December 2011
Valta – KIEVBASS Copenhagen session @ SUB.fm... →
1st KIEVBASS LIVE session broadcasted from Copenhagen, Denmark. all full of damn good dubplates and forthcomings I was getting through last couple weeks. Special bigups to my DK famo MissPopo and…
GIORGIO MORODER week Last chance to win Giorgio... →
First of all – CONGRATS TO JUALIÁN BALLINI from Buenos Aires, Argetina! You are yesterday’s winner! MB Disco will get in touch with you over at FB to sort your shipping…
Sony Ent. Chief Tim Schaaf On How He's Going... →
This interview comes from Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Anyone paying attention to digital music over the past ten years might wonder why Sony would ever bother with digital music…
#Mashup Monday - Week 43 →
Mashup Monday - We’re back again with some of the freshest mashes to start your week off right. These are the mashes that are worth hearing, so stop your searching and instead settle down…
APC TOP 10 – November →
November was sexy
full of pussies, nude chixxxx and a lotta sexy action
like lip-synching for real
like a #01 spot on Hype Machine
like having Ulrich Schnauss on an APC…
Reznor & Ross’ New Anti-Social Network (MP3s) →
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have now scored two films about socially awkward people using computers to invade others’ privacy. The first was The Social Network, director David…
Yelle – Comme Un Enfant →
video for Yelle’s Comme Un Enfant
irected by Jérémie Saindon
November 2011
15 Years of Drumcode →
Originally launched by Adam Beyer in 1996 as an outlet for his own material, Drumcode has since went on to be a home for material from such influential artists as Joey Beltram, Slam…
MTT Weekly Recap: Join The Music Think Tank... →
Where The Music Industry Thinks Out Loud
Minh Chau: Best Kept Secret for Advancing Your Music Career
James Hogg: Learn How To Mix In 3D: Steve…
Sexxy Saturday Cumbia – Cumbia (Now In Stereo) →
To start a nu cumbia night here in Phoenix is surprisingly difficult. There are many efforts to do so and finally we’re making some progress. DJ Melo, DJ Tranzo and I have been…
SoundCloud Voices →
SoundCloud Voices is a weekly Community feature focusing on new spoken word creators found on SoundCloud. It might be a podcast, radio show, audio book, interview, audio messages, a poem, anything!…
Night Rumours – Week 13 →
Night Rumours - It’s what keeps you up at night. From the basement to the bright lights – you’re here today because you love dance music and want a little more wamp. Hitting Electro, EDM,…
Hidden Orchestra – Flight EP and Tru Thoughts... →
I have long admired friends Hidden Orchestra, the Edinburgh based four piece for their ability to fuse jazz, funk, hip hop, Dnb and various other pigeon holes to make beautifully…
After The Smoke – Wallstreet →
Like they promised the Tallahassee natives that make up After The Smoke have continued to provide us with their weekly series,“Ekoms Fridays“, which is leading up to their new Ep Ferris…
A Handmade Children’s Book, a 7″ Vinyl Record, and... →
In the midst of all this talk of intangible digital intellectual property and arcane licensing and Internet policy, there’s something comforting about thinking of music and art as…
Records: Storm Queen, Raiders of the Lost ARP,... →
Storm Queen – It Goes On
If memory serves me right it was around this time last year that Morgan Geist debuted the Storm Queen project with “Look Right Through”, and in the process…
The Skream and Benga Interview →
As I walked up a crowded staircase on the weekend of Halloween I passed by some familiar faces: Skrillex, Zeds Dead and others. This event had by far highest level of security, because…
Chiddy Bang – “Ray Charles” →
Chiddy Bang is one of the hottest duos in the hip hop game these days, consisting of rapper Chiddy and producer Xaphoon Jones. They have been killing it nonstop since their formation, and…
What Really Makes Rhythms Human? New Research... →
Machine rhythm: the steps on a Roland TR-808. Photo (CC-BY-SA) Brandon Daniel.
What makes rhythm human? Music technology has introduced machine rhythms, perfectly-calibrated to…
After The Smoke – Night Crows →
A little late on this, have a new track by the Tallahassee natives Whuzi emcee and producer Speek which make up the dynamic duo After The Smoke. This track is the beginning of their…
Sexxy Saturday Cumbia – Canalh,... →
Art by Bleepolar
Lisa Greenway (Lapkat) host of a radio show in Australia named DIALECTIC RADIO, recently did a remarkable job with my predecessor Canalh. I owe a lot to Canalh for…
UPDATE: EMI Nears $4.1B Split Sale To Sony, UMG →
(UPDATE) Several major media outlets are confirming that Citigroup has chosen Sony and Universal as winners of an auction that totalled $4.1 billion for the publishing and recorded…
Thursday Odds and Ends: CD Baby Pushes for Direct... →
CD Baby has lowered its commission for direct-sold mp3s and is encouraging musicians to direct their fans to the CD Baby website for download sales. From an e-mail that went out today:
On every…
Music Is A Big Hit On Facebook [NEW STATS] →
In the two months since f8 and Facebook’s expansion of music in its Open Graph, fans have shared listening activity more than 1.5 billion times. As a result, some of Facebook’s…
Home Is Where the Sampler Is (MP3) →
The 70th entry in the ongoing TouchRadio series of podcasts, a side project of the estimable Touch Editions, is from Peter 7 Paelinck, who appears to have taken his somewhat less than…
MTV EMA 2011 - A Complete List of 2011 European... →
It was a night filled with few surprises. Lady Gaga took home three trophies at last nights EMA’s and three artists recieved two awards each: Justin Bieber was named Best Male and Best…
APC TOP 10 – October →
October was fast
and full of awesome videos
and even more awesome tracks
plus we had a 33Hz vinyl giveaway
plus we had The Glitch Mob with us in Budapest
…
Hodgy Beats – Crap (feat. Left Brain)(Prod.Hodgy... →
Looks like two of the members of Odd Future, Hodgy Beats & Left Brain a.k.a Mellowhype, liberated some new music. Apparently this isn’t a Mellowhype song but should appear on Hodgy…
Drumma Boy [Interview] →
Going into my interview with Drumma Boy, I was almost prepared to be underwhelmed. I’m not saying I’m some sort of elitist music critic here – I’m just familiar with his work. The…
Childish Gambino – Sway in the Morning [Freestyle] →
If you could strip Childish Gambino down to his Superman tightie whities, he’d still be pretty hardcore. Gambino is a mastermind and it shows through his freestyle, which meanders with his…
Speechiness - is is banjo or banter →
There’s no bigger buzz kill when listening to a playlist of songs by your favorite artists than to find that you are no longer listening to music, but instead to some radio interview the drummer of…
Introducing : Races →
On the same indie rock label as Les Savy Fav,Suckers, and The Dodos, Races are the next runners up. New York’s Frenchkiss Records signed these guys(+ 2 girls) from California and…
THE FOKN DUNAQUEST REMIX ALBUM →
Want a proof the world is good? Here’s one, The FOKN Dunaquest Remix album…. For FREE (for 1 month starting now!). The origianl 10-tracks EP, which to my ears is an EPIC release, got…
Track of the Week: Emm Gryner "Ciao... →
We finally know what Emm Gryner and Garfield have in common: They don’t like Mondays. And neither do many of you, because Emm’s song “Ciao Monday” is the Most Thumbed Up song on cbcradio3.com…
Boddika & Joy O – Swims/Froth →
When you hear that producers of the quality of Boddika and Joy O are getting together for a collaboration, the hype surrounding the tunes is bound to be massive. Well it has happened…
The City and Horses – Dum Dee Dum [Video] →
Let’s go on a camping trip with that wacky couple from “We Will Never Be Discovered”! Oh, and did I mention we’ll be surrounded by zombies?
Directed by Cetusss and Le Contremaître et sa…
Live Love A$AP – A$AP Mob [Download] →
The A$AP Mob have finally dropped their 16 track mixtape. After all the hype, all the waiting, and all the wicked cool listening parties (hook us up next time), it is here.
Download the 3…
October 2011
RDGLDGRN – I Love Lamp →
It’s Monday, so it’s time to offer up some new music again. This time, it’s a band called RDGLDGRN, which I’m assuming means “Red Gold Green” – I think. (Although, since I’m colorblind, it’s…
Best Service Ethno World 5 Professional &... →
Best Service Ethno World 5 Professional & Voices KONTAKT
Ethno World 5 is by the renowned award winning film composer Marcel Barsotti (“Die Päpstin”, Deutschland - “Ein Sommermärchen” -…
Live Chat with Ann Kroeber: Recording Now... →
Did you miss the live chat with Ann Koreber today?
Rejoice! There is a recording available.
A huge round of thanks goes out to Ann for taking the time to chat with us, and thanks to everyone who…
Warrior One – Pow! (1996 Bootleg) →
POW!! Was the main and most memorable lyric that came out of “Pow”, the enormous grime crossover tune way back when in 1996. The 2011 follow up (or cash cow as some branded it) was maybe not…
CYNE – Wasteland Vol. 1 [Mixtape] →
CYNE (aka. Cultivating Your New Experience) is back with a new mixtape entitled Wasteland Vol.1. This mind elevating hip-hop act took a small break after their last release, Water For…
Web service user-agent string blocking reminder →
I would like to remind Web Service users that on 16 November we’re going to block generic User-Agent strings from accessing our web service. Earlier we said:
The User-Agent string needs to…
RME Ladyface Now Shipping →
Special edition of popular Babyface audio interface— Press Release: Does the world need another audio interface? Yes – when it’s pink! The eagerly awaited special edition of the successful RME…
[FOOTWURK] FOOTWURK UPDATE OCT →
AAAAHHH YEEEAAAAHHHH!!!! It’s that time again, a round-up through the FOOTWURK massive, for all those cats that think they Moombah is too slow, speed it up to 160 bpm and get the dancing…
Anchorsong – Plum Rain →
Many moons have passed, but thankfully Anchorsong finally returns with a new single and album. Originally born out of Tokyo, he now holds residence in London, where we have embraced this…
Jay-Z & Adele – Won’t Go (Wishing) (Urban... →
Well well well. It’s been another week so its time for your usual Adele check-in. Now, we all know that Adele’s vocals have been used to death recently but its not her fault she was born…
Hi-Rez – A Walk to Remember [Mixtape] →
I wanted to touch back on a mixtape that I think deserves a bit more shine than it’s gotten. Hi-Rez, the ambitious and lyrically fueled artist out of Fort Lauderdale, FL, is making waves…
Music Recommendation and Discovery Revisited →
I’m off to Chicago to attend the 5th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. I’m giving a talk with Òscar Celma called Music Recommendation and Discovery Revisited. It is a reprise of the talk we…
Start The Weekend Mike Irish Style →
Well, it’s about time to get your dancing feet stomping again because, in the words of Annie Mac… “It’s Friiiiiiiiidayyyyyyyy. To get your weekend started check out Boston native, Mike…