[setlist] 24.02 Concrete, London 25.02 Big Chill Bar, Bristol 01.03 The Player, London 03.03 Disappearing Dining Club, London 29.03 The Player, London 30.03 Bedroom Bar, London 08.04 Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth 26.06 Ovum@Space, Ibiza [/setlist]

Or Still Life Sometimes the city must be left behind. Today we are searching for solace in shapes and shadows on the South Coast. There’s wonder in the walls. The blanker the better. The less there is to shoot the less there is to say, the less there is to say, the less there is to think, the less there is to think the more space there is for silence. Time stretches out with the shadows. The day becomes years becomes a lifetime. This is living.

This beauty just arrived from Melodica listener and champion knitter Spilly Jane. A fully functioning Chelsea hat, complete with rampant lion. All I have to do now is get Torres to wear it for his next game. Goals will inevitably follow.

More stuff about the music and stories on this week’s Melodica. All the shows are archived on the Chris Coco page at Mixcloud. There’s a new Melodica chart on Juno Download: here. Follow Chris Coco on MixcloudTHAT FUZZY FEELING: HARD TON – IN THIS MOMENT Dimitri From Paris follows his fin ChiTown style party house remix with a mix in a similar classic 80s house style of the new one from Hard Ton on new label Toytronics. It’s old fashioned in style but with all the necessary bite and low bass, making it an instant hit in the Melodica camp. BLOOD PRESSURE Blood Pressure – Bass Injections That Raise The Bar is a fine new compilation on Med School Music. It features an excellent new space track from the master of the understated, filmic groove, Synkro. NEW BURIAL There’s so much excitement surrounding the new Burial single, Kindred. It is, as one would expect, long, dirty, dark and perfect for play in an undertrack car park round London Bridge at about 4am on a crisp winter morning. So nothing new in Burial terms, but that sound, it’s so specific, so atmospheric, it makes you want to give up producing, or tear it apart and work out how he does it. Now, where are my scissors? You can get the single now on the Hyperdub website.

Chris Coco’s weekly radio broadcast. An eclectic selection of brilliant new music starting with house and moving on to electronica, downtempo, acoustic and all sorts of other styles loosely connected to dance and electronic music. Let tastemaker Chris Coco guide you through his selection of the week’s best new music. This episode we are holed up in a stone shelter, high in the mountains, safe from mainstream music storms, trying to deal with an avalanche of quality, advanced music new releases. Let’s just say Bonobo, Floating Points, Battles, Hard Ton, Synkro, Burial and get on with it… [setlist] 1 Bonobo – Eyesdown (Floating Points Remix) – Ninja Tune 2 Bobby Browser – Always Many – Silk 3 Battles – Wall Street (Gui Boratto Remix) – Warp THAT FUZZY FEELING (TUNE OF THE WEEK) 4 Hard Ton – In This Moment (Dimitri From Paris & DJ Rocca Remix) – Toytonics 5 Satin Jackets – Girl, Forever – Disko 6 Lapalux – Moments (Feat PY) – Brainfeeder 7 Synkro – Dwelling – Med School Music 8 Burial – Kindred – Hyperdub STRINGS, WOOD AND A BOX OF AIR 9 First Aid Kit – I Need A Friend – Wichita 10 Young Magic – Sparkly – Car Park 11 The Time And Space Machine – Good Morning – Tirk 12 Lilacs & Champagne – Sensations – Mexican Summer