A compilation of moody, ethereal, abstract but chilly beats and textures from Justin Kim, aka O N E S U N. Features Tycho, Active Child, Mount Kimbie, Pictureplane, Grimes, Nosaj Things, Mux Mool and much more.

Did this mix over the Summer for our amazing developers at Substantial and realized I never posted it here on Scissorkick. Sure, they are great developers, but what’s more impressive is the collective musical knowledge in their office. I wanted to dig deep with a mix of old and new. The...

“Skwee” is one of those little bitty “genres” that keep popping up nowadays. I hate to say genre, because a lot of them are more like trends than anything else, and I don’t exclude skweee from that group. Maybe it’s just a personal thing—I don’t like...

Music critics tend to carry big bags of creative insults, and one of the more bizarre is the allegation of “wallpaper music.” To some jaded critics, certain music is so inconsequential, so “background,” that it fades into unnoticeability like so much flowery wallpaper,...

Even though the weather in NYC is shitty, it’s always a great day when I can post something new created by a close friend. Sam Willis, one half of Kompakt recording artists Walls and the fantastic DJ/blog duo Allez-Allez is a busy man these days up in Hackney, but somehow found the time...

Somewhere along the line, various strains of electronic music separated into unspoken (or overspoken) factions, such that some tunes sound distant, ethereal and ghostly, drowned in reverb and static, and others sound compressed, crunchy and in-your-face to the point of bludgeoning. Of course,...

More than one promising dance music producer has met their end by succumbing to popular musical trends. While the “new disco” sound has grown in popularity over the years, the genre has been inundated with imitators who have nothing to offer but one lackluster production after another....

In a musical world where each new artist uses a more bizarre nom de plume than the last, it’s refreshing to come across an electronic artist with the unassuming and very plain-sounding name of John Roberts. It’s a name that sounds more akin to, say, a conservative chief justice of...

I’ve always been attracted to soundscapes: worlds built out of voices, keyboards, and feedback that balance between detached and alien, as well as emotional and personal. Candy Claws, from Fort Collins, CO, delivers a distinctive brand of organic and atmospheric soundscapes. Warm Forest...

When you run a blog as long as I have, you end up stuck in database hell. Interns adding contact emails from the Hype Machine top 100 eventually land on scissorkick, and after nearly 10 years my inbox is cluttered by PR from labels and bands that have probably never downloaded or read about a...

Jeff sent this EP over and said he was “90% sure” I’d be into it. Fuck, I must be hard to please or something because this is so squarely in my wheel house I can’t imagine why he thought 10% of me wouldn’t be feeling this. American Men are a group of Scotsmen...

Free time has been scarce for me as of late and the amount of records I don’t have time to check out continues to grow. But there was one album that nagged the hell out of me because I knew it would be good and didn’t want to forget about it. It started with an email from Nang...

Well, we’re just barely a week into April and the temperature has already cracked the 90 degree mark here in New York City. So, since we’re apparently skipping over those precious few Spring days and headed straight into the sticky, lethargy-inducing humidity of summer, I’ve...

It’s been over 2 years since I posted something about Tunng, increasingly becoming one of my favorite bands on the planet. The combination of earnest, speculative front-porch folk and organic, digestible electronics has unfortunately led to the “folktronica” tag, but really,...

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...

"Dwrcan" opens with a modest, sad-elephant shuffle bass & break then takes a turn toward a nice half-time glitch groove.

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

New EP from Brooklyn's Home Video just dropped and while I will readily admit the Radhiohead comparisons are warranted, I still think the band is one of NYC's most underrated.

The truth is that I don't know much about Floating Points other than what's written on his MySpace page. What I do know is that by evidence of this first track "Love Me Like This" he has an incredibly bright future.

This one come courtesy of Roger O'Donnell, former keyboardist for The Cure, The Psychedelic Furs, Thompson Twins and more.