Madvillain‘s 2004 debut album, Madvillainy on Stones Throw Records, was one of my favourite albums of last decade and I’ve been very (im)patiently waiting for something new by them ever since. Finally, MF Doom and Madlib began recording tracks for their new album last year and the album is still a work-in-progress. Courtesy of the [...]
Bollywood session musician, Charanjit Singh released a record in 1982 called “Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat” which contained acid house music, years before the genre was ever created. Only a few hundred copies of the LP were ever pressed, with only a handful that survived. The album sounds light years ahead of its time. [...]
Being from Toronto, I can’t believe I didn’t know about Egyptrixx sooner. I just came across Egyptrixx’s remix EP, “The Only Way Up” on Boomkat, and was hooked right away. For me, the absolute killer mix is by UK’s rising star on the dubstep scene, Ikonika (on Hyperdub). It takes the cosmic sublime original and [...]
For fans of Joy Orbison, James Blake is another name to watch over the next year. He’s yet another one of those producers from the UK making some groundbreaking bass music while drinking from the fountain of youth (the classically trained producer is only 21). I always wonder what’s up with all this good new [...]
Late last summer, I wrote about the connection between taiko (a form of Japanese drumming) and jazz, and vaguely alluded to the history of taiko in North America and how it was connected to political movements brewing in North America at the time. I’m in the midst of applying for an arts grant right now [...]
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