If you wanted an absolutely banging dub-step remix of your track in 2010 or 2011, Jakwob was your go-to-guy. Previously turning out hot reworks for the likes of Ellie Goulding and Jessie J, you'd often as not here his versions played as the originals on Radio 1 of a Friday night - a sure sign if anything of the enduring popularity of a properly good mix.
But now turning to his own music, Jakwob unleashes Electrify, already given its debut as one of Zane Lowe's 'Hottest Records In The World'. It's a dizzying mix of retro-styled soul-sample vocals and ravey piano stabs, oh, and a delightfully bonkers music-box-esque ditty. But right at its heart, where it really matters, a massive steely slab of solid dub-step grounding.
Head out to the clubs in the dawning of what I like to call 'Olympic year', odds are you'll be hearing this.
There's an art to creating a great viral video, and more often than not, sometimes it's the most simple of ideas that are the most attention-grabbing. And it's this ideology that The Bullitts seem to subscribe to in the delivery of their new track Supercool - from the hushed confines of a studio setting, suddenly erupts one of the most brilliantly bonkers dance sensations you'll have seen in a long time.
Spacey, laser-shot synths and jagged tooth-pick guitar riffs, Supercool is the club banger with brains to match its irresistible groove. No wonder then that Zane Lowe has already hailed it as one of his Hottest Records In The World.
The Bullitts release their debut album They Die Before Dawn in 2012, featuring a number of fascinating collaborations: where else would you see Luther himself, Idris Elba, and Lucy Liu on the same record? Amazing.
Kids In Glass Houses are back - and boy are they sounding good. It's always a sign of supreme confidence when you launch your new album with it's own mini-site, and that's exactly what the band have done for their new LP In Gold Blood.
The record's first taster track Gold Blood was initially offered as a free download - the song sees the band taking on a far rougher, gritty sound than the New Wave-inspired gloss-pop of Dirt. Feedback screeches over guitar hooks that pickaxe their way into the senses while the chorus sees the band heading more towards the territory of fellow Welsh rockers Lostprophets.
And if Gold Blood is good, Animals is even better. Last Monday Zane Lowe played the track as his 'Hottest Record' . Thundering guitar lines and a big chorus to rival anything off the band's last two albums, Animals looks set to be a big live favourite - it's also the perfect track to announce with a bang that they're back.
If you weren't lured in by their previous material, this will be the one that really gets you - whereas the band's past singles could at times come across as fey and innocent, this new Kids In Glass Houses has been there and done it all; now they're back, dirty and bruised and with the passion set to boil.
The band described their new album as a game-changer, and if these two tracks are anything to go by, it looks a fair bet.
The new, re-invisioned Kids In Glass Houses see the band entering their adrenaline fuelled adolescent stage - wild and packing a formdible punch, it's a stage in their development we have every intention of riding with.
Gold Blood is available to download from iTunes now. The album In Gold Blood is released on the 15th August with Animals preceding it, the week before.
