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How do you enjoy dance music that isn't actually made for dancing? That's a question that's been asked a lot lately, from James Blake's dubstep-in-name-only to Matthew Herbert's recent concept album, One Pig (literally about the life of a pig). The same goes for 21-year-old wunderkind Nicolas Jaar, who makes electronic music...
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Edwina Johnson (aka EJ) was born in Sweden to a Bajan mother and an Afro-Cuban, guitar-playing father. According to her press materials, EJ grew up surrounded by an eclectic mix of Iranian, Turkish, and Somali influences, and learned to sing at church before moving to London at the age of twelve. It’s a truly global...
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Du Nord's “The Sunset" begins with a quietly plucked guitar floating over the hiss of analog tape. There’s something beautifully cut-and-paste about the 1960s-inspired melody and muffled beat, as if the Paris-based band assembled the track from papier-mâché. It's a song that would sit nicely alongside the summery pop of...
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Around here, we've been listening to the '80s-tastic tongue-in-cheek funk of Montreal's Chromeo since 2004's "Needy Girl." As huge a track as that was, the boys in the two-man-band, Dave 1 and P-Thugg, haven't hit it big on the charts or headlined a major international tour until the release of their latest long-play, Business...
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