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Another week, another slew of free downloads for you via our Drownload link to our friends at RCRD LBL. 'Drownload'... it's still not getting old.

Although, certain staffers aren't yet convinced that 'Invisible Conga People' is a real band...

HEALTH
‘Triceratops’ (Acid Girls remixes)
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When bodies lie in heaps, there’s little dignity in dancing to hardcore. Knees strut, muscles rupture and grind to this awkward racket; ‘til the wallflower goes mad with a blade and then the disco’s all to shit, all at sea among blood and oil spewed like milk and grease have been before in these pages. Obviously though, it’s not quite the same, and nor will the dancefloor ever be again after this twin rhythmic test; even if HEALTH’s rampant ‘Triceratops’ conducts all his menace in bedroom coreography now that the Acid Girls are interested.

Download: HEALTH – ‘Triceratops’ (Acid Girls 2Steps2Freedom mix)

Download: HEALTH – ‘Triceratops’ (Acid Girls Before Dancefloorasaurases Ruled the Earth mix

el Guincho
‘Fata Morgana’
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El Guincho is Canary Islander Pablo Díaz-Reixa, and his ‘Fata Morgana’ adequately occupies that empty, rarely-tapped upon space in your imagination, lulling you into a gentle doze of dazzled pans and vocal/mellotron samples from the days when even fatty Presley's tropical paradise couldn’t break the monochrome of TV.

“All the joy of young people in love,” proclaims some old card, arms open, before the song remembers what it was laying awake all night waiting for and leaps to it, chiming in with steel drums so brilliant they must be pure, space-age silver, an hymnal so unreal it must be exotica and an enthusiasm that makes you feel ashamed for spending your nights locked in the house, thoughtless in front of televised karaoke contests, lest the world should end somewhere in the middle of Rod Stewart; act III.

Download: el Guincho – ‘Fata Morgana'

High Places
‘New Grace’
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High Places have a universally less dramatic take on tropicalia; more distant than el Guincho’s and slightly washed out; holidaying half-memories at the back of Brooklyn minds.

Their noise is certainly a sweet one, gleefully realising it shares interests with el Guincho in “just trying to spread good feelings no matter which method you choose to express it.” On ‘New Grace’, a track previously donated to a compilation for an Australian animal shelter, the band choose to express it in a cheeky, slack-shouldered desert island-step playfight between insolent drum thuds and those ubiquitous steel pans.

Download: High Places – ‘New Grace'

Invisible Conga People
‘Weird Pains’
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Invisible Conga People are the latest to be lined-up for a release through the flawless Italians Do It Better record-house, following, head-down, in the sequin-surrendering footsteps of Glass Candy and Chromatics before getting lost down a side-alley, the wrong turn leading, unalterably, to creepy ends.

And then there’s a man, speaking Turkish.

Download: Invisible Conga People – ‘Weird Pains’