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Neon Neon have been nominated for the 2008 Mercury Music Prize. Read all about it online 
Subtle are playing a mini-EU tour including two dates in the UK. The first is on Monday 21st July at Cargo, London in association with music website 
The two latest signings to Lex Records are featured on a new compilation from K7 entitled 
This summer almost every Lex artist is in Europe playing festivals and gigs in most countries. Subtle, Shape of Broad Minds, Neon Neon, Kid Acne, Heartbreak, Willie Isz, are all on the road so make sure to catch them in a venue or field near you soon. 
Gruff Rhys and Boom Bip were playing live on BBC2s The Culture Show on Wednesday, but don't worry if you missed it. If you're in the UK you can catch the repeat this Friday night at 11:30pm including an additional performance of their forthcoming single 'I Told Her On Alderaan'. You can also help crash the internet by watching it on BBCs iPlayer (
The new Subtle album ExitingARM is out now worldwide. It's an amazing conclusion to their trilogy of albums and has been getting great reviews worldwide... even some in Japanese that our distributors assures us are excellent.DJ friendly |
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KHUJO GOODIE & JNEIRO JAREL
'OPR8R' SINGLE
Jneiro Jarel's Shape of Broad Minds are back with a new single featuring a guest appearance from Khujo (godfather of the Dirty South scene and Cee-Lo's band mate in Goodie Mob).
The CD format includes 2 remixes, DJ friendly vinyl 12" includes remix, acappellas and instrumentals.
Both formats limited to 1000 copies wordwide... pre-order your copy online HERE. 'OPR8R' in shops worldwide June 2nd.
WILLIE ISZ 'GEORGIAVANIA' MP3
Excellent Hip Hop Blog Cocaine Blunts have posted a leaked track from the forthcoming Khujo Goodie & Jneiro Jarel album out this Autumn. Click HERE. Meanwhile you can pre-order the new Shape of Broad Minds single feat Khujo.
JNEIRO JAREL - QUES POSTER
Illustrator Ques has created a poster of the stars of underground hip hop, featuring the likes of Madlib, John Robinson, RZA, Flying Lotus, J Dilla and Lex artists MF DOOM and Jneiro Jarel.
Previously only available in Japan, You can now buy this direct from Turntable Lab.
SUBTLE NEW ALBUM & WEBSITE
'ExitingARM'
As you may know the new Subtle studio album titled ExitingARM and is now recorded and due for release worldwide mid-May. It's the final part of a trilogy of records that started out with A New White (2004), working towards For Hero : For Fool (2006), with missing links filled in by Wishingbone and Yell&Ice. The band are on tour from early May to bring this new work into the third dimension... Check their MySpace page for full tour dates.
Meanwhile frontman Dose One has been breaking down the 2-Deez, creating a multi-layered website dedicated to the world and words behind ExitingARM. It's a constantly evolving landscape with new and bizarre scenes being added every week until the album's release. You really must check this out... WWW.EXITINGARM.COM
SHAPE OF BROAD MINDS
APRIL EUROPEAN TOUR
Jneiro Jarel's group Shape of Broad Minds are on tour in Europe, playing gigs in France, Switzerland, Norway, Spain, Italy and around the UK. They're supporting Roots Manuva in London on Saturday April 12th at Kokos and a solo show at The Luminaire on 19th with hip hop support from fellow Lex artist Kid Acne. Jneiro Jarel has also been working with Khujo Goodie of Dungeon Family and their first track together will be released in May.
CLICK HERE for full listings/flyers/ticket links.
JNEIRO JAREL'S RADIOHEAD REMIX
VOTE NOW!
Vote for JJ's remix of Radiohead's track Nude. Click the player above to listen and vote. Click HERE for the HTML to add this widget to add to your website / MySpace.
NEON NEON NEW ALBUM!
4/5 Uncut 4/5 URB 4/5 Q Magazine 5/5 Metro
"Like playing Grand Theft Auto on Ecstasy" Vice Magazine 8/10
"A brilliant electro-pop concept album" Dazed & Confused magazine
"Damn near perfect... Early contender for album of the year" Record Collector
"Utterly Unique...The stuff of dreams" Clash magazine
"One of the most brilliantly demented electro-pop albums you’ll hear this year...
"The best side-project since Gorillaz" ... "Miss it at your peril" NME 8/10
"Neon Neon were bound to get compared to Gorillaz. Stainless Style is more consistent as an album... The potential hits, hit equally hard." Pitchfork
Order your copy from iTUNES / LEX RECORDS SHOP/ AMAZON UK
AMAZON USA / PLAY.COM / BOOMKAT / BESTBUY / OTHER MUSIC / HMV
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NEON NEON VIDEO - I LUST U - YOUTUBE
The new video for Neon Neon's next single I Lust U is up now on YouTube
Director Klaus Thymann filmed the band in LA with singer Cate Le Bon who duets on the track, cameo appearances from Brother Reade and a jellyfish in the starring role. I Lust U is out on 7" picture disc and MP3 - March 24th.
In the UK check the MTV website where you can see the video at a much higher resolution, otherwise click HERE to check it out...
NEW SUBTLE ALBUM - 'ExitingARM'
The new Subtle album ExitingARM is complete and due for release worlwide mid-May!
It's the last in a trilogy of Subtle albums, that started with A New White in 2004. Part two in the series, For Hero : For Fool was listed by Metacritic as one of the most critically acclaimed releases of 2006.
ExitingARM is slab of dense beautiful antipop. you can download the track Unlikely Rock Shock taken from the album at PITCHFORK for a limited time.
The band tour North America in May and June. European dates are likely to be in the summer.
Check their MySpace here: www.myspace.com/subtlesix. New album website up soon!
NEON NEON - FABRIC SHOW
Neon Neon are headlining Adventures In the Beetroot Field Easter spectacular at London's Fabric on March 20th. It's an amazing line-up including the unmissable Heartbreak, Chrome Hoof and Lex DJs! Click here for TICKETS.
KID ACNE - INSIDE OUT ON BBC 1
Kid Acne has been busy flying all over the place doing live shows and graffing up the unsuspecting walls of Europe.
BBC TV have been following him around in Barcelona, checking out some painting and a recent gig - The show is called Inside Out showing on BBC1 in Yorkshire - February 22nd at 7:30 pm.
You can also check it out online after the 22nd using the BBC's iPlayer website.
NEON NEON - BBC RADIO 1 SESSION
Neon Neon were in session with Rob Da Bank on BBC Radio 1 on Monday. This was recorded at BBC's Maida Vale Studios where Gruff & Bip played ultra Lo-fi Casio versions of 2 tracks from their forthcoming album and a cover of a song by Welsh band Young Marble Giants... that morphs into an even more stripped down version of T2's bassline breakthrough Heartbroken.
For everyone outside the UK you can listen to the show streamed from the Radio 1 website where it will be available online for several weeks. CLICK HERE. Video footage is on their MySpace Page.
NEON NEON - COVER OF BPM MAGAZINE
Neon Neon are featured on the front cover of this month's BPM magazine in the US.
Vocalist Gruff Rhys and beat-maker Bryan Hollon, aka. Boom Bip go into detail about the album, how it came about, the studio process and even some of the alternative names for the group.
If you're not in the USA, you can download the magazine from their website HERE.
The debut Neon Neon album Stainless Style will be released on March 17th in the UK and March 18th Worldwide.
For more info, check their MySpace page.
KID ACNE - LIVE SHOWS
Kid Acne kick-starts 2008's busy live schedule with a headline slot at London's heavyweight nightspot Fabric, Friday 11th January.
Spain will then have to watch out next as he's jetting over to Barcelona for a gig on January 17th.
From February 11th, he's touring with The Long Blondes, 10 dates around the UK. Check his MySpace for details. There's also more info at our LIVE page and at his website. Don't miss out, Kid Acne's live show is proper party action!
JNEIRO JAREL - URB INTERVIEW
Check out the new issue of Urb Magazine for a mini-interview with Shape of Broad Minds front-man / producer Jneiro Jarel in which he selects his favourite rapper alter-egos.
Check out the feature online HERE
Shape of Broad Minds have a New York gig coming up at the Knitting Factory. Click here for more details...
KID ACNE - 'EDDY FRESH' SINGLE
INCLUDING GESCOM REMIX
The latest single from Sheffield's chattiest bastard rapper is out now. 'Eddy Fresh' is a straight-up hip hop banger that happens to also be very funny too.
Electronic music pioneers Sean Booth and Rob Brown aka Autechre have remixed the track as Gescom, giving heavier electronic beats, cut up vocals and a string section haunting the edge of your speakers.
7" and 12" include the instrumental version of the Gescom Remix. LTD edition out now!
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NEON NEON - INFLUENCES MIX
DOWNLOAD AT PITCHFORK
Boom Bip (one half of Neon Neon with Gruff Rhys) has put together the first Neon Neon Influences mixtape.
Bip tells us it's not intended as an exercise in rare record digging, just a selection of tracks that they love and inspired their album, including Prince, Goblin, Kraftwerk and some Neon Neon previews / fun album outtakes.
Download the mix exclusively at Pitchfork for a limited time only!
NEON NEON - NEW SINGLE
'RAQUEL' - AVAILABLE NOW
Gruff Rhys and Boom Bip's new single is available now worldwide as a digital download. It's a turbo-charged, italo-influenced synth-pop track dedicated to sex bomb Raquel Welch (who allegedly dated John Delorean - to whose colourful life, their debut album is dedicated).
This is their second limited edition picture disc, and the first time Trick for Treat has been available to download, including Hot Chip's remix. Click the links below to check it out...
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SHAPE OF BROAD MINDS
BBC RADIO 1 INTERVIEW
Jneiro Jarel was interviewed on Gilles Peterson's BBC Radio 1 Worldwide show in the UK. Check it online to hear plenty of exclusive tracks including a preview of his forthcoming project with Khujo Goodie from Dungeon Family, due for release next year.
SUBTLE - INTERVIEW ON PITCHFORK
Dose One from Subtle has been interviewed for Pitchfork where he talks about the band's upcoming mini-album of collaborations with members of TV on the Radio, Notwist, Wolf Parade and cLOUDDEAD, his own future solo projects, Dax's progress and of course a surreal poetic explanation of his musical world that he's been developing throughout a trilogy of Subtle albums.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE AT PITCHFORK - ALBUM AVAILABLE AS MP3 DOWNLOAD AND CD
'P-ORIGINS OF POMMERY II' (2th comming)
Following the success of their first show, Lex Records designer EHQUESTIONMARK with
W.S-S.K (WETSHAME) / KUILDOOSH are re-exhibiting their now expanded site-specific installation of artefacts entitled 'P-Origins of Pommery II'.
This ever-expanding collection of works is a unique re-vision of history / aesthetics from 20th Century England:
"I entered an intergalactic woodworm-hole. An insight into how England coped with the introduction of LSD into the water supply of 1927 - 16 years before invention. Hand-made but nothing sprayed, a damp wooden-crated collection from a never-made Jules Verne film - the story of four adventurers travelling from Lands End to John O'Groats by steam powered bakelite rope bridge. A triumph of modern social surrealism at its most exquisite, delivered with a hot water bottle full of strong cider in a mahogany shopping trolley."
FRIDAY 30th NOVEMBER 2007, Bristol (UK). THE CHURCH OF ST. THOMAS THE MARTYR - Thomas Lane (between St. Thomas St & Redcliff St), BS1 6JG, BRISTOL, UK - click HERE for directions.
SUBTLE - YELL&ICE MINI ALBUM
Subtle have found time in between their eternally hectic tour schedule to record a 9 track mini-album entitled Yell&Ice. It's a companion to their critically acclaimed long player For Hero : For Fool and sequel to their collaboration / remixes project Wishingbone.
Yell&Ice features collaborations with members of TV On The Radio, The Notwist, Wolf Parade and a one-off cLOUDDEAD reunion! Grab it now...
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KID ACNE - ROMANCE AIN'T DEAD
ALBUM OUT NOW IN THE UK
Kid Acne's debut album is out now in the UK on Lex and it's a short, sharp shock to the lug-holes from a punch-drunk MC messed up on spray-paint fumes.
This 11 tracker is laced with influences from punk, various eras of hip hop history, OI! and old school rave courtesy of Req and pumped up by Ross Orton (the man responsible for M.I.A.'s hit single, Galang).
According to Q MAGAZINE, Romance Ain't Dead is "Packed with abrasive beats and hilarious quick-fire rhymes" Why can't all hip hop from the UK be this good?
"great sh*t" 4/5, Echoes
"bold, barmy, distinctly British" 4/5 Hip-Hop Connection
"put at the top of your shopping list" 4/5 Touch
"invigorating" Plan B
"Yorkshire's finest rapper brings the noise."4/5 Observer Music Monthly
"Bangers and Beano" 4/5 DJ mag
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DAN LE SAC vs SCROOBIUS PIP
THE BEAT THAT MY HEATS SKIPPED
NEW SINGLE OUT NOW!
The Beat That My Heart Skipped is the new single from producer Dan Le Sac and rap-poet Scroobius Pip. Their globally loved debut single Thou Shalt Always Kill was just the beginning and their latest record is another banger. It's out today in the UK on CD (including the video), 7" vinyl and digital download (all formats include the remix by drum machine maestro Jel of Subtle fame).
Click here for more info, tour dates, video and download links
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