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News Mixtape: August 2012 ft. Kate Bush, Pussy Riot, Tom Waits, Flying Lotus, Talk Talk, Kanye West and more

News by Al Horner

August came and went so quickly that we at DiS can’t be entirely sure it wasn’t some weird, lucid dream. After all, we're pretty sure Romanian discus throwers aren’t supposed to congregate outside our bus stop, fairly certain that our television doesn’t usually flicker with images of Actual Talented People, and resolutely convinced we shouldn’t have spent the week or two since the Olympics mourning what was essentially an elongated school sports day presided over by the who’s who of bastard conglomerates. But such was the sheer cynicism-crumbling excellence of London 2012 that, well, if you saw DiS stumbling around Stratford at 5am following the Closing Ceremony, a clutch of Mandeville plush toys pressed to our chest, the blue and white of our Team GB face paint smudged from tears, strumming a morose version of Kelly Clarkson's Since You've Been Gone on a battered acoustic guitar to a billboard of Jessica Ennis, uh, thanks for not stealing our wallets.»

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Mixtape: Eight And a Half's forward-thinking-future-beat instrumental hip hop

News by Sean Adams

As an integral part of Broken Social Scene, and now as one of third Eight And A Half - who play their first UK shows this week - Justin Peroff is clearly a man who knows his way around a beat. We asked him to make us a mixtape to get us in the mood for their show on the DiS stage at The Great Escape this week, and this is what came back... »

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Flying Lotus announces tour for October

News by Luke Slater

Some tour dates, ennit.»

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Ten years in... "Beats"/Rap/Hip-Hop week - An Introduction

News by Adam Johns

DiS contributor Adam Johns has compiled a special week dedicated to "Beats", we'll let him explain what it's all about...»

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New Flying Lotus EP to be released in September, hear new track

News by Luke Slater

Fresh on the back his latest and most ambitious LP, Cosmogramma, the artist who goes by the name of Flying Lotus is to release another record, this time an EP. It's called Pattern+Grid World and will be released through Warp on September 21. Below is the tracklisting and artwork.»

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Flying Lotus streams new record on MySpace

News by Luke Slater

Self explanatory headline, really. »

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Flying Lotus's Cosmogramma to get radio preview tomorrow

News by Luke Slater

Just a quick heads up from ourselves here to fans of the super-talented Flying Lotus. His new record, Cosmogramma, which is by all early accounts an utterly astounding piece of work, will be previewed live on the radio tomorrow, April 20. By radio we mean 'Brainfeeder Radio', FlyLo's own channel.»

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DrownedinSoundcloud: DiS launches new audio 'blog'

News by Sean Adams

Drowned in Sound + Soundcloud x Tumblr = DrownedinSoundcloud»

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Listen: Flying Lotus Cosmogramma preview

News by Luke Slater

Yo-ho! Not much more to say here than "point your mouse down there and click", for there's an album preview of Flying Lotus's new one, Cosmogramma, in the form of the track 'Computer Face//Pure Being'. Listen to it first, then look below for more album details, should you be so intrigued/excited/flabbergasted by what enters your eardrums.»

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Flying Lotus's Cosmogramma gets release date and artwork

News by Luke Slater

More juicy details of Flying Lotus's new record, Cosmogramma have emerged, including the all-important release date as well as the MORE important tracklisting. Hoorah! Oh, and the artwork, too!»

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The Flaming Lips, Four Tet, Hot Chip and more for 2010 Bestival

News by Luke Slater

The initial, and pretty massive, batch of bands who will play 2010's Bestival, curated by Rob Da Bank, have been unveiled and you probably couldn't have hoped for much better, to be frank. There's some big names, some smaller names and some in between names, but lots of them.»

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Flying Lotus announces new album

News by Luke Slater

Purveyor of lovely beats who goes by the name of Flying Lotus has announced a new record, coming out in a few months, on Warp, obviously.»

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Flying Lotus announces new album

News by Luke Slater

Purveyor of lovely beats who goes by the name of Flying Lotus has announced a new record, coming out in a few months, on Warp, obviously.»

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Skream, Flying Lotus, Hudson Mohawke, Daedelus, Falty DL + more for NSEW project

News by Luke Slater

Various dance music and electronica luminaries from across the world wide globe have joined forces (sort of...) for a new cross-art project which mixes photography and music. Entitled North, South, East, West, it is a project for which Bleep have teamed up with master photographer Shaun Bloodworth and GiveUpArt, for the project, which features much unheard work from artists such as Flying Lotus, Daedelus, Mike Slott, Kotchy and Falty DL.»

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Burial collaborates with Flying Lotus, hear the magic inside

News by Luke Slater

News has come to us (via Gorilla vs. Bear and Pitchfork) of the two getting together.»

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Exclusive! Take a peek at the Warp20 Box Set

News by Luke Slater

DiS has been given an exclusive look at Warp20, as well as a couple of snaps to see what it actually looks like. This is some serious high-end shit. We hope you are as excited as we are.»

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WIN! Tickets to the 20th Dour Festival in Belgium (Mystery Jets, The Fall, Foals, Battles)

News by Mike Diver

DiS's friends at the annual Dour Festival, Belgium - celebrating its 20th anniversary - have given us a number of tickets to give away to the four-day festival, held July 17-20»

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Skream, Flying Lotus, Apparat: up for a two-day festival in Slovakia for £14?

News by Kev Kharas

Floating up the Danube comes news of Bratislava’s Wilsonic festival, billed as “central and eastern Europe’s celebration of cutting edge, adventurous and forward thinking music»

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Meltdown Festival: Massive Attack joined by Gang of Four, George Clinton, Grace Jones and many more

News by Kev Kharas

The programme for this year’s Meltdown Festival, curated by Massive Attack, has been announced»

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Tennent's evicted: line-up for last ever Triptych announced

News by Kev Kharas

The line-up for the eighth and last ever Triptych, which runs across venues in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, is as follows»