Dance music in the broader sense can be a lot of fun, though you wouldn’t know it right now. So it’s refreshing that there are still producers out there building on stuff like 2 Live Crew and the Miami Bass scene. One such individual is New Yorker Cobra Krames, whom you may remember from his collaborative ‘Dubstep Dickens’ mix with 77Klash a couple of years ago.
Sepalcure‘s self-titled debut album was one of the most well-received LPs of last year. Their unique brand of downtempo house and IDM struck a chord with the masses, propelling them beyond the blogosphere and into hearts of the many.
It’s been a while since L-Vis 1990 released anything on his own label; 2010′s ‘Forever You’ marked the last time we a saw a Night Slugs label on his productions. Well, Night Slugs has just announced the beginning of a new series of 12″ records designed for “peak time” usage and that the first volume will be a collection of new L-Vis 1990 tracks.
Chicago-based producer EQ Why (formerly T Why) has just released his latest single for the indomitable Booty Call Records. The opening track ‘What You Do’ is a chopped up footwork number, slicing and dicing the best of 70′s funk and soul for the melody.
Italian duo Ether comprise Andrea Bracali and Francesco Bigazz. Drawing on some of the finest hip-hop, IDM, glitch and chillwave, Ether offer up an entirely appropriate selection for the batshit weather we’ve been having in Blighty lately.
Alex Burkat aka Rx popped up on our radars a couple of years ago with his free ‘Bumble’ EP for Nightshifters which threatened to break not just their website, but the ENTIRE internet. He’s been playing to bigger and bigger crowds and selling more and more records ever since.
With more and more people kicking against the digital file format and the loss of physicality in music, vinyl sales are on the rise, CDs are still widely bought and even cassettes have a niche in the market. It’s not just consumer’s seeking out tangible forms of music either, a lot of artists are now lamenting the mp3 and its effect on physical formats.
You may remember a while back St. Petersburg producer Pixelord put together a 45-minute mix of some of the best examples of glitchy downtempo beats and bobs for our humble podcast. You may also remember his debut EP ‘Lucid Freaks Pt. 1′ for Error Broadcast featuring the brilliantly titled ‘Quartz Boy’, which has now been remixed by newcomer i11even.
Detroit house and techno champion Jimmy Edgar has announced details of his forthcoming album ‘Majenta’ for Scuba’s Hotflush imprint. Edgar promises a more downbeat approach on the new album, moving away from the electro and funk of ‘XXX’.
Trondheim, Norway’s Marius Mevold aka Slick Shoota is not overly concerned with keeping scenes at a local level, always wanting to spread the word, taking new sounds to new places. Which is why it seems perversely apt that he should release an EP of juke and footwork tracks that would sound most at home in a sweaty little club in Chicago.
