Slinky techno mix from D Ramirez

There’s a point where tech house meets techno (or the lighter side of techno) and I get really confused on definitions. Although I know the less-pedantic amongst you would yell ‘who cares???’.
Still, the pedant in me yearns to call this techno, at least in structure if not in song. The building in the mix happens [...]

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Posted by harry covert on August 28, 2009
Better days ahead

So said Jimi Polo all the way back in 1989 over the top of one of dance music’s most memorable piano riffs. But then house music in those days was all about gay black kids coming up with funky piano snippets on their Utopian search. Oh, how far we’ve come.
So, here it is, my [...]

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Posted by kiterae on August 22, 2009
Northern Lights freecorded

I recently learnt to record music on the internet with this free (and legal) sound recorder: http://applian.com/sound-recorder/. If you download the toolbar you can simply record any streamed music online and save it as an mp3 file. Thanks for the tip Mr Galvin – very nifty.
So here’s a bunch of bands I’ve been meaning to [...]

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Posted by yari on August 17, 2009
Drop the Lime picks up the bass

Brooklyn’s Drop the Lime is a busy bee. Aside from performing on Institubes as Curses!, he’s remixed everyone from Armand Van Helden to Rex the Dog.
Prior to ingesting this mix for the wonderful XLR8R mag, I’d have labelled DTL as a fine purveyor of seriiious basslines. Now, for the first 15 mins or so of [...]

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Posted by harry covert on August 2, 2009