Monthly Archives: May 2010
Dark Sky
My suggestion: don’t classify London three-piece Dark Sky under the heading of ‘Dubstep’, but rather under ‘Dubstep, because no-one’s really sure where else they should go’. An offshoot of London 2-step revivalists The Boogaloo Crew, Dark Sky find themselves kicking about in the hazy, electronica-laced outer boundaries of the dubstep canon. Their productions play to [...]
:Kinema:
These guys are such a delight – easy, breezy listening. Comparisons to Phoenix are inevitable and deserved… but :Kinema:’s lyrics actually make sense. I mean – you notice when you’re at a Phoenix gig or listening to a track at ‘teh club’, everyone in unison is screaming ‘baby when I saw you turnin’ down the [...]
Hearts O’ Stone
Sharam Jey is perhaps the most persistent goon on the electro-house circuit. He refuses to back down, spinning and remixing tunes since teh 1993z. And he’s scored some pretty big hits in that time, including remixes of anthemic jams like ‘In My Arms’, ‘Same Man’ and pretty much every peaktime monster of 2003 – 2007. [...]
What’s Up With Perth?
First came that Care Bear cute sing-along ‘Come Around’ from Tim and Jean, now more junior burgers from Perth are poised to blast your inhibitions with the best electroclash that generous parents can buy. This is a bit like Boys Noize meets Electric 6? Is that bow too long to draw? Not if you have [...]
Ghetto Division
Another stellar indication of the US’s healthy underground scene drops tomorrow – we checked out a crew from Boston last week, now we’re heading to Chicago. Ghetto Divison is a new label featuring established and fledgling contributors to the Chicago underground rave sound. Their first release is a compilation boasting house monsters from Rob 3, [...]
Mason
I loved Exceeder. I loved it so much. I even liked it a little bit when Princess Superstar made that terrible bootleg. But they’ve been hit and miss since then – popping into the electro camp one minute for some tea and glowsticks, then heading straight over to tech’s house for a couple Stellas and [...]
Tame Impala – Innerspeaker
This album comes out today in Australia. Fucking buy it, it is incredible. Tracklist 1. It Is Not Meant To Be 2. Desire Be Desire Go 3. Alter Ego 4. Lucidity 5. Why Won’t You Make Up Your Mind? 6. Solitude Is Bliss 7. Island Walking (iTunes bonus track) 8. Jeremy’s Storm 9. Expectation 10. [...]
Tom Trago at Mad Racket
Sydney’s next Mad Racket party will be featuring Dutch house weaver and Rushhour regular Tom Trago. Trago’s known for spinning a more sultry brand of house than his gallic bros from further south.. it’s more about groove than sidechain. At a time when ‘Dutch House’ is impregnating the charts with its pitch-house and afrojacks, it’ll [...]
Proper Villains
That’s a picture of me wearing my Nightshifters tee. Taking down the fourth wall people… Back once again with authentic, unadulterated wobble steez – Proper Villains have their new EP out on Father Rave’s (aka: Jason Forrest) Nightshifters label. Proper Villains – Big Top Grab the full release from Beatport, which features a 4 industrial [...]
SECT
A new collaboration featuring members of of this year’s hardest working house duo Soul Clap and part-time DirtyBirders Tanner Ross + Sergio Santos. Here’s a free taste of this sexy union’s capabilities. We’re right into deep and grooving house territory, but SECT maintains that creepy grit and tension to keep me pumping like Reeboks. SECT [...]
Expendable Youth
The boys behind Vancouver’s dutchiest weekly have released their new jam ‘Cannibalistic’ via Discobelle’s Neoteric mixed compilation album (which you can buy here! It’s pretty ‘upfront bang0r’ so if you like that kinda business, perhaps you should download the attached remixes of said jam and listen to them while injecting steroids at the gym or [...]
The Salvadors
Another special from Alexander Holland, who recently impressed with his remix of Former Child Stars. This time Adelaide’s Salvadors are liberally basted with unaffected electro shine in the style of The RAC. Guitars and vocals take centre stage – custom made for terrible DJ’s at terrible indy clubs across the country! But no, seriously, this [...]
UNDERWORLD
Sticking to what they know best…. and absolutely killing it: Grab an MP3 for free over at UnderworldLive.com. Underworld play the We Love Sounds Festival in June. See you there for sky-kissing, hand-holding and general denial that the 90′s ever finished. -Mandu
Pablo Calamari
I am so hungry right now, I’m literally salivating looking at the words on the screen. Sweat It Out’s in-house swamp riddim expert, Pablo Calamari, has released an entire EP of riddim. Four riddims to be exact, each tacking their cue from classic house samples. Here’s my favourite example – it’s called Zombie Riddim and [...]
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