A couple of newsy bits flew by the radar today including: “Don’t Believe The Hate: Skrillex Is Already The Next Big Thing…” & “James Blake is Not Feeling the U.S. Dubstep ‘Frat Boy Market‘” It’s quite obvious that “Dubstep,” weather it’s the indie-rock version or the metal version, has seeped it’s way into the pop world. So I was excited…
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100 days, 100 songs, 100 locations, 100 dances, + Other SXSW Discoveries
I’ve spent the past few days traversing the wilds of the SXSW Interactive conference. In the process my brain’s been filling up with way too much information. Yesterday’s keynote conversation between Graffiti Research Labs‘ James Powderly and the New York Times’ Virginia Heffernan was a highlight which imparted tidbits of wisdom from Powderly like: Technology, as it approaches, becomes a…
Get to the Truth
Remeber that dude Zebbler who came to international attention for getting arrested during the Boston Mooninite “Bomb” scare? Curious what he’s been up to? He sent over this kind of amazing music video recently. The music is like epoch-jungle-trance and the video has naked people! It’s really well put together and pushes some boundries: Zebbler Encanti Experience “Get to the…
Warehouse Party in Chicago Saturday
Zulu and I are takin’ over the sound-system at this mega-warehouse party on Saturday. We’ll be performing from 11pm to midnight and there’s tons more on the agenda too, including sets by NYC’s Subswara crew, Searchl1te, Jeekoos, RadioHiro, DJ Warp, and many more. It all takes place in 3 large spaces, each with it’s own Funktion One sound-system, in addition…
Ssion; “Ah Ma” Video on Pitchfork!
I know, I know, I can’t stop writing about these guys, but they’re MY BABY! (read: my conflict of interest.) They’ve got a brand spankin’ new video that just debuted on p-fork, and I think it’s pretty great. Here’s the Pitchfork link, but I’ll go ahead and embed the video here too: [youtube Q7zRSdk6u2E]
Watch MashitTube, Buy MashitMerch
MashitTube In our ongoing quest to expand our media empire we’ve updated our Video page to include channels like Baltimore, Classic Jungle, Creative Commons, Dubstep, Juke, Mashup, Psychedelic, and more. You can now waste hours channel-surfing MashitTube rather than those other, less interesting media outlets. In further celebration of Jungle’s 15th birthday, Here’s the Classic Jungle channel. Check out the…
Year-End Look-Back
XLR8R magazine asked me to contribute to their annual Best Of poll this year and some of my comments are published in this month’s issue. I thought I’d share them — plus a bunch of the ones that didn’t make the cut — with y’all here: Best Artist South Rakkas Crew I’ve been digin’ these guys dancehall productions for a…
Magda Boreysza!
Now here’s an up-and-coming visual artist of whom I am incredibly fond. Her name is Magda Boreysza, she lives/works in Scotland (although she’s originally from Poland), and I just adore her stuff. ADORE! She’s the one who did the really slick Cuddling Lion of Judah images for the Murderbot digital release (if you haven’t bought it yet, what’s the hold-up?),…
Jeremy Fish Serato Controllers!
Just copped these guys today: super-limited Serato Scratch picture disc controllers designed by San Fran-based illustration superstar (and Aesop Rock collaborator) Jeremy Fish. Apparently limited to 500 2×12″ sets (retailing at $50), they were up on Turntable Lab for a super-short while until Rane caught wind of it and made a big stink. Everything is the same as a regular…
Renegade Craft Fair this weekend in Chicago!
First off, my apologies to everybody for being out of commission for so damn long on this blog. School / work / music / running a record label / making holiday plans have had quite the effect on my blog volume over the past month, but soon I’ll be back to my old, prolific self! So…for my first entry of…