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This neon, electro-pop beauty comes courtesy of San Franciscan two piece, Midi Matilda. The track above, Day Dreams is playful from the first note before it grows into a pounding clatter of rhythms and soaring falsetto vocals.

We’ve also included the video below which was shot by the guys in the band. It was first filmed in the studio and then projected onto thousands of surfaces around San Francisco and Berkeley. The video was then created using stop-frame animation using 3,300 photos. Pretty sweet.

Check out more from the band at their amazingtunes.com profile.


Following a big musical movement, there is always the inevitable fallout of imitation. Endless and often painful imitation. In the wake of post-dubstep there has been many a James Blake copy. However, sometimes artists get it oh-so-right; taking influence and making it entirely their own. SEASFIRE are just such a band. Capturing intimacy in the haunting and melancholic beat and matching it with a clean and more immediate vocal.

An assault of fuzz almost threatens to disrupt Falling before dropping back into eerie minimalism. It just adds to the tension of the track. Always hinting to grow larger, SEASFIRE thankfully restrain themselves and the result is a superb display of mature and beautiful song-writing.

Falling is the first official offering from the band and is released at the end of February. You catch them live at Communion Presents live at Notting Hill Arts Club on Sunday 5th February 2012.


Festival season is peeking its sunny head out of the dull, grey winter with the first festival announcement of the year! The Camden Crawl is the UK’s definitive urban multi-venue arts showcase. Taking over Camden’s legendary arts venues between Friday 4th & Sunday 6th May 2012, 1 ticket will get you access to over 300 bands, artists and other performing artists.

Kicking off the festival will be Death in Vegas who launch the opening night marathon at Camden’s historic KOKO venue on Friday 4th May

Camden Crawl’s evening line-ups are selected by a committee of esteemed music industry tastemakers, including radio DJs, club promoters, journalists and record labels. The dazzling 2012 evening live music line up will be hosted by the following venue curators.

1234 /  ARTROCKER / BACKSTREET / BIG CHEESE MAGAZINE / CLUB FANDANGO / DROWNED IN SOUND / FACT / FEAR & RECORDS / FLOWERPOT COLLECTIVE / LANTERN SOCIETY / LAST.FM / LIFT OFF / THE LOCAL / MISTAJAM / MODA / MOSHI MOSHI RECORDS / NIALLER9 VS. ON THE RECORD / OLD BLUE LAST PRESENTS / ROCKFEEDBACK / ROUGH TRADE SHOPS / RWD MAGAZINE / SEXBEAT / SUMMER SUNDAE WEEKENDER SWAY / URBAN NERDS / THE WEIRD & THE WONDERFUL

Find out more at the Camden Crawl website.


Every Sunday evening, Charlie Ashcroft counts down the Amazing Chart across the UK’s national DAB network on Amazing Radio. Here he is to give us the very latest lowdown on the last week’s movers and shakers from amazingtunes.com

Hello! Plenty of action around the upper reaches of the Amazing Chart this week, with Liverpool-based songwriter Jethro Fox having climbed to the top of the pile with Before after four weeks inside the Top 20. As with previous Number 1 songs in 2012, it has the kind of effortless, summery feel which has us dreaming of the warmer months with the year barely a month old.

Los Angeles producer Dreams slips a place from last week’s top spot, while Work Drugs have made a big leap into the Top 3 from last week’s Number 9 placing. Elsewhere in the Top 10, Swiss Lips, Foe and The Collectable Few have all rocketed into the Top 10 having had New Entries last week.

This week’s new arrivals in the Top 20 come from Birmingham rapper Lady Leshurr at Number 7, Norwegian indie-poppers Team Me at Number 12 and a cluster of quality in the lower reaches from Sharon van Etten, The Ghosts, Gross Magic and Paul Thomas Saunders.

On a final, remarkable note, the entire Top 5 this week are available as free downloads from amazingtunes.com. Fill your boots here.

Click here to see the Amazing Chart Top 40 in full. Then find out if Jethro Fox can make it two weeks at Number 1 by tuning in to Amazing Radio on Sunday from 5pm!


Band We Have

January 23rd, 2012

This week we’re in the excellent company of We Have Band as Artist of the Week!

Their awesome tunes Where Are Your People? and Visionary from the new record Ternion have been getting plenty of spins on the show of late, and we wanted to shout from the rooftops a little bit louder about how excited we are for its release. Hear an interview with Darren, Thomas and Dede on Wednesday’s show!

Track of the Week this week comes from the wonderful Tennis. Team Amazing Breakfast love Tennis. We couldn’t get enough of hearing Marathon last year, and it looks like our love for Origins is set to equal it! Perfect soul-tinged indie pop for your ears:


Paper Dollhouse - Image Courtesy of The Guardian
Paper Dollhouse. Just one of a host of great female artists featured on ‘The Other Woman’.

Presented by Ruth Barnes, The Other Woman is the only radio show in the UK with an all-female playlist.


This week we’re thrilled to welcome solo electronic and instrumentalist Rayographs who had a successful debut release in 2011, she’s found herself now signed to Manchester indie and Finders Keepers off shoot Bird Records. Astrud sent TOW early recordings as Happy Hollows have created their profile at amazingtunes.com AND the solo project of their frontwoman the inimitable Sarah Nagehdari, Pisces – check out the video for Voodoo below. Tune in for both at the top of the show…

The show also features, Severin , Emily Barker, Ghosts You Echo , Magpahi and Joana and the Wolf. Tune in on Sunday at 7pm.


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