Modeselektor – Monkeytown [Album Review]
I've always thought of Modeselektor as a dance group first and foremost; such is the curse of being danceable, it's easy to get sorted into that particular category. But just because…
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Cuckoo Chaos – Woman [Album]
Cuckoo Chaos comes straight from the coast of San Diego. The tags on their Bandcamp say they are tropical dance jams. Those words and influences from Talking Heads are basically who…
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Gui Boratto – III [Album Review]
Having just seen Brazilian minimal techno extraordinaire Gui Boratto for the first time at Electric Zoo in New York this weekend, there was really no better time for me to…
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Max Cooper – Empirisch EP
The word is in: Max Cooper has officially abandon academia to pursuit a full-time career in music, a choice he describes in a lengthy interview with WRG Magazine, which you…
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The Black Dog – Liber Temple
British techno legends The Black Dog are some of the most influential players who have helped to define IDM and electronic music of the 1990s and 2000s, alongside other major…
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Razika – Program 91 [Album Review]
Norwegian label Smalltown Supersound recently released Program 91–the debut LP by Norwegian quartet Razika. Razika consists of four 19-year old girls who have been creating music together since they were…
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Lunice – One Hunned EP
I mostly just recognize Lunice's name because of his collaboration with Diplo on that sick Deerhunter remix, but that remix was good enough that when I saw that he had a…
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The Weeknd – Thursday [Album Review]
There's no one who makes me want to go on a cocaine and ecstasy laden bender and jump in bed with the first dangerous stranger quite like The Weeknd. But…
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Top 10 Famous Faces in 2012 [Hip-Hop] [#9]
#9 Rockie Fresh I want to start this post by back tracking a minute to the intro we did to this whole list. The only solid requirement was that the artist…
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Top 10 Famous Faces of 2012 [Hip-Hop][#10]
#10 Childish Gambino Alright, Gambino is a mastermind. When we initially posted our introduction to Famous Faces we had a small list in our minds of who we figured would…
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Shlohmo – Bad Vibes [Album Review]
Shlohmo's Bad Vibes (out August 9 on Friends of Friends) has a confusing title. "Bad" is not a word I would use to describe these vibes–tranquil, peaceful, breezy might be…
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Beirut – The Rip Tide [Album Review]
Although grabbing this album was probably the first time I've made an active effort to listen to Beirut in about three years–I'm just not as folksy as I used to be–I'm…
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