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Are you supposed to dance to this? The underlying house beat and disco vibe seem to suggest so, but there are enough twists and turns and other various disruptions here to stop you in your tracks. From radical pitch changes to relentless deconstructive sampling, Ital's Daniel Martin-McCormick appears bent on both hosting the party and ruining it, in the process digging up the question of whether electronic music is meant for the dancefloor or bedroom. The answer in "First Wave" is probably neither, since the tried formulas of said genres are borrowed but neither replicated nor fully taken [...]

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Illustration by John Borowicz [ Planet Mu ] At this point, I almost don't want to have to do the spiel explaining this whole non-dance-dance music thing, but it bears noting that Daniel Martin-McCormick's - of Black Eyes and Mi Ami fame - Ital alias is partially responsible for starting the whole "movement." [...]

"It was surreal...you should've seen it. I was playing and people were holding their phones in the air." Daniel Martin-McCormick, better known as Ital , is recalling about a moment during his gig in London two weeks ago when word broke that pop diva Whitney Houston was found dead in a hotel room in Los Angeles. The songstress' famous vocal from "I Will Always Love You" is chopped and mashed up on "Doesn't Matter (If You Love Him)," the opening track on Ital's Hive Mind due in March. "I always loved the vocal and always [...]

Disappears are such an awesome band. Here's the quartet burning through "Hive Mind", which is a brand new song, followed by a short interview and back to Union Pool for "Lux". (via Pitchfork/Tunnelvision )

The Brock Out, Hivemind and UFO collectives unite to bring Bristol a sound of the Chicago underground (read our juke feature) this Friday October 15th at Timbuk2. Footwork lynchpin DJ Spinn makes his UK debut, with support from Chi-town legend and juke aficionado Chrissy Murderbot, Night Slugs crew member Girl Unit whose 'Wut' is set be one [...]

Apparently you people think you know better than us supergeniuses at MetalSucks when it comes to picking bands that rule. As it turns out, you're sometimes right! So in that spirit, here are a couple of metallic hardcore bands recently recommended to me via Twitter, since email is for chumps and olds. Xibalba: The [...]

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Nerve Net Noise Hive Mind Mike Shiflet Eli Keszler What's the best way to spend New Year's Eve? Getting drunk with friends and strangers alike? Meh. Getting laid by your one true love? Satisfactory. Going to a concert presented by Intransitive Recordings with the US debut performance by Nerve Net Noise ? Fuck yeah. One [...]