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Foster the People – Pumped Up Kicks

With what could possibly be the most murderous bassline of the upcoming summer smorgasbord, Foster the People’s Pumped Up Kicks is pumping up my “kicks” for their full length, due in two weeks. Their lubed-up smooth palmy production shares a lot of commonalities with the “Beach”/”Wave”/”Surf”/”Coast” tribe, but this single manages to be...

Alex

Bilal – Levels Video

This is a sequel to Flying Lotus’ Mmmhmm video, where a bass-playing Indian travels through a strange world of purple farts and malaised stone sunflowers. And like a trip on glue fumes, this one only gets stickier and stickier. [ed: ?] And I’ll tell you one thing about the song: Bilal’s come a long, weird way from hooks on Common songs. FULL SCREEN Two cough syrup-worthy visual seizures...

Alex

Cloud Nothings – Should Have Video

I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know. Don’t fucking touch me via [your secret admirer ???]

Alex

Flying Lotus – Zodiac Shit

Is it weird that I see this every time I close my eyes? Keep in mind I’m a Frankensteinian cyborg who’s arranged PitchforkTV to be playing nonstop on the screens sewn into my eyelids and the only reason I’m writing this article is because my master has tired of dipping my hooves in Juicy Juice and HERE HE...

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Dante Castro Interview

Dante Castro seems in every way to be a normal guy – funny, relaxed, humble. But his beats are something abnormal, and by that I mean extraordinary. And by that I mean I’ve been up clubbing and scrubbing out my toilet tank with LUCID! on repeat for eighty-two hours now, with nothing but these bugs under my skin for company.

Alex

Applescal – A Mishmash of Changing Moods

“Dialeague” is like a wind chime bouncing off the walls of a bottomless pit on its way to infinity. The way this sweet bell-y arpeggio is wrapped so completely in this droney embrace is like nothing I’ve quite heard before – Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada come to mind, but neither have created anything so compelling in their personification of sound. The greats of electronica can...

Alex

Interview: Mogadishu

I first found heard about British group Mogadishu from a very cool, very exclusive music magazine that I subscribe to and you can’t. What I found was an amazing music video made by band member Conor which I incredibly elegantly said looked “like if the geometrical animation for the production team from a mid-80′s science video never settled on the company’s logo and kept winding...