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Smooth Sounds of the 70s and 80s, Now
Blood Orange’s “You’re Not Good Enough” has a mellow funky sound reminiscent of a Prince and Sheena Easton duet. The uber styley video (which is basically an Urban Outfitters commercial) was directed...
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Holzkopf Eats Tapes
Vancouver’s history with electronic music runs deep, from Frontline Assembly to Jay Tripwire, but there are few people carrying on a long history of distortion and experimentation quite like Holzkopf....
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Taal Mala’s Low End Theory
Bass music has many eclectic faces in the city of Vancouver but perhaps none more so than Taal Mala. Fresh off a brand new 12″ out on Calgary’s Modern Math, he’s continuing a trend of smashing multiple...
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The Teaches of Peaches
Peaches has long been a staple of electronica, punk rock and raunchy rap. Ever since she put out her chart-topping second album as Peaches–Fatherfucker–in 2003, she has been riding a wave of...
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They’re Justified But Not Ancient
When I first heard about Mu, I was desperately hoping that they were a KLF cover band. They are not, but they are certainly just as idiosyncratic in their own right. Mu are Brittney Rand and Francesca...
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Lo-fi Balearic
Andras Fox has been a charming, semi-precious addition to the balearic music scene in the last few years, and may perhaps be the crossover artist that may take the sound and vision of Balearic culture...
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DJ Koze :: In a League of his Own
DJ Koze is known to the world as a wacky, zany and quirky musical maniac. Never one to fit into any mold, he has carved a niche for himself as an artist who is expected to deliver the unexpected....
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The Escapist
Some folks know him from being the guy behind the counter at the late lamented record store Odyssey Imports. Some folks know him as being one of the many moons in the Skinny Puppy universe. Everyone...
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Say hello to Hivernale
Although Igloofest has become the go-to wintertime staple of electronic music events in Montreal, it has a new lean younger cousin. Say hello to Hivernale. With the same founding principles as...
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Mapping Out Vancouver’s Electronic Music
If there’s one person out there that be considered a linchpin in the growth of Vancouver’s electronic music scene, it’s Robert Shea. As a DJ at legendary Vancouver club, Graceland, in the late 1980’s,...
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