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Every now and then, a band just needs to change its name in order to establish its new course: The Quarrymen into The Beatles, The Rain into Oasis, Liberty into Liberty X. Joining that list is Temple Songs – played several times on this show - who’ve changed their name to Pink Teens. 

Download Pink Teens - More Than I Can Bear

In celebration of this change, the will be releasing a 9-track EP “Good Luck, Pink Teens”, from which More Than I Can Bear is taken. Fans of the former will be pleased that the psyche-tinged shoe gaze remain, with lead singer Jolan Lewis just having a knack for finding great melodies amongst the wealth of sound behind him. They play Bleach in Brighton tonight. Download now, watch tonight = Tuesday.

Today’s MPFree is a beautiful and mellow track to soothe you into your Monday morning by L.A. based band Dive Index.

Download Pattern Pieces - Dive Index

Spearheaded by composer and producer Will Thomas, Dive Index is a collaboration of artists such as vocalists Simone White, who features on Pattern Pieces. Dive Index use a unique combination of electronic and acoustic sounds to make deeply layered music.

Pattern Pieces is partnered with the song A Person To Hide With, which features Isaiah Gage on vocals, and is also available as a free download. Will describes the two songs as “lyrically…portray[ing] an intimate, one-on-one conversation.”

Dive Index's fourth album Lost In The Pressure was released on 30th September 2014 via Neutral Music Records.

Today’s MPFree goes global with a stunner from African musicians Tamikrest, discovered in the same Glitterbeat Records vaults which gave us Wednesday’s ‘Robot Dub’ track (Be Ki Don by Schneider TM).

Download Djanegh Etoumast by Tamikrest

Recent winners of the ‘Best Group’ award at the Songlines Music Awards, Tamikrest are formed of artists from Mali, Niger and Algeria who aim to open up ‘new paths between desert blues and Western rock.’

As a band originating from the Sahara comparisons to fellow Saharan musicians Tinariwen are inevitable, but Tamikrest carve their own niche with funky bass riffs and bluesy rhythms.

This track ‘Djanegh Etoumast’ comes from their latest album Chatma, which was released in September. Never ones to shy away from political and social commentary, Chatma, which means ‘Sisters’ in Tamashek, is about the suffering and strength of the Tuareg women during war.

Their frontman Ousmane Ag Mossa recently performed alongside Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye at Burg Herzberg Festival, and the band will begin a UK tour later this month if you want to catch them live.

Today’s MPFree is a mesmerising demo from the woman of the moment – the very cool Jessie Ware.

Download Jessie Ware - 12

South Londoner Jessie recorded the track “12” last year at the Red Bull Studio in London. Robin Hannibal, who is part of the Danish group Quadron, co-wrote and produced the song. Jessie released her second album Tough Love on 13^th October. Even though “12” didn’t make it onto the new album Jessie tells us all to “play it late and go kiss someone x”.  

Jessie released her beautiful debut record “Devotion” in 2011 and went on to be nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. She has previously worked with SBTRKT and Sampha, and started her music career as Jack Penate’s backing singer. Jessie will start her UK tour in January 2015. 

The MPFree picks up the pace a little today with “minimalist head-smashing garage rock that's going to get you jumping up and down on your desk”.

Download Bass Drum of Death – For Blood

Their self-titled second album was released last year, and received quite a level of rotation on this show – certainly one to add to your collection if it’s currently missing. Now the Oxford, Mississippi duo return with their third outing, RIP THIS. A possible commentary on the state of the industry, or just an instruction, or even sarcasm, we’re not quite sure but ‘For Blood’ is the first taster we’ve had. And now the free music gods have made it available for you right here. They’re also live, and some would certainly expect some loudness, in London and Manchester 13^th and 14^th November respectively. 

Today's Memory Tape comes from listener Liv Siddall and, in a way, she's perfected the art of the Memory Tape. It was made for her by boyfriend-from-the-past who thought it might be a good idea to romanticise the gesture of giving her mixtape even more. C'mon, we've all been there! Remember you can send your Memory Tape to us anytime you like: lauren.6music@bbc.co.uk. Here's Liv to tell all:

"When I was 15 my boyfriend at the time made me a cd and sprayed it with his Jean Paul Gaultier eau de toilette. I played it so often that it eventually wore out, but I can still remember the tracklist off by heart.

I think he was just putting together a mix of stuff he thought was cool, and it is a great mix. But to me it summed up that perfect, palpable feeling of rebellion and romance. Considering we would spend ALL our time sneaking off to snog, or do things we shouldn’t have really have been doing - those three years were summed up on this CD, and I can almost hear the music whenever I get a whiff of Jean Paul Gaultier on the tube."

Smells Like Teen Spirit

The Von Bondies - C'Mon C'mon

Graham Coxon - Bittersweet Bundle of Misery

Aimee Mann - Save Me

The Only Ones - Another Girl Another Planet

The Libertines - The Delaney

Bloc Party - Banquet

Evan Dando - Waking Up

Ramones - Pet Cemetary

James Brown - The Boss

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Love Burns

Neil Young - Don't Let It Bring You Down

The Velvet Underground - Oh! Sweet Nothing

Radiohead - True Love Waits

Liv

Onwards we roll to the second free download of the week, and it’s a bit of a banger this one. Nemone sits in for Lauren today, and she’s bringing her Electric Ladyland-vibes to the show with this reworking of a classic by German producer Jolie Noir.

Download Jolie Noir – White Lines

Katja aka Jolie Noir is based in Nuremberg and started DJing when she was just 18. Having grown up around 80s and early 90s hip hop, she now takes her love of the genre squarely to the dance floors with this 4/4 reworking of Grandmaster Flash’s White Lines. It’s a subtle remapping, but when the familiar elements start breaking through you know this has been made with a lot of a love. Download now.

Welcome one and all to the returning MPFree. Following last week’s triumphant 6 Music Live gigs down at that there Maida Vale, there simply wasn’t room to squeeze the free download in. But now it’s back, bigger than ever, and with an absolute wonder to wash away the blues of the rainy week ahead. 

Download Tan Vampires - Paper Cranes

Tan Vampires are a sextet from Dover, New Hampshire, USA for fans of “Radiohead, Wilco, Local Natives, and Neil Young.” Personally, we see more My Morning Jacket and it’s a marching wave of brass, woodland folk and forlorn lyrics. They formed in 2008 having released two albums; 2011's For Physical Fitness, and 2013's Ephemera. The band is currently hard at work on a new album which should be out in the spring of next year. They also play a free gig in Manchester tonight if you’re from that side of the world. 

It’s Friday! We’re bringing your Friday 12 hours early, so it’s actually late at night now, and what we need going into the early hours is a good dose of repetitive, and damn right spooky, dance-laden music for the mind. That’s exactly what Firejosé is going to provide for us.

Download Firejosé – Windy City*

Windy City is taken from a four-track Red Mist EP from Estonian producer Firejosé (a.k.a. Mark Stukis). This is the only track available for free download, courtesy of the Cut Label which operates on a subscription basis. On his Facebook, he has quite the introduction: “Mark Stukis pondered into the electronic music world in the 90s, moving gradually from listening to records to going to raves, falling in love with drum n bass to DJing. After years of spinning and producing solely one genre it was time to evolve...”. And evolve he has, bringing us this dark slice of late night urban Burial-esque dirge.

*this might be slightly tricky to find, but just head past the SoundCloud embded, underneath that you'll see a button called 'download'.

Today’s free download comes from Albury, Australia from an artist who goes by the name of Lisa Mitchell…and absolutely lush it is too.

Download Lisa Mitchell – Wah Ha

This download is a “a special gift from Lisa before she records her new album”, which she’s also coproducing don’t you know. The blurb on her Soundcloud page pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the track: “Quickly scrawled on the back of a receipt during a summer break with her family, Wah Ha began as a rebellion against the pressure to always feel ‘OK’.” Lisa says of the track: “When I play Wah Ha to people, I notice a certain kind of lightness fills the room. The lyrics takes some weight off my shoulders. Even with the new album on the table I just couldn’t wait any longer to make contact again... Releasing ‘Wah Ha’ makes me feel a bit like ET reaching his finger out into the abyss, hoping to find another…”

Welcome to another free download and, folks, today’s is a fuzzed-out psyche rock Captain Beefheart / Can-esque episode that is sure to confuse and delight in equal measure. 

Download The Pigskin Godhead - Martian Trippin'

“The Pigskin Godhead is a recording project & live band from the 'North'. It Is What It Is” so say the four piece from Yorkshire. The two main members are named John Wynne and Gary Wainman and they used to record at their local hangout on the banks of the river Hull (before it was pulled down, we have assurances it was nothing to do with them), and according to the information they provide:  “they dress like geography teachers on a day trip”. The influences here are plain to see and apparently Erol Alkan’s a fan, plus it might not surprise you that they recorded a Gang Of Four cover for a Chud Records tribute to the 1979 album ‘Entertainment’, released as a special Cassette Store Day release last weekend. 

Time to restart the MPFree for another week. Today’s free download comes from Daniel Cundiff, Samuel Lunsford, John Thompson, Joe Lunsford and Kyle Harris, better known to the music world as The Young Sinclairs.  

Download The Young Sinclairs – ‘You’re Tied’

The Young Sinclairs formed in 2005 and hail from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and are part of the so-called Magic Twig Community; a group of musicians hiding out in the woods with their purely analogue recording studio. So that sets the scene perfectly for the sound of this band. Think classic folk-psych, purely analogue you understand, they apparently: “display a fondness for tube-amps, 12-strings, tambourines, spring reverb, and the analogue sounds of decades past”. Their album This is the Young Sinclairs is out on Ample Play on 13^th October and this track is the opener. 

"This summer I have compiled a playlist that for myself and my friends that, I feel, truly captures the nature of Desert Island Disco.

I am an art student most of the year but since June I have been working. Most of my friends have either just finished university or are just about to go, so none of us have any money. Most of us do have jobs, but not the kind of jobs that really provide enough for us to go away, especially living in London. We therefore had to learn, as I'm sure many have before us, how to become masters of living for the weekend. Easy some might say, but not for students. Weekends for students are of course the only days you know you don't have to do any work, whereas the other days you might.

So, this compilation is an amalgamation of all the top tracks that have kept us all on the dance floor until sun rise, drinking cheap cider and even cheaper sacks of wine.

It was my last day at work last Friday (19th September) so I’m now back at university. It would be amazing if this could get played soon, as 6 Music has kept me sane this summer. The amount of fond memories could mean this is more of a memory tape... but really it’s for filling the dance floor!"

As a wise man said: “There's more to life than parties. There are after parties.”

Long Broke Summer

10pm

1. Baby I'm Yours - Breakbot (I've never met anyone who doesn't like this song and it always gets the party started)
2. Shake your tail feather - ray charles (we may be in our early 20s, but we know how to twist)
3. Canned Heat - Jamiroquai
4. Rock the house - Gorrilaz
5. Like That - Black Eyed Peas (this track with Q tip and cee lo green is often over looked)
6. Trick Me - Kelis
7. Scenario - Tribe Called Quest (masterclass from busta rhymes)
8. Make Some Noise - Beastie boys

1am

 9. No Diggity - Blackstreet bondax remix (now the hip hops over, time to start on something more electric)

10. Praise You - Fat boy slim maribou state remix

11. Inspector Norse - Todd Terje (now all the house music fans are in bed lets get some proper dance tunes on)

12. Church - Jacques Lu Cont

13. Galvanize - Chemical Brothers

14. Don't Mug Yourself - The Streets (something a little mental to give you a boost).

4 am

15. Shining Star Nnekka Joe Goddard remix (people may have been flagging but when this comes on, everyones back on their feet. Made our secret secret garden part. none of us enough money to go to the festival so we had our own)

16. Neighborhood - Zed Bias (now for the hardcore ravers, the garage section)

17. with a little bit of luck - dj luck (with a little bit of luck we can make it through the night)

18. flowers - sweet female attitude

7am

19. Son Of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield (to calm everyone down)

20. I Like You - Phyllis Nelson (to end the party, when you can finally slink off with that special someone)

Today’s free download involves Field Music’s Mr Brewis, fresh off the back of his new work with Maximo Park’s Paul Smith, he’s straight back into the studio:

Download SLUG – Cockeyed Rabbit Wrapped in Plastic

SLUG is fronted by former Field Music bassist Ian Black, and this is their debut single. “Cockeyed Rabbit Wrapped In Plastic” certainly is a strange ol’ beast, but you can hear Field Music’s influence everywhere. The band is apparently working on an album, so keep your ears here as we’ll bring news of it as soon as we have it. In the meantime, download this jaunty, menacing gem for free.