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dEbruit – Heart Beats 4 Haiti
The incredible, self-styled “synth magician” dEbruit has put out a digital EP to benefit the earthquake victims in Haiti. Heart Beats 4 Haiti features all of the signature styles that you would expect from the innovative Frenchman: funked-out synth lines, huge boom-bap beats and, due to the subject matter at hand, choice samples from Haitian [...]
Continue reading...DJJZ: ScissorMix Vol. 1
31. January 2010
Note from the Editor: Jeff Zemetis (DJJZ) has been a friend and coworker for nearly 8 years. Like a lot of friends, we solidified over a mutual love of music. His tastes are wildly eclectic — from old New England Hardcore and grimey UK Dubstep to twee indie pop and Doo-wop (yes, Doo-wop) — so I [...]
Continue reading...ScissorKast 7: Snowy Road
21. January 2010
This ScissorKast, while a bit scattered, is perhaps one of the strongest playlists I’ve put together in a while. A combination of my favorite tracks from 2009 and a taste of hotly anticipated music from 2010 it meanders down a number of musical avenues including electronic, instrumental rock, indie, folk, you name it. Hard to [...]
Continue reading...New Jaga Jazzist Jam
4. November 2009
The world’s greatest (and only) Norwegian 9-piece electro-afro-prog-whatever rockestra* has re-emerged from their lair with a new batch of indescribably brilliant songs for confused music fans worldwide. By “confused” I mean “awesome + eclectic.” I’d imagine that their lair is pretty sickly designed Scandinavian, with wood tones and tempered steel and smart Feng Shui and [...]
Continue reading...The Roll Call: Dark Party
20. July 2009
5 Fast Questions for Dark Party The inaugural Scissorkick Roll Call — our new, easily digestible 5-question inteview format — features Dark Party, the new electronic dance project of popular Brooklyn-based beats producer Eliot Lipp and his Chicago-based friend Leo 123. The duo have worked on a handful of remixes and have a record on the [...]
Continue reading...Bibio — Ambivalence Avenue
16. July 2009
By now it’s no surprise how much I admire the work of Stephen Wilkinson’s Bibio pseudonym. His first few releases for the Mush imprint were an inspiring blend of pastoral acoustic folk and experimental field recordings. When news of a jump to pioneering electronic label Warp hit the blogosphere, it got me thinking about the [...]
Continue reading...Scissorkast 5: Partly Sunny
31. May 2009
Six months since the last scissorkast and it’s not due to a lack of good music. Just have my hands full. I promise to get more regular with these, especially since I’ve digitized about 1000 records since the last podcast. Since the start of the year, 2009 is turning out some epic records, and I’ve aimed [...]
Continue reading...Nosaj Thing — Drift
14. May 2009
I’ve been corrupted. You know you’ve stumbled upon something great when you’re exhibiting obsessive behaviors like playing a song 10 times in a row because 2:55 just isn’t long enough. “Light #1″ is that song. Old-school heads will instantly think back to the best parts of Mike Paradinas’ finest U-ziq stuff like “Hasty Boom Alert” [...]
Continue reading...A.M. Architect — The Road to the Sun
23. April 2009
I could be breaking some unspoken rule of music blogging by posting 2 projects by the same musician so close together. But then again — as you can tell by my recent disappearance from regular posting — the regular rules have never applied to SK. A.M. Architect is another project from Diego Chavez (Aether), together with [...]
Continue reading...Aether
4. February 2009
Snow is an integral part of the character of NYC. A city teeming with transplants, you get this collective anxiety right after a fresh snowfall, as the winter drags on with throngs of people hotly anticipating 100 degree days that smell of dog piss and uncollected garbage. Nah, if you ask me, summer in the [...]
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- DJJZ: ScissorMix Vol. 1
- Scissorkast 5: Partly Sunny
- Spokes
- ScissorKast 7: Snowy Road
- A.M. Architect -- The Road to the Sun
- Lord Newborn and the Magic Skulls
- Boards of Canada Recreated by Bibio
- Scissorkast 6: Double Agent
- The Roll Call: The Magic Fly
- Fink (Cinematic Orchestra Remix)
- StuRuckus: Very nice, a good mix, and it really has a good fe...
- jz: Thanks for the kind words, adam. Lots of great mus...
- adam: man. starting at about 13 minutes, once you drop t...
- jz: Here you go, Farfromrefuge. Timecodes have been ad...
- Number12Stunna: It sound nice....
- Tunng …And Then We Saw Land
- dEbruit – Heart Beats 4 Haiti
- DJJZ: ScissorMix Vol. 1
- ScissorKast 7: Snowy Road
- Checking In
- Jawbox First (and only) Performance in 12 Years
- Lord Newborn and the Magic Skulls
- New Jaga Jazzist Jam
- Boards of Canada Recreated by Bibio
- Scissorkast 6: Double Agent
SK Best of 2009
 Various Artists 5: Five Years of Hyper Dub |
 Aether Artifacts |
 Baroness Blue Record |
 Bibio Ambivalence Avenue |
 Bronnt Industries Kapital Hard Justice |
 Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains |
 Do Make Say Think Other Truths |
 Fever Ray Fever Ray |
 From Monument to Masses On Little Known Frequencies |
 Henrik Schwarz, Ame & Dixon present: Grandfather Paradox |
 Isis Wavering Radiant |
 Jay-Z The Blueprint 3 |
 Jim O'Rourke The Visitor |
 Kurt Vile God is Saying This to You |
 Lushlife Cassette City |
 Mastodon Crack the Skye |
 Moderat Moderat |
 Mos Def The Ecstatic |
 Omar S Fabric 45 |
 Passion Pit Manners |
 Raekwon Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2 |
 Russian Circles Geneva |
 Tortoise Beacons of Ancestorship |
 Various Artists Forge Your Own Chains |
 The XX xx |
SK Photos
12. February 2010
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