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Detonate: L-Vis 1990
In a scene where repetition rules not just the loops in a beat, but the similarity in the acts as well, it’s easy for everyone to lay claim to breaking the mould. Dance producer/DJ L-Vis 1990, is just the kind of act to do that, but here’s the key difference between him and other braggadocious acts – L-Vis 1990 does subvert genre conventions.
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 […]
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 […]
Zee Avi: Ghostbird
Zee Avi, Malaysia’s answer to a Mandy Mapes and Norah Jones amalgam is back. After her tour of doing Malaysia proud and putting us (finally) on the international radar, she tiptoes cautiously to the expansion of her sound. On Ghostbird, she tries to reach precariously out of her comfort zone and experiment a little. This […]
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 […]
She & Him: Christmas Day
Whilst Christmas has probably not held claim to a particularly ‘hip’ image since JC and the Biblical days, sometimes all it takes is the endorsement of Hipster Royalty to make a commercial craze buzzworthy again.
Goyte: Easy Way Out
Belgian-born, Australian based music-making mutant releases new single ‘Easy Way Out’
Oliver Huntemann: Paranoia
Techno doesn’t get a lot of respect or wider recognition in electronic music these days. More prone to conjure stereotypical imageries of E-laden youths in dingy underground London clubs than music critic acknowledgment, it is fitting that Oliver Huntemann’s Paranoia happens to be released at this point of the genre’s growth. With it, not only […]
Dum Dum Girls: Only In Dreams
Dum Dum Girls is one vintage venerating band that could easily be dismissed as just that, yet another retro reverent band. But that would be reductive criticism. Informed by France’s yé-yé (a contemporary example would be April March of ‘Chick Habit’ fame), they’ve certainly gotten enough criticism of that from their debut. Sophomore album Only […]
Soft Rocks: The Curse of Soft Rocks
Distancing themselves from the monotony of today’s musical palette, Soft Rocks, out of Brighton UK, have pieced together a musical soundscape on their new album The Curse Of Soft Rocks. After a pause in musical releases spent spinning edgy parties and curating mixtapes for the likes of Beats in Space and ID Magazine, the new […]