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Jeans Wilder

Though he might look like a “tough guy”, Andrew Caddick (aka Jeans Wilder) is really a sensitive boy. For two years now, this former associate of Nathan Williams (Wavves) in the group Fantastic Magic, has delivered tapes and vinyls (including the split-7″s with Best Coast & Jean Paul) with a collection of tracks haunted by summer. During these two years he has also written, recorded and fictionalized this first album: Nice Trash. Pop melancholy for ghost flirts.

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Swim

SWIM are Joe Boyle and Richard Williams. Since a chance meeting in their adolescent years, the duo have been making music together. Surrounded by records of over 60 years of popular music, and trying to make the grey London skies feel like warmer climes an ocean away, the band are influenced by the synths and styles of their 80s heroes, from the likes of Talking Heads and New Order to the lush shoegaze discord of My Bloody Valentine and Cocteau Twins. Crafting escapist, sun-kissed pop, SWIM garner their own, original sound, complemented by an endearing, soaring vocal.

Read more about Swim on Last.fm.

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Gable

French pop heritage is littered with smooth and creamy icons:Gainsbourg, Karen Anne, Adamo and Francois Hardy. Gablé, however, are a completely different kettle de poisson. Wearing their influences on their sleeves – Moldy Peaches, Meat Puppet sand early Sonic Youth, they stick a lovely big lump of absolutely bonkers, stinky musical cheese in the face of suave ancestry. 7 Guitars with a Cloud of Milk, is Gablé’s second album, 18 tracks with song subjects as diverse as group suicide, the state of urban music...

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India

There at least two artist by the name of India, one from the United States and one from the United Kingdom. 1) A highly-emotive approach to Latin music has led to Puerto Rico-born and Bronx, New York-raised La India (born: Linda Viera Caballero) being dubbed, "The Princess of Salsa." Her 1994 album, Dicen Que Soy, spent months on the Latin charts. While known for her Salsa recordings, India started out recording Freestyle w/ her debut album Breaking Night in 1990 as well as lending her vocals to many house classics.

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Duff Disco

What with edits being the new black and every man and his Mac who is willing and able(ton) slapping an eight extra bars to the beginning of a track and calling it an their own, it takes a little something extra to stand out in the crowd. Duff Disco has proved himself to be a man who has that something extra. Championed by the likes of legendary edit King Greg Wilson to new kids on the scotch block, The Revenge and The 6th Borough Project, he has managed that rare feat, to slide in to a market that seemed flooded and make a real impact.

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