Saturday, February 4, 2012
Alec Empire and his work with Atari Teenage Riot has been an inspiration to us since we were kids. We were excited to see that he recently remixed Salem’s remake of Alice Deejay’s 90s popular dance hit “Better Off Alone”. Alec Empire uses more of the hook that made the original so famous and straddles the line between the most sugary of pop music and industrial witch house.
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DOWNLOAD: Salem – Better Off Alone (Alec Empire Atari Teenage Riot Remix)
Monday, January 30, 2012
This one is for fans of The Weeknd that want to go deeper into the wormhole of smoky late-night R&B. Jacy by Supreme Cuts starts off so deep it’s almost oppressive but, when you make it past the first minute, the whole thing breaks wide open. It’s an incredibly good song that rewards the patient listeners that can enjoy its subtleties.
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DOWNLOAD: Supreme Cuts – Jacy
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Liverpool based producer SertOne has released an excellent EP in honor of everyone’s favorite beatmaker, J Dilla. Our favorite track off of it is Introduction, a slow and warm burner perfect for the rest and recovery of a Sunday. We think this is what Com Truise would sound like if he made hip-hop beats.
SertOne has been kind enough to offer up the whole Quesidillas EP on a “name-your-own-price” basis on his Bandcamp. All proceeds go to the J Dilla Foundation, which helps fund inner-city music programs. Good man and good music.
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DOWNLOAD: SertOne – Introduction
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
We miss the guitar. Everywhere you look you can see evidence of it’s declining popularity in music today. Although it may be falling out of favor as the de facto gift for the kid who wants to start a band (replaced, most likely, by a computer with Ableton installed or an MPC), there is still some great guitar driven music being produced today.
COOLRUNNINGS is one such band and their new song Spirit of the High is sunny tune that’s helping satiate the air guitarist within us.
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DOWNLOAD: COOLRUNNINGS – Spirit of the High
Sunday, January 22, 2012
This is the perfect companion post to our one yesterday about Ruddyp. XXYYXX is another producer making some of the most interesting and emotive beats out there. Today he released his collab with Ruddyp titled Eclipse that they self describe as “moonwave”. We imagine this sounds like something Lex Luger would make if he lived in the forest and had a spiritual awakening. It sure is puurty.
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DOWNLOAD: XXYYXX (feat. Ruddyp) – Eclipse
Saturday, January 21, 2012
One of my favorite parts about being an American who moved to Canada during my teenage years was being exposed to an entirely new music scene. One of the first Canadian groups that I came across was Broken Social Scene, and a favorite song of theirs was “Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl”.
Apparently, Ruddyp has similar sentiments and decided to update the song in a decidedly 2012 manner. Sounding like a combination of some of our favorite producers (Star Slinger, Baths, Dose, Giraffage, Expensive Looks, Sinjin Hawke), the song keeps it’s indie charm while getting a strong dose of bass and dizzying hip-hop inspired beat patterns.
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DOWNLOAD: Ruddyp – Sleep On The Floor, Dream About Me
BONUS: Ruddyp’s Soundcloud is full of gems available for download. Below is one of our other favorites.
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DOWNLOAD: Ruddyp – Addicted
Thursday, January 19, 2012
DropxLife has been given production credits for both The Weeknd and Drake. A few days ago he released his latest mixtape Further. As you would expect, it’s full of spaced out after party beats. Below are our favorites and, if you like what you hear, you can download the whole thing for free.
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DOWNLOAD: DropxLife – STILLXSHOTS
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DOWNLOAD: DropxLife – TRIPXENT
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DOWNLOAD: DropxLife – FURTHUR
Monday, January 16, 2012
Our friends over at Rebel tipped us on an exciting young act right in our own backyard by the name of Black Atlass. The act is fronted by 17-year-old Alex Flemming, an electronic producer hailing from London, Ontario. Our favorite song off his recently released Black Atlass EP is titled “Hills”; a production that balances menacing distorted synths with breathy & poetic vocals.
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DOWNLOAD: Black Atlass – Hills
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
‘Brothers’, the first taste of Tanlines upcoming LP Mixed Emotions is extremely promising. The sound is breezy, big and crisp but we think the true standout are the vocals. They’re poppy yet moody and definitively masculine while remaining super smooth — something not often heard in dance music today. This is a song you’ll want to get stuck in your head.
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DOWNLOAD: Tanlines – Brothers
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Two of our favorite producers making music on the more instrumental and atmospheric spectrum of electronic music recently released songs to the internet. Usually, when someone describe’s something as “atmospheric” it is interchangeable with “boring”, but Blood Diamonds & Giraffage know how to craft a beat that entertains and creates a strong sense of feeling.
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DOWNLOAD: Giraffage – With You
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DOWNLOAD: Blood Diamonds – Move the Stars
