The Do-Over is a summertime party in L.A. founded by Aloe Blacc, Stones Throw behind-the-scenes architect Jamie Strong & Chris Haycock featuring a who’s who of mystery guests. The renown party now comes to life in the form of a Limited 10-inch record series featuring exclusive tracks from guests of the party. Each volume is [...]
Presented by Diplo’s Mad Decent label, Free Gucci is a 15-track remix CD of the recently re-jailed Gucci Mane. It features Flying Lotus, Memory Tapes, SALEM, and Brodinski among others, remixing tracks from Gucci’s “Cold War” mixtape series. As can be expected with any mixtape, there are some disappointments (in the Flying Lotus track especially), but as a whole it’s a must-have if you like any of the above musicians.
As with most abstract music, it takes a certain kind of mindset and environment for it to be enjoyed to the fullest… relaxed, forward-thinking, meditative, open-minded. If you’re stressed or mad, it goes to waste because you’re taking something that can be interpreted many ways and shining it in negative light. In those cases it’s [...]
So I’m going to start promoting a lot more lesser known bands. Major labels are just pissing me off. I was ready to post the first musicleech playlist like two weeks ago (tracklist below), but a bunch of the songs on there were from major label bands and I’m not trying to get sued so [...]
In celebration of Flying Lotus’s birthday, ArtDontSleep put together another heavy impromptu jam session in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles. This 30 minute take from the jam session features some heavy hitter producers and musicians, including Flying Lotus himself, Exile, Shafiq Husayn (SA-RA), Stephen ‘Thundercat’ Bruner (Erykah Badu, SA-RA), Miguel Atwood-Ferguson (Suite for [...]
The Hyperdub label, home to many great artists in the dubstep scene, is releasing a compilation to celebrate it’s fifth year. It’s entitled 5: 5 Years of Hyperdub and is out Oct. 19 in the UK and the following day in the States. It should be a good addition to your music collection whether you’re [...]
A bunch of big names are slated to play the second All Points West Music & Arts Festival in New Jersey the last weekend in July. Lineup is below. Tickets go on sale this Friday (4/4) at noon via Ticketmaster. They are $89 for a single day ticket and $199 for a three-day pass. A [...]
None of these picks are mind-blowing if you’ve been keeping up with their record reviews over the past year, so as far as consistency goes, and as a whole, they do a decent job. But a handful of picks seem kinda crazy to me: New Age at #3 (it’s good but not that good), Cut [...]
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