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MP3: Bathcrones - Damselfly (C Powers Remix)

I thought Bathcrones' club heights were enough but when drenched in a typically C Powers type of purple there's even more room to get euphoric. Still can't stop listening to the guest mix he made us a while back which spliced similarly stardusty electronica with scruffy hip-hop beats and here he's chopping up and looping the weirdly comforting Crones synths and loosening the aquatic chill in favour of woozier feelings and grittier textures.

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Guest Mix: C POWERS

MP3: C Powers - Rose Quartz Mix (94mb)

London (via Atlanta) producer and all around playboy C Powers aka Chris Powers skirts the periphery of a few things; small bites and longer mixes of Dilla-style hip-hop, wonky and floaty dub ala Becoming Real or Young Montana, glitchy eletronica and pop as vibed by Atlanta bros like CH-Rom or heRobust. Kinda crazy how live it all comes off and how much he seems to churn out from a place like London which I think is part of the inspiration behind this mix of warped hip-hop and slowed R&B; this is all about slowing things down or "reeling it back in" which is an idea I can totally get into (down time is important and shit) after some recent times of prolonged busy-ness.

TRACKLIST:
1 Silence
2 Jamie Principle - Your Love (Drone)
3 Prince - Sign of the times
4 8 Ball and MJG - Candy
5 Do or Die - Smoke and Ride
6 Mane Mane - Mom Moment / E Dub - Its Terrific (Acapella)
7 Lay Bac - Stay Out Tonight
8 Lil Boosie - I Remember
9 LE$ ft Party Boys - Sweets
10 Howard Johnson - So Glad Your My Lady
11 heRobust - Boss Frog
12 Time Wharp - 1992
13 Bathcrones - Vineyard of the Sea
14 How To Dress Well - Decisions

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C Powers - Chunder 2
Yaaard - I Lit A Candle
Truly way out frequencies on this new split cassette from Yaaard who beams in soft, loner hip-hop/pop and "gameboy vomit" and London by way of Atlanta peace crew C Powers who is shuffling more sinister than the usual Dilla-sized wonk on his side. Yaaard taps into outer space from Bournemouthe where I have been before actually and had an experience that is not far removed from how his zen-based pop sounds wherein I was really hungry following three days "getting buzzed" at a music festival and I went to a park to eat an English breakfast and suddenly in the distance about 35 ladies started to do Tai Chi in a group and an old man was watching it with me, it was really something. Defo buy this tape btw!

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