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Scissorkast 8: Split Personalities

26. May 2010

Spring has sprung and as usual there’s a handful of significant releases on the horizon. SK favorites like Broken Social Scene, The Album Leaf and Ratatat all have new ones either recently released or upcoming, but what’s more exciting are the smaller artists who have brand new or sophomore records coming out for summer soundtrack [...]

Javelin – No Mas

8. April 2010

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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 decided to post something from an album that’s strong enough [...]

Lord Newborn and the Magic Skulls

25. November 2009

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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 [...]

Fink (Cinematic Orchestra Remix)

10. August 2009

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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 [...]

A.M. Architect — The Road to the Sun

23. April 2009

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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 [...]

Floating Points

29. December 2008

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Big thanks to DJ DRM for sending this one my way. This will surely be the final post of 2008, before I do my yearly wrap up, and I can’t think of a better song more suited for looking ahead to an exciting musical landscape. The truth is that I don’t know much about Floating [...]

The Foreign Exchange

31. October 2008

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It would be dishonest of me to say that I’m a huge Neo-Soul kinda guy, but I’ve always been a big fan of the production from Nicolay, one half of The Foreign Exchange (with NC rapper-now-singer Phonte, from Little Brother). Their first collaboration, Connected, was one of the best hip-hop/soul records of 2004, and the [...]

Midnight Lab Band

30. September 2008

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I’ve always considered a certain level of anonymity an important quality among the musicians I tend to lionize. Not to say I expect a musician to release LP after LP under different pseudonyms, or drop mysterious white-label 12-inch vinyl as a career’s worth of output, but there’s a certain modesty and focus on the music [...]

Michna

11. August 2008

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A while back, when I was DJing more frequently, I used to rely on a small stack of records to get me through particularly tough transitions within sets. One of those records was “The Underwater Adventure Hop Secret Treasure 12″from the Secret Frequency Crew, and I always felt like their full-length CD that followed on [...]

Koushik

30. July 2008

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Stone’s Throw often relishes in mixing the new with the old but few of the venerable label’s artists sum it up as well as Koushik, the eponymous moniker of Koushik Ghosh. Mixing hazy 60′s nostalgia with new school beats and production, the music occupies a very unique place within a larger nexus of downtempo, soul, [...]