from Teenage Fanclub and Euros Child (gorky’s zygotic mynci) Plus Monoganon and Wake the President. Special Guest DJs are the estimable David Barbarossa, Monorail Music DJs plus The Sophisticated Boom Boom.

Tracklist

1. Fern Kinney – Baby Let Me Kiss You
2. Gina X – Nice Mover
3. Night Creatures – That’s The Night
4. Wanda Jackson – Let’s Have A Party
5. Little Richard – Rip It Up
6. James and Bobby Purify – Shake A Tail Feather
7. Chris Montez – Let’s Dance
8. Frank Zappa – Dancin’ Fool
9. The Knickerbockers – The Comma Generation
10. Chris Andrews – Too Bad You Don’t Want Me
11. Rain – Make Me
12. Hank Mizeu – Jungle Rock
13. Dickey Lee – Party Doll
14. Shalimar – Baby, Let’s Dance Together
15. Demis Roussos – Midnight Is The Time I Need You
16. Harari – Party
17. Chaplin Band – Let’s Have A Party
18. Mascara – Golden Years
19. Fun Boy Three – Best Of Luck Mate
20. Sinn Sisamontu – If I Told My Baby
21. Panbers – Haai
22. The Sierras – Stormy Weather
23. Sister Clara Jard – Feelin’ Good
24. Evie Sands – Can’t Let Go
25. Bernadette Carole – Party Girl
26. Glass Torpedoes – Someone Different
27. Sister Sledge – Thinking Of You
28. The Zombies – This Will Be Our Year

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If you’re familiar with any of the styles of music above then hopefully you will enjoy yourself, and if you’re not it’s going to be an interesting journey.

On The Process presented by Neil Macdonald you’ll hear new music and old music, and you’ll hear from people who make music. In this show we hear from Peaking Lights and Roedelius. The full interviews are published in Sidewalk magazine, or can be found here: bitemywire.blogspot.com/

Tracklist

1. King Jammy – Private Plan Dub
2. US Girls – Red Ford Radio
3. Peaking Lights Interview
4. Peaking Lights – Amazing and Wonderful
5. Forest Swords – Miarches
6. Ike Yard – NCR (Funkstörung Remix)
7. The Fall – Cosmos 7
8. The Cramps – Shombalor
9. Sol Invictus – Fields
10. Lungfish – Tick Tock
11. Beat Happening – TV Girl
12. Fireball – Witchy Ways
13. Roedelius Interview
14. Roedelius – Single Boogie
15. David Byrne and Brian Eno – Strange Overtones
16. Dan Sartain – Now Now Now
17. Spectrum – It’s Alright

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Download a brand new remix from the ever-outstanding DJ Harvey of See Blind Through from the forthcoming Canyons LP. You can buy that album on Modular in early 2012. You can download the remix below and watch the video for the original right now.

Canyons – See Blind Through (DJ Harvey Remix) by modularpeople

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