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On his debut full-length, Outmind, Matthewdavid flips through his sketchbook of ambient drones and blurred beats, picking out the best stuff he’s got to offer so far. While he does pull some fantastic sounds together, and issue I find myself running into is the brevity of some of these
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Video: horrifying. Song: captivating. They were made for each other. Of course, this isn’t the “official’ video,” but it still works. This track comes from Dirty Beaches’ latest album, Badlands, which is his fourth. Look for it on Zoo. Dirty Beaches is Alex Zhang Hungtai. He’s a Taiwan-born
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New video from the Death Grips album Exmilitary. Some sweet kickflips goin’ on here, bros. Watch a video review of Exmilitary here, and download the album for free here.
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Death Grips’ first mixtape is a grim look at mankind’s worst personality traits:: greed, addiction, anger. And the beats are just as offensive as the screamed rap vocals–which only helps get the point across. It’s an energetic record. It’s an intense record. Sometimes it’s over
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Hercules by Kin As Kin, electronic artist Yung Hui explores sound’s dark side through drones and bleak synths. What backing up these sounds much of the time are hip hop beats, believe it or not–but a verse over his tunes just doesn’t seem appropriate. His latest album,
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In a short series of instant messages via Gmail, I learned a lot about Connecticut music producer Derek Piotr. Every now and again, he loves to partake in some Dolly Parton. Oh, yeah, and he also despises synthesized tones–or maybe he’s got a love-hate relationship with tone in
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I’ve blogged about this project again and again. And honestly, I’m still not 100% sure how I feel about it. The aggression of Death Grips is attempted by many, but only achieved by a few. Clearly, the primary influence in this project is hip hop music, but it’
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I’ve been getting a lot of e-mails pointing my ears toward Death Grips. There’s talk around the blog-o-sphere about who is involved with this project and how. Names like Zach Hill keep coming up, too, which doesn’t surprise me since some of the production moves on this
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I know I wasn’t the biggest fan of No Age’s latest album, but I really do like this live session video the band put together with P4K for “Fever Dreaming.” It’s got a nice, raw, in-the-moment feel to it. It’s awesome to know the buys can
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Crystal Stilts drop a holiday track for the world to enjoy. They’ve got an album dropping in 2011. Chomp on this and their new single in the meantime. MP3: Crystal Stilts- Practually Immaculate –
