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New Album ‘Brighter Future’ Makes A Big Gigantic Difference

Big Gigantic, a funk-EDM hybrid collaboration between producer/saxophonist Dominic Lalli and touring dummer Jeremy Salken, has been making a positive difference in more ways than one. #ABigGiganticDifference has kicked off very well since it started a few years ago — through the initiative, fans of Big Gigantic have collected thousands of pounds of food and logged […]

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‘Fire Alarm’ EP Blends Club Cultures of Two Nations

If you combine a Trinidadian reggae rapper with a veteran DJ from Queens, what do you get? The result is Fire Alarm, the newest collaboration between Proper Villains and MC Metric Man. Metric Man is an independent reggae artist hailing from the town of San Juan in Trinidad & Tobago. Proper Villains is a DJ […]

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Sleep Beggar Shares His ‘Depression Tactics’

From the heights of needed perspective to the depths of social seclusion, Sleep Beggar journeys through it all in his debut album Depression Tactics. Released through the label American Scream Records, this rap-metal-electronica hybrid paints a gritty reality sprinkled with ethereal dissociation. The reality sets in during the first track, “Heating Up Leftovers,” with a pad almost reminiscent of a church […]

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Jules Verne Theory Is The Black Swan

When we come across exceptional music from extraordinary musicians we tend to keep on the lookout for more new music from these artists to fill our headphones.  It may have taken 2 long years but our friends from Jules Verne Theory are finally back.  This time with a full album titled Black Swan for our […]

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Jarryd James takes ‘High’ to a New Level with Passionate R&B

There are times when we find ourselves wishing to pass time as fast and painlessly as possible. Finding myself in that situation recently, I downloaded Brisbane-born singer-songwriter Jarryd James’ latest release, High, for a five hour plane ride. The 10-track album marks James’ US Debut. With five of the tracks coming from James’ non-US Debut, Thirty-One, […]

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Andrew Keoghan’s “Queues at Dani Keys”: A Video of Brilliant Façads and Fictionalities

Similarly to many iconic movies of the ’80s, New Zealand-born Andrew Keoghan doesn’t spare any bit of that glitz while simultaneously showing us how dangerously easy it is to get sucked into a world where everyone constantly strives to one-up the other in his latest music video for “Queues at Dani Keys.” A metropolitan lifestyle of […]

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Tor Releases Long-Awaited Follow Up

Electronica has become a genre based on craft, production and composition. With the release of his sophomore album, Blue Book, Vancouver-based experimental producer Tor has become one of the artists to fully encompass these characteristics and create something that is far beyond beats and synths. “I’ve been working on Blue Book over the past two […]

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Max Million – Taking Intelligent Downtempo For A Ride

In the electronic music genre, there is a wide array of innovative sounds coming out every day leading to a wide assortment of sub-genres and styles.  It has been called the electro-revolution of the music industry as artists are able to produce a track themselves and have it shared with the internet community almost immediately. […]