Electronic Innovators by contrabandwidth 126 plays

Electronic musicians, or bands for that matter are the original punks. They break the traditional formats in favor of oscillations, drum machines and the warm hums of tubes and circuitry. In no order of importance or release date, here is a sampling of so...

9 tracks featuring David Bowie, Herbie Hancock, Silver Apples, Donna Summer, Brian Eno, Walter C...

The State of The 808 by contrabandwidth 41 plays

The Roland TR-808 (or 808) drum machine was created as a way for musicians to record drum tracks for demos. It was considered inferior to the Linn LM-1 which was more expensive and the first drum machine to use digital samples. The lower price and analog ...

8 tracks featuring Talking Heads, Beastie Boys, Front 242, Afrika Bambaataa, Mantronix, Run-DMC,...

Playlists Under The Covers #1 by contrabandwidth 19 plays

A Playlist of covers that may be better known then the original version, or unique covers of a well known original song.

8 tracks featuring Bruce Springsteen, Black Star, The Mamas & The Papas, Luna, Eddie Hazel, Mich...

Deconstrukting Die Antwoord by contrabandwidth 4 plays

Die Antwoord is the latest incarnation South African hip hop personae Waddy Jones aka, Watkins Tudor Jones, aka. Ninja, aka. Max Normal, etc. Jones made a splash on the internet when his music was discovered by some high profile blogs, leading people who w...

10 tracks featuring Watkin Tudor Jones, The Constructus Corportation, Maga Bo

Femme Fatale Mix - The Lou Reed Edition by contrabandwidth 3 plays

Who hasn't ever been in love with someone from a distance, or even up close, who could just be your ruin. So here's to the ladies with seductive and destructive impulses that might just take us down in flames with them.

10 tracks featuring Nico, The Velvet Underground

Gloomy Sunday by contrabandwidth 2 plays

The song Gloomy Sunday is a song steeped in a lot of superstition. Supposedly it has led many to commit suicide, meanwhile being a much covered song by many well known artists mostly because of it's moving lyrics and captivating melody. Here's a collectio...

9 tracks featuring Rick Nelson, Sinéad O'Connor, Marianne Faithfull, Mel Tormé, The Smithereens,...

Night of The Living Bass Heads by contrabandwidth 2 plays

A short history of Bass Music

10 tracks featuring Duice, Tag Team, 2 Live Crew, 95 South, Maggotron, OutKast, MC A.D.E., The Am...

Contrabandwidth's 90's Album Essentia... by contrabandwidth 1 plays

Essential Albums you might have missed if you were sleeping, may have forgotten, or were embryonic. Pharcyde offered up an unusual and fantastic debut album that was out of step and out of place in the gangsta 90's.

15 tracks featuring The Pharcyde