
Over the past few day I have been completely mesmerized by the recent slew of mixes given to us by some of electronic music's finest. Below find a recent selection of mixes from James Murphy , Four Tet , and Jamie XX . Upon discovering the top-notch New York radioshow Beats In Space , I was quick to download it's two most recent guests- James Murphy and Four Tet. James sticks to his signature dimly lit, late night disco sound walking the line between pristine, eerie, mystical and funky. [...]

Photo by Philip Cosores James Murphy, whom you may remember from LCD Soundsystem, has been hammering out some DJ sets on the festival circuit, and recently recorded a three hour set for Beats In Space . We have the session broken up in two parts for you to download below, as well as the tracklist. Note how Mr. Murphy has even stumped the folks at BiS on a few numbers. Current tourdates below, as well. Download James Murphy BeatsInSpace-08.16.11 Part1 with James Murphy [...]

This is pretty awesome. Nada asked J. Irvin Dally to put together a contribution for the 19th mixtape installment on her site. He came back with the perfect soundtrack to movies that take place over the course of one night. Read below. ( from J. Irvin, via friends with both arms ) Movies That Happen in One Night / All My Friends Not too long ago, my brother Steve and I went through this big kick on movies that occur in one night. These movies seem to bend time [...]

Thoughts on Films Movie Review by Max Bowen Who's afraid of the big, bad, wolf? Ladies and gentlemen, we have ourselves the textbook definition of a rhetorical question. Why? Well, let's take a moment and learn about our friend, the wolf. In case you can't tell, I'm being sarcastic here. The wolf is never our [...]
This Sunday, March 27, a quartet of musicians from the North Carolina Symphony will take the stage at Kings Barcade in downtown Raleigh to create an entirely new artistic experience for the Triangle community. Three local artists will be creating visual responses to the music performed and it's all free and sponsored by WCPE 89.7fm, TheClassicalStation.org . It will be a casual afternoon of accessible performance art including a silent auction of the artwork created. "What is most amazing is the way all of the pieces have come together," Tara Lynn says, WCPE [...]
The reputation that had preceded Shugo Tokumaru before listening to this disc was one of home-recorded-pop mastery. Notes of his use of over 100 instruments abound, as well as his apparently skyrocketing status in his native Japan. Considering the state of lo-fi, bedroom recordings in America, one couldn't be faulted (I hope) for expecting drugged-out, scuzzy, reverbed, even sadsack from another bedroom record. Instead, as the cutesy MS Paint-style drawings on the cover of Port Entropy suggest, this is a record bursting at the seems with childlike joy and wonder. The only problem that this sort [...]