Beyondré – Beyondré is Born
Tune in right now for something fresh, the likes of which you probably have never heard before. Cast from the “sounds of life” and transformed into playable instruments, Beyondré Is Born, brainchild...
View ArticleRatking – So It Goes
Though I fear I’m becoming a one trick pony posting about up-and-coming New York hip-hop groups, this is one for the books, and I just couldn’t resist. Enter: Ratking, a freewheeling collective of...
View ArticleReview: Todd Terje – It’s Album Time
It’s a strange contradiction: despite the unhinged wildness of the all-night rave, dance music has an embarrassing tendency to take itself way too seriously. This puffed-up sense of self-importance...
View ArticleRecipe For Success: Duck Sauce’s Secret Ingredient
Before I talk about the album, I’d like to talk a little about last weekend. In the aftermath of a grueling festival like Coachella, it can be quite difficult to adjust back to “the real world”. Even...
View Article813 – XOXO EP [FREE DOWNLOAD]
With this year’s festival season already in full swing, I think it’s a good time to ponder the direction that dance music is headed this summer. We’ve already seen Ultra – which has long been the gold...
View ArticleBrillstein – Back to Bed EP
Los Angeles’ based DJ extraordinaire Mike Brillstein (a.k.a. Thee Mike B) has been keeping the booties bumping of L.A.’s boldest and brightest– myself included– for a long time now, so when I heard...
View ArticleAnna Lunoe – Bass Drum Dealer EP
There’s nothing quite like a heavy-house disco track with some distorted deep vocals exclaiming short manifestos like, “In one way or another, I’m a bad motherfucker” to get me to lift my fist in the...
View ArticleReview: Lone – Reality Testing
Like many electronic musicians searching for some corner of the map to call their own, the sounds of Manchester producer Lone have seen a few iterations before settling in their current form. There...
View ArticleHawk House – A Handshake To The Brain
I don’t know if it’s an issue of shoddy promotion or what, but Hawk House is seriously slept-on. With brothers Sam and Eman trading verses while vocalist Demae laces beautiful melodies throughout,...
View ArticleSOPHIE – Lemonade/Hard EP
Its not often that I gravitate towards music that is so disorienting-ly abstract and aggressively cut, but I can’t seem to resist the sounds of UK-based producer SOPHIE. Blowing onto the scene in...
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