Cougar Microbes are marching in like army ants…

Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9) perfected their approach to mixing electronica and live band feel on their latest effort ‘Ad Explorata’, released last month.

Inspired by secret Cold War era radio transmissions and an alleged secret military plan to gather information on other civilizations, these are future sounds played with great self-assurance. STS9 manage to somehow sound both vaguely optimistic and apocalyptic at the same time.

with a string of US dates planned for February and March you really should catch their singular delivery

TRACKS:

Stream the album here

I’m having a lazy Sunday and booming Gold Panda‘s tunes out of my window. I have been meaning to feature the Shoreditch based DJ/Producer for a while and with the sun outside shining bright his tracks are a great companion.

With some awesome remixes under his belt, including great takes on Bloc Party and Little Boots, he could afford to sit back and relax. Instead he has released a stream of constantly brilliant material that builds on cut-and-paste sampling and reminds me of the likes of Dntel and Boards Of Canada and Múm. Not a bad group to be bunched with.

Gold Panda is on tour right now, catch him while you can.

TRACKS:

Gold Panda – Quitters Raga