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This past Friday evening, I was lucky enough to catch a live, improvised hardware jam by one half of one of my favorite electronic dance groups, Juju & Jordash. Rocking a Roland 707 drum machine, two old-school analog keyboards (a Yamaha DX-11 and another Roland I believe) and a Melodica, Jordash provided a constant barrage [...]

During the last few years, streaming music technology has become increasingly accessible. One of the wonderful results of this new-found accessibility is the fact that websites who provide a free streaming service to artists can easily become a thriving sharing community. I have been finding artists on communities like Soundcloud and Carbon Logic creating amazing [...]

To celebrate free music on the internet, I decided to make a mix of tracks that were offered as 100% free downloads on the World Wide Web in 2011. A lot of them are from xlr8r.com, but there are also tracks from Secret Button Bureau, Mapzzz blog, and some directly from the artist’s page. Download [...]

The past year has been filled with “future” sounds as much as it has been with “retro” ones. It’s always nice to find an artist that is able to combine the sound of the past while pushing the boundaries of the groove. I think that the best example of an artist doing that in 2011 [...]