Multicultural Sounds travels the world for contemporary reinventions of cultural staples. The Dø – “Tightrope” (Janelle Monaé Cover) Janelle Monaé is one charming lady, and her music for “Tightrope” is the type...
"Tapping back into symbolic power and the mystical meaning of these things is, I think, a really important practice... on a personal level, it's just looking at the inner meaning of things more." -- Taraka Larson
SPECTRAL HYPNOSIS A recurring series, featuring mesmerizing songs for one to lose sense of time and space, mind and body. Lucky Dragons The back-and-forth ebb-and-flow found in this track, “Existers,” found in all layers and all...
MADNESS! A recurring series of audio WTFs and head-twitching, spine-tingling experimental fun (tr)icks. YVETTE We’ve known YVETTE for a while, and dudes have been grinding harrrrrd, playing DIY shows galore throughout Brooklyn and New York...
As most outlets and writers, myself included, rushed a bit prematurely to start and finish their 2011 year end features, there were albums which passed without enough recognition. Atop the list of great December releases is Molly Nilsson’s...
Welcome to Remix City! A recurring, no-bullshit series of posts that will highlight remixes that are actually worth a damn (as we all know, there are plenty that truly aren’t). Battles To kick it off are two from the almost infallible Battles...
"Sometimes when you’re feeling actually darked out you, maybe want to do the opposite; you don’t want to indulge too much in the darkness… it’s just the ebb and flow.” -- Aaron Chapman
Remember in grade school when there would be those school-wide hearing and vision test days? Gauntlet Hair is sort of like that, except the exact opposite. Instead of trying to identify soft beeps, you’re assaulted with some of the nosiest...