Tag: electro
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Maudlin Strangers is the current project of vocalist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jake Hays, an all-around one man band and a talented one at that. “Overdose” is the title track from his forthcoming EP, which we are dying to hear now. As dark as it is seductive, the electro-embellished song is centered around a thick, deep…
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Hard to believe but Danny Darko has released over thirty Top 50 Releases on the Beatport Genre Charts. Equally impressive: his Youtube channel, launched in 2012, has received over 4 million views. We suppose that’s just what happens when you get kudos from DJ Tiesto, Armin Van Buuren, Paul Van Dyk, Pete Tong, Judge Jules,…
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Now this is a different sort of video from Banks. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. We love her and think she’s borderline flawless. We’re hoping she’ll have a big breakthrough single like Lorde did with “Royals” and get the larger audience that she deserves. But, secretly, sometimes we hope she doesn’t get any…
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I always liked the idea of sharing playlists with our readers but the idea never really took flight. I asked my writers to contribute playlists as well as some musicians but nobody was into it. I guess you need to be a big magazine like NYLON to get artists to share playlists with you. In…
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Holy Ghost!’s new single, “Bridge & Tunnel,” is from the duo’s Dynamic album, which was released last year. In addition to issuing this video, their label, DFA Records, has released a nice remix bundle.
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I love their mix of organic sounds and electro-tinkering. If anyone’s ever mixed those so expertly before, I sure haven’t heard it. And there’s no way it could have been this good. Trust me, their album, coming out May 13th here in the States, is going to rank high on a lot of critic’s best…
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On her fourth solo album, St. Vincent – otherwise known as Annie Clark – has created a lusher, more fully realized take on the pristine pop of her last album, 2011’s Strange Mercy. This is where heart-swelling melodies meet cool, unflinching beats. Using two live drummers — Homer Steinweiss of the Dap-Kings and Midlake’s McKenzie…
