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Teebs :: E S T A R A (Brainfeeder)

Reviews 06/08/2014 by Alan Lockett

Naturally big on beats and bass, though refracted, after its founder’s off-kilter bent, driven less by boom-bap imperative than the diffusion of a heady vibe via tone color and harmonic motif.

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Skytree :: Cirrus Sapiens (Skytree Music)

Reviews 06/05/2014 by Gustave Savy

An intriguing mix of samples, instruments, vocals, intricate glitchy edits, synth washes and glimpses of basses that would not be out of place in a […]

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Kate Tempest :: Everybody Down (Big Dada)

Reviews 06/01/2014 by Gustave Savy

The story of Everyone Down is like a super-cool modern gangster film of the Guy Ritchie and his contemporaries style, with many different sub-plots revolving […]

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E S T A R A is Born :: Teebs

Newswires 03/22/2014 by Alan Lockett

News of a new album from tone-painting beat-poet, Teebs, due soon on Flying Lotus’s Brainfeeder. It was back in the mists of 2010 that LA-based […]

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Shadow Priest :: Street Theatre (Section 27)

Reviews 03/14/2014 by Pietro Da Sacco

Fractured, spliced and intermixed with funk contours, Street Theatre unfolds its laid-back groove via 17-tracks of emotive bliss, ambient intonations and tethered samples. As a name […]

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Beastie Boys :: Intergalactic (Benji Boko Remix)

Newswires 01/11/2014 by Gustave Savy

A free download of this remix by the remix crazy Benji Boko is available to you, for free, right now. Well, it’s free but via […]

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Kode9 :: Rinse: 22 (Rinse)

Reviews 12/22/2013 by Stephen Fruitman

British beat and bass avantgarde and head of touchstone Hyperdub label, is notably partial to its darker, miry side, and despite opening with an exemplary […]

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Shigeto :: No Better Time Than Now (Ghostly International)

Reviews 09/20/2013 by Nocturnal Ghost

In these strange times, when technology provides musicians surgical accuracy and shiny polished sound, but simultaneously in many cases sucks the soul, the human touch […]

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QBLA :: Where The Girls Are Green and the Grass Is Pretty (Architects + Heroes)

Reviews 09/08/2013 by Pietro Da Sacco

QBLA is on a powerful mission to invade hip hop and transform its underground trajectory. Southern California’s William Rosario has quite a few tricks in […]

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Mojo Rising :: On The Horizon (Cold Busted)

Reviews 07/19/2013 by Pietro Da Sacco

Via an astute ear for electrons fluttering in downtempo streams, On The Horizon reinvigorates vintage synths, bass guitars, funk and good old-school electronics and ignites these frequencies […]

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