FREE DOWNLOAD: School of Seven Bells, "Connjur" Rhythm and harmony! They’re the first things you hear on “Iamundernodisguise,� the opening track on School of Seven Bells’ debut, Alpinisms: a rolling drumbeat marshals a hint of rhumba in the bassline, while sisters Alejandra and Cla...

Concentric Pleasures is a blog column dedicated to the best in electronic dance music: house, techno, their cousins and offspring. Named in honor of vinyl's grooves, it's a weekly roundup of new releases and back-catalog finds. Ever since U.K. garage began splintering in the late '90s, its followers...

FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD: Curumin, "Compacto" Curumin is the Quannum artist who shouldn't be. On a Bay Area label of underground rappers, the young man born Luciano Nakata Albuquerque is a Brazilian multi-instrumentalist who doesn't rap and is, in many ways, an old-fashioned songwriter. But when Quannum co...

Concentric Pleasures is a blog column dedicated to the best in electronic dance music: house, techno, their cousins and offspring. Named in honor of vinyl's grooves, it's a weekly roundup of new releases and back-catalog finds. Despite my many obsessive-compulsive tendencies, my fandom has never bee...

Welcome to the November 2008 version of Dig This! Every month, Rhapsody’s editorial staff will introduce you to a few artists you may not know, give you a chance to check out their music, and present them in their own words -- watch this space for upcoming features on the individual artists. Oh, a...

Mark Stewart: 'Loner' (2008) ON/OFF trailer UK's Mark Stewart, an influential pioneer of electronic industrial/experimental/funk/dub/hip-hop sound who influenced everyone from Meat Beat Manifesto to Massive Attack to grime, returns with a new album called Edit (his last release was Kiss The Future c...

on This is the car stereo salesman at Best Buy doing his best to pawn a new car stereo off on some chicks. Okay, so there's no real sale going on. The girls just start dancing to some song on one of the radios, and dude decides to show them what he's made of (spoiler: he's made entirely out of aweso...

Forwarded message from Erikoismies a.k.a. Tom Backström a.k.a. Musta Kirahvi: ERIKOISDANCE 9 ERIKOISMIES "CDR TRACKS" (CDr) More drum machines. More arpeggiators. More random fuzzy logic melodies. More preset Roland sounds. More compression. More dynamics. More of that friendly home-made hiss and m...