Get PSYCHED! Electronic producer Phonat is coming to the States for his first North American tour and B3SCI is hooking you up! Praised by the likes of Skrillex as “easily the most underrated producer out there”, loved by Herve, Annie Mac, Norman Cook, Pete Tong, Rob Da Bank and more, the 7 foot Italian has been making waves across the EDM world since the release of his self-titled debut LP. This tour will be HUGE!
Interested? B3SCI has you covered! Just give us a shout and we’ll enter you to win a pair of tickets for the set!
Wednesday NOV-23-11 New York USA Webster Hall
Thursday NOV-24-11 Montreal Canada Le Belmont
Friday NOV-25-11 Toronto Canada Mod Club
Saturday NOV-26-11 WashingtonUSA Fall Massive
Thursday DEC-01-11 Denver USA Beta
Friday DEC-02-11 Hollywood USA Avalon
Saturday DEC-03-11 San Diego USA Voyeur
An ambitous new worldly jam from a bloke that you know studies electronic music at another level. “Ergo” can wear lots of hats but it still maintains all the vital elements of it’s own identity. A new producer to be on the look for.
Now here’s a cool coffee club banger from blogosphere fav Jhameel. “White Lie” has a great chorus and extended bridge which almost becomes a hidden song-within-a-song. A true polyglot (speaks Arabic, Spanish, Russian and Korean), Jhameel’s music has a cosmopolitan flair which is loved among the echo boomers. This is the sort of song I would play for a jaded hip-hop or indie rock junkie to get them to venture away from their comfort zone and into the other genre’s territory. With so many flashes in the pan, Jhameel has quietly become a familiar face. Get it get it get it.
As if “Titanium” could get any bigger, Alesso has done it. The 20-year old producer last night let loose this preview of a brand new mix for the Sia-featuring hit track. (DoML)
David Guetta – Titanium (Feat. Sia) (Alesso Remix)
Rhode Island native Abraham Orellana performed under his moniker araabMUZIK on Friday night, 11/11/11, as part of The Mondrian Sessions at the hotel of the same name on the Sunset Strip. Although the LA scene has long since moved to Silverlake and Echo Park, The Mondrian Sessions are making The Strip relevant for lovers of independent MUZIK.
AraabMUZIK’s highly regarded Electronic Dream was released over the summer. It shocked and even upset some of his admirers, for on his LP the producer oftentimes sits back and allows the original song to play through for seconds at a time. However, araabMUZIK’s previous beats for Cam’ron and others are more heavily spliced, which I view as a simple issue of producing a single song vs. an entire LP, a transition which araab handled with ease. These are big boy beats but also stand alone songs, not an easy feat for a producer barely of drinking age.
The set was performed inside, to the left of the main entrance of the hotel. It would’ve been cool to see it outside by the pool (where I saw Dirty Beaches back in August), but ten foot ceilings and a tiny bar add to the house party vibe. The crowd (50% hip-hop, 50% hipster) wilds out- the same people that sway gently at concerts in Echo Park are losing themselves in a way they’d make fun of in a different environment. The music weaves its way through several genres in several seconds, too pop for hip-hop and vice versa, infectious music flaunting conventions. It’s so packed I can only catch glimpses of his fingers furiously tapping at the MPC which he’s wholly dependent on. My friend asked, “Where is the musicianship?” He wasn’t a fan. Oh well, beauty is in the ear of the beholder.
My main fault with the experience is more of a misgiving regarding the culture that has proved fertile ground for this current DJ/Dubstep/MPC/Protools (one big umbrella) revolution: it epitomizes self aggrandizement at its most unadulterated. To believe one is the purveyor of a musical revolution is dangerous naiveté. I ran home to put on the second side of Bringing It All Back Home, as I craved a slice of Dylan’s master social commentary:
Advertising signs they con
You into thinking you’re the one
That can do what’s never been done
That can win what’s never been won
Meantime life outside goes on
All around you
NO CEREMONY/// bring us their latest with “DELIVERUS”. The track tries on a singer-songwriter feel proving that underneath all of those washy layers and groove based arrangements, and of course hype, there must be an internal consensus for quality writing. Pick up the track below and be on the lookout for more to come from NO CEREMONY///.
Indie-gazers The Horrors go in on Lady Gaga’s “Bloody Mary” from her forthcoming Born This Way: The Remix LP . And…..surprise! It’s actually really good. Cheers, chaps. (SG)
“What Tomorrow Brings” is featured off of E-TRAINS forthcoming WRATH OF ROXANE + release. The deluxe reissue of his debut by the same name [-] is expected later this November, of which will also include a collection of unreleased bonus tracks. More new material expected before 2012 leading up to the debut of his new “Glow So Hard” video.
San Fran sunman Giraffage flips a Slow Magic track for the second time. The result is yet another step to the next level for the track, it’s broader, it’s grander, it’s more harmonious. It’s big.
Las Vegas-based production duo Personal Touch drop a new remix for Poolside’s “Do You Believe”?. The mix is an uptempo nu-disco number with enough nods to 70’s R&B to have even the most discerning soulbrother on the floor in no time.
Aside from a fly set of eyebrows, b3sci favs Small Black have something else in common with Drakkard Noir. Both fuck with Nicki Minaj. Here the SB boys go legit on that Nicki R&B #1 adding the band’s signature harmonies and “other stuff” to create one cool ass jam. Look out for the “MOON KILLER” mixtape, due 11/11/11.
Sepalcure, the team of Machinedrum’s Travis Stewart and Braille’s Praveen Sharma, drop a Dawson’s Creek-esque vid for heater track “Pencil Pimp”. The duo’s self-titled debut (out Nov. 22 on Hotflush) is one of the b3sci team’s most anticipated records of the year. The wait is killlllllllinnnnggggggg us. Hotflush, promo a bro.
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