Lorin Ashton, aka Bassnectar, has just released the second side of his Immersive Music Mixtape , and as can be expecteed it’s a nearly one-hour adventure into the wild undulations of sub-bass frequencies. Explore his particular sonic kaleidoscope of entirely new tunes, some vintage selections and re-creations and exclusives including Bassnectar remixes of Grimes, The […]

Like many onetime D&B and two-step heavyweights, DJ Zinc often switches up to steadybeat house — as he does on this latest mixtape. Recorded for Rinse FM, the Bingo Beats label boss’s set for the Rinse Fridays series finds its way online, with nearly two hours of 4/4 tracks including standouts by Photek, Audiojack + […]

New York mashup king Scott Melker returns with teh third edition of his Melker Project series. Like the previous mixtapes, The Melker Project 3 boasts over 200 tracks — and that’s clocking in at under one hour (49 minutes to be exact). but it’s not just the prolificity involved, the mixes are seamless and the […]

It’s Friday, which means we’re all looking forward to the weekend. Thank god for the Vintage Vice mixtape, a 14-track exploration of all the illicit dabblings that we assume old timers didn’t do. As the opening song croons, “I may smoke my weed, you know it makes me happy… when I’m in need.” While we […]

James Murphy took to Rdio to present his Not Particularly Summery Summer Jam Mix Tape mixtape, a widely eclectic mix that mirrors his own musicologist-on-steroids interests. Everything from  eclectic playlist including artists like Black Flag, Fleetwood Mac and John Cale to Suicide, This Mortal Coil and Cabaret Voltaire. Give the 14-track mixtape below. Full track […]

This past weekend while in San Deigo for the Comic Con we stumbled across an underground bar called C Lounge, and inside the cellar of this dank establishment we found a drum & bass night. In a flashback to 1998 — and gleefully lubricated by their $3 Jack & Cokes — the result was a […]

If you’re fiending for some 90s-era hip-hop, yo mightl be shocked to find it in the mind of 16-year-old Bishop Nehru. Whether it’s his Mobb Deep referencing “Mobb Dizzle” track, or just the paired down boom-bap of his productions, Bishop happily brings back a time in hip-hop that was ruled by the likes of Wu […]

It’s Friday, in July, which means it’s just about our favorite time of the year here at LIAS. July is pretty much the best, cos you still have all of summer to look forward to while things keep heating up. DJ Jazzy Jeff and MICK, aka Mick Boogie, understand this. So they’ve assembled the fourth […]