The Future of Turntablism

Multi Touch Light Table: GERGWERK from GERG WERK on Vimeo.

Nuff said. Looks siiick.

F.O.O.L.

F.O.O.L. stands for Fuck Our Ordinary Lives. And goddamn, they make some of the dopest, hardest electro I've heard in a long time, if ever. Swedish duo consistently produces high-quality, extremely dark and dirty electro beats. It's hard to find too much info about them online, but they are definitely blowing up in some circles. I have included two of their tracks that were released for free, and you can listen to more of their stuff on their Soundcloud profile. I'm a huge, huge fan of these guys, check em out..

F.O.O.L. - Rising Drunk Stars

Redial - The Boss (F.O.O.L. remix)

Soundcloud page

Debruit - "Heart Beats For Haiti"

Damn this dude is dope. Seriously one of the most jumpy, bouncy beat-makers I've heard in a while. Originally from Paris, Debruit has toured all over Europe and the US, including an upcoming appearance at Music Ecology in Boston soon! His sound utilizes a severely chopped blend of African sounds, vocoder effects, and crazy synth noises, all on top of slightly staccato/off-beat hip hop beats. Really solid, funky stuff, definitely one of my favorite new artists.

As an indicator of how talented this dude is, he released this album within 4 DAYS of the Haitian earthquake as a benefit album. So, even though most of the stuff I post about here I post free links to, this one you should pay for. It's for a good cause - 100% of the proceeds go to Haitian relief funds. Used a bunch of Haitian music samples on top of it. Don't sleep, this guy is wayyy too funky.

"Heart Beats For Haiti" (2010)

Emancipator - soon it will be cold enough

I know it must seem like every artist I'm putting up here is amazing, which they are, but this dude definitely is one of the sickest and most talented producers I've heard in YEARS. Yeah man, this guy makes music that's just too damn good, it's one of my all time favorite albums. I actually paid to download this at his official website, but that's your call. It's got perfectly fitted, processed piano lines mixed with strings, acoustic guitar, warm synths, and hip hop beats, blending them together seamlessly into a dynamic, moving work of art. He's got a new album coming out in January 2010, the first track is up on his site - more goodness. If anything, buy the new album or go see him on tour if you live on the west coast - sadly doesn't seem like dude is doing more then one show out here on the east.

http://www.mediafire.com/?j5tnmmduizn

http://www.emancipatormusic.com/