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This Week's Singles 24.9.12: Dan Croll, Trimbal & Harmonimix, Jesse Boykins III, Umberto
Single of the Week! Dan Croll - ‘From Nowhere’ (Racquet Records) You would not expect a single that has Raw Sex as its backing band to be full of pomp, but Dan Croll’s is. ‘From Nowhere’ is, in fact, as packed with bombast as it is poss»
armchair dancefloor 037: Keysound/Dusk + Blackdown, Artifact, James Blake, NeferTT, Pangaea, Oneohtrix, Happa...
armchair dancefloor catches up with Keysound bosses Dusk + Blackdown to chat about the label and their new LP, Dasafelx. Plus, download not one but two exclusive tracks, and loads of new tunes to stream.»
Green Man Festival Preview – Part Two: What To See
It would appear that this coming weekend in the UK is a bit of a Mad One for festivals. Whilst most of the good ship DiS are drinking to their survival of the great Gateway wars of last week across at Leicester’s Summer Sundae – with yet more up north at Beacons Festival in Skipton – I’m taking another trip down to the Welsh hills to indulge in the delights of Green Man Festival.»
Playing records with Neil Hamburger
DiS met up with America’s funnyman, Neil Hamburger and we played him some records... _"When you’re done with this interview can you throw this computer into a river? Cos this is really quite a bad collection of songs you’re playing me. It really doesn’t give you much hope for the future, does it?" _»
Øya 2011, Norway - The DiS review Part I
We report on the first two days of Oslo's Øyafestival, featuring Matthew Dear, Destroyer, Kanye West, Pantha Du Prince, Explosions In The Sky and a ton more.»
Field Day 2011: the DiS review
Since its inception in 2007, the Field Day festival has been beset by hitches. Consecutive years have been marred by problems with inaudible sound, extraordinary toilet queues, comic band cancellations (Dan Deacon losing his passport anyone?) combining with moronic last minute mass schedule alterations, or simply by being idiotically put on at the height of the English summer when the organisers should know it will piss it down. What promoters Eat Your Own Ears have got consistently right is the bill, with 2011 no exception.»
Latitude 2011: The DiS Review, Day Three
DiS went to Latitude and this is what ruddy well happened (on Sunday).»
Glastonbury: DiS' 10 Must-See Acts
In lieu of trying to provide a blanket overview of such a huge line-up, here we offer DiS’ top ten picks for the weekend, bringing together some of the biggest and smallest acts worth your time and addled attention...»
Festival Review: Live at Leeds 2011
DiS did Live at Leeds»
Spotifriday #81 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's Spotifriday playlist.»
This Week's Singles: 07/03/11
This week's round-up of all things small and darling is about barbershops, razor blades, takeaway heart attacks and having a furious row about the Common Market when you really just want to snog them. »
Subliminal Transmissions 06: R'n'Bass
For this edition of Subliminal Transmissions, we offer some thoughts on the increasing convergence/irrelevance of genre in a web-driven world, and the rise (and rise) of R'n'B signifiers in UK bass sounds.»
Spotifriday #77 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
Spotifriday ahoy!»
2010 In The Mix by Rory Gibb
So to close off 2010 it feels appropriate to take a scan backward through some of the year’s most exciting developments. We’ve recorded a mix that gathers together some of our favourite tracks from this year, from the blissful sensory overload of Oneohtrix Point Never and Hype Williams to the darkened soundscapes of Demdike Stare and Raime, alongside a healthy dose of music from the fertile ground explored by dubstep’s progeny. You can stream it from Mixcloud or download immediately below; the tracklist follows at the bottom of this article.»
Drowned in Sound staff members: #1 Albums of 2010
Whilst one big site-defining list with somewhat arbitrary positionings, full of compromises and a whiff of fair-play politics is all well and good, the far more fascinating thing is the ONE album people believe stands on a column, far above all others. Over the past 10 years, this has usually been pretty much the same four or five albums topping people's list, making the job of picking the top five albums of the year, somewhat easier. Not in tweeny-ten, oh no. This year, as you'll see below, has been the least lacking in consensus since records began (ok, as we're sure you know as we keep banging on about it, it was only 10 years ago we launched, so this clearly isn't the most scientific of research!). »
Spotifriday #70 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's Spotifriday playlist featuring some supreme cuts from the likes of Napoleon IIIrd, Errors, British Sea Power, James Blake, Twin Shadow and much, much more. Well, a little bit more anyway. »
armchair dancefloor 024 incl Danny Saul mix
This month's look at the best electronic and open-tuned electric guitar releases. Plus an exclusive, femur-shatteringly good mix from Mancunian experimentalist Danny Saul. »
Iceland Airwaves: The DiS Review
Reykjavík is a beautiful city. That’s the first thing that springs to mind when we arrive within its limits during the pitch black early hours, virtually nonexistent street light during the drive from the airport sending a striking vista of stars rolling out across the night sky. Despite Friday morning dawning cool and cloudy, it’s no less impressive in the morning light: old-style buildings and expanses of green are interspersed with modern touches and unfinished constructions, perhaps continued relics of the country’s monetary collapse. But for all that event’s devastating economic and social impacts, the city’s yearly Iceland Airwaves festival couldn’t feel more open and welcoming in 2010, with a diverse and friendly crowd and an almost unnerving volume of excellent music. »
Spotifriday #66 - This Week on DiS ft. Elliott Smith, Darkstar, Trent Reznor, James Blake...
Where did this week go? And how on earth have we managed to get to number 66 in our Spotify series of weekly playlists wot act like a hyperlink-laden cover mount of what we've covered on the site this week? Time, it really doth fly. Anyway, Luke has taken this whole Nordic week thing a bit far and disappeared to Finland, so you're left with me making a playlist, insert your hatred in the comments section below or yuhknow, maybe just say something nice about something you think should have been on this playlist.»
Spotifriday #63 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
This week's Drowned in Sound content-themed Spotify playlist, featuring Glasser, Deerhunter, Violens, Chrome Hoof and Gold Panda amongst many others.»
This Week's Singles: 27/09/10
This week: JAMES BLAKE JAMES BLAKE JAMES BLAKE JAMES BLAKE JAMES BLAKE JAMES BLAKE JAMES BLAKE JAMES BLAKE JAMES BLAKE JAMES BLAKE JAMES BLAKE JAMES BLAKE JAMES BLAKE JAMES BLAKE JAMES BLAKE JAMES BLAKE JAMES BLAKE. And getting OLD.»
Spotifriday #61 - This week on DiS as a playlist
Another wonderful edition of this week's Spotifriday playlist featuring Bowie, Blake, No Age, Abe Vigoda, Dios, Max Richter, Andrew Bird...and, of course, a fair few more.»
Subliminal Transmissions 02 : LHF
As well as featuring the usual round-up of notable releases, this second edition of the monthly column on UK bass music explores the ethereal world of LHF, a seven-strong London collective that evoke the heady spirit of the past while simultaneously looki»
Aquacrunk? What the Crunk? - A brief introduction to the watery side of electronics
The world of electronic music is so littered with sub-genres now that it is far too difficult for many to keep track. More than anything, the awareness that terms for certain minutiae of change in a sonic spectrum is journalistic. But sometimes such defining words can feel appropriate – encapsulation will be impossible forever,»
armchair dancefloor 019 incl Iori mix
The essential releases from the recent electronic crop, and a deep, dark techno mix from Japanese DJ/producer Iori. »
armchair dancefloor 017 incl 10-20 mix
armchair dancefloor details the recent electronic releases it's most worth hunting down. In our opinion, that is. We're not god. This time we're also proud to include a mix from 10-20, who's sequenced a half-hour of his inimitable abstract techno solely for your enjoyment. »
Armchair Dancefloor 008
This time around, Chris Power's fortnightly round-up of the electronic scene flits with elephantine grace between Dutch dubstep, Belgian horrorcore, Lithuanian ambient techno and plain old laptop blissfulness from the Home Counties.»
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