Right this minute TI is mad for North London outfit, The Chap. I find them so funny. BBC punter John Peel would have lived for them. They are so normal their fans say they look like teachers and that's too true. Their new album "Mega Breakfast" has this really droll track, "Fun and Interesting" with a chorus that goes "My generation/Needs another me" . I like their live videos.Get into the drummer and his LED T-shirt (coming to a runway near you) and the kids in the audience are beyond cute. I ache for London right now!

Burial's first eponymously named LP is a masterpiece

I was slow in getting into the second release from that mysterious London musician working under the name Burial, because I was nervous it might fall short. That first self-titled album has gone down as myth and will probably be remembered as the 2 step masterpiece of its time. It's grey, melancholic sound field sounded exactly what it felt like to live in cold industrial cities dense with people, but totally alieniating in spirit . But what's really, really genius as a tactic on the part of Burial was he took all the varying elements of that first long player and reduced them to shadow-form on the new offerings . It was like , as a painter would, he created a complimentary panel to the first LP, creating a kind of diptyque work. These are what you call ghost tracks, the echoes of raves past or as the Hyperdub site properly describes it

"The new record is weird soul music, hypersoul, lovingly processing spectral female voices into vaporised R&B and smudged 2step garage. Voices are blurred, smeared, pitched up, pitched down and pitch bent until their content becomes irrelevant and they whisper their saccharin sweet nothings into the void."

Yup. Things actually get melodic without being sentimental or cliched. That's the great thing about talent. It just keeps mutating right before your eye. Burial, btw , now has the inevitable fash cred. Raf Simons just finished cranking it on his FW 08 runway. Champion trainspotter, that one!

The Black Ghosts:Anyway You Choose To Give It EP

You've been hearing their giant hit "Face" in every DJ mix all year now but the really, really brilliant thing about London's
The Black Ghosts is the dexterity and range displayed on their recent singles. Loving "Anyway You Choose To Give It", "Some Way Through This" and "I Want Nothing". One minute The Black Ghosts are giving you an icy, shimmering blast of dance perfection (that makes you want to leave the house wearing something...silver) the next it's pure sweet melody ("Something New") and then its on to pure 60's pop reflitered for a digital generation (Full Moon). They're genius!