More new stuff from JoyOrb. His new EP is floating around. The London, grime/dub/bass (whatever) sound has not always done it for me, but…this guy is quite the beat-artist. I would post off the new EP, but his label is sensitive. If you are into electronic anything, check him out. Also, in the spirit of [...]

The Field, ‘The More That I Do’ (2009)download mp3

Swine flu’n _ Brooklyn move’n _ Facial sploog’n Outputmessage, ‘Glintz’ (2006)

Fact: the only reason I checked these guys out was after reading that Charlie Cooper (one half of Telefon Tel Aviv) died suddenly at 31. The album is called Immolate Yourself, which is either extremely ironic, or strangely eerie. The album starts off running, and half way through runs out of gas. This track marks [...]

Good news today about Muxtape, I guess its back. Not entirely sure how successfully it will be now that it has its RIAA shaped chip on its shoulder. Looking forward to see where it goes from here. One cool aspect of the new Muxtape is that it allows bands to share new and unreleased music. [...]

Last week a friend sent me copies of Ratatat’s two hip hop remix albums and I was hooked. It is basically just top 40 rap vocal tracks with Ratatat instrumentals (think Girl Talk but less schizophrenic). The duo’s sounds a lot like a MIDI version of an extended Van Halen guitar solo…and that is no [...]

My brother came up with great name for a seemingly unnameable genre: FutureJazzBot. Unconventional instruments, jazz compositions, mixed via electronica…the future of jazz? Probably not, but artists like Four Tet, Matthew Herbert, Daedelus, Royksopp, Battles and many others all seem to fit into this strange categorization. Granted there is not much improvisation involved, but it [...]

Liars have been making some of the most interesting music this decade, and until recently when they were the opening act for Radiohead’s North American tour, they were widely unknown. Their previous three albums, most notably 2006′s Drum’s Not Dead, were each experimental concept albums that emphasized noise, beats and droning chant-like vocals. As Thom [...]

I can’t tell if the current influx of dance/downtempo techno/electronica being generated these days will one day be looked back on the way we look at disco…that is to say with much disgust. But like my high school Green Beret turned American Studies teacher told me “History Repeats”. Today bands like Gui Boratto, Studio, Cut [...]

Monday night; as I sit in my apartment I consume a sleeve of saltine crackers without fear, Fantastic Four on mute washes numbly over me from the corning of the room…plot-line virtually lost in my mind (can ‘monsters’ really find love? A man engulfed in flames seems be arguing this very question with a talking [...]