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dEbruit – Heart Beats 4 Haiti

12. February 2010

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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 [...]

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DJJZ: ScissorMix Vol. 1

31. January 2010

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DJJZ: ScissorMix Vol. 1

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 [...]

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ScissorKast 7: Snowy Road

21. January 2010

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ScissorKast 7: Snowy Road

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 [...]

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New Jaga Jazzist Jam

4. November 2009

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New Jaga Jazzist Jam

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 [...]

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The Roll Call: Dark Party

20. July 2009

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The Roll Call: Dark Party

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 [...]

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Bibio — Ambivalence Avenue

16. July 2009

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Bibio — <em>Ambivalence Avenue</em>

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 [...]

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Scissorkast 5: Partly Sunny

31. May 2009

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Scissorkast 5: Partly Sunny

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 [...]

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Nosaj Thing — Drift

14. May 2009

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Nosaj Thing — <em>Drift</em>

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” [...]

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A.M. Architect — The Road to the Sun

23. April 2009

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A.M. Architect — <em>The Road to the Sun</em>

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 [...]

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Aether

4. February 2009

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Aether

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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