Flying Lotus has been around these parts a lot as of late, no doubt in anticipation of his hip-hop/jazz/leftfield bass fusion You’re Dead! album set to release October 7th. In part of the slow reveal of the album’s arrival, FlyLo treats us to “Never Catch Me” — a collaborative work with Compton’s own Kendrick Lamar. Never mind any recent […]

In celebration of this year’s Record Store Day, Pretty Lights — aka Derek Vincent Smith — released a limited edition double 10” vinyl set for his The Hidden Shades EP. The blissful and bass-ful sample-heavy collection featured four unreleased B-Sides and remixes from last year’s Grammy-nominated A Color Map of the Sun album — which we posted for […]

Teddybears return today with a video that threatens to take out Mustard Pimp’s “ZHM” video in the “best use of killer 70s porn a laser” category. The Swedish producers invite Jamaican star Natalie Storm to lace her dancehall patois on “Sunshine”, all whilst donning a laser-shooting bikini weapon from her crotch. There are drums being smashed, an instructional […]

Producer/turntablist/Duck Saucier/DJ/all-around bad-ass A-Trak and ATL-based producer Lex Luger have put their heads together to form the Low Pros, and to drop their now-downloadable EP simply titled EP1. After digging down south for this treasure of Fool’s Gold, the EP features contributions from rap and trap rousers such as A$AP Ferg, New Orleans Cash Money icon Juvenile, […]

Nashville producer Amerigo Gazaway has launched a new mashup series called Soul Mates, aimed at combining legendary artists of yore with the best talent from today. The first installment conflates Brooklyn rapper Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) with legendary soul singer Marvin Gaye. Titled Yasiin Gaye, the idea of the series is for the finished […]

Those rambunctious rabble-rousers over at dirtybird records are at it again, creating some masterful music aimed at dancefloor bedlam. San Fran’s Justin Martin teams up with Bristol’s finest, Eats Everything, on a two-track EP titled Hello Mr. Jello, due March 31st on dirtybird. We were big fans of both Justin Martin’s Jungle Mix Winter 2012 drum & bass […]

If you’re looking for something to get into this Saturday night in LA, March 8, and that something involved heaping mounds of bass — then you may want to skip your dirty dancing shoes over to the King King in Hollywood. Renowned South African DJ and producer MartyParty — who makes up one-half of PANTyRAiD […]

Diplo’s club-oriented side project, Major Lazer, has posted its entire latest EP Apocalypse Soon for listening over at Soundcloud. Gone is co-producer Switch, who with Diplo helped define the group with a slew of releases over the past couple years — including 2011’s Guns Don’t Kill People, Lazers Do. As can be expected, Apocalypse Soon is rife […]