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We have London-based Bobby Tank to add to the roster of artisan producers out there taking dubstep in a more innovative direction. There are moments in amongst the vocal slices and slap bass samples when you could almost be listening to Justice or Daft Punk.

Joneses is still delivering some of the most seamless mashups around.

TweetShare I’ve misplaced my leg-warmers. Normally this wouln’t really bother me – quite the opposite – but I feel naked listening to Big Black Delta without them. The solo side-project of Los Angeles-based Mellowdrone’s founding member, Jonathan Bates; BBD knocks out dark, retro electronica that suggests more rock bassists ought to take time off from their [...]

TweetShare This new track “Drive” by Daft Punk is actually from way back in 1994 when they were sending demos around to various labels. One such label they sent it to was Scottish electronic label Soma Recordings who ended up releasing their debut LP. Recently the label were going through some old stuff they had [...]

TweetShare Buy the album from Amazon – Vinyl / MP3 / CD One of the fundamental goals of running a music blog is to introduce people to new music.  The primary method of doing this is to highlight new releases, either via up and coming bands that show potential or tried-and-true musical mainstays that generally [...]

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TweetShare This post is a “QuickPick”.  QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that’s sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it’s so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I “star” it in [...]

TweetShare One thing that always amazes me about music is how new stuff gets written every day. With a handful of notes, artists still manage to create new songs and tunes and only occasionally do you hear something and think, “That sounds like…”. Some artists look beyond the usual music scale and find other ways [...]

TweetShare This post is a “QuickPick”.  QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that’s sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it’s so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I “star” it in [...]

TweetShare While I wouldn’t consider myself an electronica aficionado, like fellow LBYB writer Leisha, I do enjoy a good mix when I hear it.  This new artist, Robot Science, or Charlie Yin as he’s better known to his classmates, is a student at UC Berkley.  Yin sounds like your typical Chinese-American undergrad (despite being freakishly [...]

TweetShare When I was 14 years old I got a little Casio keyboard for my birthday.  Dreams of being rich and famous saw me get as far as learning to play a couple of simple kids ryhmes.  Strangely there didn’t seem room in the charts for vital reimaginings of this genre of music so my [...]

TweetShare This post is a “QuickPick”.  QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that’s sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it’s so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I “star” it in [...]

TweetShare This post is a “QuickPick”.  QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that’s sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it’s so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I “star” it in [...]

TweetShare This post is a “QuickPick”.  QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that’s sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it’s so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I “star” it in [...]

TweetShare This post is a “QuickPick”.  QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that’s sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it’s so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I “star” it in [...]

TweetShare The entire Daft Punk Tron: Legacy soundtrack. So how long have you been waiting for this one?  Since it was announced?  Yeah….I thought so.  Personally, I get excited for anything those silly punks do and I don’t really have much of a desire to see the movie (I haven’t seen the original, does that [...]