
Tara Masterson Hally Folk songs surrounded by a gossamer of ethereal icy reverb is an aesthetic that Irish musicians like Katie Kim have been using to great effect. Dubliner Tara Masterson Hally is the latest singer to follow that sound and the outcome is gorgeous. MS MR This New York duo appeared last summer with a series of intriguing covers and originals. Now, they're back with Hurricane, a elegiac number that stirs up a moody atmosphere like much of Florence Welch's latest album. [...]
Jonah Bromwich also appreciates De Quincey. As someone who doesn't instantly spot all eight samples that today's wunderkind producers are cramming into their songs, I'm thankful that Miami newcomer Madeaux's new track "Opium" sounds as good as it does. There's no personal gratification with easter eggs heaped throughout the track's four minutes—I mean, I recognize the freakin Weeknd's "High for This," but the other samples (and there are definitely at least two or three) are a mystery to me. And though I could spend a lot of time googling songs that include the [...]

The 1 st edition of A Stoner's Guide on Beats to Blaze to , featuring mostly hip hop, was a major failure, so I said fuck it for the second edition the following year... well, it was a failure up until StumbleUpon got a hold of it about six months back. Apparently, there's a whole lotta stoners on StumbleUpon because that shit shut down my site several times. So in tribute, I decided to start it back up and go from a hip-hop theme [...]
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If you've been reading this blog for a while, you might remember the now defunct Monday Mixer , a weekly mixtape put together by a team of bloggers around a chosen theme. Well, the same team is now back together (with a few new members) to offer you a new series of mixes called Blog Tapes . This week's theme is "Free Music" so we asked every blogger to send a song by a new up-and-coming artist they love, but the condition was that the song had to be available as a free download for everyone's [...]

Madeaux is a solo project that was born in February of 2012 with the intention of creating electronic music with an organic soul. Influences of EDM, sub baselines and even samples of R&B make each song a unique textured piece. Madeaux explains he seeks "to make music that humanity can connect with to create a common bond. None of us are all that different and consequently, I write music that I think people can relate to in their own way." The name Madeaux, pronounced "Ma-dough", was inspired by the author Ford Madox Ford [...]

Madeaux presents another twisted tune with pretty piano playin on top and Ray J samples. I'll let Madeaux explain why it's called "Song #23... I wanted to give you a little background into this song because I feel like it's fun when you can connect with the music you listen to on multiple levels. I wrote this song for my girlfriend a long time ago but I never finished it. Whenever we would talk and I'd tell her about new stuff I was working on she'd always ask "What about song #2?" When I had [...]

This track just incorperates so many greats things. Out now for free via NeuroPlastic Records . Madeaux - Song #2

Where now for bass music and dubstep, post-Skrillex's industry-crow-barring/acceptan ce into the mainstream? While the heady gloop and rumble of bass music has been busy soundtracking almost everything of (self) importance recently, those producing it have scrabbled around looking for its next logical progression. And it turns out that the (il-)logical progression is a return to UK Garage , whose resurgence is as baffling as it is ludicrous. This, what for the brave souls who continue to make the music that brought about such unforseen U-turns? It transpires that, if they're anything like [...]

I've heard many chop & skew The Weeknd's vocals before, but Madeaux does it a little differently in "The Space Between Us." He doesn't try and overemphasize The Weeknd to entice people in, but takes what makes the vocals one of a kind and turns it into an even grander hypnotizer. At first I wasn't quite sure if some of the vocals were The Weeknd, they were that chopped & skewed, but that's what makes it so special, he lets you glimpse in & out, seamlessly flowing. Maddeux - The Space [...]