Blogcritics Category: Music: DJ

Best Music of 2008: The Bunneh3000 Edition

Bunneh3000 — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:08:41 EST

2008's Best Hip Hop and Soul music
Ah yes...the end of the year and critics, award shows, and news people galore are all chipping in to remind you of the best moments and memories that will forever be the personality of 2008. For me personally, this was an epic year in music for the mere fact that my taste buds were exposed to a plethora of new rock music thanks to the wicked...

Music Review: Various Artists - Verve Remixed Christmas

Sterfish — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:55:15 EST

A great disc to add to your not-so-traditional holiday music collection.
After four acclaimed collections, the Verve Remixed series finally gets in the holiday spirit with Verve Remixed Christmas. This new collection lets loose a variety of remixers on holiday tracks by jazz greats like Nina Simone, Count Basie, and Ella Fitzgerald. While purists will probably bristle, fans of compilations like the Christmas Remixed...

Music Review: The Japanese Popstars - We Just Are

Jordan Richardson — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:38:33 EST

A devastating and gorgeous debut.
Devastating and gorgeous all at once, The Japanese Popstars’ We Just Are is one of the most enthralling records of the year. Much in the same way Bristol’s Fuck Buttons unloaded obliterating noise on one of the best albums of 2008, Street Horrrsing, The Japanese Popstars have similar ferocity in their approach to the ultimate purity of...

Music Review: Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children

Andy Peterson — Tue, 9 Dec 2008 09:26:51 EST

Electronica's eureka moment: probably the only classic album not reissued in 2008.
By the early 1990’s we had become familiar with the paradoxical idea of dance music that you couldn’t dance to. As rave ground to a nihilistic halt, the Warp label’s seminal Artificial Intelligence series precised a change of direction, it's roots deep in the eloquence/elegance of the first wave techno that had been originally...

A Hip-Hop History

Jelani Sims — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:01:59 EST

An analysis of Hip-Hop and its affect on the world.
A group of young adults in vibrant colored sweats hop, skip, and jump their way into the subway, searching for the right spot. They find a deserted corner where the walls are covered in graffiti. One can no longer tell what the spray-painted messages say; they have been painted over many times. One member of the group sets up turntables and drops a...

Music Review: Moby - Last Night Remixed

Jordan Richardson — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:05:09 EST

Moby gives some fresh artists a slot in his all-night dance party.
“Remixes in 2008 are more important than they've ever been, and the great thing about the ubiquity of software like Ableton and Logic is that now almost anyone can be a remixer,” Moby told NME.com.And indeed at times it seems like anyone can be a remixer, with YouTube and MySpace footage inundating us with incalculable...

Music Review: Delicious Vinyl All-Stars RMXXOLOGY Deluxe Edition

Jordan Richardson — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:18:35 EST

A party-starting compilation like no other.
Get the party started any time of the year with Delicious Vinyl All-Stars RMXXOLOGY Deluxe Edition, a 30-track double CD that pumps through new remixes, classic cuts, and instrumentals that will make you go mental.Sound like a lot of loaded hype? It isn’t. This is one packed-to-the-rafters double-CD. Taking all the hits from this past...

Music Review: Deadmau5 - Random Album Title

David R Perry — Tue, 4 Nov 2008 08:34:52 EST

The debut from buzz-worthy electronic act Deadmau5 does not disappoint, offering deep prog-house, minimal techno goodness.
It's easy to want to dismiss Deadmau5 as a flash-in-the-pan on the electronic scene. Deadmau5, also known by his human moniker of Joel Zimmerman, has had a fairly quick rise to prominence - with some successful remixes under his belt for the likes of Daft Punk and Hybrid - and his affinity for performing live with an oversized mouse head as a...

Music Review: Autechre - Incunabula

Andy Peterson — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:35:16 EDT

Put those Indian Ocean Moods CD's in the trash.. this is the real thing.
Still cited as the alma mater for modern electronica, the Artificial Intelligence series was the Warp label's kiss off to the landscape it had helped shape. Although it did little for its creators bank accounts - it was hardly likely by definition to catapult the artists responsible into the charts as had happened to a number of their faddish acid...

Music Review: Lot 49 Presents Lee Coombs

Jordan Richardson — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 23:24:51 EDT

A stellar set of dance, trance, breakbeat, house, and techno righteousness.
The breakbeat scene owes an awful lot to Lee Coombs. The British producer has been holding it down for over a decade, springing mix CDs and compilations chock full of remixes and redubs of the world’s best artists. Coombs has owned the dance floor, crushing the competition with his infinite loops and breakdowns. He really made it happen in...