Jiony is a producer/DJ from Mexico City who has been getting a reputation as a pretty outrageous talent in the area of sampling, and Techno. Tonight's track, A Vecas, from his new ep Waiting For The Sun came out roughly a day ago via Soundcloud and is available as a download along with the rest of the ep and a number of other tracks from as far back as a year ago.

Techno and sampling may not be up your street. But in the case of an artist like Jiony, you might be missing something if you don't at least check out a minute's worth.

You just never know what happens when you keep an open mind. Usually good things.

Continuing our week of discoveries - Glitter Bones is a band I ran across on a French Experimental Indie site (Les Boutiques Sonores) via Soundcloud (it's starting to get complicated as you've noticed). Ironically, they're from Chicago and their MySpace page doesn't really acknowledge their Trance leanings, but rather says they're Gospel. Okay . .I can see the god in this.

Tonight it's a track I found on the French site, Glow In The Dark - I think it's from last year and I suspect it's off an album or an ep, but you can't really tell. All I know is that it grabbed me in the first few seconds and ten plays later, it's still grabbing me.

Perhaps it will do the same for you? Play loud - play often.

I suspect millions of people have heard this track, and heard it quite a bit. But it seems completely appropriate for a Friday night, and this Friday night especially.

Massive Attack have achieved a wide ranging popularity the past few years. They have gone off into completely uncharted territory with their music. The end result has been an overwhelmingly powerful message, and one which certainly compliments this set of times we're currently witnessing.

And maybe it's for that reason that I was so struck by tonight's track, Paradise Circus featuring Hope Sandoval on vocals (the Gui Boratto remix version).

Maybe not one of those songs with a "spot-on" message (thank god), but a hopeful one and a cautiously optimistic one.

Just like today is.

One of my favorite bands this weekend. Portishead live at the Glastonbury Festival 1998 by way of our friends at BBC6 Music (who you need to have bookmarked and on at all times). Portishead are probably one of the most influential bands to come out of the UK. Along with the likes of Radiohead and Massive Attack, have reshaped music from the mid-1990's forward, bringing a whole new dimension and certainly a whole new experience seeing them in a live setting.

The good news is, Portishead are in the studio, right now (probably today) working on a new album which should be out next year and no doubt a tour will be on the horizon.

But until then, here they are for some weekend listening.

I thought I would finish up this week in Mexico with some electronica from Mexico City by way of Veneno Para Las Hadas. Rather than gum it up with my clumsy explanation, I'll let the entry via their MySpace page explain it:

Veneno Para Las Hadas

Poison for the Fairies The fairies live beneath the world of men and this distance equals the size of their loneliness, where every man is the limit of his degradation.
Monochrome nostalgia as a vessel where sound and silence co-exist: This music is the sweetest poison for those who want to reach the sky.
A project conceived near 1998 merges diverse and often opposite concepts into a voice for everybody:

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