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Shlohmo chops & screws HAERTS' soaring "Wings," transforming the pristine pop anthem into something so much darker and funereal, as Nini Fabi's disembodied, eerily mournful vocals lurk over Shlo's trademark skittering, beautifully murky bass-heavy production...

We were teased with a preview of this one when Just Friends' Avalanche 12" was released as a vinyl-only Record Store Day exclusive back in April, and now Nico Jaar's new serial label Other People has let Shlohmo's somber remix go on their youtube channel: In other Other People news: the label just dropped issue II; head over there to check it out (the High Water track is especially great)...

Our second Record Store Day-related Nicolas Jaar post of the weekend: Jaar + Sasha Spielberg's collaborative covers project Just Friends quietly dropped a RSD-exclusive, possibly Germany-only 12" for one of our favorite songs of 2012 -- their ghostly cover of Leonard Cohen's "Avalanche" -- backed with remixes by Julia Holter and Shlohmo...

Yours Truly gave us an intriguing little preview of their latest Songs From Scratch dream collab featuring Shlohmo + Jeremih a couple weeks back, but the finished product is even bigger than we expected. These two need to do a full-length together ASAP...

We're teaming up with our friends Yours Truly again this year to kick off SXSW '13 on Wednesday, March 13, at the Hype Hotel. Free / no badge required, just RSVP HERE. Starring: DISCLOSURE (london) SHLOHMO (los angeles) CHARLI XCX (london) ANTWON (san jose) FEAR OF MEN (brighton) EMPRESS OF (brooklyn) DJ sets from: RYAN HEMSWORTH (halifax) JOHN TALABOT (barcelona) JEROME LOL (los angeles)

Here's a huge/lush new track from LA producer Shlohmo, taken from his forthcoming Laid Out EP, out March 5 on Friends of Friends x WEDIDIT. Listen over at his awesome new Sus Boy-designed website, you're going to want the pillars + chains raining down when the beat drops for full effect. Check the Laid Out cover art & tracklist after the jump...

We spent an inordinate amount of time listening to (and trying to make) mixes this year. Here's a collection of some of our favorites from the past 12 months, all of which were huge sources of discovery + inspiration for us. And we're always up for more, so feel free to hook us up with recommendations for any essential mixes we might have missed...

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Groundislava + Baths send an interstellar alien light man down to Earth on a suicide mission in this Barney Patterson-directed clip for the floating Feel Me highlight. Feel Me is out now on Friends of Friends. Groundislava also just released this remix of Shlohmo's "Ghosts Pt...

L.A. producer Shlohmo's fractured, moody take on the breezy title track from LOL Boys' Changes 12" gets some appropriately haunting visuals from video marsh. Catch LOL Boys + Shlohmo together in the Boiler Room L.A. tomorrow night.