Album Review: Kno’s ‘Death Is Silent’

Genre: Hip Hop

For those of you who read a lot of Salacious, it’s likely you’ve long ago come to realize that for most of our writers one of our favorite hip hop [...]

Mumbai Science to release final installment in Unified Theory EP trilogy

Genre: Techno

Belgian techno & house producers Maarten Elen and Jonas Kiesekoms, aka Mumbai Science, have released the third and final part of an EP trilogy that first began in January under [...]

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 [...]

Download The 110BPM Collection, Vol. 1 [album review]

Genre: Moombahton

  Hey Internet, Ziad from music blog 110BPM here. We recently put together a compilation of exclusive tracks from 11 of the finest producers in moombahton and now I’m proud [...]

Porter Robinson, Adventure Club, and The M Machine at Fox Theatre, Oakland [show review]

Genre: Dubstep, Electro House

Last Friday I had the incredible opportunity to attend Porter Robinson’s show at the Fox Theater in Oakland, CA. It blew my mind. I say “Porter Robinson’s show”, but to [...]

Uppermost’s new EP Life is a Fight

Genre: House

Uppermost’s Life Is a Fight EP is out now! It features Uppermost’s signature upbeat rhythm, and is careful not to be over the top sounding. Life is a Fight to not like the [...]

Chicago is bringing house back home Friday March 2 @ Vision

Genre: House

This Friday March 2nd, 2012 at Vision Night Club in Chicago a cast of international DJ talent will be “Bringing the House Back Home.” The event is so named to [...]

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 [...]

Paris Syndrome

Genre: Electronic

In the DSM-IV, the catalogue of all mental illnesses known to modern medicine, there’s a short section in the back on “culturally specific” illnesses. Post-colonial arguments notwithstanding, I found one [...]

Why do you fail to recognize beauty?

Genre: Alternative

A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that 1,100 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.

Dillon Francis – Something, Something, Awesome [album review]

Genre: Moombahton

I’m personally astounded that Dillon Francis has kept relatively under the radar for so long. This California native has worked hard at establishing a sound somewhere between moombahton and midrange [...]

Download 2 new tracks from Diplo’s Express Yourself – EP

Genre: Electro House

Hey Diplo, did you not say back in December that the Express Yourself – EP would be released in January?! Well, that never happened. It’s okay though Dip, we know you’re [...]

12th Planet infiltrates Wrongbar w/ Flinch & Crizzly on The End is Near! tour [show review + photo gallery]

Genre: Dubstep

On Wednesday, Bassmentality played host to one of the biggest parties I’ve seen at Wrongbar in a very long time. The arrival of 12th Planet, Flinch, and Crizzly has been [...]

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 [...]

Vlsonn gives us ‘The Skinny’ on bass music [album review]

Genre: Dubstep, UK Garage

We first brought you news of this talented Toronto producer back in May 2010 when he released his forward-looking remix of Neon Lies, lending some cool with a twisted techno [...]

New Ghostek track featured on free ‘Future Garage’ compilaton

Genre: UK Garage

Last week’s Tuesday Top Ten saw Cal profile the up-and-coming “future garage” producer Ghostek. Thereupon, this free compilation from the Russian electronic label Square Harmony arrives right on queue. The compilation, entitled [...]

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 [...]

Feed Me – Escape From Electric Mountain EP

Genre: Drum & Bass, Dubstep, Electro House

Escape from Electric Mountain is a brilliant bit of departure from Feed Me’s earlier electro-house driven EPs. You’ll still get that trademark glitch-meets-dubstep sound, but you shouldn’t be surprised to [...]

Download the Basic Physics full-length album [Interview + MP3]

Genre: Electro House, Mashup

In advance of his first full-length effort I interviewed Alex Syse, aka Basic Physics, so that you guys might get a taste of the man behind some of 2011′s biggest [...]

Coleco and Cal to play Riva, Toronto, this Friday [Show Preview]

Genre: Nu-Disco

ColeCo have been racking up the accolades in the last several months, taking care of all live programming for The Weeknd’s upcoming tour as well as remixing for them, Torro [...]