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Genre: Dubstep, Electro House, Moombahton
Category: Features, Show Review
If It Bleeds It Leads — Knife Party at Ministry of Sound [Show Review + Photos]
Knife Party – Fire Hive.mp3 School, family, work, friends, hobbies, health, happiness, clean living… These are just a few of the many things that rank below Knife Party on my list of lifetime priorities. So, when they showed up at Ministry of Sound, I figured there was no way I wouldn’t see them. And lo, [...]
Genre: Electronic, Hip Hop, Mashup
Category: Re:mix Lab, Show Review
Re:mix Lab Recap
For complete coverage, hit the Re:mix Lab category link at the top right of the article! The last packed day of events for Re:mix Lab was Saturday, and the evening portion featured my favourite performance of the week. I showed up early in the day for a hip hop event featuring Cut Chemist, and later [...]
Genre: Alternative, Electronic, Hip Hop
Category: Music Commentary, Re:mix Lab, Show Review
Re:mix Lab Update – Kickoff and RE:Generation ft Skrillex, DJ Premier, Erykah Badu, Crystal Method
So Re:mix Lab is half over, and I am half dead from the series of open-bar x no-cover parties that have been running this week down at 401 S. Main St. Suffice it to say, the capacity crowds and top notch artists have made for an atmosphere conducive to partying. There is a weekend full [...]
Genre: Electro House, House
Category: Features, Show Review
Quintino Performs to Packed House @ Cobra, Toronto
Quintino’s latest mix (hit play and read on!): On Thursday December 1st, Quintino, one of the most exciting new artists of the year was in Toronto for a performance at Cobra Nightclub. I had the pleasure of opening up the show to a group of people genuinely excited for this budding new artist, which is [...]
Genre: Alternative, Electronic
Category: Music Commentary, Show Review
Low Tide for Chill Wave?
Sorry about making you spit your vodka-redbull all over your macbook, but Salacious (an electronic music blog) is totally about to write about Neon Indian (an alleged rock band). Bizarre, right? Strap in and and hear me out. Bands like Neon Indian, Toro Y Moi, and Surfer Blood used more or less electronic instrumentation and [...]
Genre: Electronic, Hip Hop
Category: Re:mix Lab, Show Review
Theophilus London Performs for Packed House @ Chicago East River Arts Center
At around 8pm on Saturday evening, East Illinois Street was buzzing. The block was completely full of young, extremely well dressed twenty-somethings waiting expectantly. Their destination, the Chicago East River Arts Center, played host to Theophilus London and hundreds of Chicago’s most fashion conscious – writers, photographers, marketing ‘suits’, designers, and a whole range of [...]
Category: Features, Show Review
Flying Lotus Live at The Roundhouse, London
Flying Lotus (Steven Ellison) is a lot of things. Not on that list: boring, moody, or remotely conventional. I’m going to get to this, but I want to set the rest of the scene. So the Roundhouse is a special venue; it’s legendarily avant-garde; miles ahead of the times, etc. We know this already. It [...]
Category: Features, Music Commentary, Show Review
James Blake Plays Toronto, Chides Contemporaries for Abandoning the Ethos of Dubstep
Rainy weather aside, the atmosphere at James Blake’s performance at the Phoenix Concert Hall was one of unreserved anticipation. The crowd that filled the Phoenix was a soggy, but eclectic, mix of hip twenty-somethings, all of whom fell silent as Blake’s lanky figure took to the stage. Blake immediately hypnotized the crowd in a trance [...]
Genre: House, Tech House
Category: Electric Zoo 2011, Interview, Live Interviews, Show Review
Guti Interview at Electric Zoo (HD Exclusive)
Photo Credit: Bennett Sell-Kline for ElectricZooFestival.com Support Guti on Facebook | Official Site To call Guti an up-and-comer would describe the start he got just a couple years ago on his techno and house project in Germany. It would also belie the incredible productions he has released under Desolat this year, and the support he [...]
Genre: Dubstep
Category: Electric Zoo 2011, Interview, Live Interviews, Show Review
12th Planet Interview at Electric Zoo 2011 (HD Exclusive)
Connect with 12th Planet online: www.12thplanet2012.com facebook.com/12thplanet2012 twitter.com/12thplanet 12th Planet Mothership Tour with Skrillex, Nadastrom, Foreign Beggars I flew down to NYC at the beginning of the month after receiving my Electric Zoo press accreditation for the second year running, armed with my DSLR, audio recorder, and drive to cover the festival from a different [...]
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