Producer Amp Live, of Zion I and Radiohead remix fame, Trackademicks, and Mr. Micro get “dummy retarded” with a silly robot costume in the video for the Oaktown Electro jam “Gary is a Robot.”“Gary is a Robot” is the first single and video taken from Amp Live's forthcoming solo debut ‘Murder at the Discotek’ which is due out some time in 2010 on the OM Records label.
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“Grey is Old” from California-based duo Furcast is a slinking cinematic symphony equally evocative of film-noir soundtracks and the ‘90s Trip-Hop acts who took inspiration from them. It also has a furious Heavy Metal breakdown in the middle which makes it sound all the more like movie-trailer music and at the same time connects it to the legacy of Classical music.Furcast “Grey is Old” (
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This song, “In the Flowers,” makes me tear up, and the video is just beautiful.It's from ‘Merriweather Post Pavilion,’ by far the best album of the year.
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Queens emcee Ryan-O‘Neil-the vocal half of true-school revivalists duo 100dBs and Ryan-O’Neil-emerges two years after the release of their debut LP ‘The Adventures of the One Hand Bandit and the Slum Computer Wizard’ with ‘Hyphenated & Apostrophed,’ a 7-track EP!Released 100% free of charge in conjunction with the folks from Free Ice Cream, the ‘Hyphenated & Apostrophed’ EP feature
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One of my favorite tunes of the year-Animal Collective's “My Girls”-gets a bubbly, auto-tuned cover courtesy of :Kinema:, a Brighton, UK-based Indie-meets-Disco-meets-R&B-meets-Pop trio.:Kinema: “My Girls” (.MP3)Fans of Lo-Fi-FNK, Erlend ye's The Whitest Boy Alive side-project, N*E*R*D and their boy Kenna, old-school Phoenix and their countrymen Justice should groove to this.Animal Collec
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Dear Santa, Bring me a new one. xoxo- Emeyesi
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“A Phase Shifter I'm Going Through” is a jammy, Afro-Funk-flavored instrumental from Lord Newborn & The Magic Skulls, the supergroup comprised of Money Mark, Tommy Guerrero and Shawn Lee. The video, directed by Money Mark and husband-and-wife visual team Onkyovizion, features cameos from Daedelus, Gaslamp Killer, Nosaj Thing, Ray Barbee and Ras G, amongst others.“A Phase Shifter I'm Going T
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DJ/producer Sharam of D.C.-based duo Deep Dish samples Patsy Cline and recruits KiD CuDi for his new single “She Came Along.”“She Came Along” is the first single taken from Sharam's new solo album ‘Get Wild,’ which is out now on the Ultra Records label.
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Dev Hynes, the former Test Icicles member otherwise known as Lightspeed Champion, is in the studio working on the long-awaited follow-up to his 2008 debut ‘Falling Off the Lavender Bridge.’He's even put together a campy teaser trailer for the first single from the forthcoming album, an apparently rockin‘-as-fuck tune titled “Marlene” which is due in stores January 25th.In the meantime De
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Kurt Wimmer directed one of my favorite movies ever, ‘Equilibrium.’ He also directed a movie I‘ve never seen, ’Ultraviolet.' His latest gig is as co-writer of ‘Salt,’ an upcoming spy flick starring Angelina Jolie.The Phillip Noyce-directed film, which also stars Liev Schreiber and Chiwetel Ejiofor, is due out out July 23rd, 2010.
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They‘re not exactly reaching for the pinnacle of lyricism. But Vinyl Life’s commitment to vintage gear and the old-school aesthetic is admirable. And the bouncy 808 beats and jittery synths of their single “Future Beat” are infectious.The Arthur Baker-esque “Future Beat,” with its Dan DeGloria-directed video clip, is from Vinyl Life's self-titled debut. The ‘Vinyl Life’ LP, feat
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The latest single from Ann Arbor, Michigan-bred DJ, emcee, producer, multi-instrumentalist and retro-Soul crooner Mayer Hawthorne's debut 'A Strange Arrangment' is the sultry, lo-fi Funk ballad “Green Eyed Love.”The hallucinatory, absynth-flavored video clip, directed by Mazik of the Los Angeles-based Self Aviary video production outfit, suits the song's sensuous, sweaty and more than slightly
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‘The Horribly Slow Murderer With the Extremely Inefficient Weapon’ might be the best horror film of the year.
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With “Parlez-Vous Francais?” Australian Dance-Rock trio Art vs Science didn't just kick out a thumping jam, they, and director Alex Roberts, made one of the best Rock videos of the year.“Parlez-Vous Francais?” is taken from Art vs Science's self-titled debut EP, which is physically available in stores as an import and on sale now digitally via the iTunes store.
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The boys from Brooklymore trio Claire Hux return, providing beats and backup vocals for their homegirl Libby of Lazerbitch on “Music You,” a big, bouncy early ‘80s-inspired Post-Disco, Electro/Freestyle, Dance-Pop track mashed up with some B-More club beats.Libby of Lazerbitch “Music You” feat. Claire Hux (.MP3)Claire Hux mastermind DLake is also offering up the individual track files fo
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This Spring Mates of State, one of my favorite bands, released ‘Re-Arranged: Remixes Volume 1,’ a collection of remixes of songs from their latest LP ‘Re-Arrange Us,’ on limited edition 12'' vinyl.The EP, which boasted reworks by the likes of DJ Sega, Flosstradamus, The Mae Shi and RAC, has just been re-released digitally with a bonus digital-only remix from Zion-I beatmaker Amp Live.You c
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Backwards videos...From Coldplay to The Pharcyde they‘re almost always entertaining. And the Lloyd Stas-directed backwards video clip for Nottingham, England four piece Swound!’s “Predator 3” is no exception.Swound!-whose name is a portmanteau formed from a combination of the words “sweet” and “sound”-releases the “Predator 3” single November 2nd on the Stressed Sumo Records l
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I won't front, “Little Young,” the new single and video from legendary Brooklyn emcee Masta Ace and veteran Boston rapper EDO. G's forthcoming ‘Arts & Entertainment’ collabo as A&E screams “mixtape track.” The beat is repetitive and uninspired and the song itself is lacking in energy. But the concept is really cute, the Steven Tapia-directed video is well executed, and both Ace (who
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If you‘ve never heard of Jahcoozi, a Berlin-based trio made up of London-born Sri Lankan Sasha Perera, Israeli-born Oren Gerlitz and Berlin native Robot Koch who made a hybrid of Reggae, Rap and Dance Music, they sorta pioneered the sound and style M.I.A. parlayed into worldwide renown.Group member Robot Koch, who was also behind the Rock project Tape, has launched his own label, Robots Don’t
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One of my favorite rappers in the game right now, Los Angeles native Blu, is fast becoming one of my favorite producers out here as well.His recent beat-tapes and ‘ADayLate&ADollarShort,’ the debut album from Brooklyn emcee Sene which he produced in its entirety under his beatmaking alias GODlee Barnes, have been iPod favorites for a while.And now he's lending his skills behind the board skill
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