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Our pick of the new music that's coming your way.  1. radioheadscotch mist webcast If you had something better to do on New Year’s Eve than watch Radiohead’s pre-recorded webcast – and no doubt even Thom Yorke did – you can now catch the whole thing on their YouTube channel. It features an in-studio performance of In Rainbows, along with instructive poetry readings and, obviously, not a raised glass in sight. AC  watch 2. let's wrestle let's wrestle (stolen recordings) London trio Let’s Wrestle might open a song with the wry line, “I wish I was in Hot Chip,” but in fact cast a punk-pop shadow that is very much their own. Favouring an endearingly ramshackle mix of Pavement, The Clean, Dinosaur Jr and The Wedding Present, they inject sad-sack humour (“the position I’m in here, even genocide seems reasonable”) into their quotidian tales of love and life. Let’s Wrestle’s first major grapple with their public comes in February, with the release of their self-titled EP. S'OC listen 3. hot chip ready for the floor (dfa / emi) There is already a swarm-sized buzz about Hot Chip’s new album, Made In The Dark, due in March. The rave-piano topped primer Ready For The Floor suggests it’s probably justified; there are some insistent Diplo and Soulwax remixes around too. AC listen 4. kid sister ft kanye westpro nails (fools gold) Kid Sister makes full use of her impeccable connections (her boyfriend A-Trak is Kanye’s DJ) to get West on her debut single. Not that this needs the faint whiff of nepotism, being a copper-bottomed pop-rap gem with electro bassline, chopped-and-screwed hook and heaps of full-clawed attitude. SY listen 5. christian prommer’s drumlessonbeau mot plage (sonar kollektiv) Berlin tastemakers Jazzanova started slipping German jazz musician Christian Prommer’s acoustic cover of Strings Of Life into their DJ sets a year ago. Thanks to its success, Prommer is set to release Drum Lesson Vol 1, an album that offers vintage jazz takes on tracks as diverse as Higher State Of Consciousness and Can You Feel It?. Sound like ironic novelty hell? It’s anything but, as this frantically funky cover of deep house classic Beau Mot Plage proves. CP listen 6. lykke lilittle bit (moshi moshi) Moshi Moshi sustains its reputation as a label that never releases anything less than remarkable with the debut single from Sweden singer-songwriter Lykke Li. Produced by Bjorn Yttling of Peter & John fame, Little Bit suggests that the Stockholm scene is going to be every bit as fecund in 2008 as it has been for the last couple of years. CP listen 7. alexander robotnickdisco sick (endless flight) Florence’s godfather of Italo-disco still does retro electro better than almost anyone who has ripped him off in the last 25 years. With a chugging beat and queasy synths, Disco Sick is a single that, you imagine, will sound particularly “ill” when spewed onto a dancefloor at 4am. PC listen 8. fredo violathe sad song (because) New Yorker Fredo Viola was a former child soprano until his voice broke, which, on the evidence of this debut release, might have been the best thing that ever happened to him. The track’s wordless choral wash means we’re not quite sure what he’s unhappy about, but its subtle electronics and a video created by Viola himself are reasons enough to be cheerful. PC watch 9. the presets my people (modular) Sydney nu ravers The Presets re-emerge with a new single just as the more fashion conscious prepare to consign their glowsticks to the back of the cupboard. My People is about as original as cheese on toast, but what it lacks in subtlety it more than compensates for with sheer air-smacking enthusiasm. SY listenTips by: Paul Clarke, Amber Cowan, Sharon O'Connell, Chris Power and Steve Yates  conversations
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