Cruel Cassette
Cruel Cassette is from London and he’s remixed one of my favorite noise pop bands, BITCHES and also Japayork, an artist whom I’ve been chasing to have on the blog but never replied to me. Anyway, the fact that Cruel Cassette has remixed BITCHES and the total pole opposite that is Japayork shows that he...
Spoek Mathambo – Dont Mean To Be Rude
South Africa’s rap / techno upstart, Spoek Mathambo (one half of fashion electro hip-hop duo Sweat.X), who has Modeselektor and Apparat somewhere in his CV and counts Malmo in Sweden as his second home, has got his third new single out. Don’t Mean To Be Rude is from his debut album, Mshini Wam (loosely translated...
Kahn
Today, I’ve got some futuristic dubstep sounds coming from Bristol’s Kahn who is part of the Sureskank collective. The new EP’s called Altar, just released last month but I was too busy faffing around to put this one up on time. Sorry folks. The mood in this EP is dark, almost apocalyptic. Listening to tracks...
Datahowler
The future sound is upon us. Datahowler is sending signals from his Dallas base to us all, communicating through the medium of his music: beat music reminescent of the likes of Hudson Mohawke and James Blake, filled with hip hop references, spacey 8-bit experimentalism, howling chilled-out or fast-forwarded high pitched garage-esque vocals and artwork that...
Kulez – Fight For The Mic
Kulez is back. The last time I found him and wrote about him was more than a year ago when he gave out 2 grime-y dubstep tracks with some hip hop vocals laid over it. New single Fight For The Mic is the result of trashing out new tracks with producer Nutty P. It’s another...
Stranger Day – “Fuck You Money feat. Chip Tha Ripper (Skeet Skeet Remix)
Here’s DJ Skeet Skeet’s remix of Stranger Day‘s Fuck You Money (feat. Chip Tha Ripper). The North Carolina native is currently in the studio crafting a collection of songs that showcase his southern roots and laid back lifestyle. Look for new releases coming in October… [Stranger Day - "Fuck You Money feat. Chip Tha Ripper...
Lapti – Circadian Rhythms (Error Broadcast)
Delving further into my foray through this 21tst century beat music phenomena, I find that Error Broadcast, has released this excellent new compilation, entitled Fly Russia. It’s a collab they’re doing with Siberian blog, Gimme5 and it’s a 17 track whopper of a compilaiton featuring the very best of Russian beatmakers. Especially close attention should...
Stephen Farris
What Stephen Farris (aka Cosmic Sound, also of Ghost Mountain ) does, in a nutshell, is recycle old, nearly disintegrating VHS tapes rescued from charity stores and then somehow cutting up, extracting and arranging the visuals and mostly the sound into his music. Like Gold Panda, just more 8 bit. And unlike Hudson Mohwake or...
AEED – ERROR CODE
Hip hop but not quite. AEED is a producer based in Switzerland, and describes his music as “21st century beat music”. We hear hip hop with chopped, staggered vocals but there are also shades of ambient with his signature 8-bit style electronica. The closest other artist whom I can compare this to will probably be...
TK Wonder: L’amour et la Violence (Boys Noize)
“TK Wonder‘s notable skill for writing and “slamming” lyrics in a very unique hip hop/spoken word fashion seems to create a new genre with a significant electro punch. She sits somewhere between M.I.A. and Flying Lotus. Rhymewise, TK’s ability to spit at aggressive tempos is rivaled by few of her contemporaries, and she’s got that...
BBU, Richie August, PlayMe Records
Brace yerself. This massive post is talking about 3 things, because they’re all related and deserve a mention. First up, PlayMe Records is giving away a coupla freebies to celebrate 2 new releases. One of them freebies is Richie August‘s dubstep rework of BBU‘s track, Chi Don’t Dance. Both are from Chicago and BBU’s already...
Pretty Lights
Man, I’m on a roll! Somebody done dropped this EXCELLENT track from Colorado’s Pretty Lights. Now, if you would excuse the pretty generic name and just listennn! This track is bangin!Sampled vintage sounds from yesteryear moulded with went synths and string stabs and that wobbly wobbly that we all love now – you get an...
