OpenLabs Neko XXL

Well, one can dream. At almost $7,000, this is one toy that neither me nor any of my friends will most likely be able to afford soon, but wow, what a beast. Combines everything you'd ever want for audio production, recording, and performance into one crazy unit. Built-in Ableton, Reason, and thousands of plug-ins barely tap the surface of the capabilities featured here. Too bad I'd have to win the lottery to afford this sucker..



http://www.audiomidi.com/NeKo-XXL-P11887.aspx

Coralcola - Egggirl

Based in Worchester, Coralcola (Mikey Lee) plays out around the Boston area alot (luckily!) and this new EP has remixes by some of the best DJs in town. It's great to hear all these talented locals working off each other's sounds. If you see any of these names on a flyer, go to the show!

EGGGIRL

Intergalactic Panty Raid by Nucleic

Intergalactic Panty Raid by Nucleic

Beastie Boys "Intergalactic" x PantyRaid "Get the money" x Bronzed Chorus "EDWD to Georgia"

Jus' Like Music Presents - "Oscillations Pt. 1 and 2"

Had to do a post on this collection right here, seen this a few places out in the blogosphere. The good people at Jus' Like Music have provided 2 high quality, free compilations of future hop/dubstep/wonky sounds, and they definitely don't leave one disappointed. Featuring the likes of Slugabed, Alex B, KidKanevil, Om Unit, and Lunice, there are over 40 original, bangin' electronic tracks featured here from a wide range of talented artists. All released for free, on their Bandcamp page. Broken Haze "Block", the opening track on Part One, sounds sick with the volume turned up, nice glitchy bleeps and heavy bass. Check it out..


Jus' Like Music Bandcamp link

Leonard Dstroy - "Higher Ground"

Tons of talented dudes out there producin' tunes under the radar. Soundcloud is a really good way of coming across a lot of this, literally thousands of producers posting stuff in all spectrum of genres. Lotta, lotta dope sounds out there, tons of people you've definitely heard of.

This guy sent me a link to his album today on Soundcloud, and I have to say it's definitely worth a listen. Very much in the style of what I've been listening to lately, electronic hip hop with lots of bleeps and bloops. Some really chilled, progressive beats on this 15 track album. Check it out!

http://leonarddstroy.bandcamp.com/

SolarBeat

http://www.whitevinyldesign.com/solarbeat/


Hmmm...Don't really know what to say about this, but pretty interesting. Dig the concept for sure.

Marina Faib - "Whisper of Trees"

Somethin' really relaxing and calming about this video, I like the vocals I guess. Some really down-tempo, mellow dubstep.

Growing

I saw Growing last Halloween when they opened for Fuck Buttons. Their set was really energetic, bouncy, flowing, ribcage-shaking loud: Everything you could want. Their recordings (and there's alot) however, never seemed to capture any of what I saw live.

Finally their new album Pumps! delivers in a big way! Their rhythmic noise reminds me of Black Dice and the concert experience was similar to them too, but Pumps! really outdoes Repo for me (and I'm a huge Dice fan).

PUMPS!

Embassadors - "Coptic Dub"

Some really nice, mellow, down-tempo jazz here. Don't know much about this group, but I definitely have been enjoying their record. European in origin, they are a fairly newish group, having had their debut performance only in 2007.

This may not be the most action-packed, upbeat record, but is full of quality music nonetheless. I always say you can never have enough good jazz, and this is most definitely good jazz. Delicate, swinging drum brushes and double bass lines provide the backdrop for melancholic, melodic trumpet (or maybe reed) leads. The music ebbs and flows gently, with a continous but not overwhelming pulse. Subtle, understated at times, this record will satisfy any fans of modern jazz or good, down-tempo music.

Get it here

A Sunny Day in Glasgow

I dig ASDiG. I have been following this band since their debut, "Scribble Mural Comic Journal" came out a few years ago and immediately blew my mind. It's one of those records that makes everyone ask you "who is this?". It seemed for a while though that they were not going to last as one by one, the original members seemed to lose interest in the project and move onto to other things. Founder Ben Daniels managed to keep it going though and it seems they've finally come into their own as a band. Their new album "Ashes Grammar" was well worth the wait.

I saw them play at Great Scott's in Allston last night and their set was awesome! Alot of their music sounds like it would be dependent on technology and the recording process because it's so detailed but they pulled it all off flawlessly last night. Very impressive to hear live. For a band based on guitar/bass/drums their music feels very "electronic". Any of their studio albums are worth hunting down online and I strongly recommend the vinyl version of "Scribble Mural" for it's Side D remixes (Asobi Seksu's is mint).

Here's a recording of them playing live at Radio K in Minnesota.

A Sunny Day in Glasgow live @ Radio K