January 3rd, 2012 | by Jo | published in Features, Stream, Ticker
Another year, another astonishing array of releases to get you through January to December. But where last year had some very clear cut winners across the board (from the likes of Arcade Fire, Kanye West and LCD Soundsystem), this year has not appeared so obvious. But, better late than never, Hotcakes brings you an [...]
August 30th, 2011 | by Sim | published in Features, Ticker
The Baker’s Dozen: our monthly feature of the thirteen must-hear tracks from the month just gone. Say goodbye to August with good music in your ears. Girls – Honey Bunny Roll on 12th September – the day that Father, Son, Holy Ghost is released! We’ve already been treated to the epic, brooding ‘Vomit’, well Chris [...]
August 24th, 2011 | by Jo | published in Stream, Ticker
James Blake and Justin Vernon revealed last week that they have decided to team up. This makes sense, how did we not see such a perfect collaboration before? Well the first of hopefully many more tracks has surfaced online via Radio 1, and it is exactly as every fan of the pair will be hoping [...]
February 14th, 2011 | by Jo | published in Download, Features, Stream
Already preparing to eat these words, Hotcakes have come up with a pre-emptive top 10 albums list of 2011. This a ‘calling-it-early’ stab in the dark that will probably make us look like idiots come December, but there’s nothing wrong with a bit of speculation from time to time. With 2011 taking shape quite nicely [...]
February 8th, 2011 | by Sim | published in Features, Interviews, Stream
Making the long journey up to the top floor of Topman on Oxford Street – a journey of countless escalators – gave me pause enough to think that this was a fairly odd place to be conducting an interview. As usual, the place was full to the brim with shoppers and had loud music thumping [...]
February 7th, 2011 | by Sim | published in Moving Mondays, Stream
To celebrate the UK release of James Blake’s debut self-entitled LP, here’s the official video of one of the tracks ‘The Wilhelm Scream’. Similar to the cover of the album and last year’s Klavierwerke EP, it features an out of focus Blake singing with various and sporadic coloured overlays. It matches the beauty of the [...]
December 20th, 2010 | by Sim | published in Moving Mondays, Stream
Oh yes! He’s not doing his solo live show until the new year but here is James Blake with his band supporting Everything Everything. Check the rest of the videos out over at Fader.
October 25th, 2010 | by Ollie | published in Moving Mondays, Stream
This weeks video is a corker! James Blake is the subject of plenty of hype at the moment, this stunning cover of Feist’s ‘Limit to Your Love’ is just one of the reasons why. Oh and the video isn’t bad either, Martin de Thurah, a man who has previously worked with Royksopp and Fever Ray, [...]
