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Onra : Long DistanceOnra hails from France and is a swell producer of the, how you say, “hip hop” music? While he lists most of his influences as classic mainstream acts the likes of Dr. Dre, DJ Quick, Diamond D, and Reza, it would appear that somewhere along the way some funk crept in there. Cool little side [...]
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Diplo Vs. Sunday Girl Four FloorsSunday Girl is a budding 21-year-old British singer from the suburbs of London. Her first single, Four Floors is an electropop love song. Enter Diplo, he comes in, works his magic, adds some much needed bass and tweaks here and there and the remix is complete. I don’t know how he does it, but Diplo [...]
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Hard Mix : King of the StarsI accidentally stumbled upon Hard Mix while reading comments on one of my artist myspace pages. I just took a new job as an A&R for a small indie, so I am now more inclined to seek out artist via myspace. Let me be the first to tell you that ninety percent of what you [...]
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Kaskade and Deadmau5 : Move For MeFor some reason House music, until somewhat recently, had never really penetrated my musical sphere. Conceivably it was because the majority of house music that I had been exposed to I found to be overly repetitive and lacking any real appeal aside from the obvious trance-like effect it takes on when under the influence of [...]
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Erykah Badu : Window SeatErykah Badu’s sixth album New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh) was released yesterday and one of the instant stand outs is the message laden and immediately controversial “Window Seat.” The song in it’s self is smooth, easy, soulful, and insightful. The majority of the controversy stems from the accompanying music video. The music [...]
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Wolf Gang : Back To BackWolf Gang is a new artist out of London and when I heard the first 1:05 of his track Back To Back, only one band came to mind. The bassline, drum beat and synth sounds like classic The Cure and although Wolf Gang doesn’t sound like Robert Smith, he sure does project like him. After about a [...]
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Hot Chip (feat. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy) : I Feel BonnieThe success of electro-pop phenomenon Hot Chip is no mystery. The English group composed of Alexis Taylor (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Joe Goddard (vocals, synths, percussion), Al Doyle (guitar, vocals), Owen Clarke (synths, guitar) and Felix Martin (percussion), has in the past decade established themselves as perhaps one of the most innovative and unique acts in [...]
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Ludachrist : Pon De FoleyLudachrist is Knick of Evol Intent (Los Angeles) and Dr. Ray Boardman M.D. aka Ewun (Rochester, NY). “Although Ludachrist has love for mankind in general, one thing is clear, there is no room in his kingdom for out of key mash-up mixes, and sloppy programming. His mission, to slay all who oppose the total and [...]
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Them : Baby Please Don’t GoI had to go old school for this week, mainly because I can’t get enough of this song. Hopefully you’ll feel the same. Before there was Van Morrison there was Them. I mean they were Them. I mean, err…never mind. Founded in 1964 out of Belfast, the band released one single unsuccessfully before going in [...]
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Bonobo feat. Andreya Triana : Stay The SameSimon Green, a british musician, producer, and DJ, is Bonobo. The downtempo, trip-hop artist’s newest release on Ninja Tune, Black Sands, is packed full of amazing tracks. Three of which he worked with up and coming singer Andreya Triana (the two have been working closely recently, Bonobo also produced Triana’s upcoming album). You might recognize [...]
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Primary 1 : The Blues (ft Nina Persson)Primary 1 is Joe Flory, a synthpop producer from the UK who has quite the resume. Primary 1 has been remixed by anyone from Memory Tapes to Joker, collaborated with the Cardigans’ Nina Persson and Phoenix producer Philippe Zdar and is currently touring with Ellie Goulding. You can find most of his music, a collection [...]
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Jamaica : I Think I Like U 2The relentless reputation of the French when it comes to mixing/dropping the illest electronic tracks with utter fluency is once again reinforced with this fresh new banger. Jamaica, the Parisian duo formerly known as Poney Poney, recently released ‘I Think I Like U 2’ off their upcoming debut album, produced by Xavier de Rosnay (of [...]