So it has been a big last couple of weeks here at The Blue Walrus. I have officially written my last essay for university – just exams to go – which makes that an end of an era – and also means that I have revision leave which means I can spend more time updating you lot on the best music around. Secondly, we have a new author on board – Lauren – which is awesome and will mean (hopefully) more regular updates. Look forward to her first post in …

The Snazzy compilations have been left a little unattended since October (that is 3 quick months), but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been collecting great tunes to put on this latest update. Here we’ve got some of the sweetest songs you can imagine from Noah and the Whale and Lykke Li, along with the best band to come out of Edinburgh for a long long time, namely Broken Records, and some more crackers that have been sitting in my ‘To Post’ pile for far too long. My dissertation is now …

So yeah I was lying about how I was going to have some best of lists up. I wanted to and I did have a selection, but life is too hectic to post too often shamefully. We have had some awesome nights out here in Edinburgh recently, with a climax being Vicarious Bliss from the Ed Banger team, who I’ve previously featured here, and they put every other DJ in The Caves to shame (all credit to the RIP boys who put the night together).
So posting wasn’t my top …

Hope you all had a good Christmas and have something massive planned for new year. I couldn’t let it slip by without posting up some of these crackers which make up, yup, Clap Your Hands To The Electricity 6. As per usual, we’ve got some of the established (Digitalism and Thomas Bangalter) and some of the new (Hot Pink Delorean and Danger) and they are all beautiful. And by beautiful I mean shifting to some dirty synths and beats with a little bit of pop mixed in for sweetness.
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Some more electro you say? Here is Clap Your Hands To The Electricity Vol.5 as usual featuring some of the best remixes, bands and DJs from across the globe. We’ve got a bit of pop on here with a bassy/funky remix of Kylie by Alan Braxe and a dirty Kissy Sell out extravaganza on an All Saints track as well as some old favourites form Primal Scream and The Chemical Brothers blended together. As well as the well known stuff though, The Shoes and Spitzer are going to get big …

And you thought the last break was a long one – and no I don’t have a good excuse like being out of the country this time, just more of a very hectic last month with coming back to Edinburgh. That doesn’t mean I have kept up with the new stuff over that time though. By now everyone should know about Radiohead’s return with the possibility of fans paying whatever they think an album is worth. Amazon has also launched an mp3 store to compete with iTunes and it is …