It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I must inform you of the impending demise of Wobble Wednesday. In the midst of a change in the music scene, we have decided that Wobble Wednesday no longer fits the direction we would like to go. That is not to say, however, that the filth and darkness of both American dubstep and UK dubstep will stop. Rather, WW will merge with the Weekly Flavours column for a more genre-focused list each week. For the uninitiated, Weekly Flavours is a post dedicated to a certain style...
Clair Boucher, otherwise known as Grimes, posted a video on her Tumblr yesterday that features "Venus in Fleurs", off of her debut album Geidi Primes, accompanied by an assortment of clips taken at the Reifel Bird Sanctuary in British Columbia. While Grimes typically has a hand in the creation of her videos, the panning shots and close-ups in "Venus in Fluers" were blended together by Video Marsh, who has also created videos for Caribou, Crystal Castles and Shlohmo. Throughout the video Boucher's icy voice...
While indie electronic newcomers Iyes initially gained attention with their spacey and lyrical dream pop, it turns out that when their beats stand alone they shine as progressive and bliss-filled electronica. The Brighton, UK duo's newest song, "Daddy" meshes organic rhythmic patterns, ambient...
Because Four Tet creates such lush and vibrant beats with emotion filled structures it is tough to produce a valid remix of his work (Jamie XX's remix for "Lion" is good example of the right way to accomplish the feat). That being said, Atoms For Peace signed up for a big role is recreating one...
With a highly anticipated and long overdue album scheduled for June 3, London electronic producer Jon Hopkins has released overwhelming and evolving track "Open Eye Signal". It has been four years since Hopkins' last LP Insides hit shelves, but he was never considered out of the music scene as...
What do you get when you have one Australian remixing a fellow Aussie? No punchline here, but all the punch nevertheless. In case if you have been slumbering underneath a boulder, Flume is a rising Australian producer who released a monster self-titled debut album. Flume is widely accepted and...
Laurent Clerc, a.k.a. Little People, is a London-based electronic music producer who specializes in experimental downtempo and electronica. His beats and styles evolved over the years. His earlier work reflected more traditional trip-hop aspects, though in recent years his music shape-shifted into...
It doesn't matter what it's caged in. Thom Yorke's voice is always a welcome balm. On his first official release with supergroup Atoms for Peace, the Radiohead frontman strings his unmistakable vox through a clockwork jungle of nervous instrumentals. Amok's got more bones than Radiohead's divisive...