The latest single from Joy Orbison is probably the best new thing he has done since the much acclaimed debut, it is now available on vinyl and digital.

We Made This is a compilation put together by members of the Brownswood message board. It features a wide array of artists and genres and is now available for a more-than-fair price.

About a year ago, there were first rumours about a new Dimlite album, but ultimately it was cancelled. Some of its remainders will see the light of day at the end of month, here’s a first taster.

Think the first part of Lucid Freaks runs a bit short? Don’t worry, because Error Broadcast has just unlocked the bonus-levels.

I briefly mentioned the situation London’s Plastic People, one of the most forward thinking clubs, is currently facing. Here are some details on the situation.

The debut release from Gavin Handley’s Jus Like Music Records comes from London based keyboard player, songwriter and producer BUG. Click for a free download.

Slept on the Valentine’s mix from Hudson Mohawke, got a new mix from Blue Daisy and a free download from Greymatter. Also got two articles on 4hero, an interview with Betty Davis and much more!

Austrian label The Loud Minority pressed two of Dorian Concept’s remixes on a highly limited 7-inch. Unless you live in Austria, the best way of getting a copy is by entering my first give-away!

Free remix album from Los Angeles-based Devonwho, featuring up and coming talents like Tokimonsta, Krystal Klear, Matthewdavid, Shlohmo or Dibiase.

To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Gilles Peterson’s former label Talkin’ Loud, the Japanese Market gets to see two new compilations.

In the last week, the first part of Stussy’s J Dilla documentary was revealed and Google annoyed music bloggers around the world. This and more after the click.

As of tomorrow, the first 12-inch from Svetlana Indsutries will be in stores. It comes from Bosnian producer Filtercutter and is backed by a remix from Bristol’s Ramadanman.

Warp has just unveiled some details on the forthcoming album from Steven Ellison, best known as Flying Lotus.

LA’s Brainfeeder label is giving away this release from Jeremiah Jae. Also know as Jae R, the producer from Chicago is the latest signing to the label and got an album coming by the end of the year.

A year after The Of Best Book came out, Parra returns with an all new publication: a showcase of his work on 80 pages.

Having spent half of my youth in front of my Commodore homecomputer, I developed a love for these bleepy sounds at a young age. From Error Broadcast comes the debut release of Moscow-based beatmaker Pixelord.

New music from José James, Dâm-Funk and Lukid, mixes from Move D, Paul Pre and Massive Attack. This and more after the click.

In preparation for the release of her forthcoming album New Amerykah Part Two, Erykah Badu has updated her website with a new video and a free download.

Following last week’s first installment, the second round of remixes from Martyn’s Great Lengths LP is about to launch next week. This time it’s minimal producer Ben Klock from Berlin and Mancunian Illum Sphere on remix duties.

Sheffield’s Warp label has posted some more previews to the upcoming debut album Gonjasufi. Apart from the the previously free download Ancestors the preview has three more songs taken from “A Sufi and A Killer”.

Here is an interesting experiment from the Harmonic 313 Laboratories. Mark Pritchard took one bar of his track Word Problems and sequenced a track consisting of loops from the original master and MP3s at different encoding rates.

The fifth longplayer from Kieran Hebden will be out on January 25 and goes by the name of There Is Love In You. As of yesterday, you can listen to a 47-minutes preview with all tracks from the album.

It’s been a while since the last weekly bits, but now that the new website is complete there should be more time for regular posts.

Almost a year ago, I wrote about Tom Trago’s album Voyage Direct. It was succeeded by two EPs with remixes from Actress, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Aardvarck or Sotu the Traveller.

Following the constant reminders on Twitter, Dego’s 2000Black label has finally launched its new website. That’s usually something happening every day somewhere l in the world, but in the case of Dego and his decade of internet-denial this is quite some news.

It’s been quite a while since Nicolas Chaix has released his last album. Whether you count in his live LP or not, something between four and seven years have passed already. Being a huge fan of both his work as solo-artist and Château Flight I was delighted to hear about his latest release.

This limited 10-inch is the first release from The Do-Over, actually a regular party in Los Angeles, hosted by Aloe Blacc and some of his Stones Throw associates. It features two new tracks, first the debut from House Shoes and another from Flying Lotus on the flipside.

I posted the video two days ago, but I had to come back to this once more. Apparently, Dimlite has decided to put this out as digital single via his Bandcamp site.

It was Mark de Clive-Lowe’s album “Journey 2 the Light” that launched Freedom School seminal releases. Officially only available in Japan, you can now listen to the album on SoundCloud.

Once a photographer for Life in World War II Okinawa and Iwo Jima, W. Eugene Smith photographed and recorded jazz musicians at his Manhattan loft from 1957 to 1965. Besides a recently published book, there are a lot of audio-documents to listen to.

Preceding the release of the actual album, Especial Records will put out a sampler of Silhouette Brown’s upcoming new album Two.

From Japanese label Wonderful Noise Productions I received this preview to the upcoming album from Monkey Sequence.19. It’s supposed to come out in February 2010.

Here’s the video for the track She Was Fly, taken from the upcoming Conversations With Her EP on Melting Pot Music.