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LA's Delicious Vinyl label is expanding on its catalog of groundbreaking and classic hip-hop with the creation of a new iPhone app in conjunction with Ten23 Software .
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LA-based noise maker Ariel Pink and his Haunted Graffiti have signed to Britain's 4AD label after releasing a slew of records on Paw Tracks.
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Trip-hop veterans Massive Attack are set to follow up their recent Splitting the Atom EP with the fifth full-length album of their near two-decade career, entitled Heligoland .
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While Bristol duo Fuck Buttons ' latest record, Tarot Sport , might skew toward ambient electro, it's hardly surprising that the band's genesis came during Benjamin Power and Andrew Hung's involvement in the hardcore punk scene as teenagers. “It's informed who I've become as a person somehow,” ...
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German producer/DJ/label head DJ Hell has finished his work on a collaboration with Roxy Music's Bryan Ferry, a reinterpretation of an unreleased song by Ferry entitled "U Can Dance."
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From the music-production and live-performance software giant Ableton , in conjunction with the masterminds that brought you Max/MSP, Cycling '74 , comes the long-awaited Max for Live , released today.
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With his growing reputation—and the promise of a debut full-length—Bristol's Joker takes it one day at a time.
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Over the past year, a new hip-hop subgenre has bubbled up from the streets of Los Angeles. Known as jerkin', the scene is largely populated by internet-savvy, skinny-jeans-wearing teens whose favorite artists are often like-minded young MCs and producers who operate almost exclusively on ...
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DJ Star Eyes (a.k.a. former XLR8R editor Vivian Host) is featured in the newest installment of New York on the Clock , where she talks about her genesis as a DJ and member of NYC's Trouble and Bass crew. Check it!
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Javelin Tours and Invites Fans to Create Record Covers
As they did on their debut,Brooklyn's Javelin will once again be screenprinting over record sleeves acquired from thrift shops for their latest 12" on Thrill Jockey. (To check out some awesome examples of their past work, go here ). But ...
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What started as a home-grown collaborative project to document the new electronic-music underground between London photographer Shaun Bloodworth and the Give Up Art design studio has grown into something larger with the assistance of Bleep.com .
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UK dubstep/future garage phenom Joy Orbison recently dropped on new mix on the Ministry of Sound's Greenmoney radio show. Armed with new-ish tunes from several like-minded producers and a few of his own unreleased productions, Mr. Orbison offers a nice purview of UK bass music's more refined ...
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Our faithful friends at FACT have just posted a super-limited download of Sebastian Tellier's "L'Amour et La Violence (Floating Points Remix)," up for grabs for just one week. Snag it while you can.
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It's been 10 years since the last time artists from electronic labels Minus and Raster-Noton collaborated on the New Forms release and performance project in Leipzig, Germany. Now, the minimalist audio and visual masters are again combining their efforts for CONTAINER, a night of ideas and new ...
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With a title that could possibly be the most fitting name for an album from Oakland's Jamie Stewart and friends , Xiu Xiu is preparing to release the lush and enigmatic Dear God, I Hate Myself on Kill Rock Stars February 23. Dear God is the first Xiu Xiu album co-produced by Deerhoof's Greg ...
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While you're thumbing through the virtual pages of XLR8R.com, make sure to download the brand-new November/December issue of the magazine , where we go deep into our favorites of 2009.
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Chicago-area producer Stephen Hitchell (a.k.a. Intrusion) crafts dub-techno that sounds like it's underwater, or floating through the air from a basement club 10 blocks away. Under his many monikers, including the collaborative Echospace project with Rod Modell, Hitchell has helped bring about ...
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From the New York subway's train No. 2—whose whistle, according to a February 2009 article in the New York Times , sounds like Leonard Bernstein when it pulls in to Times Square—to serious discussions about how we might “tune” the silent engines of electric cars, 2009 was a year for acoustic ...
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The boys at the Lower End Spasm blog (for which Alex Bok Bok is a contributor) just put up a killer sinogrime mix from 2005 by musicologist/bass assassin Kode9.
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