I’ve still been digesting a lot of the stuff that came out from last year, but hopefully, if one good thing comes out of my iPod dying, it’s that I’ll finally have space/opportunity to load new music more regularly. In between that, a couple of tracks worth mentioning:

• Skalpel – 1958 (Quantic Remix) (bio) – Polish Ninja Tune producers working exclusively with Polish Jazz samples. The Quantic Remix gives it all a Soul Orchestra flavor.
• Hotei vs Rip Slyme – Battle Funkastic (buy) – I came across this pretty randomly. Apparently, Rip Slyme are pretty popular hip-hop artists, in Japan at least. I’m totally in love with their old-school funk asthetics.
• Swearing at Motorists – Waterloo Crescent (site) – a two-piece singing about the life of the brow-beaten, a lot of these songs are surprisingly catchy