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Dezeen Music Project: Sharply Towards Hell by Arms Were Youth

This is the first track that Australian electronic musician Arms Were Youth has sent to Dezeen Music Project, and we certainly like what we hear. Sharply Towards Hell is a buzzing, bubbling mixture of different textures and sounds that's disorientating at first but soon makes sense once your ear starts to pick out the individual rhythms and melodies that make up the track.

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Dezeen Music Project: Who Knows? by Strong Asian Mothers

Strong Asian Mothers is another east London band, and includes K H U S H I (who we featured on Dezeen Music Project on Friday) on vocals and keyboards. But while Friday's track was gentle and tender, the big, dirty synth that underpins Who Knows? is anything but.

We will be featuring tracks by Strong Asian Mothers in our first Dezeen Live show at 100% Design during the London Design Festival.

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Dezeen Music Project: Lights by SungNam

With its driving synths and pounding drums, the sheer euphoric energy of this dance track by New Zealand producer SungNam is something to behold. The track might not be subtle, but it's certainly effective.

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Bare Conductive Kits at Dezeen Super Store

London design studio Bare Conductive's kits to build light-up greeting cards and houses are available as part of London design month at Dezeen Super Store. More about Bare Conductive Kits at Dezeen Super Store

Dezeen Music Project: Gravity by Twin Pod Cloud Car

This brooding electro-pop song is by a UK duo called Twin Pod Cloud Car. Taken from their album Don't Panic, Gravity combines a ferocious electronic beat with chant-like repeating vocal melodies and lyrics that provide, in the band's own words, "a simple science lesson".

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Dezeen Music Project: Ascend by Trash Inc

Here's another track from Beirut producer Trash Inc, who last month gave us the brilliantly titled track Theme of the Colossal Squid.

There's no aquatic theme in his latest offering, Ascend, just funky synths, a grooving bass-line and pounding drum track.

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Dezeen Music Project: Going Far by Kitzu

Israeli music label Anova Music have sent us over so many great tracks recently that we couldn't just choose one, so we're going to feature a track by one of their artists each day for the rest of the week on Dezeen Music Project.

First up is this slick track by Jerusalem-based band Kitzu. Taken from their recently released debut album, Going Far combines glitchy, post-rock instrumentation with a solid bass groove and infectious vocal hook.

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Dezeen Music Project: Broken Clocks by Jekka

This song by Moscow-based musician Jekka shows what you can do with just a laptop, a microKORG and some talent. Layers of looped vocal samples and a full-blooded synth bass combine to provide a platform for Jekka's powerful, dynamic vocal melody. It's a bold and energetic style that draws favourable comparisons with the excellent Tune-Yards album of last year.

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Dezeen Music Project: Carrots by Mykus, featuring Fruit Shoes

Here's another collaboration between UK producer Mykus and singer Fruit Shoes, although Carrots is a much mellower, more light-hearted offering compared to the dark and glitchy track that we featured on Dezeen Music Project a couple of months ago. Here we've got cute, catchy vocals and a refreshingly lo-fi, almost clunky bass-line that sets the tone for the track as a whole.

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Dezeen Music Project: Honey in the Mud by Jordan Mitchell

This track by Jordan Mitchell starts off innocently enough, with an intricate repeating acoustic guitar riff. But that's before a big, dirty synth bass-line drops in and takes the track in a completely different direction.

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