Jai Paul

6 months ago

The A. K. Paul / Jai Paul saga continues.

After news that the Paul Brothers had acquired an actual building to house their Paul Institute, which released AK Paul’s 2016 single ‘Landcruisin’ leaked via Property Week of all sources. The building is set to house a “growing collective of musicians, artists, and technologists.”

Then last night, the Institute’s website debuted new music from two new artists produced by

Those two new releases are: Fabiana Palladino (who has worked with Jessie Ware, Sampha and SBTRKT) with ‘Mystery’, a track written with Jai Paul and produced by Jai Paul, and Ruthven (a firefighter from Lewisham) with ‘Evil’, a track written with A. K. Paul. Both songs are typical of the Paul brothers’ style – synthesized electronic pop of the off-kilter kind with ‘Evil’ being the closest to the pair’s established style.

Both songs are available for listening and purchasing digitally only until 6pm today, with vinyl coming too via enrolment at the funky website paul.institute/

Posted on November 17th, 2017

Tags: Paul Institute

Artists: A. K. Paul, Fabiana Palladino, Jai Paul, Ruthven

About 5 years ago

When I got a text from a friend early on Sunday morning alerting me to the sudden existence of a Jai Paul album, I was on the way out of the house for the morning and afternoon. I was surprised. At first, I thought it was a publicity stunt marketed by XL Recordings. Then, I saw it was on Bandcamp and the lack of any label fanfare or XL mentions indicated it was something else. Was it an artist who had a disagreement with his label and decided to go it alone? Did he post his album as a fuck you to the label? Did XL refuse to release it cos they thought it was pants? Was it even the album? Was it a pre-album mixtape? Listening to the actual thing later that day I was none the wiser.
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Posted on April 15th, 2013

Tags: Leak

Artists: Jai Paul

About 5 years ago

As growers go, Jai Paul’s ‘Jasmine’ was up there with the best of them in 2012. Cloud Castle Lake’s own version is a murkier take on the digi-funk of the original. It appears on the final release from Quarter Inch Collective – Quompliation #3 which features 14 Irsh bands covering their favourite songs of 2012. The compilation is out on February 1st on download and cassette and will feature covers from Girl Band, No Monster Club, Spilly Walker, Lemonada, Davy Kehoe, Flok, Ginola, G Kathi Burke,, Orquesta, Rhino Magic, Simon Bird, Turning Down Sex & The Wit Criteria.

A launch gig takes place on the first in The Workman’s Club, Dublin on February 1st. €10 with a cassette. You can pre-order the release here.

Posted on January 21st, 2013

Tags: Quarter Inch Quompilation

Artists: Cloud Castle Lake, Jai Paul

About 5 years ago

Hey it’s miserable outside (what’s new?) so you need some extra motivation for your weekend plans right? Well, here’s a 20 track Spotify playlist of mostly upbeat electronic-leaning tunes from the likes of Holy Ghost!, Gramme, Rustie, Floating Points, Jai Paul, John Talabot, Debruit, Tropics, ASAP Rocky and more to get you through. And if that’s not enough for you, try out the new Nialler9 Deezer Radio station too.

Spotify link

Posted on January 18th, 2013

Artists: ASAP Rocky, Debruit, Floating Points, Gramme, holy ghost, Jai Paul, John Talabot, rustie, Tropics

About 5 years ago

Wallpaper by 400 Facts. Click to enlarge.

In which Aoife and I play a plethora of amazing tunes from the last few months, remind ourselves why Purity Ring is a weird band name, why bands need to stop releasing demos as finished tracks, take a brief exploration into ’80s fanzine-assisted electronica, and inadvertently insult loads of people throughout the podcast. Oops. Enjoy.

MP3: Nialler9 Podcast #40

See the full podcast tracklisting →

Posted on June 17th, 2012

Artists: ASAP Rocky, Hundred Waters, Jai Paul, Kindness, Minimal Wave Tapes, Mirel Wagner, not squares, Purity Ring, rustie, THEESatisfaction

About 7 years ago

You may have noticed how Irish film-makers have produced brilliant video work of late. The likes of Myles O’Reilly, Stephen Mogerley, Fergal Brennan, Tiny Ark, Greg Corcoran and more have all been featured here recently and I wrote a piece about them for Day And Night.

Also of interest:

Band of Blogs: Jai Paul, Odd Future, Michael Kiwanuka & EMA

Watch a montage of popstars falling down onstage & other links of the week

Nicolas Cage As Everyone, A Blog About Crisps & eh.. The Daily Cramp

A dance routine to blow you away: Lil Buck with Yo-Yo Ma

Also, I’m loving Twin Shadow’s new direction…

Posted on April 29th, 2011

Tags: Irish music video

Artists: Jai Paul, Michael Kiwanuka, Odd Future

About 7 years ago

Jai Paul is probably the most intriguing member of the BBC Sound of 2011 poll, by virtue that no-one really knew anything about the 21 year old North Londoner and he only had one song. But what a song ‘BTSTU’ is. Originally released onto blogs last May, the squelching electro-pop song has been remastered for Jai Paul’s upcoming album for XL Recordings and is currently on sale on iTunes.

Jai Paul – BTSTU (Edit) by Jai Paul

Posted on April 24th, 2011

Tags: XL Recordings

Artists: Jai Paul

About 7 years ago

The best new music this week…

Jai Paul – ‘BTSU’
A tip from Richie Egan when he appeared on Donal Dineen’s show, Jai Paul is a producer from London who is just starting out. So far, he’s been making electronic R&B with dub frequencies. It still sounds like pop music – just really weird pop music that plays in your brain forever and ever.
Perfume Genius – ‘Learning’
Beguiling dark ballads from a Seattle Mike Hadreas, It’s pretty desolate stuff but makes for fascinating listening. Learning is out now on Matador. Stream it whole.