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KhromeEyez: Spaced Out 808s

Dweny ‘KhromeEyez’ Dwen was your typical rapper dabbling in generic hip hop production before being hit hard by a one-two combo of 808s and rapegaze. Rather letting things fall into place naturally (read: randomly) than following a precise method to beatmaking, Dweny is an accidental talent whose drunken drums actually sound like there were a […]

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PRΔD@NΔ: Chop-Screwy Suey

If it weren’t for his talent, we could never forgive PrΔd@nΔ for his painfully hard-to-spell hipster nom de producteur (just as you’d never forgive us for the pretentious use of a French phrase here). Being something of a walking music encyclopaedia, PrΔd@nΔ was into every niche electronic genre before everyone else. Heck, he was a […]

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Mushroom Buttons: Pushing The Right Buttons

You might remember him as Phrozt from our 2008 Cool List but he’d rather have you forget his hip hop past. Jason Chee aka Mushroom Buttons belongs in the same category as another beatmaker with the same first name, Nosaj Thing – midi pad-armed and experimental without seeming pretentious. Mushroom Buttons – You Would Never […]

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Salam: Relevant Reggae

Reggae is a difficult genre to tackle, especially in Malaysia where it is more commonly associated with rockers way past their prime who still sport dreadlocks and speak in bad faux patois. It’s either that…

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Sudarshan: Not a Fool

Being a part of Tiga Segi Tiga, which is probably just one in hundreds of bands local Dada frontman Kuning Pening has formed with him, the uninitiated could easily mistake Sudarshan (and by extension the rest of his peers) as nothing more than a novelty comedy act. They’d be right, and they’d be wrong. For […]

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Detonate: Son Lux

Check out the sounds of ethereal music maker, Son Lux

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Detonate: P.I.T.C.H.T.U.N.E.R

Drink in your fill and get down on the dancefloor to the quirky sounds of P.I.T.C.H.T.U.N.E.R.

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Detonate: Saph

Why so serius? Please meet rapper-producer Saph

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Detonate: Holy Ghost

Funkier than the Go Team and whiter than LCD. Hey look, it’s Holy Ghost!

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Detonate: The Vaccines

Just when we were wondering what happened to the likes of the Arctic Monkeys and Franz Ferdinand, along comes the overly hyped, London-based band The Vaccines. Put away the synths and pull out the good old-fashioned guitar cause it looks like we’re having a rock revival this year!