Calling all musicians! Dezeen Music Project is looking for original tracks to play at new design show INTRO NY in New York next week, where we're providing the sounds. If you’re a musician, composer, DJ or producer, we want to hear your best party music. More about Dezeen Music Project: call out for new tracks to play in New York
This house track by Tel Aviv-based producer Kobi Glas features a prominent vocal from the jazz classic You Go To My Head, originally recorded by Teddy Wilson and Nan Wynn - though Billie Holiday's version is probably better known. This version of the song was sung by Alex Maclaine.
The track is taken from his new EP Mundo Inteiro, released this year on 5000records, which you can download in full here.
You can listen to more tracks by Kobi Glas on Dezeen Music Project here.
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More about Dezeen Music Project: You Go To My Head by Kobi Glas
Here's a new track by Glen Liberman of Aesthetic Invention, a multi-disciplinary design studio based in New York. Code Song is a catchy electronic pop song with soft, sombre synths and wistful vocal harmonies.
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More about Dezeen Music Project: Code Song by Aesthetic Invention
Today's glorious May weather has been soundtracked by Smile Machine, a groovy, lo-fi track by Giga Herbs, a four-piece from Staten Island, New York.
The song is taken from their debut album Mad Weird, which they've just self-released on Bandcamp.
Listen to more lo-fi tracks we've featured on Dezeen Music Project here.
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More about Dezeen Music Project: Smile Machine by Giga Herbs
This richly textured techno track is a collaboration between British electronic producer Max Cooper and software developer Nicolas Bougaïeff, who built the controllers for techno legend Richie Hawtin's 2010 live show.
Fracture is taken from their joint EP Movements, which is Cooper's twelfth release on Cologne techno label Traum Schallplaten.
Listen to more techno tracks we've featured on Dezeen Music Project here.
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More about Dezeen Music Project: Fracture by Max Cooper and Nicolas Bougaïeff
Here's another track by British trio We Have Band, who we discovered at the MINI Paceman Garage in Milan this year. Where Are Your People? is taken from the band's most recent album, Ternion, released last year on French label Naïve Records.
You can watch the music video for the song here.
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More about Dezeen Music Project: Where Are Your People? by We Have Band
Here's a brand new track from upcoming French record label Atelier du Sample. Zephir is a great, laid-back house track and comes from the label's second release, a two-track EP called Trauma by Junior Size.
The EP is currently available for free download, so get it while you can.
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More about Dezeen Music Project: Zephir by Junior Size
We Have Band is a UK-based electronic indie band, who played on Friday last week at the MINI Paceman Garage in Milan. Divisive is an up-beat, disco-infused song, which we used as the soundtrack for our latest video report from Milan.
The song is taken from We Have Band's debut album, WHB, which was released in 2010 on French label Naïve Records.
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More about Dezeen Music Project: Divisive by We Have Band
Time-honoured Italian disco DJ Daniele Baldelli is on the decks tonight at the MINI Paceman Garage in Milan. If you can't make it down, this funky afro track will give you a taste of what he's all about.
We've set up our Dezeen and MINI World Tour Studio at the space. You can watch our first video report, a tour around the city with Italian architect and designer Fabio Novembre here.
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More about Dezeen Music Project: Oyaki Panba Te by Daniele Baldelli
We've been very busy in the Dezeen office this week preparing for Milan and the second leg of our Dezeen and MINI World Tour, so we were grateful for the calming influence of this delicate instrumental track by Swedish musician Imi Fal.
Take a look at what we'll be up to in Milan this year here.
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More about Dezeen Music Project: I Close My Eyes To See by Imi Fal
We've got another remix to end the week on Dezeen Music Project and set you up for the long Easter weekend. Brighton-based DJ and producer Wilf Mason has sent us his chilled-out house reworking of Fiction by The xx.
You can listen to all the other remixes we've featured on Dezeen Music Project here.
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More about Dezeen Music Project: Fiction (remix) by Wilf Mason
Newport-based producer 800xL has sent us this sparse, stripped-down remix of a track called Tutto Bene by Italian artist Jolly Mare, which is part of a remix competition being held by record label Bad Panda Records.
You can listen to the original track here.
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More about Dezeen Music Project: Tutto Bene (remix) by 800xL
Here's another chilled-out track by South African DJ Floyd Lavine, who we discovered at the Design Indaba Music Circuit in Cape Town.
We are using the track on the intro to the video interviews we did at the Design Indaba conference, as part of our Dezeen and MINI World Tour, including last week's interview with Richard Perez, World Design Capital programme director for Cape Town in 2014.
Listen to another great track by Lavine that we featured on Dezeen Music Project recently here.
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More about Dezeen Music Project: Old Black Madonna by Floyd Lavine
This is a remix of a track by Japanese artist Yu-Chi, which we featured on Dezeen Music Project back in August last year. The original track is both weird and beautiful, a quality that BLKrKRT's remix retains, while introducing a darker, more brooding intensity.
You can listen to the original track here.
The track was submitted to Dezeen Music Project by online record label Curious Absurdities. You can listen to other tracks we've featured from them here.
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More about Dezeen Music Project: Marks of a Tear (remix) by BLKrKRT
Brides and Bees by South African DJ Floyd Lavine blends techno rhythms with the sounds of soul music to create a track that's smooth, laid-back and danceable all at the same time.
We used the track on our latest movie from our Dezeen and MINI World Tour, which you can watch here.
We discovered Lavine at the inaugural Design Indaba Music Circuit in Cape Town last week.
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More about Dezeen Music Project: Brides and Bees by Floyd Lavine
Gazelle is another South African group that we discovered at the Design Indaba Music Circuit in Cape Town last week. As this track called Options demonstrates, Gazelle fuse traditional African music with elements from the electro, disco and synth-pop genres to create an eclectic sound that they call Lim Pop.
Make sure that you also check out the excellent track Ear Salad by South African artist DJ Kimon, which we featured in the first movie from Cape Town as part of our Dezeen and MINI World Tour.
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More about Dezeen Music Project: Options by Gazelle
This is the track that we featured in our first movie from Design Indaba in Cape Town. It's by a young South African DJ and producer called Kimon, who played a set here in Cape Town as part of the Design Indaba Music Circuit.
You can watch the movie here.
Make sure you also check out the track we featured on Wednesday by the great Spoek Mathambo.
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More about Dezeen Music Project: Ear Salad by DJ Kimon
Dezeen is at Design Indaba in Cape Town all this week, for the first stop on our Dezeen and MINI World Tour. For the first year at Design Indaba, there is a music festival running alongside the main conference, which is showcasing a range of exciting South African musical talents, and we'll be choosing some of our favourites to feature on Dezeen Music Project.
Spoek Mathambo will be closing the conference on Friday, which gives us the perfect excuse to feature his excellent 'township tech' cover of Joy Division's She's Lost Control.
Make sure you also check out the excellent music video for the track.
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More about Dezeen Music Project: Control by Spoek Mathambo
This is a session recorded by young British singer-songwriter Floella Grace and features nothing but a stripped-back acoustic guitar and Grace's stunning voice. The track was sent to Dezeen Music Project by Choosic, a newly formed organisation promoting music by unsigned bands and musicians.
You can listen to a studio recording of the track here, but we prefer the raw tenderness of this session version.
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More about Dezeen Music Project: Toothpaste by Floella Grace
This track by Human Machine is a tribute to the late, great trumpet player Donald Byrd, who passed away last week. Byrds in Heaven is a gentle electronica track, which features a mournful sample of Byrd's playing.
The track was sent to us by Love Our Records, a UK-based online record label that releases a free download each week. Check them out here.
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More about Dezeen Music Project: Byrds in Heaven by Human Machine