Van-city’s own Piper Davis has started a new series of free tracks, delivered fresh along with your usual dose of penis enlargement offers, payment reminders, Twitter invitations, and whatever else your email inbox has to offer these days. You can sign up for the monthly mail-out on her website, while checking out her Catalunya Calling show on Red Bull Music Academy Radio where she played some of the records that influenced her the most, from Betty Davis to Le Tigre to MGMT.

Patchworking found sounds and African drumming influences via her laptop, backed up with bass and drums, Piper’s music is a minimalist take on Gang Of Four or Tom Tom Club beats with pitched-down Nicolette-esque vocals bubbling up underneath: a sound described by herself as ‘electro-blues’, and took her from Simon Fraser University’s music department to the stage of the Commodore Ballroom to the 2008 Academy in Barcelona in just a few months. She who is the Piper, calls the tune...