![Shadow Child ft. Tymer – 23 [VIPs]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/5015451_lg.jpg)
If you haven't checked out the new VIP edits of Shadow Child's 23, you need to remedy that pronto. Some 7 months ago UK house heavyweights, Shadow Child and Kry Wolf launched Food Music with the 23 EP as their first release. Shadow Child made 23 in collaboration with one of our old favorites, Tymer - an alias of our 2nd guest mix artist, Lee Mortimer . This new release features two giant VIP edits from Zinc and Food Music label boss, Kry Wolf. The EP is set for release on a fittingly chosen 23rd of June. [...]
![Morri$, Grown Folk, and Just Blaze @ Shine Nightclub [Show Preview + Ticket Giveaway]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/5015066_lg.jpg)
While spending my first summer here in sunny and beautiful Vancouver, I've been able to catch some of the most amazing acts rollin' through this great city. From BRAINFEEDER boss Flying Lotus to Body High boss Samo Sound Boy , it's been quite a couple of months for mind-melting bass music in Van-City. Though this upcoming week, Blueprint yet again amazes the average EDM lover of Vancouver by booking three legendary and masterful acts. On June 20th 2013, Morri$ , Just Blaze , and Grown Folk will visit [...]
Belgium's finest, Mumbai Science, are back with another killer 2 track EP. We have selected "19753 as the choicest cut off the release. "19753 is something between Mumbai Science's original sound and something fully 2013. It's reminiscent of the tracks that got them famous like "Hoot" combined with the walking techno sound of Clouds. While their Unified Theory series was amazing, their reliance on arpeggios verged on tiresome. I'm very glad to see that with this new release (Impact too), they are exploring the relationship between electro and techno in a completely new way. The 1975 [...]
![Alex Sibley – Trouble EP [Intec Digital]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/5011156_lg.jpg)
I met Alex Sibley two summers ago when he was playing for a few dozen people in San Francisco's Dolores Park for free. Not to imply he was a nobody back then, but today he's releasing tracks on Carl Cox's label and playing on the main stage at EDC Las Vegas. Alex Sibley is an undeniable force within San Francisco's growing techno and house scene and is quickly making a name for himself on a worldwide scale. Trouble, released on Carl Cox and Jon Rundell's Intec Digital, is Sibley's newest and most mature release to date. At the [...]
![Quasimoto – Yessir Whatever [Album Review]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/5010959_lg.jpg)
It's finally here! The musical enigma and right hand of Madlib, The Beat Konducta, is releasing his newest album Yessir Whatever tomorrow, June 18th! Known to many as The Unseen, Lord Quas has been around for over a decade, sitting in the dark between Otis Jackson Jr and a handful of shrooms from the ground, in anonymity. For awhile, no one knew who he was, while SPIN acclaimed him on the same level as Outkast and Madonna, Prince and RZA. With his “recipe for resin-caked jazz and crusty comedy samples as a new flavor for [...]
We know the allure of broken beats. The artistic expression brings the music alive to another level as it jerks our craniums from side to side. We also know the allure of summer; sunbathing on the beach, the natura pull that summer has bringing out the most beautiful women the seasons can find. Now, mix both of these two together in a big boiling pot with some added Trip and Hip-Hop cut vocals, airy synths, and a deep organ loop and you have Sixfingerz 'Rhode Island'; a preview of what is to come on the album due out this summer. [...]
![Madlib Medicine Show – Sound of Zamrock @ 1015 Folsom [Show Review]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/5013996_lg.jpg)
It had been a long musical journey as I strolled down the steps to the stage where Madlib had blown my fragile DJ mind at 3 am in the morning. 1015 Folsom was just about flushed out from what had been a wondrous night full of stretching musical boundaries to the very limit of acceptance, and just then, my heart stopped. Directly in front of me, Otis Jackson Jr, decked out in his African ensemble with a Kufi on top of his head, was chillin on the stairs (probably thinking about the chronic waiting upstairs) while being bombarded by people [...]
![Problem [Interview]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/5008947_lg.jpg)
After just missing him in L.A., we caught up with Compton-bred rapper and Diamond Lane representative, Problem, as he was putting the finishing touches on his latest tape presented by DJ Drama, The Separation. The tape dropped on Friday and follows last months offering, Ain’t Nobody Hotter Than Me Vol. 1 , effectively setting the stage for Problem to take his rightful spot amongst the west’s elite. Problem's been making moves lately while gaining support from some of the game's most recognizable faces on both coasts, as Diddy hilariously demonstrated last week . With pedigree [...]
![Kingdom – Vertical XL [Album Review]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/5007892_lg.jpg)
Damn…this is some serious ass dance music. Kingdom has done it yet again with his newest album Vertical XL that has recently been released through his very own label Fade To Mind. This is Fade To Mind’s 6 th official release and the label continues to gain a healthy amount of support. Kingdom and all of his Night Slug companions have always played a vital roll in guiding my preferences within the realm of dance music. I couldn’t stop myself from drooling after first hearing the edgy tribal heartbeat of Kingdom’s track “Bust Broke” for the first time years [...]
![Logic @ Fortune Sound Club [Show Review]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/5007410_lg.jpg)
Vancouver’s Fortune Sound Club has a knack for attracting the greatest in up and coming artists, from the coldest rappers to fast-emerging DJs all over the continent. To those of you reading this, wherever you are, you all know that spot in your city that has that reliability. Despite Vancouver’s broiling music culture, rap is one genre in the city that has some room to grow. Vancouver isn’t a source of new and popular hip hop music by any means, and there’s no telling if and when that will change, but something can be said about the rappers [...]
No stranger to the disparate realms of Funk, we've become a little infatuated with our friends Basement Freaks over in Germany. Recently released on Jalapeno Records, their newest album Funk From Your Trunk blew us away by the range of talent it displayed. Whatever you wanted to hear - party jams for the nightclub, slow jamz for your girl, or just a song to lie back and think far away thoughts while it rushed through your head, they had it all on Funk From Your Trunk . And that's exactly why we asked them for an [...]
![DFALT – Helsinki Beat Tape (Part One) [Album Review]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/5006756_lg.jpg)
It warms my heart when I hear of an eclectic musician such as DFALT. Originally Jason Drake (yup, the original Drake), DFALT makes sonic landscapes in just about any scene of music. With his moniker Cassettes Won't Listen providing atmospheric instrumental jams for the electronic seeker (more on that later this summer), DFALT fulfills the same needs of those people on the chill, laid back Hip-Hop side of musical exploration. Part One of his new trilogy Helsinki Beat Tape is an assortment of raw Hip Hop inspired beats with dusty samples, unrefined drums, and an air of uncertainty as [...]
![Emika – DVA [Album Review]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/5005303_lg.jpg)
Dva is a language, a form of personal expression that comes from and ends with the creative spirit. How do you describe a language? As the only method for describing one is through the use of itself, it's damn near impossible to do it justice. At it's most literal sense, a language is a medium of communication, where information is presented and received by another entity. Messages are transmitted, mental connections to the content presented are instantaneously created, and the receiver responds with their reaction. Sometimes, the response isn't even audible; emotional and physical responses can play a role [...]
![Gold Panda – Half of Where You Live [Album Review]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/5004399_lg.jpg)
Well it is finally here. Gold Pandas highly anticipated album Half of Where You Live was just released on June 10 th via Matthew Dear’s superstar music and art label Ghostly International in collaboration with his own music label NOTOWN. It’s no surprise that Ghostly International has taken on the task of debuting Gold Panda's newest release and I have a feeling Mr. Gold Panda had no qualms with this merger either. Both the label and the artist have done wonders for one another in the past. Gold Panda’s unmistakable sound has provided a one of [...]
![Sir Michael Rocks – While You Wait [Mixtape Review]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/5003305_lg.jpg)
Sir Michael Rocks, the other half of The Cool Kids, is still trying to find his niche in the Hip-Hop scene. While You Wait is a 10-track tape featuring the likes of Ab-Soul, Mac Miller, and Loverance that adds a new type of sound to his persona. As the title suggests, While You Wait is a teaser for his highly anticipated debut album Banco , which is scheduled to drop in August. Rocks has confirmed features from Trinidad James, Twista, Mac Miller, Casey Veggies, and Wiz Khalifa as well as production from Young Chop and [...]
![Surfer Blood- Pythons [Album Review]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/5000418_lg.jpg)
For better or worse, the indie rock world of our time has become very image-conscious. Your New Favorite Band probably already had a fully realized visual aesthetic, built on Tumblr mind you, well before they ever stepped foot outside the bedroom, and well before they ever played a gig. It wasn't always this way though, indie used to just be about the music, man , and much like Pepperidge Farm , some people remember those days fondly. Enter Surfer Blood, four unassuming dudes from West Palm Beach, Florida who come from a long indie rock lineage of ordinary [...]
From the other side of the world, we bring you Sydney's Nadisko for guest mix 24. Nadisko have made themselves a force to reckon with in the electro-techno scene since their beginnings in 2009. In 2010 they released their debut EP titled "Check the Disco" which enjoyed support from serious names like Kissy Sell Out on BBC One and Hostage. Their latest release, the Time EP, dropped a few weeks back on Bronson Records. Time is one continuous electro techno onslaught split into 4 tracks for your buying convenience. It takes artistry in the dance music world to craft an [...]
![The Rox – Illuminate EP [Metrojolt Exclusive Debut]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4998063_lg.jpg)
Federico Cirillo and Andrea Battista of The Rox spent the better half of the last year proving they can run a label just as well as they can write a club banger. Gold Nite Records burst onto the scene at the beginning of the year with the boys from The Rox along with Ricktronik at the helm. Since we debuted their first release from Trve 6 months ago, they've put out 6 more EPs from some of future techno's most promising up and coming talent. While Gold Nite has certainly made a [...]
If you've ever attempted to make techno or deep house using YouTube as a resource, you've certainly heard of Craig Williams. If you haven't seen his videos as a producer, check them out immediately - the guy posts wonderful, intricate, detailed tutorials on how to create some of the more elusive grooves and sounds of our favorite genres. Perhaps one of the reasons his tutorials are so great is because he's got the tunes to back it up. The vast majority of his tracks are free, and are just as useful a resource as his videos (fellow MJ [...]
On December 24, 2012, Pro Era rapper Capital STEEZ took his own life at just 19 years old. His untimely passing came just before the group released their first major full length album, Peep: The aPROcalypse, sadly further showcasing to the world what an incredible talent Capital STEEZ was. It was clear, even from some of his first verses, that he thought in a way that was very different from other rappers of his age and generation. “Little weapon, code name: Smith and Wesson/ And you’ll be quick to catch a bullet like an interception/ If your man’s tryna disrespect [...]
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