Meet indie-dance duo The Wheel Wells

Genre: Synth Pop & Indie Dance

Toronto based Indie-Dance duo The Wheel Wells are a weekly staple at Queen Street watering hole Czehoski, for their weekly dance parties and monthly Family Fridays events, which bring local [...]

German techno producer Shed returns with new single

Genre: Techno

Berlin-based DJ/producer René Pawlowitz’s Shed moniker is a constant source of ground-breaking techno. His 2008 debut album “Shedding the Past” elegantly blurred the boundaries between old school rave and contemporary [...]

Introducing the hottest voice in deep house

Genre: Deep House

Hailing from Chicago and harkening back to its golden age of house music, Russell Pike aka Russoul is lending new energy to the late-80s sound resurgent in current deep house [...]

Jacques Renault Making Waves

Genre: House, Nu-Disco, Tech House

You might have remembered one of his first tracks exposed here on Salacious circa fall of 2010 with his super remix of “Beam Me Up” by Midnight Magic.

He comes from a very musical background, having started off learning classical music in Washington DC playing violin and the viola, adding trumpet [...]

Bag Raiders Unleash The Snake

Genre: House

There has been some talk as to why their track “Snake Charmer” was a lot more bumpin’ than usual.
Today they revealed that the real snake charmer was indeed Cassian!

Has Crizzly captured the future sound of Dubstep?

Genre: Dubstep, Electro House, Hip Hop

Crizzly, one of the most notable new guys of 2011 hits us with a new mixtape dubbed (ha ha ha “dub”) Crunkstep. His mastery of bass is impressive, and his [...]

Virtual Boy – Let Go [MP3]

Genre: Downtempo and Chill House, Electronic, Synth Pop & Indie Dance

Yesterday, Alpha Pup Records dropped the second single from the debut album of intriguing electronic duo Virtual Boy. I can’t say that I’ve heard any buzz surrounding the album or Virtual Boy for [...]

Jonas Rathman: Tobago Spotlight

Genre: Deep House, House, Nu-Disco

Some of the tail end releases in 2011 gave a fresh light to what 2012 was going to bring us. On December 12th, disco viking Jonas Rathsman released his first tropical-sounding release on French Express. Having made an impression with his first release “Love Is My Middle Name” on the French Express Vol. 2 compilation, they snapped him up for another deal. His retro disco-style certainly fits the bill.

Anonymous Canadian producer Zetto reveals free-music project [interview + MP3s]

Genre: Electronic

Zetto just flew into my lap not too long ago and it was for a good reason! Having little knowledge on the background of who Zetto is or where he [...]

Is Memorecks Hip-Hop’s Next Big Thing?

Genre: Hip Hop

UPDATE: HUGE news exclusive for you: you’ll soon be lucky enough to support Memorecks in upcoming collaborative productions AND on tour with a Toronto dubstep institution, whose own productions are [...]

Ambitious Producer ‘Aech_Rom’ Sedates and Stimulates

Genre: Downtempo and Chill House, Drum & Bass, Electronic, Techno

Thomas J. Rubeli, a.k.a. Aech_Rom, is a relatively unknown producer from Switzerland who makes beautiful and inspired electronic music.  Although one might be inclined to label Aech_Rom as Drum & Bass or [...]

Apocalyptic Retro Rave from Enigmatic DJ/Producer ‘LIL INTERNET’

Genre: Electronic, Moombahton, Progressive House, Trance

Back in June, our very own DJ Cal posted the video for Dillon Francis and Diplo’s “Que! Que!”. Y’all remember this?  The one with the dancing twelve year olds and [...]

Introducing New UK Garage Virtuoso ‘Sorrow’

Genre: Dubstep, UK Garage

Sorrow’s forte is versatility. This guy (His name is Joe and he is from Birmingham, UK) can do dubstep, garage, deep garage, 4×4 garage,grime, 2-step, ambient, emotional piano music and [...]

Jimmy’s Good Vibes

Genre: House

DJ Nekbath: the underground genius.

Running for Love and Money

Genre: Nu-Disco

The Outrunners are an interesting outfit from Nantes, France. Pierre de la Touche & Stephen Falken are a dynamic duo who are instrumental to the rise of Nu-Disco. Together as [...]

The Count & Sinden Set For New Release

Genre: Electronic

Hervé and Sinden have been a formidable partnership for quite some time. The duo have been hacking away at the synthesizers and sequencers, and are set to release a new [...]

Listen to new shit: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Genre: Alternative

I recently visited Halifax and really really liked it;  alot more than a Toronto-snob grade 12-version of myself would.  In the over-saturated music market that is Toronto, we often lose [...]

Do You Feel Like Dancing?

Genre: Nu-Disco

Strip Steve is a hot shot flying out from Boys Noize Records. Apparently the name comes from a “garbage pail kids” sticker card a friend gave to him; nevertheless, Monsieur [...]

Stanton Warriors Remix SubFocus

Genre: Electronic

These are all really high quality DJ edits, so make sure you get to the vocals before you make a decision! True pioneers of a sound that broke all the [...]

Jump Jump Dance Dance – Modern Eyes

Genre: Electronic

Modern Eyes is the latest single from Australia-via-L.A electro-rock act Jump Jump Dance Dance, taken from their self-titled debut album due August 2010. The video was directed by Clemens Habicht [...]