Sunset Rubdown - Always Happy to Explode

KFGM 52

OH WHEN

Your likes from Apple Music - 2

Meg - f/w 25-26 uptempo

Pale

2024-38

BORN THIS WAY THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY

Yoü And I

Simulation Swarm

Soft Crook

Every Acre

New View

Blue Train Lines

Blue Train Lines (feat. King Krule)

Vampire Empire / Born For Loving You

Vampire Empire

Bright Future

Sadness As A Gift

Free Treasure

Mayos

Manning Fireworks

Wristwatch

Lirio

Día Estrellado

Always Happy to Explode

Worm

Losing Light

All Alright

Candles

Snowball

Ghoulish Hearts

La despedía

PHANTOM BRICKWORKS (LP II)

TEGID’S COURT

Maestro Espada

Peretas del Tío Vicente

Transcend It

Utopian Landscape

Bleak Horizon

Transcend It, Pt. 1

The Tunnel

Transcend It, Pt, 2

davina mccall

Sweet Nothing

To Pimp A Butterfly

You Ain't Gotta Lie (Momma Said)

Mezzanine

Dissolved Girl (feat. Sarah Jay Hawley)

Jamie XX & Kosi Kos - Come We Go

2012 The Hottest

When I wanted to clear my head on a weekend, I would take a walk. I would start at the Williamsburg Bridge, walk over to the lower east side, head over to the basketball courts on west 3rd, grab a snack on Macdougal, and then sit and watch the time pass in Washington square park. I would think about being at the center of it all, about the millions of people around me. It was isolating and inspiring and invigorating and scary. And I would think about leaving it all behind to move to California. 

This is the music that reminds me of those days, feeling free and trapped and open and plugged in, mainlining the pulse of civilization on NYC streets.

Rounds (Special Anniversary Edition)

As Serious As Your Life

You and I by Luna Luna 

Track recorded and produced entirely by Kavvi and Shamman with guitar performed by Neko-Dan.

You and I

Taken from DJ Nate - "Take Off Mode" Planet Mu April 2019)
https://planetmu.bleepstores.com/release/123722-dj-nate-take-off-mode
https://datrakgenious.bandcamp.com/album/take-off-mode
https://planet.mu/releases/take-off-mode/

In an unexpected turn of events Planet Mu welcomes back DJ Nate for a new album "Take Off Mode", a full nine years after his debut album "Da Trak Genious" was released on the label.

A quick update: DJ Nate is from the West Side of Chicago and was the label's first ever footwork signing back in 2010, when Myspace was still a place to contact artists. His strange, maximalist, trippy and sample-heavy sound was the acid test to introduce footwork to a wider audience, outside Chicago and certain aficianados, and it created the opportunity for Planet Mu to release the two "Bangs & Works" compilations and numerous albums and singles from the genre, introducing the world to such artists as DJ Rashad, Jlin and Traxman. 

In the decade since "Da Trak Genious" was released, DJ Nate has been a popular R&B and Hip Hop producer and performer with a strong local following. The highlight of this part of his career was "Gucci Goggles" which was an underground hit outside Chicago. His rise was slowed after he was paralysed from the neck down two years ago, an accident which he's recently recovered from. 

As well as his R&B, Nate has still been making the occasional footwork track, often putting videos out on youtube, and it's these tracks, uploaded between 2010 to now, which caught our ear. This selection of tracks feels like they're in direct continuity with his debut, perhaps not quite as chaotic as certain moments of "Da Trak Genious", but still with his trademark yearning vocal samples, cutting them into strange new pitched up and down musical motifs, his shout outs and rough beats intact.

Take Off Mode

DJ Nate - You Ain't Ready To Battle