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Teenage Engineering’s OP-1 Synth (& Swedish House Mafia music video)

The Swedish House Mafia have just released their official music video for their big tune “One (Your Name)” that features Pharrell Williams. That’s all great and all, the tune is massive, but more interestingly though is that the video is essentially a 4 minute commercial for the upcoming, unreleased Teenage Engineering OP-1, a synthesizer/MIDI-controller that [...]
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4 World Cup Inspired Anthems

With Spain firmly holding their first World Cup title, everything in South Africa is winding down from the insanity that is one of the world’s most-beloved sporting events. But over here in Northern Hemisphere, summer is just getting started, and in the one month of the tournament (and the months preceeding it), there was a [...]
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Nobody Beats the Drum arrive in NYC

While we were down at this year’s Winter Music Conference in Miami, Dutch label-mate and awesome pool jumper Mike Mago told us about this fantastic group from his homeland of Holland called Nobody Beats the Drum. He showed us the music videos, where they fight with home-made transformer outfits, the insane stop-motion animated video with the [...]
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Free Magic mix for Voules Random

Esteemed dj and disco selector extraordinaire Free Magic just wrapped up a mix for on-point tastemakers Voules Random. The mix is a sampling of the music you’ll hear at Free Magic and co-resident VDRK’s party DISCOVERY, every month at Santos Party House here in NYC. This is happy, chill, sexy disco. The kind of mix [...]
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DEFEAT – Into the groove

With New York City breaking temperature records yesterday, peaking at 103 degrees Fahrenheit (thats 39 degrees Celsius for all you non-Americans), summer is truly, officially, here. Perfect time for outdoor events, cool sea breezes, and fun new music from overseas! I’d like to introduce you to TUFFEM UP! RECORDS, a label from Australia affiliated with Trashbags, [...]
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Washington DC’s U Street Music Hall

Our boys Will Eastman, the man behind Blisspop, and Jesse, aka Tittsworth, alongside members of Thievery Corporation and other DC djs and nightlife luminaries, have just opened what I consider to be DC’s best and most promising dance venue in Washington DC’s history. It’s name is U Street Music Hall. Epic I know, but read [...]
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Subdrive WMC 2010

Really excited this year because it marks the first time we’re doing parties at Winter Music Conference in Miami. We’re actually doing two showcases this year…our first event is the night before the official start of WMC at the legendary WHITE ROOM with the majority of the Subdrive crew in attendance including Terror Dactel, Cobra [...]
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Dirty Super Car – Get a Grip (The Loops of Fury Remix)

Fresh tunes from brand-spanking new label Grand Hotel Records. They shared this great remix of Dirty Super Car’s “Get a Grip” with us and we just had to pass it along. The Loops of Fury have made this into a groaning creature, ever-building, with a bassline that adds a great rhythm and proper weight to the [...]
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Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP – We No Speak Americano

Australian record label Sweat It Out releases some dope tunes, but this one…this is probably my favorite tune they’ve ever put out. Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP have created a fantastic house/techno funk hybrid track with an old-school sample that just begs you to bop your head in happiness. Seriously, it’s such a funky tune that [...]
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The Phenomenal Handclap Band – Baby

New York-based rockers The Phenomenal Handclap Band just released this new video to their tune “Baby”, if you haven’t picked up their album yet…do so now. Been loving these guys for a while now and I always seem to miss them whenever they perform, but you should not make the same effect.
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