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Dizee Rascal & Pepper for Olympic Track ‘Scream’. Watch here

July 26, 2012 UK No comments

We’re really kicking off the Olympic Games today with yet another track being unveiled as one of the five official London 2012 tracks.

This time it’s Dizzee Rascal and his protégé Pepper who unveil their 2012 collaboration ‘Scream’. Even though they’ve performed the track on numerous occasions live, the studio version of the track and its video clip was still to be heard, until this afternoon.

The video clip features the duo performing the track on several festivals, intertwined with different scenes from the Rocky films featuring Sylvester Stallone.

A very uplifting song, in the traditional Dizzee Rascal style,which completes an already great line up of artists like Muse, Elton John vs Pnau, Delphic and the Chemical Brothers.

As with most of the others ‘Scream’ can now be pre-ordered and will be available for download on August 5. In the mean time enjoy the video

Listen to the new Kelis song ‘Distance’ here

July 1, 2012 Daily News No comments

Kelis keeps reinventing herself. The singer’s latest album ‘Fleshtone’ not only produced amazing electro-tracks like ‘ACapella’, ‘Scream’ and many others, the whole concept was absolutely breathtaking, yet criminally overlooked in the charts.

The fans of Kelis however will be pleased the singer keeps experimenting in a similar electro-direction. Late last night, the new track called ‘Distance’ has been leaked and put on the internet. The mid-tempo track is produced by Skream and sounds very 9oies dance inspired. The singer has earlier revealed her new album would be in a similar direction.

What do you make of the new Kelis track?

Album Review: Usher – ‘Looking 4 Myself’ + livestream

June 7, 2012 Album Review No comments

The charismatic singer songwriter Usher returns to the world of music with his most anticipated and refreshing work so far. The new album ‘Looking 4 Myself’ is currently being streamed for free via i-Tunes, a few days ahead of its release on June 11.

With a series of well known producers including Max Martin who’s responsible for current single ‘Scream’, The Neptunes, Swedish House Maffia and Diplo who received praise for his production on ‘Climax’, the project is THE most anticipated r&b album of 2012. The smash hit ”Climax” and newly released ”Scream” witness of a new era for the singer, which sees R&B appearing in a melt pot with beats, dub step and synth pop intertwining.

‘Can’t Won’t Stop’ opens the album and immediately sees that combination of a heavy dub step intro nicely flowing into the typical Usher R&B Sound. In the chorus, you can already imagine the amount of ‘Oh Ooh’s for a reworked single version. Brilliant track to start the album with, which has Will.I.Am as one of its producers.The track is followed by the club banger ‘Scream’ and the uber classy ‘Climax’ which sees Usher singing in falsetto, bringing him back into the spotlight and right to the top of the charts. ‘I Care 4 U’ and ‘Show Me’ continue in a similar style even though both tracks were in the hands of a different producer. Despite a similarity to ‘Climax’ , the tracks don’t really match up to the  standard of the album so far and come across as a ‘Been there done that before’ pair of album fillers. Luckily the tracks, ‘Lemme See’ ft Rick Ross sees the return of a falsetto Usher and motown inspired ‘Twisted’ ,which has an addictive drum beat featured, make the first part of the album a great success so far.

The second part of the album opens with the beautiful timid R&B ballad ‘Dive’. For all you hopeless romantics this is THE ballad to get for sure. But don’t despair you ballad-haters, the second part of the album sees Usher experimenting at full speed; ‘Sins of My Father’ and ‘Looking 4 Myself’, which shares the album’s title, are the best example of that. The latter is produced by Australian duo Empire of The Sun, giving it thus such a distinctive Empire sound which is daring and refreshing for a relatively urban artist like Usher. For the Empire fans who weren’t sure of Usher, this will be the track that converts them. ‘Lesson For The Lover’ is the longest track of the album delivering one of the best synth pop ballads we’ve encountered so far.

Not only has Raymond IV, Usher’s real name, had a hand in co-writing all the songs, but the line up of producers on his seventh studio album is absolutely brilliant. A special mention for Swedish House Maffia, who are responsible for two tracks to be found towards the end of the album; ‘Numb’ and ‘Euphoria’ (not to be mistaken for the single of a certain other Swedish artist). In all honesty ‘Numb’ is probably the most radio friendly of the two, yet ‘Euphoria’ sounds a tad more intriguing and innovating, leaving Usher with quite a decision to decide which track to choose as single. Time will tell we assume.

Usher promised us a new take on R&B and has not failed to make us enjoy the new album. Yes there are a few album fillers but overall the album has all the potential to turn into a massive hit seller for 2012. Tracks to watch out for are ‘Can’t Won’t Stop’, ‘Scream’, ‘Climax’, ‘Dive’, ‘Looking 4 Myself’ and ‘Euphoria’.

The new album Usher ‘Looking 4 Myself’ is out on June 11 via iTunes/Spotify/Amazon in standard and deluxe edition (4 extra tracks). The standard edition can be streamed for free via iTunes today only. Watch an album preview of the new album below

 

 

 

First Listen: Usher debuts ‘Scream’

April 26, 2012 Daily News No comments

We mentioned it last night in our news wrap of the day. Usher has got a new single out which he previewed last night with a 30 sec teaser.

The singer, who’s currently scoring a huge hit with his Diplo produced track ‘Climax’, has now released the full version of ‘Scream’. American fans can download the song right away. The UK and the rest of the world should follow shortly.

The track, which reminds us very much to previous hit ‘Dj Got Us Fallin’ in Love Again’, is the second cut taken from the singers 7th album, which is due for release on June 11, and is called ‘Looking for Myself’.

Enjoy the track!

 

 
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