I’m sitting here in a fog of pain killers and medical marijuana listening to Master Piece, renowned dub-reggae pioneer Lee “Scratch” Perry’s latest offering of lounge-dub and deep trance. I got the vinyl — it’s crisp and warm at the same time like sitting by a fire in a field of snow. It’s September 11, 2012, […]

For Bromance Records’ 3rd release, founder Brodinski features fellow French electronic group Club Cheval (comprised of Canblaster, Sam Tiba, Myd and Panteros666) with an epic 90’s breakbeat A-Side track “Now U Realize”, sounding like it belongs in a Ronin-like car chase. Maybe they’ll use that idea for a music video? The B-Side features the collaborative […]

One half of the epic Optimo duo, JD Twitch, releases another brain nugget for the music heads worldwide. His White Light 54 mixtape takes inspiration from a most reviled genre, but instead of the cliched swells and hackneyed breakdowns Twitch takes aim at what he considers true “trance” music: ““I don’t drive but I spend […]

Robert Miles managed to do 2 things in the 1990s: 1. craft one of the biggest songs in the history of EDM (electronic dance music); and 2. annoy the world with one of the most over-played tracks in the history of mankind. The first was his doing, the second was not. The song in question, […]

Swedish House Mafia may be the current lords of mainstream dance music, but we certainly dig this video interpretation of their dancefloor anthem “Save the World”. How can you hate on a video where they make an army of pooches the heroes of the day? Directed by Jon Watts, the video was inspired by the […]

The oft-maligned Robert Miles has a giant monkey on his back. He composed one of the most timeless, seminal and poignantly beautiful electronic tracks of the 90s, “Children“, which went on to sell an unfathomable 14 million copies worldwide. Even though the track was played (plowed) into the ground 20 feet deep, and there were […]

The last couple of mixtapes we’ve posted have been aimed at the dancefloor, and while there’s certainly nothing wrong with that today we’re feeling a bit more cerebral — maybe it’s the winter weather. Although that can’t be, because from our secret lair at The Meadows hidden under a knoll deep in the Venice Beach […]

Modular Records‘ raved-out It boy from a couple years ago, Muscles, is back with a new EP, Younger & Immature, due October 29. Back in 2007 we took Muscles out to lunch at Roscoe’s House of Chicken & Waffles in Hollywood for the magazine we were running at the time, mostly because we thought it […]