Noisia (who took their name from the word ‘VISION’ inverted on an upside down VHS tape) are Nik Roos, Thijs de Vlieger and Martijn van Sonderen, hailing from the Netherlands. Influenced by an eclectic range of artists, from The Prodigy to James Brown, Miles Davis to Konflict, Noisia make music for DJs and dance-floors that is interesting enough to cross over from the clubs to your MP3 player.
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Tags: album, division, drum & bass, electro, noisia, split the atom, vision
When global bass music matriarch Mary Anne Hobbs recently told The Fader “Flying Lotus, for me, is like the Hendrix of his generation” it seemed more then an audacious opinion, and with the arrival of Cosmogramma, it’s revealed as a revelation. In the past couple of years, Flying Lotus has grown into the position of being far more than a producer, he has helped materialize a far-reaching strain of musical ideology that has encompassed not only a global family of like-minded artists, but also a nearly infinite palate of planetary (and interplanetary) sonics.
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Tags: abstract sounds, album, experimental, flying lotus, hip hop, psychedelic, warp
A solo Dettmann album has been a long time coming: he’s one of the world’s most in-demand DJs, and his Berghain 02 CD one of the most talked-about mix CDs of the last half-decade. In 2007 he released the 2×12″ Blank Scenario, an excellent, agenda-setting collaboration with Ben Klock.
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Tags: ben klock, berghain, marcel dettmann, ostgut, tech house, techno
The album was recorded in Los Angeles, New York and Canada, Jamie s fellow travelers on Compass include Beck, Feist, Gonzales, Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear and Pat Sansone of Wilco. Musically and lyrically this is very much a Jamie Lidell Production—reflecting not only his exhilarating, diverse tastes, but also a year of change, love, longing and arrival at a new place.
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Tags: beck, compass, jamie lidell, pop, rock, warp
Prins Thomas is now intrinsically linked to the eclectic and often termed “cosmic-disco” sounds emanating from his homeland, Norway. Alongside Hans-Peter Lindstrøm their eponymous debut album and follow up II have opened up their tripped out sounds to a whole new audience of music lovers. Having already garnered international acclaim for his own DJing skills the world over and with a staggeringly impressive remix CV it comes as some surprise that after all that music and after all these years, Prins Thomas releases his debut solo album!
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Tags: album, comic disco, disco, full pupp, house, prins thomas
Bleed, the first album by Paris-based cold-pop duo, aswefall, left an indelible mark when in appeared in 2005 on Kill the DJ, with enthusiastic reviews (Les Inrockuptibles, Libération, Nova, Magic, etc) and an advertising showcase (the track Between us was the Air France official theme-tune for four years).
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Tags: ambient, aswefall, electro, fun is dead, isolering, pop
There have been four official Time And Space Machine releases to date, including the mini-LPs Volume One (2008) and Volume Two (2009). As you may have gathered from the name, this project is an outlet for Norris’s most flightily cosmic tendencies, anchored with rhythms derived from disco, krautrock and slo-mo Balearica.
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Tags: 60s, album, balearica, psycheledic, richard norris, the time and space machine, tirk records, ttasm
Anjunadeep:02 demonstrates why the imprint has become the master navigator of the murky waters that lie somewhere between house, techno and trance, winning fans such as Laurent Garnier, Dubfire, James Zabiela and Eric Prydz along the way. Both discs showcase a unique melodic style that is spacey, hypnotic and at times soulful, underlining the widescreen vision of label owners Above & Beyond.
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Tags: anjuna, anjunadeep 02, atmospheric, deep, james grant, jaytech, mellow, progressive, tech, trance
Two and a half years after their debut LP, 23 Seconds dazzled critics and lit up dance floors worldwide, Cobblestone Jazz are back with a powerhouse new album that captures their live-in-the-studio energy like never before. A mixture of heady, jazz-inspired house grooves and below-the-belt analog funk, it raises the bar for electronic dance music in 2010.
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Tags: cobblestone jazz, deep house, house, k7, mathew johnson, tech house, the modern deep quartet, wagon repair
Following from ‘A Cheerful Temper’, released in 2007, “Immortal Changes” shows a warmer side to Babicz’s production skills. Bringing in warm melodies, deep and deeper grooves, blissed atmospheres, live strings, live sax, analogue bass – sometimes jacking, but mostly tripping; his journey takes you wherever you choose to let your mind go.
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Tags: acid rob, atmosheric, deep house, groove, house, immortal changes, marc romboy, robert babicz, systematic, techno
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