TAG: world music

Dec14

DJ Assal Releases New Club Mix

For all those looking for a new mix to get you through December, DJ and Rapper-Songwriter ASSAL has something fresh for your ears. Born in Germany and from a Persian background, ASSAL is that world class #veryrare chic tweaking your favorite genres with a global sound reminiscent of her upbringing. ASSAL and her music ignore traditional boundaries with her compositions combining elements of electronic, dance, alternative, hip hop and world music.  

Her eclectic background not only shows through in her music, but in her unique sense of style as well.  This jet setting partygoer and fashionite evokes global glamour, classic cool, and edginess all at once. What we’d like to call a “cultural cocktail.” Yes we just coined that. A tastemaker in her own right – her cutting edge style and genre-hopping have drawn comparisons to M.I.A or Santigold …

May26

Crowdpleaser, “Spinelli” (MP3)

This one time a kid was describing what being on ex is like, from his description everything becomes hypersensitive. From your eyelashes flapping to the plucking of your bones. Now I may not be living that kind of lifestyle up here in my ranch in Montecito but I can only imagine that’s kinda what Crowdpleaser was going for in their new album Nenekri which is coming out June 6th via Turbo Recordings. Their description read world music but I hear it and it’s like I hear every single instrument and finger strokes and for a moment in time I guess I can understand what’s it like to be that hyperaware of the construction of “world” sounds. …MORE