Philadelphia’s Voodoo Economics is a hard act to classify. There are traces of hip-hop, trip-hop, techno, industrial and even goth throughout the tracks on their album titled If: Then:: Iminami. Yet no one genre dominates. In various reviews, the word ‘quirky’ comes up often. The b...

Various Artists - Bossa N' Ramones WV+CUE+LOG or mp3 CBR 320 | Covers | 342 or 103 MB The electro-bossa and electro-mambo songbook of The Ramones 2008 collection, an Electro-tinged Bossa Nova treatment of Ramones classics. They have assembled musicians and producers of different latitudes, who accep...

Photo: Abby Powell. The only thing I miss about Los Angeles is the Hollywood Freeway at midnight, windows down and radio blaring bearing right into the center of the city, the Capitol Tower on the right, and beyond it, Hollywood Boulevard blazing - pimps, surplus stores, footprints of the stars - de...

Waldeck - The Night Garden [2001] The kind of music you would hear in a weird kinda movie like the Lost Highway. Moody female vocals with emotional lyrics and dark beats (like Portishead), and dubby basslines like (Massive Attack). There are a few tracks with cheesy male vocals which kinda kills the...

Nebraska weather is perennially odd, but especially odd during the crossover weeks of late winter and early spring. During this time, it’s not uncommon for the weather to be relatively balmy one day, with plenty of sun and blue skies (enough to make you want to break out the shorts and sandals...

Mountains - Choral (Thrill Jockey, 2009)Lars Horntveth - Kaleidoscopic (Smalltown Supersound, 2009)Joshua Redman - Compass (Nonesuch, 2009)Enrico Rava - New York Days (ECM, 2009) Maybe it's a result of being slightly frustrated by some of the song-based music released so far this year but I find mys...

Katalanska festivalen Primavera Sound, som i år äger rum från den 28:e till den 30:e maj på Parc del Forum, Barcelona, har i dagarna gått ut med prishöjningen av årets tredagarsbiljett. För närvarande går denna loss på 130 euro, ett pris som kan komma att höjas ytterligare närmare festi...

Photo: Swamibu Damian Lazarus - Moment Moment (Get Physical / 2009) Popnoname - The Movement Surrounded by Weather (Italic / 2008) Milosh - Awful Game (Dj Troublemaker remix) Awful Game - Troublemaker Remix (2009) Junior Boys - Dull to Pause Begone Dull Care (Domino / 2009) Yuksek - I could never be...

London Elektricity - Syncopated City [2008] LONDON ELEKTRICITY have become a byword for groundbreaking 'fast soul music', ramming venues, destroying drum & bass crowds, leaving huge smiles all over the world. Tony Colman manages to combine heartfelt soul, with a level of musical literacy and emo...

Over the last few years I've become very passionate about the pursuit of electronic music, and I'd like to become very proficient at sampling/remixing/dj-ing etc. Having been inspired by artists such as Daft Punk, Justice, the Twelves, etc., I would love to be able to do what they do, but many of th...