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Coachella 2012 is almost here, with an unprecedented two duplicate weekends of the world’s best music performed in one of the world’s most beautiful venues. Picking the acts you must see is a full-time sport for Coachella attendees and the media alike. But considering that URB has been down with the desert spectacular since 1999, we figure we’ll throw our two cents into the ring. …MORE
Los Angeles based band, Pollyn, teamed up with Nozinja and Nurse Matlala of South Africa’s Shangaan Electro, for their bugged out remix and video for Pollyn’s song “How Small We Are,” which was originally off their recently released album “Living In Patterns.”
The video and song was recorded in Soweto, South Africa and features Nurse Matlala, rocking CD earning and a pink/purple top. Pollyn band member, Adam Jay Weissman, explains that “The idea was to give [Nozinja and Nurse Matlala] the lyrics and have them translate them to create their own version of the song. They had free reign to do their thing. The track has a new brevity to it, several beats teetering insistently on as Nurse pontificates …
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Now in it’s 15th year, Amsterdam Dance Event has grown into one of the world’s premier electronic music gatherings. With top DJs playing in dozens of clubs each night, and a daytime program that’s actually interesting enough to attend, ADE has gained enough status in the past few years to be considered a rightful rival to Miami’s annual Winter Music Conference.
With Holland’s globally renowned mainstream dance acts mingling with Berlin’s biggest underground techno practitioners and America’s dance music veterans, it’s hard to be sure where to best spend you time. Check out our list of top things to do at ADE after the jump, and save yourself some time in the que. …MORE
This week’s podcast comes from Berlin’s biggest electronic crossoever act, Modeselektor. The duo spent much of the summer touring America as part of the inagural Identity Festival, which brought all stripes of electronic music to the nation’s secondary markets. And how did this pair—who met in the heady ’90s heyday of Berlin’s techno renaissance—relate to the candy-colored kids of middle America? Quite well, as their mix of techno, breaks, hip-hop, crunk and indietronic (thanks to guest vocals by folks like Thom Yorke) won over the dancing trancing masses.
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Thom Yorke has really embraced the art of DJing the past year or so, dropping inventive mixes online and in the flesh. This latest selection come via Mary Anne Hobbs‘ XFM radio show and features an unreleased bit of tuneage by Yorke entitled “The Twist,” as well as several Radiohead remixes and some goodies by Fela Kuti, Four Tet and Modeselektor. Stream it after the jump. …MORE
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