As a warm up to their FIVE POUNDS party on June 13th, Hyperdub have put together this “hidden depths” mix featuring the best of their roster from Terror Danjah to Laurel Halo, Actress to Cooly G. It’s just the kind of thing to get lost in while you sweat out last night’s party plus, if you’re up for more of a challenge, there’s a competition to guess the artist and title behind track three. The winner gets tickets to the night. GO GO GO GO GO

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Pitchfork is proud to announce the launch of Soundplay, an interactive program focused on the intersections of music, gaming, and technology. Pitchfork has commissioned some of the most innovative game developers working today to create new, original games inspired by songs we love. These games don't just use music as a soundtrack; their scenes, characters, and settings are all driven by the song. Soundplay's games were produced by our partners at the video games...

The former Night Slugs, 3024, Numbers and Ghost House producer follows up Bax, one of the biggest tracks of last year, with a new EP this month. Unless Eva Mendes is really into deep house (her people have neither confirmed or denied it) we’re guessing Mosca has been inspired by her google image search. Robert Owens guests on the b-side ‘Murderous’.

The Eva Mendes EP is out digitally on June 11th via Hypercolour.

Available on: Hyperdub LP

After a period of instrumental focus, Laurel Halos new album Quarantine reintroduces lyrical content within a current-driven set of electronic songs and instrumentals as a somewhat surprising addition to Hyperdubs roster.

As heard prominently in Hour Logic, a defining strength of Halo is her ability to create and cleverly direct the flow of fluid structures.  The instrumentation of Quarantine...

It’s the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, and what better way to see it in that with a roughneck session from one of Britain’s most uncompromising acts?

Rohan Walder’s been kicking around for a few years now, releasing on Tru Thoughts and Super, and contributing to Hessle Audio’s 116 & Rising compilation. It was late last year however, following that Hessle release that Walder really seemed to step things up: ‘Real Talk’, ...

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Brand new, appropriately hilarious and playful video for Holy Balm‘s “Theme”, taken from the Sydney outfit’s forthcoming full-length It’s You. Superb analogue synth murk that the trio likes to call “deep party”. I guess you can dance to this though I’m not quite sure if you’re also supposed to. In any case, recommended stuff.

It’s You is out soon on Not Not Fun.

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Anyone straining to keep up with the career of Joel Ford is given a welcome opportunity to get entangled in his various musical impulses on Trust. Ford is best known as one half of Ford & Lopatin, a duo who managed to find an awkward kind of parity in bulbous funk tracks, 1980s cheese-rock, retro-futurist pop, and the methadone gleam of new age. His work additionally extends to a part as bassist in Brooklyn soft-rock outfit Tigercity, and to his solo project Airbird. The latter gai...

In 1995, a gallon of gas cost $1.09. Mel Gibson's Braveheart war paint was thrilling housewives across the country, that sax-swingin' silver fox Bill Clinton was in office, Alanis Morissette was choking down jagged little pills, and Pantera were touring on Far Beyond Driven. It was also the year Die Healing, the last Saint Vitus album, was released. A year later, the Los Angeles doom legends called it quits, and fans despaired of ever having the chance to add more of guit...

If rap is really having its big independent moment, then it stands to reason that lesser-known MCs outside of big cities and fashionable cliques will start to get some shine. One of the guys who deserves such attention is Oddisee, a producer and rapper from Washington, D.C., known for an eclectic take on soulful boom-bap. Oddisee, real name Amir Mohammed el Khalifa, has been creating compelling work outside the label system for some time now. His best release so far was last year's Rock Cr...

The Gossip made their pop move with 2009's Rick Rubin-produced Music for Men, whose slick coat of gloss propelled the already-UK-famous Portland band into further heights. He tightened their bluesy sound into something that resembled dancepunk, funneling frontwoman Beth Ditto's unequaled soulful wail into clipped bursts of angst and joy. Despite the mechanical boxed-in feel of that album, the band kept their personality intact, producing their most listenable effort even if it wasn't a...

Even at their highest points of visibility, Liars have spent the last decade creating obfuscation. Their 2001 debut, They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top, was a raging fire of herky-jerky Solid Gold antagonism that ended a locked groove which, on CD, ran longer than all of the record's songs combined. The lead single from 2006's Drum's Not Dead, "It Fit When I Was a Kid", featured the unconflicted cover image ...