Toronto based electronic/bass/2-step producer and all-round nice guy, Knowing Looks (aka Jason Hopfner) scores large with his second release on WNCL Recordings. His first release on WNCL, Abandoned Skips (not ships!) made the rounds to every cutting edge bass DJs on the planet (it’s that good!) This time around Hopfner decided to go all mental [...]
Thanks to Ms. JT for tipping me off to this! Thom Yorke, Burial and Four Tet collaborate on a surprise new 12″ that is being released on March 21st on Four Tet’s own label, Text. While much of the world is probably most excited about the Thom Yorke involvement, I’m personally more excited about another [...]
It’s always hard to rank albums, especially when often it’s my mood that dictates which albums I like at the moment. Here are the 15 albums I listened to most often in 2010. As usual, no compilations, reissues, or mix cds allowed! 15. Horsepower Productions – Quest for the Sonic Bounty [Tempa] Dubstep pioneers load [...]
Stones Throw recently pressed a few hundred copies of this 45 for this year’s SXSW music festival, with Mayer Hawthorne and James Pants covering each other’s songs. I want! Alas, the tracks are now only available for purchase digitally. Mayer Hawthorne’s rendition of JP’s “Thin Moon”: The OG: On the flip side, James Pants’ rendition of [...]
I was in Cuba very recently where I randomly (and happily!) stumbled across dusty old records displayed in a store window on Calle Neptuno in Centro Habana one day. At the back of the store was a record stall filled with vinyl, the grooves etching out old but not forgotten songs by Cuban musicians. I asked [...]
Shark Chase by floatingpoints It’s 3:13pm right now, currently 11 degrees celsius outside. It’s 3 degrees shy of the projected high of the day, according to my widget. Summer feels like it’s almost here, but not as quickly as I would like it to. Wish I could be in Miami right now for WMC…hopefully I can [...]
OMFG. The 13th track off of the new album by The Knife, “Tomorrow, In a Year” is definitely the most interesting dance track in a long time. Normally I wouldn’t like this sort of thing on paper perhaps, (Radioslave-type techno beats with Opera-ish bits) but here it works amazingly well. Haunting and chilling, yet absolutely [...]
It was definitely one of the most colourful years in a long time. In music however, 2009 was truly incredible, dominated by solid edits, new directions in dubstep, infectious indie melodies, tech-ier house, or slowing down the beat. I didn’t mind pulling all-nighters, thanks to some pretty dope podcasts from both East Village Radio (Authentic [...]
It must have been 5 am, when I was purchasing music online a few weeks ago. I must have bought ten or twelve nice tracks. Among them were some new and old tracks by Koze and Todd Osborn. (yes, we’re working on a hotsauce mix…anyhow) Then I heard a sample of Still Going‘s ‘Spaghetti Circus’ [...]
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