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I'm so excited about this! Although this will be the 3rd time I've seen them, its the first time at their own gig! I am (probably for the first time) appreciating how good an album A Weekend in the City is. Silent Alarm is epic. Intimacy is very good. 5 x MP3s below!

From 2004's Silent Alarm:
Bloc Party-Like Eating Glass
From 2007's A Weekend In The City:
Bloc Party-Song for Clay (Disappear Here)
From 2008's Intimacy:
Bloc Party-Ion Square

Bonus:
Immense Diplo remix:
Bloc Party-Helicopter (Diplo Remix)
Great bside to The Prayer:
Bloc Party-England

A review of Bloc Party at Manchester Apollo will be appearing here sometime this weekend hopefully, courtesy of Sean

One Month Off is the next single to be taken from Intimacy, and is available to buy/download from today...


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I'm very late on this one, but better late than never for sure with this, a Santogold/Diplo mixtape. Diplo produced "My Superman" off her debut, and did a similar thing with M.I.A. back in 2004. This is pretty special, Diplo is one of the best producers around at the moment, Santogold is one of the best rapper/singers around at the moment, making a brilliant mixtape. This is partially remixes off her album, covers, new tracks and remixes of other artists. It's hard to pick out individual tracks because the whole alum blends together so well but here are a few highlights...

Diplo & Santogold-Late Night (Unstoppable Mix)
Diplo & Santogold-I'm a Lady (Diplo Mix feat. Amanda Blank)
Diplo & Santogold-Get It Up (Radioclit mix feat. M.I.A. and Gorilla Zoe)
Diplo & Santogold-Creator(Mumdance Mix ft Jammer, Badness, Chronik Rage, Slikman and Tempz)

and because the i'm a lady remix sort of covers it...
LL Cool J-I Need love
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After Justified (in all its Neptunes goodness), it would have been very difficult for justin timberlake to make a better album. The first album has so many stand out tracks; senorita, like i love you, take it from here, rock your body, right for me, lets take a ride, worthy of are all great pop songs. When the Timbaland produced Futuresex/love sounds (the name already puts a downer on it) came out i didnt like it, it was trying too hard to keep up with the times, all electro when he suits more chilled beats i think. anyways, when my love came put i changed my mind, what an amazing song, and then the next couple of singles were good, so i may have another listen to the album and see if my mind is changed. anyway, the new album is definitely suited to being remixed, and it has been many times, to great effect. here are a few examples
Justin Timberlake-My Love (RUF Dubstep Remix)
i dont like dubstep as a genre, but this is good
Justin Timberlake-Lovestoned (Justice Remix)
its justice, need i say more?
Justin Timberlake-My love feat. LCD Soundsystem (Diplo Remix)
Diplo mashes up my love with someone great.

seeing as Timberlake bums Timbaland so much, it looks probable that his 3rd album will get the Timbaland treatment, and probably feature Nelly Furtado...but it wont be out for a while
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