Tag: electronic dance music

Chrissy Murderbot’s Loose Squares Records is at it again with the release of their latest compilation, Escape from Chicago. The compilation is designed to showcase bass and drum and footwork’s forward thinking and up-and-coming and  (mostly) international […]

Chrissy Murderbot’s Loose Squares Records recently signed the Canadian Ghetto House/Juke/Futurebass act Philthkids. The Sweatpants EP is the first release on Loose Squares and the EP is a skronky, big booming bass sound that should sound familiar […]

I saw Hercules and Love Affair during the first day of the Catalpa Festival, and I have to admit that I was quite impressed. Their sound reminded me a lot of the gigantic, cavernous room-filling […]

Midnight Magic just released their anticipated debut effort, Walking the Midnight Streets on Tuesday, and to celebrate the release of the album, the band released a rare B side, “Threshold,” which has elements of House and techno. […]

Multi-instrumentalist and producer Derrick Boyd and partner/vocalist Zoe Presnick comprise the San Francisco, CA-based techno act, Tone of Arc. Boyd has been around the global and domestic electronic dance music scene but after hooking up […]

Just the other day, Nicole Moudaber dropped a previously unreleased 2008 remix of the beloved house music classic, “Musik Xpress,” to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the song’s initial release. Yes, the track is over […]

Album Review: Beacon’s For Now EP

Beacon For Now EP Ghostly International Records Release Date: October 2, 2012   Track Listing 1.     It Won’t Be Long 2.     Safety’s Off 3.     Pulse 4.     Feeling’s Gone 5.     Into the Night Personnel Thomas Mullarney […]

Midnight Magic is a nonet and includes members of several DFA Records bands, including a former member of LCD Soundsystem. Fronted by Tiffany Roth, the band has burned up clubs and gotten quite a bit […]

Greenpoint Brooklyn R&B/techno act Beacon released a cover of Bear in Heaven’s “Kiss Me Crazy,” off Bear in Heaven’s fantastic and under appreciated I Love You It’s Cool. Beacon’s cover strips the buzzing synths, booming drums […]

Above and Beyond, and Submerge recently announced the DJ lineup for this year’s TAT450 Group Therapy in Bangalore, India on November 10th, and it’ll include Mat Zo, Norin and Rad, Andrew Bayer, and Jody Wisternoff. For Mat Zo, 2012 has been […]

Rush Manning, a.k.a. Rush Midnight was formerly a bassist in Twin Shadow, and his forthcoming solo debut EP titled +1 will drop on October 30th from Cascine Records. The material that comprises the +1 EP came from demos that […]

The UK-based producer Mike Norris, a.k.a. Fort Romeau reworked the Presets’ “Ghosts.” Whereas the original version brought the sea shanty to modern ears by making it a sort of slow burning electronica, the remix turns […]