ANTHM – Life Imitates Art

Zee Avi – Concrete Wall (RAC Mix)

Dick laurent is dead – Colour In Your Hands (Feat. Fink)

Tourist – Placid Acid

Beyonce – End of Time

Jess Mills – Gabriel

Pretty Lights – We Must Go On

Teen Daze – Brooklyn Sunburn

Mooryc – All Those Moments (Marek Hemmann Remix)

Listen to all as a playlist via Cloudplaylists

It’s a weekly online TV show all about pop culture and entertainment that’s both written and presented by her.

Episode one is now live, featuring an interview with DJ duo The Broken Hearts.

I’m insanely proud; it’s funny, sharp and I forsee big things. Props to Iain for building such a great site too, and producing the show on top of that!

A new episode of Pop Hive is released every Friday morning, for more information visit PopHive.tv, follow on Twitter or subscribe in a million ways via the site.

2. What a video.

3. This is my new jam.

Dick laurent is dead feat. FINK – Colour in your hands from leneopen on Vimeo.

MSN’s Visualiser takes a song from Ninja Tune’s website, analyses the lyrics and scans Flickr for images that match them. In time with the track.

I tried it with The Heavy’s How You Like Me Now, which has a slow lead-in, so requires a hint of patience. But it’s totally worth it.

Now, it only has 47 songs complete at the moment, but the database of over 11,000 images mean that you get a totally different experience each time you play something.

PLUS, hit ‘Write’ on the right hand side, enter a message, write a song or type in a song lyric and the site will create you something in real time. It will suggest a song and match images accordingly.

The shots are a little pixelated for me, but that doesn’t take away from how impressive the finished result is.

The video below is just beautiful. Talk about eclipsing the original.

NGTV 002 | ANR: ‘Millionaire’ from Neon Gold Records on Vimeo.

They also recorded a string-heavy studio version of the song for Christmas, plus a take on “Little Drummer Boy”.

MP3: ANR – Millionaire (Kelis ft. André 3000 cover)

MP3: ANR – Little Drummer Boy

Trailer:

Pop Labyrinth calls it: “suitably nocturnal, with a dubstep flavour”.

Download the MP3: Emeli Sandé – Heaven (Alpines Remix)

Use 22tracks to find new music based on genre, from a variety of local DJs and artists from Brussels or Amsterdam.

Check back every so often for a refresh.

This year, singles have been compiled into mixes, which feature the most blogged and favorited tracks of the year.  Right now, part one includes Remix Artist Collective (RAC) and The Internet (OFWGKTA), with more to be released each day. It’s a shame there’s no track listing, but they make good work-time listening.

Top Albums are sourced from 403 bloggers’ top 10 lists, weighted according to their ranking. They appear in a top 50 countdown, simply click the album cover to stream from Rdio. Not all albums are available in every region though.

Also released in snippets is the top artists section. This year Hype has teamed up with The Perry Bible Fellowship to create the 2011 Musical Landscape, based on artists most frequently discussed by the blogs the site monitors. More of the map will be revealed each day.

The People’s Choice albums of the year will be launched at the end of the week.

If you’re not a daily visitor to the site like me (I keep it open in a browser all day long) you can follow @hypem on Twitter for updates to the above.

Around this time in 2010, I published my top 50 tracks of all time.

This time, here’s my soundtrack to the past 12 months and what I’ll always remember to be the year it all began.

(In no particular order). Partial Spotify playlist here.

• Motopony – King of Diamonds
• Polica – Dark Star
• Yuna – Someone Out of Town
• Washed Out – Call It Off
• Gotye – Eyes Wide Open
• M83 – Midnight City
• Cut Copy – Blink And You’ll Miss A Revolution (Toro Y Moi remix)
• Beastie Boys – Make Some Noise
• Moby – After
• Rihanna & Calvin Harris – We Found Love
• Marina & The Diamonds – Scab & Plaster
• Lana Del Ray – Video Games
• The Drums – Money
• James Vincent McMorrow – Higher Love
• Florence & The Machine – What The Water Gave Me
• White Lies – Holy Ghost
• Little Dragon – Ritual Union
• Jj – Ecstacy
• Caribou – Sun (Pyramid remix)
• Kahn – Like We Used To
• Foster The People – Call It What You Want
• Black Light Dinner Party – Older Together
• Ellie Goulding – Lights (WIRED Dubstep remix)
• Lykke Li – I Follow Rivers
• Jay-Z & Kanye West – That’s My Bitch
• Little Boots – Shake (Azari & III remix)
• Metronomy – The Look
• Lady Gaga – Heavy Metal Lover
• The Rapture – How Deep Is Your Love? (A-trak remix)

(How often do you find yourself saying that? NEVER. But anyway…)

Hype Machine’s 2011 Zeitgeist is this year presented by the W Hotels Worldwide app.

Huh?

Yes. The banner ad informed me that it provides ‘Over 50 hours of exclusive music from the world’s best DJs’

So I downloaded it, for free. You know what, it’s pretty damn good. Funky house/lounge with a lot of soul and a good dash of dubstep in parts.

Online only, but there are some cracking tracks on there (oh, and you can buy W swag via the app and pick up special offers on hotel rooms).

My fav is the Pretty Heavy mix by Willy Joy, which includes a sample of the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme tune and an explanation of how to do the ‘Larry David’.

Then again, the original was produced by Jamie xx, so is a great track by any standards.

Fear and Loathing

Speaking to Popjustice she explained that, “Electra Heart is the antithesis of everything that I stand for. And the point of introducing her and building a whole concept around her is that she stands for the corrupt side of American ideology, and basically that’s the corruption of yourself. My worst fear – that’s anyone’s worst fear – is losing myself and becoming a vacuous person. And that happens a lot when you’re very ambitious.”

Then she debuted the first official single from Electra Heart back in September, which is out now and called Radioactive. There’s a free acoustic download of it on the right-hand side of her website if you fancy it.

She said she wrote Radioactive in New York in the middle of a heat wave. “Introduced to a glittering new nightlife, I fell in love with New York; it has this magic, fizzing white energy that no other city in the world has.”

But hark, have you heard the leaks of yet more new tracks online?

Starring Role is also beautiful, and we already know that Jealousy (which leaked at the beginning of the year) will be making an appearance.  But what else?

How about Scab & Plaster? It’s my favourite track from her so far- but either way, I can’t wait to hear the final cut.

‘Like Smoke’ with Nas has me convinced (recorded way back in 2008 and played first on Radio 1XTRA today).

Body & Soul with Tony Bennett is her at her best. Though the line, ”It looks like the ending/ Unless I could have one more chance before I die” is almost too difficult to listen to.

Sky also previewed ‘Our Day Will Come’ earlier today as well.

Lioness, her first posthumous album, lands December 5th.

Andre Michelle, who created it, describes it as a, “simple sinewave synthesizer triggered by an ordinary 16step sequencer. Each triggered step causes a force on the underlaying wave-map, which makes it more cute.”

Addicted, sweet and totally addictive. Go have a play.

Aka ‘Dub for Mehdi’, it’s in memory of the phenomenal artist that tragically died last month.

Taken from the Soundcloud upload:

“I did this remix over the summer, and when I was close to finishing it I played it to my friend, the irreplaceable DJ Mehdi. We often played each other our productions for feedback. As it turns out he and Riton were visiting New York so they stopped by my apartment. I was working on the main version of the remix, the vocal version. I knew I would make a few alternate edits during the mixdown. The funny thing was, Mehdi’s favorite part was the ending! He and Riton suggested that I have that part come in earlier. My reaction was: that would work well for the dub version. And sure enough, when I finished mixing it down I made a dub with their suggestion. When I sent it to Mehdi shortly after, he responded (as a joke) that I should call it “Dub For Mehdi”. He included it in his “Tunisian Summer” mix. And then, as we all know, the unimaginable happened and we lost our dear friend. The least I can do now is name the edit after him. This one’s for you, Memed. “

There’s something incredibly relaxing about it, and personally I find it also helps me to concentrate.

Listen to it as nature intended via Rainymood.com. I found this years ago and was reminded of it a few weeks back.

Try keeping it open in a browser while playing something else you like to add another dimension.

Watch a video clip here, or view the site.

I urge you to also take a look at Luke’s website, Whitevinyl design, which displays info on all of his other visual/music projects. Be warned though, you’ll waste away hours of your life.