11TH JULY 2011 – RITUAL UNION

Just recently Gothenburg’s finest export dropped their brand new single, Ritual Union.

This dreamy, rhythmical, shifting, moody rainbow creature sounds a little like the future of soul music, with some serious fire in it’s belly, worthy to give Clifford’s Listerine minty mouthedness a serious run for it’s money.

In fact, I can safely say this is my favourite song of the year so far, but imagine the joy, when I spotted Tensnake had got in on the act and remixed one of the hottest bands du jour.

So, it is with great pleasure, I span both versions in this week’s show. The are both worthy and needed a little space to breathe.

Little Dragon return with their new album Ritual Union, July 26th through Peacefrog, with Big Boi on production duties for part of it, after a certain Andre 3000 tipped him off.

The Remix 09 July by The Remix 107.2

Ahead of their set at The Glade festival this coming weekend, London outfit The Dub Pistols hooked up with The Remix for one specially crafted pre-festival mini-mix.

As well as unleashing the mix, Jo Youle, has an exclusive chat to DJ Shadow on his forthcoming album, The Less You Know the Better and unveils new remix album details of Detroit legend, Claude Von Stroke, who is coming to co-host the show on June 18 ahead of his tour landing in Brighton.

Claude VonStroke created dirtybird records in 2005 and continues to run A&R and daily operations. In between classic releases like “Who’s Afraid of Detroit” and “Vocal Chords” VonStroke managed to also produce a large catalog of remixes. A typical VonStroke remix does not fall into the category of “said track getting redone with a new drum beat and some dub effects on top.” No, the typical VonStroke remix tends to be a complete re-work from the ground up.

She will also have competition tickets for his show at Life on June 24 and copies of Makeover to give away.

Hear the full show here

Remix June 04 by The Remix 107.2

He came runner up in the BBC Sound of 2011 Poll, is good friends and an admirer of Jamie XX and has a debut album coming out on 07 February.

James Blake is his name and Jo went to his South London flat to catch up with him.

Listen to the interview or read the full review she wrote for the BBC

So on the night that Primal Scream performed their seminal album Screamadelica for the first time in full at London’s Olympia, Andrew Weatherall, producer of that record told me about the remix that got him on board with the band.

Frontman Bobby Gillespie says the tour of this record is not a self indulgent revival thing, “It’s not really reliving the old days,” he claimed. “A lot of the songs we recorded in the studio and never played them live. ‘I’m Comin’ Down’, ‘Shine Like Stars’ and ‘Inner Flight’, those are like new songs. It’s not nostalgic at all, it sounds fresh.”

Listen to the BBC 6 Music podcast for more details here

On this week’s show I have London lady and all round ‘Disco Leopard’ Roxanne Roll joining me on The Remix.

She takes over alongside Brighton boy ‘Flying White Dots’ for the final hour of this weeks disco-tastic Halloween affair.

To limber up for 2 hour of Remix disco classics and mash-ups, come find us here.

For this week’s playlist check here

This weeks Featured artists – R.E.M & Tricky

This week Jo Youle hears from R.E.M boss man Bertis Downs about their brand new album, Collapse Into Now, Tricky Talks about re-connecting with his old band Massive Attack and the 33 Chilean miners release inspires The Pixies to play their longest ever gig in Santiago.

Listen here or to other podcasts by Jo here

04 OCTOBER – KOMCAST 02 LAUNCHED

The second installment of the Komedia Komcast is live.
Komcast 02 by Komcast

If you were at the Popstars Party last month and confessed to your top Guilty Pleasures track, then the winning song is in there along with some of the ‘star’ interviews with Lady Gaga who deserves a special mention for telling all about her Love Glue Gun and Daft Punk (pictured wearing their home made helmets).

Komedia resident ‘hostess with the mostess’ Zoe Lyons gives us a glimpse of the inspired ‘Glastonbury moment’ that led to her show idea for this months Brighton Comedy Festival show at the Corn Exchange and we hear from Willy Mason about his new material that he unleashed on the night.

In a Komcast exclusive we also have permission from Willy’s team to include a special live track from the Komedia gig.

Guaranteed to send tingles down your spine….if you missed out this is your chance to catch all the action.

…and for once I am not talking about a tumble I took at the weekend.

Today I was sent a link to a brand spanking new track from a foursome called Fujiya & Miyagi. Never heard of them? Neither had I, but their superb (4th) new album Ventriloquizing, caught me by surprise and for today you can listen to a nice sample of the new LP right here

Jo caught up with James Murphy at Wireless Festival in London’s Hyde Park to talk about the new album, This is Happening, and to find out if rumours are true, that it really is the last one for LCD Soundsystem.

Check out her Q & A for BBC Entertainment online here or the full podcast

Jo also caught up with UNKLE last week and discovered they’d moved their offices near her Hove home..

Have a listen here