Jon Hopkins - "Open Eye Signal"

No posts here so far in May... bad blogger, tsk.

This single from Jon Hopkins comes in at just under eight minutes, so it will need some time to marinate in your brain area, but it will be worth it after you realize you're hooked. Plus the real meat and potatoes comes in at the six minute mark and it's not worth it if you skip ahead.

Yeah, yeah I'll make more time for posting, I have some drafts that I was working on but they will have to stew a bit longer.

Immunity is out at the beginning of next month, but you can get "Open Eye Signal" and preorder the rest of it right here.

Evil Needle - Qualia

We started this month with some Evil Needle, so let's round off the month with his fantastic latest work Qualia, thirteen tracks out now in both digital and compact disc format, courtesy of none other than Huh What & Where.

Dropping Gems: V/A - Gem Drops Three

The third issue of indie label Dropping Gems' artist compilation series Dropping Gems is also the first version to get a proper physical release on top of the already noteworthy digital option. This one seems a little more focused and refined, having only around a quarter of the tracks of the last GD edition. I think I can forgive them for using the genre "emo-juke" in their description, as I'm sure I've come up with worse descriptors.