This year’s sessions kicked off on Saturday night (29 March 2014) at Dingles Fairground Museum in Devon, with one of the UK’s most buzzed about artists, Ella Eyre.

The talented 19 year old, whose recent number one collaboration with Rudimental on the smash hit “Waiting All Night” garnered her a BRIT Award for Best British Single, has captivated audiences at home and abroad with her unique style and a voice that commands attention. Tipped as the artist to watch by the nation including the BBC Sound of 2014, and the runner up for the BRITS 2014 Critics Choice Award, the intimate Lumia Live Session with Ella was a truly unique and special event.

Fans and competition winners traveled from all corners of the country to hear the 19-year-old songsters perform a live acoustic set to a mesmerized crowd.

The session, documented by music pioneers La Blogothèque, a visionary team of videographers and bloggers devoted to the unique presentation of new music through intimate videos. They seek to capture and translate the passion and vivacity of live music, bringing musicians and fans closer together. Previous collaborations include: Phoenix, the Kooks, Alt-J, Bon Iver, Foals, Beirut and Theophilus London.

The Lumia Live Sessions are a celebration of Nokia’s love of music discovery, bringing to life the essence of its free music streaming service, Nokia MixRadio. Featuring over 30 million tracks and hundreds of playlists created by a team of musicologists based in the UK, Nokia MixRadio caters to the tastes of every music fan. With no registration, subscription or advertisements, the app is designed to encourage people to discover both new music and long lost favourites.

Follow the Lumia Live Sessions to discover the new sounds of 2014 here: http://www.nokia.com/gb-en/lumialive/

Words: Shane Hawkins

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With big love from in-the-know labels like Black Butter and support slots alongside Rudimental and Disclosure, classical-music-meets-electronica quartet Clean Bandit are definitely ones to keep an eye on – especially when it comes to their crazy, high-concept music videos. One of which involves, er, a giant gold snake conquering London, and the other features Lily Cole as a mermaid.

So it was inevitable that an acoustic session with the band was never going to amount to your standard issue lighters-in-the-eye, guitar-strumming unplugged show. For their live performance of their upcoming single ‘Mozart’s House’, cue lots of crazy light effects, a looped sample from the composer himself (let’s see Disclosure try to stick that into their next set) and some subtle synchronised dance moves.

Mozart’s House is out on 14th April on Atlantic Records. You can pre-order off iTunes here. cleanbandit.com

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Spring’s finally in the air, so shed your layers of wool and jumpers and get those

legs out for a little dance party. We kick start the fun with sultry, slinky beats from Hype Williams, Rudimental, Odd Future prodigy Hodgy Beats plus everyone’s fave Katy B is back with the help of Rinse’s Geeneus and the gorgeous Jessie Ware.

Nicolas Jaar and Theatre Roosevelt – The Ego
Flume – Star Eyes
Evy Jane – M2
The 1975 – Sex (Hackman Remix)
Hype Williams – Galice
If you love me (interlude)
Widowspeak – Ballad of the Golden House
Melanin 9 – Magna Carta
Rudimental – Hell Could Freeze
Hodgy Beats – Break your Neck
Katy B x Geeneus x Jessie Ware – Aaliyah

Mix by Shannon Mahanty (@shannonmahanty) and Hayley Pons (@cheeksdurhythm)

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