Benji’s end-of-year radio shows have always been the sort of mixes you tape or download and keep for posterity, and this year is no exception. We’ve been really enjoying them over here, and we hope you do too. Benji also kindly answered some generic end-of-year questions for us… 



Georgia’s return, a comparatively short album called VWETO, is entirely instrumental and explores fonkrock, PianoSpace and other imaginary genres.

Our time is preciously limited, so we’d like to draw your attention to some founts of inspiration information you may not have considered previously. As the cold winter sun sets on Kspace, please move your attention to these unexpectedly great websites we’ve discovered this year.

“Have you timed your move just right?”

A lot of the time, it’s difficult to understand what goes into creating a great piece of art when you’re only confronted with the finished project. So here are a couple of videos of artists at work. Shhhh. Don’t disturb them.

Braps to Flying Lotus for sticking his nose out on this album… it’s not every label that has the cojones to release records without obvious commercial appeal.

There really is something of a deluge of house music floating about at the moment from young producers ranging from Fantastic Mr. Fox to Mount Kimbie to Hudson Mohawke to Funkineven. Add to that list young Canadian Jacques Greene .

Not exactly the catchiest book title in the world ever, but it’s another notch in the bed post for the publishing arm of Stuart Baker’s Soul Jazz records.

Cubic Zicornia is where live clubbing is at right now. Get it in!

Leave it to Lynch to catch us all off guard yet again, even from our speakers…

I love the fact that 22-year old producer Krystal Klear was still in his nappies when New Jack Swing was popping the first time around, and is these days now digging in the crates to give the music a second lease of life.

On November 26 and 27, Primal Scream performed Screamadelica in its entirety, something that had never happened before; many of the album’s songs had never even before performed live. It’s a preamble, of course, for the inevitable new collector’s edition of Screamadelica.

Jamie XX and Gil Scott Heron are new here again in 2011: the XX’s most adorable beat maker reworks all 13 tracks of Gil’s XL album “Im New Here.”

Made up of Man Man’s voice Honus Honus, Islands’ swagger Nick Thorburn, and most recently Joe Plummer from Modest Mouse, it’s anyone’s guess as to where they’re headed.

These are two friends, two different styles, who are both making a lot of noise in the UK right about now. Which one lights your torch?

“Take Me Over” is pure pop for now people—sophisticated enough that you feel cool having it on your iPod, gleeful and light enough to provide the soundtrack for so many good times.

It’s hard to pinpoint the most apt mood for “Chinatown,” but a good guess would be immediately after smoking a joint, about a week after a breakup.

‘Maybes’, with its found sounds, its reverbed guitar licks and the gurgling synth solo at the end which, to these untrained and perverted ears, sounds like RJD2 getting a blow-job.

The song is one of Ariel Pink’s most accessible, complete with the anthemic, big-pointed chorus and mildly melancholym, broad pop strokes.

Arcade Fire gets the Spike Jonze treatment in their new video for “The Suburbs” – his first for the band after their close collaboration on Where the Wild Things Are.