The Christmas spirit strikes Canadian artists Zeds Dead, who in their mistletoe generosity are making their Holiday 2013 mixtape available for free download.  The excellently mixed set includes 35 tracks in just under one hour, throwing in a virtual bouillabaisse of bass-oriented tracks — from trap, grime and drum & bass to future garage, nu disco […]

Carhartt’s WIP (Work In Progress) division lends its aesthetic touches to two of AIAIAI’s most prominent models — the TMA-1 DJ headphones (above) and Pipe ear buds. This is their second collaboration, this time eschewing the camo colorway for a navy body with safety orange pop. The Danish headphone maker is renowned for its rich, […]

California producer MiMOSA, aka Tigran, returns with a mixtape of his specially blended future beats to promote his upcoming Event Horizon tour. Blending his signature sounds of hip-hop, bass and straight up wobble (don’t call it dubstep) with a healthy new dose of trap, MiMOSA crafts a 40 minute set that sees him taking his […]

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 […]

Renowned drum & bass producer Sub Focus is about to drop his sophomore album Torus on September 23rd. The day before, however, the British banger will release the “Turn It Around” EP. The eponymous title track features vocals from Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke, which obviously lends the track more emotional weight than your typical throwaway […]

A new track by the illustrious VonStroke, Mr. Claude VonStroke that is. Although his upcoming album Urban Animal, his third studio LP, is notable for the new directions the Detroit-via-San Francisco-via-Los Angeles producer is exploring, “Dood” is quintessential VonStroke — meaning, expect bass, booty shanking rhythms and idiosyncratic beats. In other words, superb underground house.  If […]

We’ve sung the praises of Moderat before, and posted their brilliant video for “Bad Kingdom” that came out last month. The first single off their upcoming II album, “Bad Kingdom” hinted at a very solid sophomore effort from the Berlin natives. Well now that album, II, can be heard in its entirety over at NPR. […]

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 […]