Mayer Hawthorne & James Pants have covered each other’s songs, Mayer doing “Thin Moon” and James doing “Green Eyed Love“. Stonesthrow pressed a small number of these on 45 which they wi’ll be giving away to the first couple hundred people that show up to the March 17 event 45 Live at SXSW (a Stonesthrow collaboration with Converse & Wax Poetics). Stonesthrow

Mayer Hawthorne – Thin Moon

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James Pants – Thin Moon

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written by nevill \\ tags: download, green eyed love, james pants, mayer hawthorne, stonesthrow, sxsw, thin moon

When our colleagues at Laidback Radio asked us to do the ‘Pick of the Week’, we were like lets do this! Now our very first pick is one that we are truly very excited about. We’ve been friends with Jay Hats for a while and admire his musical genius. Just like LaMelodia, Jay is also from Eindhoven. And next to being a producer, he’s also a sound engineer.

Jay Hats’ music is best described as a crossing between tropical world music (loaded with frantic percussion) and contemporary club music. Jay’s music sounds like an honest breath of fresh air on a warm summer night and we dare you to take a dive into this tropical, future vintage. Let Jay take you on a trip around the world with a wide variety of arrangements cleverly blended into one album.

Together with Jay we’ve been working on getting his debut album the release it deserves and we are happy to inform you that it will be out this summer. Stay tuned on more music from the tall man…soon! Keep smiling bro..oh and follow Jay on Twitter or Facebook!

Jay Hats – Playing Her Feat. Rones (Laidback Intro)

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written by nilez \\ tags: debut album, eindhoven, exclusive, i.n.t., jameszoo, jay hats, laidback radio, lamelodia, melodee, onedrop, percussion, pick of the week, producer, rones, sound engineer, steve hartley, tropical world music

If you’re old like me you might just remember the movie Spaceballs with the late John Candy. Anyhow…the track that stands out on Joob‘s “Nebula” EP is “Sagatriaus B”, which begins with a short sample from that movie. With other tracks like “Galactic Geek” you can really feel that spacey vibe he tried to give out with this EP. Shit is pretty much out there so I suggest you give it a listen…it’s FREE! Download it HERE and props to Olof for the heads up.

Joob – Sagittarius B

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Joob – Galactic Geek

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written by nilez \\ tags: bandcamp, electronic beats, free download, galactic geek, john candy, joob, nebula ep, olof, sagatriaus b, spaceballs, spacey vib

Mayer Hawthorne wishes it would rain, but frankly I don’t. Here in Amsterdam the sun has just began to show itself and already women are pulling out their short skirts upon feeling the very first rays of sunlight. Anyhow…this is a fantastic video for a fantastic song. Can’t really add a lot more except that it was directed by Henry DeMaio and that Stones Throw deserves some props for this one again.

written by nilez \\ tags: amsterdam, henry demaio, i wish it would rain, mayer hawthorne, stones throw, Video, youtube