Hey! Are we still reading year-end best of 2012 lists? Well we better be, because I finally got my shit together. Read this because last year is not so last year yet. Fresh into the new year, I present some of my favourite albums of the last 12 months (re-issues, compilations and dj mix albums [...]
By urbansteve
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Posted in Dubstep/Bass, Electronic, Grime, Leftfield, Music, Review, Tech House, Techno, Tropical Funk, urbansteve, Worldbeat
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Also tagged alpha pup, andy stott, barker and baumecker, batida, best albums 2012, Brainfeeder, chromatics, d'marc cantu, daphni, Delta Funktionen, dirty projectors, eight and a half, grimes, hannah georgas, kone, konkoma, lone, mala, my dry wet mess, ondatropica, pallbearer, Robert Hood, santigold, sigur ros, soundway records, sun araw, tame impala, terror danjah, the congos, wiley
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plastikman (above) Once again, intrepid music warriors Miss Ruckus and I set off on our annual pilgrimage to Montreal to take in the Mutek Festival – the premiere International Festival of Digital Creativity and Electronic Music. This year’s highlights included Canadian techno legend Plastikman’s (picture above) visually stunning live show, Amon Tobin’s elaborate ISAM project, [...]
Indie and Tings 02 01:09:48 Panda Bear – You Can Count On Me – 00:01 Tame Impala – It Is Not Meant To Be – 02:29 PJ Harvey – The Last Living Rose – 06:39 Florence and The Machine – You’ve Got the Love (Jamie xx rework) – 08:50 Taken By Trees – Day By [...]
By urbansteve
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Posted in DJing, Electronic, Indie, Mixes, urbansteve, World
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Also tagged black rebel motorcycle club, Braids, Broken Social Scene, Cornershop, electronic, Gil Scott-Heron, indie rock, Jamie XX, konono no1, ohbijou, panda bear, PJ Harvey, tame impala, the acron, The Buzzcocks, The Kills, thom yorke
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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 [...]
In no particular order, here are the albums released in 2010 that I enjoyed most… Onra – Long Distance [All City] (listen) This was hands down my favourite, most listened to album of 2010. Seems I’m not the only one - it’s been appearing on many a ‘best of’ list all over the ‘net. Check [...]
By MissRuckus
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Posted in Disco, Dub, Dubstep/Bass, Electro, Electronic, Funk, Hip Hop, House, Leftfield, MissRuckus, Soul, Techno
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Also tagged best albums 2010, best of 2010, chromeo, deepchord presents echospace, Glimpse, John Roberts, kanye west, maylee todd, onra, pantha du prince, pulshar, scuba, shed, Shigeto, take, teebs, the roots
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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 [...]
By urbansteve
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Posted in Dub, Dubstep/Bass, Records, Review, Rock, Soul, Tech House, urbansteve
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Also tagged actress, best albums 2010, black rebel motorcycle club, bonobo, cee lo green, deepchord, Desolat, echospace, fluxion, Glimpse, horespower productions, John Roberts, martin buttrich, mogwai, panha du prince, pawel, pezzner, pulshar, sascha dive, sharon jones and the dap-kings, slinky music, tame impala, the black angels, the chemical brothers, wolf parade
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As usual, I’m really excited about music and the many interesting directions it heads in every year. Probably the most interesting to me this past year was all the new genre-bending bass music coming out.. new music movements and being witness to their shape shifting and development is exciting! Anyway, it’s always a challenge to [...]
By MissRuckus
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Posted in Dub, Dubstep/Bass, Electronic, House, Jazz, Leftfield, MissRuckus, Records, Remix, Soul, Tech House, UK Funky / 2-Step
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Also tagged best of 2010, bilal, chromeo, crystal castles, deadbeat, FaltyDL, Feist, floating points, floating points ensemble, fluxion, flying lotus, giant, henrik schwarz, james blake, james pants, jamie woon, joy orbison, kassem mosse, kuniyuki, Matthew Dear, mayer hawthorne, midland, mount kimbie, onra, pariah, phonat, ramadanman, robert smith, scuba, sepalcure, take, the cure
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So some friends and I went to check out dubstep-garage-IDM-drum and bass-leftfield-anything goes man of the moment, New York’s FaltyDL for a “live” performance at Wrongbar in Toronto (most kickin’ soundsystem in the city for a small venue). I didn’t know what to expect, but my expectations were high considering his Bravery ep, full length album Love is a Liability [...]
By urbansteve
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Posted in Dubstep/Bass, Electronic, House, Live, UK Funky / 2-Step, urbansteve, Video
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Also tagged burial, Dubstep/Bass, FaltyDL, flying lotus, joy orbison, Leftfield, Love Is A Liability
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Sure, Kieran Hebden has been busy releasing remixes, mixes, EPs and working on collaborations, but there’s been no full-length Four Tet album since 2005′s Everything Ecstatic (which I didn’t like that much and barely listened to, despite owning it). The first proper album release in five years is absolutely stunning and excites me the way [...]
What can I say that has not been said already? 2009 was a great year for music! I kept discovering new tracks, new artists, and most importantly, new sounds to my ears that made me excited about music again and again and again. I’m pretty bad at coming up with yearly “best of” lists since [...]
By MissRuckus
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Posted in Disco, Dubstep/Bass, Electronic, Funk, Hip Hop, House, Indie, Jazz, Leftfield, MissRuckus, Remix, Soul, Techno, UK Funky / 2-Step
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Also tagged Basic Soul Unit, best of 2009, burial, dam-funk, dual city, floating points, ginz, grizzly bear, hunee, j dilla, jazztronik, joker, joy orbison, LCD soundsystem, lee fields, martyn, mayer hawthorne, moodymann, mos def, omar s, prince language, robert dietz, sebo k, Still Going, talib kweli, tensnake, theo parrish, trus'me
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