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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...Lord Newborn and the Magic Skulls
25. November 2009
Been so slacker it’s not even funny. I can’t apologize enough, and strangely, the Google analytics haven’t shown much drop off. You all rule. So because you have been patient, and because November has produced a cornucopia of instrumental magic, I will be bombing SK with a bunch of posts over the next week or [...]
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: The Magic Fly
11. September 2009
5 Fast Questions for The Magic Fly Being a fan of The Magic Fly’s insane take on dub and downtempo, I just knew his Roll Call answers would be similarly tweaked, fun, unpredictable and generally out of control. I mean, the guy got his name from the esoteric outre French rock band Space. Rob didn’t disappoint, [...]
Continue reading...Fink (Cinematic Orchestra Remix)
10. August 2009
I can’t say that I’ve been a huge fan of the “acoustic pop/folk” thing as it always seems to remind me of the James Blunt/John Meyer frenzy over the last decade or so. Of course, we can go way before that for generations of solid folk music, but often, when that lone troubadour is paired [...]
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...Lushlife — Cassette City
19. June 2009
Sometimes you just have to believe the hype. It feels like it’s been ages since a truly fresh perspective has come out of the underground hip-hop scene. And by fresh, I don’t necessarily mean cutting-edge. The old adage has never been so true — to truly move ahead you often have to take one step [...]
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 [...]
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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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