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Lord Newborn and the Magic Skulls
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...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...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...Floating Points
29. December 2008
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 Points [...]
Continue reading...The Foreign Exchange
31. October 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Midnight Lab Band
30. September 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Michna
11. August 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Koushik
30. July 2008
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, [...]
Continue reading...Flying Lotus + Lil’ Wayne
8. July 2008
Here’s a quick little nugget just sent out by the Warp camp from LA’s Flying Lotus, who will be dropping a series of EPs throughout August featuring new non-album tracks, very special collaborations, and remixes from some of your favorites. Here’s one of the first, featuring none other than the self-professed “greatest rapper alive” Lil’ [...]
Continue reading...Blktop Project
28. June 2008
“How did I not know about this group?!” It’s one of the most satisfying questions music fans can ask themselves. You work hard to follow an artist, group, or label, constantly staying on top of releases yet still an entire project can exist under your astute radar. Such is the Blktop Project for SK, a [...]
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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
25. November 2009
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