I can’t claim authority here — aside from a little passing knowledge, I can’t tell you much about jazz, especially what’s going on in Detroit. However, I do know that Carl Craig put together a …

If there were a mythical creature with a Cinematic Orchestra torso, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble haunches, and a Broken Social Scene head, it would come out something like the Bell Orchestre. Yeah. Sharing a number of …

Amon Tobin is a name that’s hard to separate from the arc of Ninja Tune, being one of the labels brightest stars for about 10 years. His murky take on the IDM aesthetic crossed with …

Somewhere in the way too distant past (or maybe the way too distant future?), this was going down at a TV studio in Detroit:
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First off, the proto-techno of “Sharevari” is ridiculously good. Can you believe …

A Mr. Oizo track pulled through Flying Lotus’ crazy brain — should be totally otherworldly, right? Interestingly, it’s much tamer than I would have expected. Perhaps it’s because this remix was done a couple years …

A few days ago, an unfortunately estranged friend asked me if I’d heard House of House’s “Rushing to Paradise.” I hadn’t. Since this friend’s endorsements are always quality, my expectations were set high. I googled …

They run in the same circles (outside of Kompakt, they have many other obvious connections), but there’s something unobvious about the affinity between the sounds of Matias Aguayo and DJ Koze. They make music in genres that demand stern structure, yet they repeatedly find their successes around the edges. When others choose to button their shirts up to the neck, Aguayo and Koze opt for playful, floppy, and loose, all the while keeping it noir.

House producers are going so deep these days, they’re even working the soul mines. (Going down down down.) Henrik Schwarz follows his most recent edit, a more downtempo remix of an Omar/Stevie Wonder track, with a single that’s thoroughly and unapologetically kinetic. This Bill Withers disco/house rework has that timeless sort of groove that would fit right into Larry Levans crate just as easily as it would fit into a set by Dixon.

 
For his long player 7 Dunham Place, German producer Loco Dice transplanted his cosmopolitan brand of dance in Brooklyn. His version of New York proved to be one of the best dance albums of 2008, …

Nerdy Austrian cat buys nice synthesizer, makes tweaked out edits of contemporary classics, posts them on the internet, enjoys moderate to middling blog-attention. A classic love story that’s impossible to resist. Who can refuse?

(My first post on the very respectable needledrop.net and I pick some raunchy, explicit, campy disco-soul-techno? We’ll see…)