Joker: Dubstep Road Warrior October 12, 2012
Son Raw is draped in mauve. Motorbikes? Check. Angry robots set to buzzsaw synths? Check. The color purple? Check. Sci-fi apocalypticism and funky futurism? Double check. Joker’s latest video meets all of the basic aesthetic requirements for a Mad Max reboot while keeping true to the Bristolian’s own analog-powered vision of life after a GOP […]
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Because I can no longer focus on pieces of music longer than 6 minutes or deal with rappers who didn’t come up in the 90’s. Also because I hate straight edge people, anything with a narrative arc and guitars but love beats and try to leave my computer as much as humanly possible. Youtube links […]
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Mainstream pop’s been a rut for a minute now. While the underground makes-out with synthesizers and day-glo, the US pop landscape dutifully churns out adequate songs without having really changed the formula since the advent of autotune. In this day and age, Riri and Gaga’s personalities and endorsement deals are worth more than their music […]
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Are You Wearing dEbruit? February 4, 2010
Asked to describe himself to Fact Magazine, Debruit answered “Bonjour, I’m dEbruit, synth breeder, beat baker and rhythm keeper. I make music in styles you can’t name and a genre that doesn’t exist.” Which is only partially true — were you to ascribe labels to the London by way of Paris producer, he’d fit under […]
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Sach O only posts music that he likes so don’t flood him with wack demos, only high quality shit. Sometimes, good music finds you. Last week I received a chance PM from a local Montreal producer asking if I’d consider his tunes blog worthy. There’s a lot of musicians in this city and I’ve turned […]
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In the wake of his full-length Warp debut that dropped last week, Glasgow’s Hudson Mohawke (see here and here) has dropped a pair of mixes to up the promotional ante, popping up halfway through Benji B’s essential BBC1 Xtra show late Sunday night for an interview and an elaborate compilation spanning the entirety of his […]
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