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Reel Heart; 11/05/11

We Heart approved stereo selections, each and every week...

Reel Heart; 11/05/11

We’ve got an awful lot of new developments and new features in store for the We Heart faithful – and first up is ‘Reel Heart’, our weekly guide to We Heart approved sounds. We’re pretty obsessed with new music and hope that we can feed your ears on a regular basis with something fresh and engaging, after all – not everyone’s got hours to spend trawling music blogs every day, so why don’t you sit back and let us do that for you…

Planningtorock; Doorway (Creep Remix)

Bolton born prosthetic nose enthusiast, Janine Rostron, is a one-woman project with a disposition for off-kilter orchestral, chamber-pop, show-stopping dance music that quite literally defies all manner of logic, categorisation and comprehension. Her debut album for James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy’s DFA, entitled W, is as fantastically original and utterly bonkers as you will hear all year. This remix courtesy of Brooklyn’s Creep – whose recent single ‘Days’ featured The xx’s Romy – is dark, haunting, dramatic and, well, just brilliant…



Purity Ring; Ungirthed (Christian AIDS remix)

Purity Ring are a new project from a member of electro-pop New Yorkers, Gobble Gobble – a kind of Cut Copy meets Gang Gang Dance affair. He/They sound much better as the darkly poppy, or perhaps poppily dark, witch house outfit that they are now. They sound even better with Manchester’s finest purveyors of euphoric, 6am after-party rave – the quite brilliant Christian Aids – on the remix duties…


Yuck; Milkshake

You know what you’re getting with Yuck, and Milkshake – a new track that partners Shook Down on a new double a-side 7″ – is another lush 4 minutes of retro-grunge pop perfection. If ever a band had been made for long summer days…


Jensen Sportag; The Wet Mix

A 14 minute mix to accompany/compliments their new Pure Wet EP – this is as slick and sleepy a slice of electro-pop as you’ll hear this year. Glossy, sexy, retro – wrap this round your ears and you’ll think you’re Don Johnson in the middle of a soft focus sex scene…



Zomby; Things Fall Apart ft. Panda Bear

A curious collaboration, glitchy dubstep producer Zomby gets some vocal treatment from Animal Collective’s Panda Bear. It’s pretty much as you’d imagine. Brilliant.



Jakwob; Right Beside You ft. Smiler

Continuing what is a fairly mellow start to our new music feature – this new one from dubstep remixer extraordinaire Jakwob is a lesson in beautifully blissed out, bass heavy, electro-pop. Expect this one to hit the major radio playlists and end up getting right on your tits…



Robyn; Call Your Girlfriend (Feed Me Remix)

We couldn’t be more obsessed by Sweden’s very own masterclass in pop-perfection if we tried – her remixes always tend to be gay club hi-nrg codswallop however. Enter London producer Feed Me and an utterly bonkers Justice-go-dubstep pounder and there goes 2 hours listening to it on repeat…


Joker & Jessie Ware; The Vision (Let Me Breathe)

You should by now be fully aware of Bristol’s finest pioneer of synth-heavy, post-dubstep – his computer sound effect filled, bass heavy tracks Snake Eater, Hollybrook Park and Purple City have been staples of most dubstep DJs’ sets for the last few years – and if you’re not, then shame on you. He’s got a full length player on the way and, if this collaboration with big-lunged London based vocalist Jessie Ware is anything to go by, it’s set to be rather big…



Space Bass; Slick (Vinyl 12″) 1979

Of course it’s not all new music we’re listening to here at We Heart towers – so for each ‘Reel Heart’ feature we’ll also be doing a bit of crate digging, pulling out something old that we hope will be new to you. It’s all about discovery. Enjoy…



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