Thanks to one of our Twitter followers—what up, @alfiepalao!—we’re psyched to share the J Dilla tribute that ?uestlove dropped as part of Hot 97’s Black Fist Fridays block this afternoon.
Check it out below, along with Stussy’s three-part documentary on the dearly missed producer…
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Available now in a 300-copy, hand-stamped run through Boiled Egg is “Backwords,” a Porcelain Raft cover by Oupa (aka Yuck’s Daniel Blumberg) and Tony Crow of Lambchop. Grab it below, or pick up the physical 7” now, featuring an untitled Oupa track on the flip…
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[Pitchfork] As promised in a self-titled interview with Pelican’s Trevor de Brauw, Earth venture further into their self-made forest than ever on Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II. No wonder why frontman Dylan Carlson was name-dropping artists like Sandy Denny and the Smoke Fairies in our year-end issue, which can be read below alongside a stream of Earth’s entire new album…
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As if he wasn’t busy enough with Beak>, a long-awaited hip-hop LP for Stones Throw (Quakers), and Portishead’s next album, Geoff Barrow also has a hefty release schedule ahead for his label Invada Records. Most of which pops up on a new Soundcloud sampler, including a surprisingly spry Chromatics cover by Anika. Check it out below…
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By Mitch Strashnov
The world of underground electronic music is nothing new to Goth-Trad, Deep Medi Musik’s Tokyo-based purveyor of deep, definitive dubstep. While he’s recently gained a cult following for tracks that can be traced back to everyone from DJ Krush to the producer’s new label boss Mala, Goth-Trad’s musical career actually began in the late ’90s with tricked-out takes on hip-hop, breaks and jungle, as well as a few heady forays into noise music.
With his latest LP, New Epoch, hitting shops this week, self-titled asked the rising beat maker to share an exclusive mix and his thoughts on Japan’s struggling music scene, repeated rewinds, and the fine line between “big, booming dubstep” and “boring electro”…
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Since we already shared a tightly wound mix—featuring David Bowie, Public Image Ltd., Swans and more—from Warm Ghost, self-titled thought we’d take a moment to remind you about the Brooklyn duo’s sorely overlooked 2011 record, Narrows. A minor-keyed marriage of battery-powered beats, Light-Brite-bathed synth lines and melancholic melodies, it hits a melodramatic peak with “Myths On Rotting Ships,” a single that sounds like Xiu Xiu with actual pop instincts.
Here’s what frontman Paul Duncan had to say about the song’s NSFW video, which we unveiled below…
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If there’s one thing we learned from compiling the artist curated lists in our year-end issue, it’s what a serious crate digger Aaron Coyes is. As on-point as everyone else’s suggestions were, the Peaking Lights multi-instrumentalist went so obscure we spent several hours finding samples of all his picks for our enhanced iPad edition.
Have a listen and a look at what we’re talking about below, right alongside a mix Coyes just posted today…
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Here’s the thing about Bear In Heaven’s new album: unlike the pitched-down listening party that’s happening at their official site right now, I Love You, It’s Cool is a total head rush listen, flooding your senses with restless rhythms and gleaming, laser-like synth lines. Meanwhile, Steve Moore’s Lovelock rendition of “The Reflection of You” is a patient lounge pop number that makes us think of leisure suits and yachts named Shirley.
Grab it in MP3 form below, alongside a stream of the original version…
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Wondering what to expect from this weekend’s special live collaboration between Carl Craig, Moritz Von Oswald and Francesco Tristano? Try a seamless blend of twitchy techno, jilted jazz and piano progressions that hint at neo-classical movements and house music, as heard in the trio’s set at Versus 2.0 last year…
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