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Only a week now and I’ll be on holiday so I have some stuff to organise before I go. I hurt my ankle playing football as well so that’s not looking great. Anyway, news. Biffy Clyro have released the video for their new single “The Golden Rule.” It’s an interesting video, bizarre for the most part however the light effects in the instrumental near the end are pretty cool. Also Jay-Z performed part of his new track “Run This Town” during an interview with Tim Westwood. The final track will feature Rihanna and Kanye West, and I think the 3 of them are bound to make a brilliant track. Can’t wait to hear that.

First track today is the latest release off Nelly Furtado‘s new album, “Mi Plan.” I haven’t posted about the album yet because I haven’t really been aware of it. I don’t think Universal are promoting the album very much in the UK at least. The first song off the album, “Manos al Aire” was released a couple of weeks ago which I completely missed and the next single, which was released 2 days ago, is called “Más,” which can be translated to “More.” It’s a really nice song, I can’t comment much on the lyrics as I don’t speak Spanish but the production is very nice and the song has a predictably Mediterranean feel. It’s also quite summery which is good now, however the album is due to be released in September and by then summer may be a distant memory. Check it out below.

Nelly Furtado – Más (US)

Mi Plan is released September 15th. Pre-Order Here. (US)

There’s also a new Villans remix out which I think is very nice. I posted their remix of N.A.S.A.’s “Whatchadoin” which you may remember although it was a good 3 months ago. Their new remix is of Dragonette‘s “Fixing to Thrill”. The remix is very nice. It’s pretty raw and it works really well with the vocals. The pulsing bass throughout sounds really good as well. Personally I prefer this to the original. It just has more of an exciting edge to it and is a really good electro song. Hopefully I can hear more from Villans as I don’t want to wait 3 months for another of their brilliant remixes. Looking at Amazon, Don Diablo also appears to have done a remix. Sadly I haven’t heard it so i can’t compare the two.

Dragonette – Fixing to Thrill (Villans Remix)

Fixing To Thrill is out now. Preview Here and Purchase Here.

Last track for today (as I’m going on) is a new Troublemaker remix. The e-mail described it as “hard as nails dubstep” which was enough for me to put it near the top of my priority list. It’s a remix of Mastodon’s “Oblivion” and OMG I love it. For those of you who don’t know (me included before I researched this post) Mastodon are a heavy metal band. I like many genres of music, however one genre I can’t stand is heavy metal. However, this heavy metal meets dubstep remix is absolutely brilliant. The guitar which has been left in works brilliantly with the dubstep beats and the result is just brilliant. One of my favourite dubstep tracks this year.

Mastodon – Oblivion (Troublemaker Remix)

And that’s it, I may be changing the site around a little in the coming days so if everything looks bizarre, hold tight.