Well, this mix has sat on the shelf for a while. I originally made it for Memorial Day, with a fun-loving summertime vibe (hence the amazingly catchy Cee-Lo track, which was just blowing up on YouTube at the time). But I decided on a more instrumental mix, so this one was left unfinished and collected [...]
Even though the weather in NYC is shitty, it's always a great day when I can post something new created by a close friend. Sam Willis, one half of Kompakt recording artists Walls and the fantastic DJ/blog duo Allez-Allez is a busy man these days up in Hackney, but somehow found the time to launch [...]
It's a real shortcoming of Hallmark as a company, that they don't offer a "Post-Rock brings families together" greeting card. New York's Phone Home is the second duo of brothers (the awesome Lymbyc Systym is the other) to channel potential angsty rivalry into beautiful musical alchemy. On their first 4-song self-released EP, Michael and John [...]
More than one promising dance music producer has met their end by succumbing to popular musical trends. While the "new disco" sound has grown in popularity over the years, the genre has been inundated with imitators who have nothing to offer but one lackluster production after another. Producer extraordinaire Ilya Santana is one man who [...]
More than one promising dance music producer has met their end by succumbing to popular musical trends. While the "new disco" sound has grown in popularity over the years, the genre has been inundated with imitators who have nothing to offer but one lackluster production after another. Producer extraordinaire Ilya Santana is one man who [...]
I'm trying to learn to stop apologizing for the time in between these web radio shows. The truth is, when it comes to scisosrkick, I've been preaching quality over quantity for nearly a decade. And the fact remains, the longer I've taken between Scissorkasts, the more likely I have more fantastic music to choose from. [...]
I've always been attracted to soundscapes: worlds built out of voices, keyboards, and feedback that balance between detached and alien, as well as emotional and personal. Candy Claws, from Fort Collins, CO, delivers a distinctive brand of organic and atmospheric soundscapes. Warm Forest Floor is exemplary of their discography. The songs have a dream like quality, [...]
This album was recorded in 1972, a year before the band, Hedzoleh Soundz, would rerecord several of the same songs for a classic Hugh Masekela album. Here are those songs, minus the trumpet and dub effects, but given a more primordial force by way of thick basslines, relentless percussion and heartfelt melodies. If the typical [...]
A few weeks ago I found myself in Davis Square—just outside Boston—where I was unexpectedly greeted by the accumulation of vendors of decidedly quirky sculptures and paintings, selling their wares to decidedly quirky people that can only be an art festival. Fortunately, at the same time my ears were greeted by the groovy rhythm section [...]
New offering from Ghostly recording artist Christopher Willits just found it's way into my inbox. Perfect summertime electro-acoustic jams from the very talented experimental guitarist/producer/software developer/mippie (that's musical hippie, meant as a good thing) who we've covered before here on SK. Densely layered and expectantly complex, "Sun Body" is perhaps one of Willit's most accessible [...]
We're looking for people with truly open minds here. If you've followed the blog you know the consistent thread hasn't been genre - we hop around from beats to metal to indie to electronic without blinking - but more the tone of the posts. We focus on instrumental music (not exclusively) that often fits nicely [...]
Another holiday weekend means another installment of the ScissorMix series. It's been pretty crazy for me over the past month (hence the lack of posts) but I had to find the time to put together something for the 4th of July weekend. Because of the general business of the past month, I haven't had a huge [...]
Just in time for Easter weekend, I've resurrected the ScissorMix series. There's lots of great new music on this one and many of the artists deserve their own posts (Bonobo, Tanlines, Mux Mool, Slugabed…just to name a few). But life/work continues to conspire against me being a competent blogger. So, for brevity's sake, I've [...]

Champion Beats is at it again. Here we have some filty bass from Mr. Champion Beats himself The Incredible Melting Man. With remixes from Matt Cox, Royal K and Scissorkicks, this is a real nice realease. Check the previews below and cop the release. Jakin Da Filth original http://www.mediafire.com/?zoy5 ejrnmim Jakin Da Filth Scissorkicks remix http://www.mediafire.com/?jkot tzjjw51 Jakin Da Filth Matt Cox remix http://www.mediafire.com/?jznm azkthgc [...]
5 Fast Questions for Dark Party The inaugural Scissorkick Roll Call - our new, easily digestible 5-question inteview format - features Dark Party, the new electronic dance project of popular Brooklyn-based beats producer Eliot Lipp and his Chicago-based friend Leo 123. The duo have worked on a handful of remixes and have a record on the [...]
By now it's no surprise how much I admire the work of Stephen Wilkinson's Bibio pseudonym. His first few releases for the Mush imprint were an inspiring blend of pastoral acoustic folk and experimental field recordings. When news of a jump to pioneering electronic label Warp hit the blogosphere, it got me thinking about the [...]
Six months since the last scissorkast and it's not due to a lack of good music. Just have my hands full. I promise to get more regular with these, especially since I've digitized about 1000 records since the last podcast. Since the start of the year, 2009 is turning out some epic records, and I've aimed [...]