The Gaslamp Killer @ Trouw 2009
This weekend the Viral Radio festival brings nice treats for music lovers in the Netherlands. This bijou festival runs over two days in two different venues in Amsterdam and features artists from today’s most cutting edge music labels. Its interesting to see that all of the visiting musicians are from either California or London which [...]
Black Milk is back this week in Amsterdam playing the small room of the Paraidiso on Friday night. We’ve covered him when he played last year here. If you feel like seeing a talented hip hop artist this weekend check this guy out.
Black Milk - “Losing Out” featuring Royce Da
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The Cat Empire are from Melbourne Australia and this year they are bringing a bit of summer sun to Europe. This band has been around for about ten years and have released four albums so far.
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TAKE (aka Sweatson Klank) is on Pooh Bah records hails from the LA beat scene. He released his debut album a couple of years ago and has put out numerous singles and 12′ over the years. Recently he has done remix work for artists such as Flying Lotus. He played in the Bimhuis last summer [...]
Atmosphere are an indie hip hop duo from Minneapolis, Minnesota. They have been together for 11 years and have six album releases under their belt. Last year they released an excellent album titled “When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold” that featured heavily on my playlist. On that album tour they played [...]
Hailing from Philadelphia Ursula Rucker is a (beat) poet, wordsmith and musician. She has worked with a vast array of other artists including Wax Tailor, 4hero and the Roots.
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Flying Lotus live
The Brainfeeder & Viral Radio party went off like a bomb at Trouw on Friday night. The Gaslamp Killer gave us a blistering Serato DJ set. The man was a manic ball of energy reminiscent of the Tasmanian devil from the Looney Tunes cartoons. He rushed about with such a verbent energy that [...]
Photo by Tim Saccenti
This gig has already been and gone, you can find a review here.
Flying Lotus is a producer from Los Angeles. He produced one of my favorite albums of 2008 (Los Angeles) and his excellent EP ‘Shhh!’ has been vibrating my speakers a lot recently. He unfortunately had to cancel his world [...]
Harmonic 313
Harmonic 313 is the latest project from Mark Pritchard. Mark has had many electronic music projects over the years including the Global Communication, Jedi Knights, Link, Reload and Troubleman. I’ve seen him DJ a few times under the guise of various projects and I had the pleasure of seeing him and Tom Middleton playing [...]