Not Here to Please You Mixtape [USB MEMORY STICK]

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When Hadouken! first emerged last year their in-your-face indie-grime collision of sonic extremities just didn't make sense for some people. A step too far perhaps? Ridiculously east London? The soundtrack to Nathan Barleys life? In fact the urgent and inherently new nature of their sound captured thousands of dedicated young fans - including a massive 70,000 myspace devotees and counting. Their forward thinking electronic-grimey pop energy and the explosively frenetic live shows captured fan's imaginations. Within months they were selling out thousand capacity venues. By the time of release for `That Boy That Girl' in February this year even the nay-sayers of six months previous were starting to realise this was a slice of fresh talent bursting with brilliant ideas, killer hooks and a vast potential.

Always one step ahead of the pack, H! realise that their ever growing fanbase are web savvy and tech smart, and as a knowing nod to this new generation they're now the first band ever to make their next release available on a USB stick ONLY. The "Mixtape" will feature 6 exclusive new tracks plus some remixes of Hadouken! tracks, including an exclusive Bloc Party offering.

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Some evidence London indie-grime outfit Hadouken! aren’t planning on doing things by the rules: rather than releasing a debut album, Not Here to Please You is the band’s debut "mixtape", a twelve track collection of new tracks, refixed old tracks, and remixes of other bands, released on a USB stick to tide over the band’s burgeoning fanbase before the album proper. The music itself is similarly unconventional, a day-glo splatter of rave keyboards, choppy grime beats, wobbling basslines and chundering guitars cut and spliced together with seemingly little care for structure or coherency. It’s at its best when it’s at its silliest--take the chorus of "Liquid Lives", which recalls The Prodigy in all their snotty prime, frontman James Smith chanting "Drink! Smoke! Fuck! Fight!" over scraped-knuckle guitars and clattering breakbeats. The remixes, too, are an inspired idea: Bloc Party’s "The Prayer" and Plan B’s "No More Eatin’" get peppered with bleeps and dropped in amongst the chaos. Sadly, the mixtape’s weaker moments, like "Tuning It"--an unpleasant story of a nightclub seduction that shows off some of James’ shortcomings, both as storyteller and rapper-–suggests Hadouken! have some work to do before they can pull off a whole album. –- Louis Pattison