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Essentials: “Crazy” – Lido

Lido dropped a new original track and video, “Crazy”, with the video directed by the Norwegian visionary himself. The former pop-star provides vocals on the soaringly longing tune, sprinkled with pops of florescent synths and earthy percussion in what could be described as electronic music’s answer to Kanye West‘s hit album The Life of Pablo (recently reimagined by [continued]
Album Review: SAVE YOURSELF – SBTRKT

SBTRKT (sub-tract) returned with a surprise release and his first since 2014’s Wonder Where We Land. Reflecting the innovative production that saw his 2011 self-titled debut cemented as one of the top electronic albums of the decade, SAVE YOURSELF’s 8-tracks feature collaborations from The-Dream, D.R.A.M, Sampha, and Mabel. Released as a conceptual project alongside featured [continued]
Stay Strong, Kehlani

Lots of love and concern for Kehlani and her well-being poured in throughout Twitter even in the earliest hours this morning after reportedly being hospitalized last night/early morning. @kehlani we love you & we praying for you babygirl. You'll be ok.. #trust #lovealways pic.twitter.com/JQ2wJPZlFc — BJ THE CHICAGO KID (@BJTHECHICAGOKID) March 29, 2016 Blessings to [continued]
Essentials: “Know Me From (Stööki’s Panda Edit)” – Stööki Sound

London based production group Stööki Sound mash up Kanye‘s rework of Desiigner’s “Panda” and Stormzy‘s “Know Me From” (#inception) for a combination that absolutely goes off. Hopefully we hear Kanye working on some grime soon… But for now check out Stööki’s website and the song below. Keep up with Stööki Sound on Twitter. [continued]
Premiere: Skinn Debuts LP “Rêves”

Still at the early stages of his career, Skinn’s music is already well received among the Nigerian online community and radio stations in Nigeria. Skinn has already shared stages with well-known names in the Afro-beat scene ranging from Fuse ODG to Sean Tizzle and Wande Coal. Ahead of debuting Rêves, Skinn released 2 promotional singles, [continued]
Essentials: Phife Dawg’s Body of Work with ATCQ

One thing we always strive to avoid with our writing is being opportunistic. This week, we lost Phife Dawg, frontman of the seminal rap group, A Tribe Called Quest. You’ve read the tributes, you know his legacy. Hip-hop wouldn’t be hip-hop without Phife. My good friend and fellow hip-hop head Brent Tactic acutely noted that Phife’s modestly-stated [continued]
Screen Sounds: KCRW’s Chris Muckley on “Flaked”

In Screen Sounds, we pick the brains of the people who select the soundtracks for some of our favorite shows. For our first instalment, we chatted with Chris Muckley, radio host at Los Angeles’s legendary KCRW as well as SiriusXMU, about working on the music supervision of the Will Arnett Netflix series Flaked with his creative partner and [continued]
Album Review: Aa – Baauer

Clipping along at a brief 33 minute runtime, LuckyMe star Baauer‘s debut album Aa manages to comprehensively globe-trot soundscapes and challenge traditional electronic music tropes with a concise, tongue-in-cheek sensibility. Perhaps the most striking element of the album upon first listen is its use of atmospheric experimentation; one can only think of Baauer’s 2014 Red Bull documentary Searching For [continued]
Premiere: “Aspiration” – TAVO

Columbian producer TAVO started his DJ career by breaking a Guinness Book World Record, playing a 127.2’3” hour set on a Cali radio station. Nearly two decades later, he’s playing around the world, infusing his Latin roots and love of techno into his diverse sound. His pulsing latest, “Aspiration,” is a persistent tech-house groove, slinky and aggressive in [continued]
Essentials: “Global Gate 808” – Soohan

In a word, this EP is wild. I spend a lot of time on Soundcloud every day, and after a while, things can get a little homogenous. That is SO not the case with Soohan‘s Global Gate 808, a musical voyage around the world backed by grimy bass and hi-fi club energy. The Baltimore-based producer [continued]