Tyler The Creator - Yonkers

Catch up with Tyler on facebook

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KRS-One - Sound Of Da Police (Felix Luker Remix)

The KRS-One classic "put through a shredder & come through all puff-chested and wonky". 

 

Felix' Saw EP is out on beatport 

   [UAA049] Felix Luker - Saw by U&A Recordings

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Elliot Lipp - Mux Mool & Big Gigantic Remixes

Download here

Download here

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Virus Syndicate - Your Life (Starkey Remix)

Get more info

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Pretty Lights - Glowing In The Darkest Night

I've been slackin! Derek Smith aka Pretty Lights has been hard at work dropping 3 new EPs this year and I missed the first two! Well now I'm catching up and if you haven't been hot on his trail, you should too. He offers each of his releases for free download from his website but I highly encourage you to leave him a couple of bucks via the donation option. Help keep your artists working!

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NAPT vs Bashy vs 2Pac vs Chromeo

Celebrating the release of

Bashy & NAPT's "Make My Day",

NAPT mashed Bashy's 2009 hit "Millionaire", TuPac’s "California Love" &
Chromeo’s "Needy Girl" into a finely crafted piece of N-Funk.

 Make My Day - Bashy vs NAPT

Order Bashy Vs NAPT "Make My Day" including Specimen A's firing remix now by clicking here: http://bit.ly/MMD-iTunes

http://www.napt-music.com

http://www.bashy.com

http://www.facebook.com/naptuk

http://www.facebook.com/bashy

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Sub Swara - Triggers

About a month ago we brought you the Sub Swara remix of Shutterbug. And about two weeks ago Sub Swara dropped their second album 'Triggers'. I did give you a widget to grab one of their tracks free after signing up on their email list, but now they've dropped us Bend You and Steam as 320kbps giveaway  tracks!

Bend You - Sub Swara

Steam - Sub Swara

http://subswara.com

Sub Swara creates, constructs, produces and plays genrebending bass music that parallels the diversity of their home town of Brooklyn, NY. Consisting of Dhruva and Dave Sharma, Sub Swara's musical genome brings together a wide assortment of DNA - from dub to hip-hop, dancehall to punk rock, and all the global sounds in between. Sub Swara combines electronic production, live instrumentation, and 3000% of recommended energy levels to bring to life an inclusive, human experience that creates an inviting space for anyone and everyone.

Sub Swara's second album, Triggers (out on Low Motion Records), continues the group's exploration and blending of different spaces in bass music and draws from a completely unique sound pallete that marries both live (much of the percussion is actually played by the group in addition to other instruments by guest artists) and electronic elements. The aesthetic is not tied to any single genre. It traverses through dubstep, hip hop, and sounds yet to be classified, binding these elements together with a strong melodic center, dancefloor energy and inventive production.

The album features collaborations with Dead Prez Lyrics Born, Kendra Foster of Parliament Funkadelic and the up and coming hip hop act, Freddie Mills. The instrumental collaborations feature the afrobeat horns of Antibalas and a host of master session musicians from around the world.

- Low Life Inc

 

  

Here's an extra treat, a 44min, 320kbps mix of tracks off the album mixed by Sub Swara


Triggers Mixtape Vol.1 - Sub Swara

Now go buy the album! = )

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Beautiful Bells - Managing Depth

Another very interesting artist. I'd have to say his sound is mostly chill, downtempo, sometimes hip hop rhythms, sometimes abstract rhythms and lots of samples and effects.

Good Mornings - Beautiful Bells

Beautiful Bells is the Alabama-born Justin Peake, who now splits his time between New Orleans and Brooklyn. While primarily a drummer, music has always been at the center of Peake's life, starting with the violin at age 4, and later the piano at age 6, learning drums and guitar in his early teens, Justin's family history is deeply rooted in Jazz. With a broad and eclectic array of musical influences, citing names like Iannis Xenakis, J Dilla, Fela Kuti, Bill Evans, Autechre, John Cage, and many in between, harmonious complexity is the fuel behind many of Justin's multifaceted works.

With more concern regarding the true expression of a musical vision, Peake states that "I don't want to say something musically or artistically that's already been said because...well, it's already been said. The next record will be different. And the one after that will be different too, and on and on. I'm coming at electronic music [based on] what feels good to me." As Beautiful Bells, his forward-thinking beats wax future jazz with ample helpings of homemade samples and improvised melodies, fusing them with synths, as well as instruments both digital and analog. Perhaps it is best summed up by examining the meaning of the name Beautiful Bells-- the root "bell" is used in many languages in the word "beautiful," while the ringing of bells produces some of the most physically complex tones that we observe in the world. "Funny that our word for the most complex of tones means 'beautiful.'" - Moodgadget

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Shigeto - Full Circle (Out Now) + New Free Download

Brown Eyed Girl - Shigeto

Shigeto's new website is offering free downloads, tour updates, release info and more if you sign up for his newsletter. You can also stream the album at his website or you can check it out at AOL Spinner.

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Shigeto - Full Circle remixes

Here's a couple remixes of tracks off Shigeto's full length album, due out November 9th.

Unrelentless Drag (Mike Slott Remix) - Shigeto

And We Gonna (Samiyam Chopsticks Remix) - Shigeto

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Mux Mool - On Lengthy U.S. Tour + Freebie Trax

"Mux Mool begins his first proper U.S. tour. In celebration, we have decided to offer an additional track from his debut album, Skulltaste, and the recent follow up EP, Wax Rose Saturday. "No Black Crayons" is a bonus track from the digital version of Skulltaste while Devonwho gives Mux's "Lady Linda" the remix treatment." - Ghostly

No Black Crayons - Mux Mool

Lady Linda (Devonwho Remix) - Mux Mool

Dates

10.14 Syracuse , NY @ Wescott Theater
10.15 Buffalo, NY @ The Town Ballroom
10.16 Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Small's Theater
10.17 Columbus , OH @ Newport Music Hall
10.19 Nashville, TN @ Exit/In
10.20 St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
10.21 Little Rock, AR @ Revolution Music Room
10.22 Tulsa, OK @ Cain's Ballroom
10.24 Flagstaff , AZ @ The Orpheum
10.27 Los Angeles, CA @ Hous of Blues
10.28 Crystal Bay, NV @ The Crown Room
10.29 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
10.30 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
10.31 Seattle , WA @ Showbox at the Market
11.02 Missoula , MT @ The Top Hat
11.03 Bozeman, MT @ Filling Station
11.04 Salt Lake City, UT @ The State Room
11.05 Denver, CO @ Gothic Theatre
11.09 Lawrence, KS @ Bottleneck
11.10 Omaha, NE @ Slowdown
11.11 Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall Ballroom
11.12 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
11.13 Madison, WI @ Orpheum Theatre
11.14 Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre
11.15 Ann Arbor, MI @ Blind Pig w/ Matthew Dear
11.18 Boston, MA @ House of Blues Boston
11.19 Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground
11.20 Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground
11.21 Northampton, MA @ Pearl Street
12.10 Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theater w/ Ghostland Observatory

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Lexicon - I Wanna Be Sedated (Ramones Cover)

After releasing two successful indie hiphop albums, LA-based brothers Gideon & Nick Black added a band, created a new genre, and made Paris a home for their new sound. So far, très bien.

But this perfect scenario, like anything in life, didn’t come easy. Instead of building on the props they’d achieved in the underground scene, they tore it all down, in order to build something different. Calling upon for inspiration all of the rock and new wave music that blared from their parents speakers while they were growing up, Lexicon realized that by combining these elements with their deep knowledge of hiphop they could finally express themselves the way they wanted to.

Mixing their broad range of influences from the A Tribe Called Quest to The Strokes to The Police to N.E.R.D. to Roxy Music…these seasoned vets flawlessly flow their way through this new sound with an appealing confidence and an ever-present sense of humor.

Signed to Paris-based record label Laitdbac since late 2008, the brothers Black released two acclaimed singles, and played numerous shows and festivals around Europe to pave the way for the release of the long awaited album “Rapstars“.

I Wanna Be Sedated (Ramones Cover) - Lexicon

Junk Food - Lexicon

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FUKKK OFFF - Worldwide EP

Brain Rock - FUKKK OFFF

Worldwide - FUKKK OFFF

Sick new EP from the electro rock outfit, FUKKK OFFF. Brain rock is a classic electro banger while the title track, Worldwide is more of club electro hip hop. Can't wait to hear the remixes of these tracks coming in 2011. Get yourself the full quality originals from beatport.

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Big Boi - Shutterbug (Sub Swara Remix)

"As they move closer to the the November 9 release of their second album, Triggers, the Brooklyn duo, Sub Swara flips an electric soul-drenched twist on Big Boi's Shutterbug, mixing equal parts Curtis Mayfield-era piano and string layers with the group's dynamic bass weight.  While the first single off the new album, 'Bend You' showed the dancefloor-smshing upbeat dubstep angle, this remix is indicative of a different pulse that still embraces Sub Swara's signature melding of lush melody laced around a core of earth-shaking rhythm." - LowLifeInc

Shutterbug (Sub Swara Remix) - Big Boi

Also, here's a lil treat... An original dubstep track from Sub Swara

 

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Shigeto - Full Circle

ARTIST: Shigeto
ALBUM TITLE: Full Circle
LABEL: Ghostly International / Moodgadget
FORMAT: CD / LP / DL
RELEASE DATE: November 9th (US/EU) & November 22, 2010 (UK)
GENRE: Electronic / Beats / Hip Hop

01. Ann Arbor Part 1
02. Escape From The Incubator
03. Relentless Drag
04. So So Lovely
05. Sky Of The Revolution
06. Brown Eyed Girl
07. French Kiss Power Up
08. Ann Arbor Part 2
09. Children At Midnight
10. Look At All The Smiling Faces

Thus far, Zach Saginaw’s releases as Shigeto have been fragments, albeit singularly satisfying fragments—EP-length glimpses into the Brooklyn producer’s creative psyche. After filling two EPs on Ghostly International (Semi Circle & What We Held On To ) , Shigeto’s lush, sumptuous take on instrumental hip-hop has fully materialized. Full Circle , the artist’s first full-length album due on November 9th, completes the journey begun with Shigeto’s Semi-Circle EP, synthesizing the drummer/producer’s signature themes of family, continuity, and musical boundary-pushing into a vibrant, fully unified artistic statement.

The sounds on Full Circle come from four years of obsessive field recording and collaboration. Saginaw brought his Tascam mini-recorder with him everywhere, capturing the “glasses, chains, breathing, children, family meals, monks singing in cathedrals, walks in the south of France, and good friends offering their musical skill” that would all find homes in the record’s compositional nooks and crannies. As a result of Saginaw’s constant documentation, the songs on Full Circle play like chapters in an ongoing story—as in “Escape from the Incubator”, whose initial rhythmic claustrophobia opens up into a boom-clap nocturnal chase, or “French Kiss Power Up”, whose romantic digital strut gives way to discord and fragmentation as the waves of synthesizer give way to a shaky, neurotic coda. Full Circle is framed by the “Ann Arbor” diptych, a pair of beat suites named after Saginaw’s hometown (one featuring a sample of Detroit MC SelfSays), all double-thick synths and triple-strength kick drums. Saginaw plays the majority of his rhythms by hand, and Full Circle’s consistently deep pocket is the record’s secret weapon, thumping and breathing like a living being.

Having set the stage with Semi-Circle and What We Held On To EPs—twin treatises on Saginaw’s Japanese grandmother’s escape from a US internment camp—Shigeto is clearly ready to draw the tale to a close and take center stage. “This release represents the end of the beginning—or perhaps that there is no end and no beginning at all,” says Saginaw. Regardless, Full Circle is the start of something great.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Artists take on pseudonyms for a multitude of reasons, but in Zach Saginaw’s case, those reasons run deeper than most. Zach records under the name Shigeto. It’s his middle name; it’s also his grandfather’s name, a tribute to the Japanese branch of Zach’s family tree. Shigeto also means “to grow bigger”—appropriate, given Zach’s premature birth-weight of less than a pound. Today, Shigeto stands for Zach’s vividly beautiful electronic music. Beat-driven but given to richly textured sound design, rhythmically fractured but melodically sumptuous, Shigeto’s music is a bridge between the past and present, bringing the artist face to face with a creative legacy that spans decades.

Zach was brought up on a steady diet of Michigan-bred music, as his father spoon-fed him old Motown and jazz records by the crateload. Zach picked up the drums at an early age, spending much of his childhood playing in the Detroit/Ann Arbor music scene. After nearly flunking out of high school—save for his music studies—Zach spent three years studying jazz at the New School in NYC and three more in London, where he began woodshedding, obsessed with learning electronic production. Soon enough, beats materialized, Zach moved to Brooklyn and took up the name Shigeto, and Zach’s peers began to take notice.

Zach’s body of work has grown over the last few years to the tune of several EPs on Moodgadget as Shigeto and with A Setting Sun, a pair of EPs under the alias Frank Omura (another family-name reference), and remixes for Worst Friends, Praveen & Benoit, Tycho, Mux Mool, Charles Trees, A Setting Sun, Beautiful Bells, Shlohmo, and more. The Semi-Circle EP will be his first release with Ghostly International; the full-length Full Circle is on the horizon. Semi-Circle is a fiercely independent work of art, nominally indebted to instrumental hip-hop but, like Zach, straddling many worlds at once. Cool shades of ambient music, stuttering early IDM, dubstep sub-bass, and jazz melodicism color Shigeto’s palette, which he wields with a painterly attention to detail.

As Ghostly International hits its 10th anniversary, Shigeto is one of the first of a wave of young artists who grew up influenced by the label’s early output. And again, names come into play. “Putting out this record on Ghostly isn’t just ‘getting signed,’ for me,” says Zach, “it’s becoming part of a family, an influence that I’ve respected forever. That’s Full Circle.” Let’s just say the feeling’s mutual.

 full write-up couresty of Ghostly
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Gucci Mane - Georgia's Most Wanted

This is a special review brought to you by our newest guest contributor, Neandra!

"The Appeal.... Georgia's Most Wanted by Gucci Mane!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

I love it! When I got this cd, I put it in on my way home from work two days ago and I have not taken it out of the cd player YET! Gucci did his damn thing on this cd, but he does on all of them. I have been listening to Gucci since the So Icey days! He speaks some real ass shit if you listen to him. Gucci collaborated with some really good artist on this cd too. I would recommend this cd to anyone at anytime! This is a good cd to ride to if you know what I mean, Gucci!!!!!!!!" - Neandra

 

 

p.s. Soulwax remix of Phantom, anyone?

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Mux Mool - Wax Rose Saturday EP + Fan Made Video

"There’s something in [Mux Mool's] scrappy, kitchen-sink construction and schizophrenic, grab-anything-that’s-around spirit that begs reinterpretation, recombining, remixing." - ghostly

ARTIST: Mux Mool
ALBUM TITLE: Wax Rose Saturday EP
LABEL: Ghostly International / Moodgadget Records
RELEASE DATE: August 31, 2010

1. Wax Rose Saturday (Remux Edit)
2. Valley Girls
3. Skulltaste (Free The Robots Remix)
4. Enceladus (Daso Remix)
5. Morning Strut (Shigeto Remix)
6. Wolf Tone Symphony (Paul White Remix)
7. Lady Linda (Devonwho Edit)
8. Hog Knuckles (Alex B Remix)

Also, a very special treat from fellow Mux Mool fan, Martin Thoburn:

"I recently made this Music Video as a template for Mux Mool’s live tour visuals.  This video and lots of other footage was projected during Mux Mool‘s live set first seen at the Ghostly AV Showcase in San Francisco last July.  To get a taste of how the live set looked check out this video at the San Fran Show." - Martin Thoburn

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p.s. Mux Mool is also touring North America starting on the 18th (The same day as our next OMFG Dance party! Shhh!!), but I was reluctant to post the dates since he's NOT coming to ATLANTA!! But I figure there are plenty of Mux fans out there that just might want to know....

09.18 Detroit, MI @ We Like Music Festival
09.22 Seattle, WA @ Decibel Festival (Ghostly International Showcase)
10.14 Syracuse , NY @ Wescott Theater
10.15 Buffalo, NY @ The Town Ballroom
10.16 Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Small's Theater
10.17 Columbus , OH @ Newport Music Hall
10.19 Nashville, TN @ Exit/In
10.20 St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
10.21 Little Rock, AR @ Revolution Music Room
10.22 Tulsa, OK @ Cain's Ballroom
10.24 Flagstaff , AZ @ The Orpheum
10.27 Los Angeles, CA @ House of Blues
10.28 Crystal Bay, NV @ The Crown Room
10.29 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
10.30 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
10.31 Seattle , WA @ Showbox at The Market
11.02 Missoula , MT @ The Top Hat
11.03 Bozeman, MT @ Filling Station
11.04 Salt lake City, UT @ The State Room
11.05 Denver, CO @ Gothic Theater
11.09 Lawrence, KS @ Bottleneck
11.10 Omaha, NE @ Slowdown
11.11 Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall Ballroom
11.12 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
11.13 Madison, WI @ Orpheum Theater
11.14 Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theater
11.18 Boston, MA @ House of Blues Boston
11.19 Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground
11.20 Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground
11.21 Northampton, MA @ Pearl Street

Bassnectar - Bass Head (King Fantastic Remix) Video

Bassnectar - Bass Head (King Fantastic Remix) from King Fantastic on Vimeo.

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OMFG Dance Party Vol. 2

If you haven't heard already (in which case you should probably add us on facebook!), Mark, Steph, the rest of the OMFG crew and I are throwing our 2nd OMFG Dance Party at East Side Lounge in the East Atlanta Village. The first party was last month and it was absolutely off the chain! Expect to hear some of the hottest electro, dubstep, hip hop and mashups all night long. We are also bringing in a very special guest DJ, Jay Envy to rock the floor from 1am til 2am. Make sure to catch his East Side debut!

We've even got limited edition OMFG condoms (because we love you and we want you to be safe!) which will be given away at the door while supplies last, come get some!!  Not to mention, more special giveaways like OMFG matchbooks and shotglasses! Hrm... preparing you for a healthy night aren't we?!? Muahahaha.

Keep yours eyes open, Steffano Smore will be snapping pics starting at 10:30pm!  

Doors open at 8pm, DJs start at 10pm

Timeslots:

10 - 11: Mark Graves

11 - 12: p.a.t.t.

12 - 1: Mark Graves + p.a.t.t.

1 - 2: Jay Envy

2 - 3: Mark Graves + p.a.t.t.

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King Fantastic - Stop F##king Playing (HavocNdeeD Remix)

OB-one and J-Paul drop us another dark, gritty, slammin remix. This one comes from the California hip hop duo King Fantastic. If you check out their site, you can catch a few more free downloads. Sick hip hop, electro, and dubstep mixes. More HavocNdeeD coming soon!

Stop F##king Playing (HavocNdeeD Remix) - King Fantastic (320kbps)

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