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GRAPES EP by RL Grime Despite the tongue-in-cheek name, RL Grime delivers the real deal when it comes to simple, straightforward, electronic bangers. The opening track on his new Grapes EP says it all with lumbering bass kicks, trap music-inspired snares, and numerous layers of buzzing synths. Stream the Grapes
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Mystify by XXYYXX Floridian producer XXYYXX just dropped his self-titled mixtape a couple of weeks ago, but the beat maker is already at it again with a new EP. Titled Mystify, the release features six lucid, off-kilter beats that would sound right at home among the Brainfeeder crew, as well
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A couple of months back, we were treated to a remix of Shlohmo‘s “It Rained All Night,” which appears in its original form on the beat maker’s recent Vacation EP, from fellow electronic music producer Nicolas Jaar. Now, we have a set of visuals, put together by former
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A video from the forthcoming Rarebit album, Daizo. It’s been released this week on Non Projects. Rarebit is the pseudonym of electronic music producer and composer Justin Hopkins, and his latest release has a concept that can’t be caught by listening to a single song. The album is
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Kings and Them features a pretty decent collection of early tracks from up-and-coming beat producer Evian Christ. Keep an eye on where this guy is going. WATCH THE REVIEW
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With a spunky house beat and busy footwork snares and claps, electronic music producer Romare builds a solid backdrop for a slew of samples related to African music. I say related because some of the clips here, and some aren’t. There’s a nice flute riff here, and a
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A stream of the third Scuba album, Personality. The album is dropping this week via Hotflush, and strikes me as being much less ambient and spacious than the project’s last album, Triangulation. And that’s fine with me, because the rhythms on this album are pretty driving and engaging.
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I’m not single. I actually haven’t been single for around three years now. Still, this new beat from xxyyxx still brings out those “forever alone” feelings everybody’s had at one point or another. A beautiful and pitch-shifted vocal sample loops against a beat that’s interesting for
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On the new Lapalux EP, there’s a lot of creativity to go around. Despite a lack of focus, the beats here are loaded with a bounty of different sounds and textures. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Al Tourettes is a Bristol-based music producer whose music sounds a little like a science experiment. Yeah, the visuals in the video above give off that feeling, too, but the sounds are really where it comes from. Check out the fat, synthetic bass notes that glitch out a little. Or
