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Get To Know: Skream
Long before the dubstep sound became ubiquitous across the spectrum of popular music and long before America transformed the genre into a hard-hitting cacophony of chainsaws, a teenage Skream was...
Deconstructing The True School Of Music
http://youtu.be/mAQlgXm-fx8India's musical education system - without reference to the more traditional training modules available for Indian classical enthusiasts - has been skeletal to say the...
Kashmir, Blood & The Cypher: MC Kash & The Immediacy Of Authenticity
Authenticity in music is rare. I absorb music as the arrogant among us absorb themselves, though subject to an inbuilt figurative moisture barrier. That which is insincere remains away from me to...
Life Is Full Of Possibilities: Dissonance & Castles In The Sky
The first time I heard Castles in the Sky, I was... disoriented. I shook the headphone cable and hit refresh on the Soundcloud page over and again. Every time, something kept happening to the track...
5 Minutes With Benga
Chapter II.That's the name of Benga's second album, and we think it's spot on. Yes, he's a626138'pioneer'. I626151's a word that's thrown around a lot when describing either him or his long time...
Review: BLOT! - Snafu
Gaurav Malaker of BLOT! is least satisfied with stamping ‘DJ’ on his curriculum vitae. He feverishly works the cranks on his original Ableton Live compositions; his partner-in-tricks, Avinash...
Review: James Blake615947'Overgrow615957'
I guess I loved this album instantly because I could hear the sea all over it.The first time I’d ever heard James Blake, I was in a red-lit room late at night in a small house, eventually compelled...
Decoding Mikhail Mehra: A Series of Fortunate Events
Mikhail Mehra hardly displays the yellow-eyed, spotty-tongued form you might expect from someone who's job profile includes raising inebriated hell with the likes of artists like Skrillex, Datsik,...
Carousal Wounds: Closing The Cool Chef Chapter
We needed a den - some sort of dingy, intimate space where the alternative music crew could disappear into a few hours a week to exorcise their more spirited inner demons. Some place where the dirt...
The Knife: Upcoming Releases To Watch Out For In 2013
As millions of sounds get added to the Internet, we continue to wade through them in search of warmth and off-kilter comfort.In a time when nobody’s comfortable having to relate to lyrics,...