Abel - 4ever San Francisco has recently become home to rebel inductee and good friend Abel Mariam, the 17-year-old experimentalist whose " Skipping Puddles " single found its way onto our radars in early 2011. Now, Abel has returned with his latest work "4ever," a montage of relatively happy synths, sustained chords and choppy percussion. You can grab '4ever' for free download above. Photograph by Neamoscou .
James Blake - Not Long Now Debuted on Giles Peterson's Radio 1 show, "Not Long Now," the latest edition leaked from Blake's forthcoming Enough Thunder EP, foreshadows the young vocalist's progression into the depths of experimentation. Enough Thunder , which also features Blake's collaboration with folk singer/songwriter Bon Iver, is to drop on October 10th, via Atlas. Blake will also be playing the Music Box in Hollywood this coming Sunday, if you don't already have a tickets - sorry to say -you're out of luck, as [...]
This coming Thursday (9/15), the LA-based collective, Paper Ships , will be hosting their fourth event in downtown's old stock exchange . Joining the lineup this time-around are DFA favorites Gavin Russom (LCD Soundsystem) and Jacques Renault , as well as Brooklyn duo Blondes . For ticket pricing and event info, visit the official Paper Ships website here . We'll also be giving away a pair of tickets to one lucky reader, just email us HERE and tell us what your favorite DFA -released song is and a short description of why.
Luca Lozano Out of Step Klasse Tuesday saw the release of Out of Step , a fresh EP from Klasse head honcho Luca Lozano. The Berlin based producer has put together a versatile four tracks of modern house and techno. EP opener 'Thug It Out' is an energetic piece 303 laden tech-house, while second A-side 'Phree In 932 is a deep-cut with a familiar returning acapella and great use of space. B-sides come in the form of two remixes: KWS's remix [...]
Ricky Eat Acid - Only Girl Though his name has yet to ring around the internet, Baltimore new-comer Ricky Eat Acid (birthed Sam Ray) has undoubtedly found himself merged between genre lines with an experimental take on contemporary pop. His recent cut of Rihanna's "Only Girl In The World," which surfaced in Jamie XX's recent mix for Fact Magazine , has us all buzzing through its unorthodox use of vocals, delayed piano keys, spacial pads and head-nodding percussion. Don't be afraid to skim through his catalog of free singles hosted on soundcloud , lots [...]
Tensnake - Something About You (Jorge Takei's 'Rebel' Remix) Though it's relatively easy to distinguish tasteful house music from the cluttered, cliché'd patterns filling the industry today, German up-and-comer Jorge Takei has been making that perception much easier. From his syrupy, throwback edit of Avant's " Separated ," to the more recent, and previously unreleased, remix of Tensnake's mid-Sunday jammer, "Something About You," Takei has undoubtedly paved his own path. After grabbing his Tensnake Remix above, head over to his catalog of releases available for preview on soundcloud .
Filter Magazine has announced their second annual Culture Collide Festival to take place over five days (October 5th through the 9th), with over eight, LA-based venues, including a free block party presented by Toyota, and 50+ bands and artists. The full lineup can be acquired over on the Festival page, here . Also, be sure to check out Filter's " Pin It To Win It " contest, which gives you the opportunity to win an assortment of electronic goodies by collecting a series of pins, each button from every country represented on the lineup. Tickets can be purchased online through ticketweb .
Burial - Dog Shelter (Essay's Old Edit) We first got hold of the young, German experimentalist Essáy via his free release , Distance & Lights , through British imprint Cut Music . Now, the multi-dimensional producer has returned with a previously unreleased edit of Burial's "Dog Shelter." The edit, quite carefully named "old" (as it was created over two years ago with a friend), drones through the original's ghostly vocals and dark instrumentation, giving the early 2008 single a tasteful revisit. Photograph by Sonya Kozlova .
The latest installment to Resident Advisor 's Real Scenes documentary series ventures into the development of one of Europe's leading electronic hubs, Berlin. A city once torn apart by war has been given the opportunity to recreate and rebuild a new culture of self expression.
Josh McIntyre of Little Girls is an artist on the rise. A Toronto native who’s traversed most of the city’s side-streets and alleyways, Josh can lay claim to an equally extensive musical history. Having tried his hand at everything from metal and hip hop, to his current preoccupation with electronically inclined post-punk, Josh is continually transforming the team behind the band name. Little Girls’ latest effort, Cults , sees Josh taking on lone writing and recording responsibilities, repeating the production process of 2009’s Concepts . The changes come at a more personal level: after deciding to [...]
DropxLife - RollXPlae DropxLife - FarxInn The Weeknd and October’s Very Own (OVO) are leading many probing followers to the music of DropxLife . This Toronto producer is another veiled member of the XO crew putting out his own brand of chilled-out, sexy instrumentals. A longer cut of the Pawncho mixtape that surfaced a few weeks ago, AllxLegends , holds 9 solid tracks of smooth beats laced with gorgeous vocal samples. While listening to “RollxPlae” and “KingsxCross” you're half-expecting Abel Tesfaye’s cold [...]
Josh McIntyre of Little Girls is an artist on the rise. A Toronto native who’s traversed most of the city’s side-streets and alleyways, Josh can lay claim to an equally extensive musical history. Having tried his hand at everything from metal and hip hop, to his current preoccupation with electronically inclined post-punk, Josh is continually transforming the team behind the band name. Little Girls’ latest effort, Cults , sees Josh taking on lone writing and recording responsibilities, repeating the production process of 2009’s Concepts . The changes come at a more personal level: after deciding to [...]
123Mrk Noname Infinite Machine 123mrk a French bass and dubstep fiend who's producing some incredibly complex EDM. Based in Marseille, this up-and-coming beat dissenter is signed to the independent label, Infinite Machine , based out of Montreal, Canada. The label's release history claims post-dubstep/UK Garage leanings, a very well-defined focus for such a young collective. The flow on the Noname EP is chopped up to its own rhythm, incorporating engrossing vocal samples and sauntering misty synths. This young [...]
Young Adults - YA 003 We've gotten word that one of LA's own prominent label's - Friends of Friends - has begun to branch out into new realms, the product of this expansion givin the title Young Adults . Technically their third installment of introductory mixes, the newest addition gives light to a collective to take frame in early 2012. Tracklisting 01. Suzanne Kraft - Turning 02. Erdbeerschnitzel - To An End (Tuff CIty Kids Remix) 03. AFMB - In My Life 04. Maceo Plex - Falling 05. 6th Burough [...]
Vacation Dad - I Hope yr Favorite Color is Everywhere Wake Up Good news/Bad news. Unfortunately, Los Angeles' Andrew Todyrk AKA Vacation Dad has just announced that he is taking a long break away from creating music due to some personal reasons. Though it's not all too bad, Todryk did pass along some hopeful information, "Someday i'll get it back, and it will be glorious." Despite how terrible this sounds, there is some good news. Vacation Dad has decided to leave behind two incredible [...]
Jamie XX Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1 Though the young Brit need no proper introduction, Jamie XX - of The XX - debuted his Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1 this past weekend, and included in it over 40 tracks of unreleased, untitled material. You can stream Jamie's mix above and grab the tracklisting after the jump. 01. Orbital - Belfast 02. Phanes - Lucky Woman 03. Ifan Dafydd - No Good 04. Harvey Mandel - Christo Redentor 05. Koreless - Lost in [...]
Alias (Brendon Whitney) is a hip hop master known for his lengthy catalog of taste-making beats. His fourth solo LP, Fever Dream , is bound to garner streams of new fans. A product of pure pleasure crafted in his hometown of Portland, Maine, Whitney's new project combines sensuous threads of R&B with the classic hip hop he grew up with. His instrumental beats channel countless genres to varying degrees; a diversity that's mirrored in his love for artists spanning the likes of Yeasayer and The Weeknd. Whitney's ability to continually redefine and bend the genre he works within is accentuated in the following [...]
Busdriver and Nocando are both esteemed veterans of the LA rap underground, Busdriver at the forefront of the Project Blowed and Nocando as the emcee of Lincoln Heights’ seminal Low End Theory . Together, their newest collective efforts, donned Flash Bang Grenada. Their newly-released album, 10 Haters , isn’t just a intelligent dissection of age-old rap clichés with some electronic production from the Southern California homies – it’s a rather sarcastic take on the concept of haterism. We has the opportunity to chat with the two concerning the project's origins, politics, the role [...]
Purity Ring - Belispeak Corin Roddick and Megan James, the Canadian future pop duo known as Purity Ring have dropped their third (and probably best) song along with an awesome Rising interview with Pitchfork. 'Belispeak' (following in the trend of having the most Google-friendly song titles ever) is a dazzling and hugely infectious Southern hip-hop influenced song that showcases the duos respective musical abilities more than ever. In their Pitchfork interview, one comment that Corin makes really resonated with me: When you are releasing a constant stream of [...]
FYF Fest 2011 is coming just around the corner, and the festival has just announced their set times. The schedule is looking great, with nothing clashing dramatically. Just make sure to make it out early for Twin Sister at 12:30pm, and stay for the devastation that will be Death From Above 1979. Purchase your tickets to this summer epic here , and expect to end the summer off right.
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