With this year’s edition of Red Bull Music Academy going down in New York, the Big Apple’s club scene has been the talk of the Internet. With tens of thousands of words being spent either aggrandizing or eulogizing the scene, it’s important to note that the individual players are equally or even more important than […]
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For the past few years, Marc Glasser aka Dubbel Dutch has quietly insulated himself within the ever-growing North American club music sound. Borrowing bits and pieces from everything from Jersey/Baltimore Club to grime and throwing them into a blender with elements of dancehall, the Brooklyn by-way-of Texas resident has separated himself from the Soundcloud masses […]
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As one third of blog/label/collective Transmission Collective, Wolf Cub has been making waves as of late by working within the throwback style of house music that appears to be all the rage at the moment. As much as we’d like to disparage such a blatantly self-serving trend, artists like Wolf Cub, Bicep and Ejeca are […]
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Ever since Kingdom’s inclusion in the Night Slugs empire, the Brooklyn-based badman has been at his best while imprinting the signature UK label’s aesthetic on insular/regional North American club sounds. Just a few years ago, hyperactive scenes in Newark, Baltimore and Harlem were all but completely unknown to the general music listening public, but in […]
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Chris Long aka Monolithium has lived in relative isolation his entire life. Growing up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Long indulged in Swedish math metal, about as sonically distant from the melodic footwork of his sophomore “Bounce 4 Life” EP as you can get. Of course, he was also a true school hip-hop head and fostered a […]
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Over the past three years, Dark Sky have embedded their forward-thinking club workouts into the minds of fans and critics alike, melding the bass heavy sounds of DMZ-era dubstep with contemporary synth experimentation. The “Myriam” EP is the London trio’s fourth four-track EP in that time period and represents the most concise, insular incantation of […]
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Roc Marciano’s “Wee III” opens with a sample taken from Michael Mann’s first feature film, a Chicago crime drama called Thief. In the film, James Caan plays Frank, an unrepentant thief embedded in the city’s gang life. Without stretching too far, Roc Marciano’s sophomore LP “Reloaded”is an aesthetic kin of Mann’s Thief. Both portray a […]
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Much of the talk surrounding the release of 20-year-old Suffolk-native Gerry Read’s debut album “Jummy” (out now on Fourth Wave) has revolved around what he has said in interviews and/or the relative lack of interviews he’s submitted to. Since the “Patterns EP” arrived in late 2010, he’s been called the UK house version of (the […]
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