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100. CITY FATHER – “Coquette”

99. BILLIE EILISH – “Bellyache”

98. SABRINA CLAUDIO – “Belong To You”

97. PETRA GLYNT – “Fell In A Hole”

96. HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR + SHARON VAN ETTEN – “Omnion”

95. GIRLI – “Hot Mess”

94. THE SOFT MOON – “Burn”

93. J.I.D – “Never”

92. ACE TEE + KWAM.E – “Bist Du Down?”

91. CRALIAS – “Hope You Are”

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90. CHROMATICS – “Shadow”

89. RUN THE JEWELS – “Legend Has It”

88. CARDI B – “Bodak Yellow”

87. YELLOW DAYS – “Hurt In Love”

86. JFDR – “Airbone”

85. SUSANNE SUNDFØR – “Undercover”

84. TOM TRIPP – “Aurelia”

83. SUPERORGANISM – “Something For Your M.I.N.D.”

82. KAN WAKAN – “Still Feather”

81. NILÜFER YANYA – “Baby Luv”

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80. WAKE CHILD – “In The End”

79. JAJA BU – “Sweetness”

78. ALVVAYS – “Dreams Tonite”

77. KIDÄ – “Bone Mother”

76. HÅN – “The Children”

75. ULYSSE – “Mañana”

74. SHY GIRLS – “You Like The Pain Too”

73. GOURMET – “Delicious”

72. SORCHA RICHARDSON – “4AM”

71. MILLIE TURNER – “Underwater”

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70. NABIHAH IQBAL – “Something More”

69. KEDR LIVANSKIY – “Your Name (имя твоё)”

68. MORGXN – “xx”

67. GRIZZLY BEAR – “Mourning Sound”

66. DANIEL CAESAR + KALI UCHIS – “Get You”

65. DILLON – “2.KIND”

64. COUCOU CHLOE + SEGA BODEGA – “Flip U”

63. THE TRP – “Soda”

62. JAY SOM – “The Bus Song”

61. GFOTY – “Tongue”

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60. SELENA GOMEZ -“Bad Liar”

59. ELA MINUS – “Juan Sant”

58. EMPRESS OF – “Go To Hell”

57. SHE Major – “Please Don’t”

56. VAGABON – “Cold Appartment”

55. NADINE – “Ultra Pink”

54. SONDER – “Feel”

53. RINA SAWAYAMA – “Alterlife”

52. SEGA BODEGA + SHYGIRL – “CC”

51. GOLDLINK + BRENT FAIYAZ – “Crew”

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50. CRATER – “Unearth”

49. QUAY DASH – “Decline Him”

48. YELLE – “Romeo”

47. GABRIEL GARZÓN-MONTANO – “Fruitflies”

46. WESLEE – “Bathwater”

45. FOREST SWORDS – “The Highest Flood”

44. KENDRICK LAMAR + ZACARI – “LOVE.”

43. ALEX CAMERON + ANGEL OLSEN – “Stranger’s Kiss”

42. SMERZ – “Oh My My”

41. SASSY 009 – “Are You Leaving”

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40. CHARLI XCX – “Roll With Me”

39. TESSA DIXSON – “Prayer”

38. TOMMY GENESIS – “Tommy”

37. SSION – “Comeback”

36. PIXX – “Romance”

35. DANNY L HARLE – “1UL”

34. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM – “american dream”

33. LANA DEL REY – “Love”

32. KING KRULE – “Dum Surfer”

31. SAMPHA – “(No One Knows Me) Like The Piano”

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30. MAKTHAVERSKAN – “Vienna”

29. CCFX – “The One To Wait”

28. KLLO – “Downfall”

27. KELLY LEE OWENS + JENNY HVAL – “Anxi.”

26. BLUE HAWAII – “No One Like You”

25. FEVER RAY – “Wanna Sip”

24. JULIEN BAKER – “Turn Out The Lights”

23. LIL PEEP + LIL TRACY – “witchblades”

22. FAKA – “Uyang’khumbula”

21. TR/ST – “Bicep”

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20. SARO – “Eyelids”

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19. BROCKHAMPTON – “Summer”

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18. TYLER, THE CREATOR + KALI UCHIS – “See You Again”

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17. O-SHiN – “A Revelation”

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16. ionnalee – “SAMARITAN”

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15. Vince Staples – “Crabs In A Bucket”

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14. WWWATER – “My Hands”

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13. Björk – “Blissing Me”

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12. Carly Rae Jepsen – “Cut To The Feeling”

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11. Big Thief – “Mythological Beauty”

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10. SZA – “Drew Barrymore”

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9. Frank Ocean – “Chanel”

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8. Wy – “Bathrooms”

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7. SOPHIE – “It’s Okay To Cry”

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6. Moses Sumney – “Doomed”

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5. Kelela – “Onanon”

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4. Arca – “Desafío”

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3. Lorde – “The Louvre”

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2. Perfume Genius – “Slip Away”

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1. Yaeji – “Raingurl”

Listen to the 100 tracks of 2017 according to the HighClouds‘ staff via Spotify, Youtube and Deezer.

The sunny weather in Brussels predicted the beautiful night that we had. A weather like that doesn’t happen that much for it to be noticed. The entire park invested by the venue was full of people coming here to enjoy music, and as the concert took place in the marquee built in the park specially for the festival, we could enjoy the sun, the food and sitting on the stairs to contemplate the beauty of Botanique. I always have been a fan of the venue and last night wasn’t an exception.

The concert started with the Lille/Paris-based band Rocky that surprised us by their entertaining live and refreshing sound. As the concert started, because of the weather, we were only two in the big room. They screamed “ARE YOU READY”, we screamed “YES” but actually we weren’t ready for the pleasant surprise that we had. Mixing many genres and sounds, the quartet is the perfect example of a cosmopolitan melting-pot. In their Facebook page, they quote many references raging from LCD Soundsystem to Crystal Waters and Talking Heads, showing their versality when it comes to creating sounds for themselves. Their debut album “Soft Machines” was played with strong energy and we clearly had fun during the concert, converting me into a fan.

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After a short break, the concert of multi-instrumentalist Youngr started. We actually missed the beginning of the show as we were enjoying a delicious croque-monsieur outside, and we didn’t expect for the room to become a giant club when we were gone. Hidden behind an enormous quantity of instruments, the artist plays in between drums and electronic sounds, making the entire room travel to Ibiza in two seconds to dance. As we weren’t ready to find ourselves in a club at 8pm, we got back outside to look for beers to put us in the mood. It was rather hard to connect with the artist as we could barely see him, but the crowd did definitely enjoy the show.

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The night finished with the concert of Hercules & Love Affair who are currently touring to present their soon-to-be released fourth album announced thanks to their single “Controller“. I was first surprised that there were kids in the audience, told my friend “Do their parents know that their last single is about BDSM love?” and we laughed. As the concert evolved, we started noticing that we actually didn’t know any of the songs they were playing. After 5 songs, Andy Butler, the founder of the collective, said, amused “You are such a great crowd! We played already 5 songs that you don’t know and you are still here!”. Currently based in Belgium, they didn’t forget to thank us for being so kind and told us that their sound has entirely been created in our country. You’re welcome, Andy!

We started the #Nuits17 by going to a marquee turn into a club for the evening by Hercules & Love Affair, Youngr and Rocky.

At #Nuits17, when they played their classics such as “My House” and their first hit “Blind”, they put the audience on fire and created a special communion in between fans. We danced like it was a Saturday night, and actually drank a bit, creating a perfect little Monday morning hangover. Their new album sounds in the continuity of their previous albums, with a touch of pop. Their latest release “The Feast of the Broken Heart” unveiled in 2014 was focused on more electronic and cold vibes. We still don’t know much about the LP besides that it will be “a lot about spirituality”, as said by Butler himself to The Fader. We can’t wait!

Our journey at the #Nuits17 continues tonight with the concert of Magnus, Agar Agar and Whispering Sons.

[su_dropcap style=”simple”]L[/su_dropcap]os Angeles-based young rapper Wil$on is just 22 years old but his potential is pretty obvious. After one year of activity on Soundcloud, which has progressively brought him from the underground scene to new audiences, the artist is ready to release his upcoming mixtape “S.O.S”. The first single “Hot”, which was produced by his regular fellas Cook&Jango and that already sounds more mature, is un uplifting and catchy way to get to know this new upcoming project. So if you like the pre-Kardashian Kanye West and Vic Mensa, you should definitely check on him!

When the artist talks about his music, he says:

[su_quote]It comes from the heart, I can’t just half ass a song I have to feel everything I do and it has to come from some place of emotion. My biggest influence is Kanye West especially his early work when he was rapping about everyday struggles.[/su_quote]

By the way, “Hot” entered the HighClouds30, our weekly charts of the hottest tracks that we release every Sunday, at the 27th rank this week. Check the full #HC30 of this week here.

“S.O.S” will be the official follow-up to his “93 EP”, a 5-track project that was supported by the single “92” that you can listen to below and purchase here on iTunes.

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What brought us on Wil$on‘s Soundcloud profile is also this surprising remix of LCD Soundsystem’s amazing “Dance Yrself Clean”. A cover that you can, by the way, download for free!

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If you want to know more about this artist and stay tuned, follow him on Facebook, Soundcloud and Instagram.

[su_dropcap style=”simple”]N[/su_dropcap]o, in Belgium, we don’t only have the cold, the rain and the snow. We also have good artists and that is why we present you one of them, every Wednesday, in the Belgitunes section. This week, let’s talk about DJ and producer Mugwump, an artist of the Belgian electronic music scene who cannot be ignored. This artist, who was described as the « Belgium’s underground answer to Daft Punk » by the German magazine Groove, is going to release a digital deluxe version of his debut album “Unspell” on January 29. Perfect time for immersing ourselves in the two-decade career of the artist.

At the beginning, Brussel’s Mugwump is DJ Geoffroy, resident at the infamous Food Club (and djing all over Belgium) in the Nineties, who then started producing club music in the Noughties on prestigious labels such as Kompakt, Gigolo or R&S, to name but a few! But as the artist says it himself, the highlight of his career is not in the past. Little by little, he adds some strings to his bow: at first he was a DJ, then he became producer before starting to organize the famous parties Leftorium. Now, he has set up a full band with 3 other musicians (DC Salas, Raphael Absolonne, Stephane Fedele) and together they’ve been rearranging the music he’s produced for the aforementioned album and the band’s now playing live at major festivals, also writing new material together.

The music is as varied as his ambitions. On stage, it could remind a rougher version of LCD Soundsystem as it mixes indie and electro, techno and disco, with a touch of post-punk. His album “Unspell” reflects, of course, this eclecticism and you can see it with the different artist that have participated to the album: Circlesquare, Luke Jenner of The Rapture, Sami «DJ Morpheus» Birnbach and so on.

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Friday 29 January, the artist will release the digital deluxe edition of “Unspell” via !K7 which will feature the live versions of “After They Fall” (the track with Circlesquare) and “School’s Out » with German band Von Spar. There will also be two previously unreleased studio tracks, “HeadMaster” and “Voetbalkniien”, which is a cover from cult Dutch post-punk hero Ton Lebbink. You can, by the way, see the live version of this last track at Dour Festival just below. You will understand why they are a “rougher version” of LCD Soundsystem. Ok, I admit it, in Belgium we have the rain. But Mugwump is the kind of project that gives you the envy to jump inside the mud during a festival!

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Finally, a remix project should be released in February and of course, two upcoming concerts that you should not miss if you live nearby:

– Festival “Les Transardentes” in Liège (January 23)
– Festival “AB Bota” in Brussels (February 27)

UPDATE: Mugwump just released a live session video of “Voetbalkniëen” that was shot at Reflektor in Liège.
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You can already stream “Unspell” and pre-order the deluxe re-release here.

– Frontwoman of Speedy Ortiz Sadie Dupuis shared the demo of their Christmas song. You can download this demo for free, following the Soundcloud link

– Even after their break-up in 2011, LCD Soundsystem shared a Christmas song. According to James Murphy, he has been singing this record for 8 years now and “feels like something that could only have happened a very, very long time ago”.

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– Grimes shared an unreleased track taken from the period of her 2010 album “Halifaxa”

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– Miley Cyrus shared a Christmas song recorded with The Flaming Lips. You can check the artwork below

– Singer of Radiohead Thom Yorke shared the song that was supposed to be the track of the last James Bond. Finally Sam Smith made the official, but you can now listen to the Radiohead track. You can also download the track for free following the Soundcloud link

– Lauryn Hill shared a cover that she made of the amazing 60s track of Nat King Cole called “A Cradle in Bethlehem”.

– Timbaland shared a mixtape where he collaborated with Young Thug, Rich Homie Quan, Tink, 2 Chainz, PC Tweezie and many others. There is also an unreleased track with Aaliyah. You can listen to it here and watch the artwork below

– Hudson Mohawke shared an interpretation of John Carpenter‘s Escape From New York theme as part of LuckyMe Advent Calendar. The track is called “Escape” and you can download it for free following the Soundcloud link. You can also check DJ Paypal track called “No One Else” shared for the same campaign that you can also download for free

– Aphex Twin shared two new tracks on his Soundcloud account. One called “pianopkupt1 [norm]” that you can download for free and another one called “T17 Phase Out”. You can listen to both track below [UPDATE :] Aphex Twin has deleted every track from his Soundcloud Account

– Kendrick Lamar shared a 7 minutes long video featuring two tracks of his last album “To Pimp A Butterfly” called “u” and “For Sale”. The video is called “God Is Gangsta” and it was filmed by Jack Begert for the “u” side and the “For Sale?” part, directed by PANAMÆRA.

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– After the release of his track “Monstruosidad“, Arca shared another new track for free called “Urchin”

– Pusha T shared the video for “M.P.A.” taken from his last album “King Push – Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude”. Directed by Shomy Patwary, the video features A$AP Rocky and The-Dream
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– Kanye West shared a new track during New Years Eve called “Facts”. It reminds the release of “Only One” release during the 2015’s Eve. You can also check the artwork below