Update, 6/16/11, 10am: Turns out the new Kanye West song I talk about near the end of this post was a fake. Oh well. Lyrics are still solid.
Hooray for Tuesday! Normally I wouldn’t say hooray for any day of the week except Friday, Saturday or Sunday, but today I woke up with a lot more get-up-and-go than I did yesterday, and I was pleased to find lots of new music alerts blowing up my Twitter feed. I was inspired to start a new weekly series of posts highlighting some of the best, newest music out there. So here’s a roundup of the latest tracks that I’m currently digging.
Flying Lotus, “Stereolab – GalactagonFINAL2rMX”
FlyLo posted this previously unreleased Stereolab remix on SoundCloud late last night. It’s a deft combination of spacey pulse and lo-fi shuffle. You can hear more brand new FlyLo remixes on his SoundCloud page. (Highly suggest you check out the Massive Attack and Mr. Oizo remixes.)
Tinariwen feat. Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone, “Tenere Taqhim Tossam”
Yesterday the Malian Tuareg group Tinariwen posted a new video on YouTube for the song “Tenere Taqhim Tossam,” which features Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio (!). Loving how Adebimpe’s voice seamlessly meshes with Tinariwen’s desert blues. The song comes from Tinariwen’s upcoming album Tassili, due out August 30 on Anti-.
Kanye West, “Mama’s Boyfriend”
This bouncy new Kanye joint popped up on the Consequence of Sound blog yesterday. Anybody who grew up with a single parent with an active dating life will be able to relate to this track. Download it here (via the G.O.O.D. Music Blog).
Atom™ and Toshiyuki Yasuda, “Águas de Março [ft. Fernanda Takai + Moreno Veloso]“
“Águas de Março” is one of my favorite songs of all time, so imagine my delight when I found a cover of the tune on a recent post on NPR Music‘s Alt.Latino blog. Electronic artists Atom™ and Toshiyuki Yasuda team up with vocalists Fernanda Takai and Moreno Veloso to create a deferential yet inventive interpretation of the original classic. The track appears on the forthcoming two-disc compilation Red Hot + Rio 2 to be released by the HIV charity Red Hot Organization. Listen to it here. Red Hot + Rio 2 drops June 28.
What brand new stuff (released or posted in the last week) have you been listening to?
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