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Los Angeles Times leaks a free bilal track, “The Dollar“. Catch him performing it live tonight!

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Bilal – The Dollar
[audio:http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/files/09-the-dollar.mp3]

This is a jam session. An act of improvisation without preparation.
Is This Love, was the first video we brought you from singer Bilal and composer/arranger Miguel Atwood-Ferguson. To say that the feedback was good is an understatement.
Today is a video continuation of the Bilal and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Bomb Shelter saga entitled, “Tainted Love.”
Know by many as Synthpop duo Soft Cell’s big hit in 1981, “Tainted Love” was originally composed by Ed Cobb, formerly of The Four Preps and originally recorded by Gloria Jones in 1964 as the B-side to “My Bad Boy’s Coming Home”. The original version was by no means a commercial success. In fact, it was a flop. However, in 1973, while British club DJ Richard Searling was on a trip to the U.S., he purchased a copy and found the Motown-influenced sound was a perfect match for the music movement with was growing in the UK club scene referred to as “Northern Soul. Searling took the song and popularized it.
With new found popularity, Gloria Jones tried again, re-recording “Tainted Love” in 1976. But this again failed to chart.
Several years later, Soft Cell, the vocal-synth pop duo that took the popular track and released a slower, synth and rhythm heavy version in 1981. It reached #1 on 18 different charts.
So now, we’re back to the beginning. Bilal, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Daedelus, and more, in the studio jamming away to Gloria Jones’ original version of that great 1964 song.
It’s just pure energy. The musicians, the movements, the sounds..
No overdubs, no retouches, just 100% LIVE.
Enjoy.

QUADRON and PLUG RESEARCH
Want YOU to show us YOUR Average Fruit!

We are extremely appreciative for our fans which is why we want YOU to remix our new single, “Average Fruit“.
We will give you the fruit and you remix it and send it back to us.
We will listen to all of your remixes and select a WINNER.

The Winner will receive:
– A prize pack of audible treats from Plug Research,
– An studio session with Robin Hannibal from Quadron
– A featured remix on the Average Fruit Remix EP.

This is no-compensation contest and all versions once submitted will be property of Quadron and Plug Research.
The Deadline to submit all remixes is November 22nd.

You can download the stems here.
Submit your remixes to us here.

Send us your sounds

Quadron have been spending a great deal of time in the states as of late and created a clip to provide a glimpse of their story through their own eyes. After crossing paths with visionary Matt Amato, they developed a synergy , which he set out translate their vision through images he conjured up.

Bilal stopped into KEXP on the early part of his West Coast tour and performed a really amazing acoustic set of the new album. Here are some photos as well as a link to the songs. Enjoy!

Click here to listen to his performance.