21 Oct
Bells, ripples, squawking birds and whining violins unite

XLR8R just put up a really cool video where they followed around Seattle producers Dave Pezzner (a.k.a. Pezzner) and Jeff McIlwain (a.k.a. Lusine) to record a track using mainly field recordings. They take a light-rail train to the Seattle waterfront and record what they find — including the bells of the train, a weird Chinese […]


3 Aug
The Barcelona-via-Berlin-via-Brooklyn liquid-tipped MC is back

A couple summers ago the Madman was in Berlin covering an upcoming music scene — a truly bad ass group of producers and artists including Shir Khan, Jahcoozi, The Tape, Al Haca, Chris DeLuca vs. Phon.o (CLP), and of course Modeselektor, who we’re clearly in love with on LIAS. Separately, and at times together, these […]