Jacques Renault Making Waves
Genre: House, Nu-Disco, Tech House
Category: Audio, Featured Artist
Feb 11, 2012You 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 and guitar into the fray in the teenage years.
The multi-instrumentalist moved to NYC in 2002 where he began establishing his network and slowly getting his name out there -mainly by scoping out the local record shops and spinning around town.
Jacques is currently working with DFA Records and working on speciality remixes for labels from all over.
Aside from that, he’s been focusing on more original tunes near the tail end of last year.
Watch out for this prolific producer in 2012!
Feed Me – Escape From Electric Mountain EP
Genre: Drum & Bass, Dubstep, Electro House
Category: Album Review, Audio
Feb 10, 2012Escape 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 hear a fair amount of progressive house tracks mixed in with the bunch which are, frankly, a breath of fresh air. I really wish the [...]
Download the Basic Physics full-length album [Interview + MP3]
Genre: Electro House, Mashup
Category: Album Review, Interview
Feb 9, 2012In 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 and baddest blogosphere bootlegs. That’s often a dirty word – bootleg – in this industry. It usually connotes a lack of originality, and almost invariably [...]
Hot new remix of Beastie Boys’ classic “Sabotage” [MP3]
Genre: Dubstep, Electro House, Mashup
Category: Audio
Feb 9, 2012Clockwork, also known as Henry Steinway from NYC, most well known for his remix of Avicii’s “Levels”, in honor of his 21st Birthday has remixed the Beastie Boys. He choose one my favorite Beastie Boys songs “Sabotage”, and executed the remix with great style. Separate from the more electronic aspects of the track, he expertly [...]
Coleco and Cal to play Riva, Toronto, this Friday [Show Preview]
Genre: Nu-Disco
Category: Show Preview
Feb 8, 2012ColeCo 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 Torro, Bedouin Soundclash, and Young Empires. They’ve supported The Magician, Com Truise, Fake Blood, and they played CMJ in NYC at the end of 2011. [...]
How electronica is influencing London’s top cult clothing designer
Genre: Electronic
Category: Features
Feb 8, 2012Beatport describes Passarella Death Squad’s first album, Republic of Desire (released in 2010) as “electronica.” It is such an anemic word, especially for the music it is meant to encompass. Republic of Desire defies genre, blending elements of shoegaze and minimal-electronic. Vice magazine called it the soundtrack “for those S&M soirees you’re always thinking of [...]
Is this Atlanta’s next breakout dubstep producer?
Genre: Dubstep, Electro House
Category: Audio
Feb 8, 2012Popeska is a 19 year old Atlanta native by the name of Ralf who has a great take on dubstep, electro, and glitch music. For example, his track ‘Lololololol’ exhibits a very upbeat feel in the midst of its monstrous growling basslines. And then there’s ‘Oh!’ which, I must assume, has a top comment on youtube [...]
Tuesday Top Ten #48: UK garage and ethereal dubstep
Category: Tuesday Top Ten Tracks
Feb 7, 2012So, I promised you last week that my new and improved weekly top ten charts weren’t going to be the ‘here r 10 kewl blog songz for free downloads guys LOLOLOL’ lists which, those of you who have been following the site for a while, would be used to. I broke you guys in easy, [...]
Watch OK Go play over 1000 instruments in their new music video
Genre: Alternative
Category: Music Videos
Feb 6, 2012To execute this monumental and frankly insane video, OK Go set up over 1000 instruments over two miles of desert outside Los Angeles. It took 4 months of preparation and 4 days of recording, and at no point did they use stand-ins. This version of Needing/Getting was recorded as they sang while playing the instrument [...]
TEDx – Nightclubs as research labs
Genre: Electronic, Hip Hop
Category: Video
Feb 6, 2012Our good friend Yale Fox recently took part in a TEDx conference, in which he spoke on his various research projects on nightclubs, music, and more. My roommates and I watched the video last night and had some lengthy discussion afterwards – what do you guys think? Lets get some reactions in the comments section!
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