If you own a Mac and the DM1 drum machine app on iOS, you’re in for a treat. Last year, Parisian developers Fingerlab put together a wonderful app called DM1, an all-in-one drum machine originally for iOS. The features included 86 produced drum kits, mastered at in-house Fingerlab Sound Studios, a multi-touch matrix step sequencer, …
We reviewed James Blake’s Overgrown. I didn’t jump on the James Blake bandwagon immediately. I tend to be wary of media fawning of independent albums because that usually sparks the demise before the ride has even started. I was clearly incorrect (it happens) as I discovered with Blake’s sophomore album. I had to repeat the …
Jessie Ware gets her groove on in the video for Imagine It Was Us.
The UK’s Klimeks gives us some Nibbles, a small collection of music leftover tracks. Hailing from Peterborough is Klimeks, a UK producer with no fixed musical abode. His styles navigate the sounds of hip hop, trap, electronic and all the subgenres that come with it. On Nibbles, a selection of tracks leftover from last year, …
Boom Bap Beatnik kindly puts together a mix of all the samples used on Madvillain’s Madvillainy.
UK producer Handbook gives us that boom bap with his new track, You & I.
Producer/DJ Bonobo talks about “challenging music’s borders” and his new album with NPR Music. Bonobo’s Black Sands was one of the best albums of 2010 so the follow up would have to be pretty spectacular to keep the quality up. Fortunately, he has more than enough to talent to do this and judging by the …
Check out this clip from Scratch featuring Jazzy Jay, Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow, amongst others, going through their crate digging exploits. This is only 9 minutes long, but it should entice you to get the whole documentary. In 2002, a documentary called Scratch was released all about DJing, vinyl and digging, some of the …
Flying Lotus drops his dope Adventure Time track on Soundcloud. Whenever Soundcloud crashes (and let’s face it, this is a fairly regular thing), I can’t help but wonder if Flying Lotus has something to do with it. After all, any time he drops a track on there, shit takes off like a fighter jet. This …
Sampleface’s Big Groove mixes up Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up with Hi-Five’s I Like The Way into a 80s R&B jam. We all remember those damn Rickrolls from the 00s and since then, Rick Astley has become a internet cult icon. But just when you thought there was no more moisture in the …