Sunday, 14 June 2009

Huw Stephens presents Music Sounds Better with Huw: Volume 1


BBC Radio 1 presenter Huw Stephens teams up with London-based recording label Wichita Recordings to release a compilation album featuring some of the fast-growing and tremendous new talents in the music industry.

Music Sounds Better with Huw: Volume 1 comprise of 21 tracks, personally hand-picked by Stephens' musical taste. Majority of tracks chosen are exclusive to this compilation.

Find below the tracklisting:-
1. Calories - Adventuring
2. Copy Haho - You Are My Coal Mine
3. Wax Fang - World War II (Pt. 2)
4. We Have Band - Oh! (Plugs Remix)
5. Pulled Apart By Horses - The Crapsons
6. Hjaltalin - Suitcase Man
7. Sweet Baboo - Woe Unto Me to Get High
8. Swanton Bombs - Sorrysayer
9. Cyclones - See If I Float
10. Banjo or Freakout - Eighty-Eight
11. Gentle Friendly - Clean Break
12. Young Fathers - Bring It Home
13. Stricken City - Pull The House Down
14. Holy State - Solid State Messiah (vs the Valve Viking)
15. Gallops! - Lasers
16. Tubelord - Somewhere Out There A Dog Is On Fire
17. Dinosaur Pile-up - Opposites Attract
18. Portasound - 4 Minute Warning
19. Colorama - Oyasumi Baby
20. Gold Teeth - Everybody
21. Gold Panda - Like, Totally

The compilation will be digitally released exclusively at iTunes at a generous rate £4.49 on June 15.
"I get to hear so much amazing new music all the time, and share it through my radio shows," says Stephens. "I thought it’d be good to collect some new tracks by artists and make a compilation to get more people into them. At a time when there’s so many new avenues of hearing ace new music, it’s good to have filters, and hopefuly this compilation is an effective one."

Read on the interview over here.

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