DAN BLACK Un (2009 UK 12-track CD album - Tantalising and stimulating eardrums, Dan Black has been hailed as Pop's bright new hope by everyone from Zane Lowe to Perez Hilton and was a regular feature in the 2009 One To Watch polls. Now the Paris-based Englishman has updated and fleshed out his blogospherically massive Notorious BIG tribute 'Hypntz' into the fully fledged space pop anthem 'Symphonies'. Fusing the ubiquitous beat from Rihanna's 'Umbrella' with heavily chopped-up samplesfrom the film soundtrack of John Carpenter's 'Starman', this is a perfect, effortlessly joyous marriage of laptop hip hop with tip top hip pop!)