Bassnectar just dropped his latest freestyle session ‘Amorphous Music Mixtape Vol. 7′ after selling out nearly all presale tickets for his upcoming VAVA VOOM Spring Tour. Check out the tracklist, free download link, and spring tour dates after the jump. Oh, and feel free to share.
In his latest experiment, Psymbionic recreates The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ 1991 anthem “Give it away,” giving new life to an already energetic funksterpiece. Listen to the remix after the jump.
HOBO-TECH is a type of, well… “depression-era” techno if that makes any sense. The genre is steaming full speed ahead thanks to Jon Margulies and his pioneering use of rocking techno beats, smashed up freight train noises, iron skillets and and synthed-out accordions. Added to this curious concoction are hooks and samples taken from some of Americana’s finest the likes of Tom Waits and John Lee Hooker.
So we here at ChinaShop don’t know what your plans are for this Labor Day weekend but if you don’t have any or even if you do, cancel them quick and head out to the Electric Zoo, New York’s electronic music festival out on Randall’s Island. There will be tons of music, interactive arts displays and plenty of eats to keep your dancin’ pants on all day.
I was watching this old Bugs Bunny cartoon the other day in which Bugs goes on a vacation to Ozark Arkansas. The episode, titled “Hillbilly Hare” (made in the 50′s, hence the lack of PC) got me wondering what a trip to the Ozarks would really be like, not only as a destination, but as a vacation! I decided to do some research and see what kind of shenanigans one could get themselves into down there and It turns out there is a lot more to do than belly-flopping into the local watering hole. This is what I found.
For the past twenty years, Brian Gillespie has sat behind the decks serving up an educated selection of deep, melodic techno, funk and obscure jazz alongside his signature ghetto-tech blend to the Detroit scene. As part of the deejay duo Starski & Clutch (Gillespie as Starski, DJ and producer Todd Osborn as Clutch), has expanded his brand to a fresh audience after an eclectic set on the Red Bull Music Academy stage last Sunday afternoon. But as a representative for the Red Bull Music Academy in Detroit, many don’t realize that the same determination Gillespie puts into searching for records, he also piles into “helping give young, local talent the resources to [experience] the same exposure in a year that would normally take five, 10, 15 years.” Beginning in Berlin in 1998, The Red Bull Music Academy is built to cater to and foster budding talent. While burgeoning musicians, deejays, singers and producers attend, waves of established and often legendary artists come to visit and educate — think ?uestlove, Madlib, Melvin van Peebles, Chuck D, Carl Craig, Caribou and many more. Held at a mixture of exotic locations around the globe, the Red Bull Music Academy is an opportunity for young talent to get lost within their craft, to hone their skills live and begin building a name through one of the most accomplished music programs to date. But the reach doesn’t end there.
Since the launch of ChinaShop, we’ve publicly worn a certain fascination with Lorin Ashton and the intense wall of bass he’s built brick-by-brick as Bassnectar. From our first encounter under the Austin sun during South By Southwest to our days spent in Detroit at the Detroit Electronic Music Festival and soaking up the Chicago sights with the California-based deejay at Lollapalooza, we’ve always sported our fan patch with pride. After catching up with Ashton’s manager and everything man, Elliott Dunwody (who informed us about the fantastic Playboy bunny brunch he enjoyed earlier than morning), we finally ran into the man himself. Within minutes, Ashton began dropping articulate bombs about his upcoming release, Cozza Frenzy, due in the first week of October on Amorphous Music.
Whether you were grinding along with the heaps of patrons in the audience, sacrificing your drinks to the Gods above in the VIP lounge or planted on boxes of gear backstage, everyone was smothered in a sticky, relentless coating of thundering bass as Bassnectar closed the Red Bull Music Academy stage on Monday night. Unleashing his Whip-It brand bass lines (imagine those adolescent wah-wahs magnified by a million) and eclectic dub step to new wave mash up style and you’ve got a good reason why the majority of the independent vendors were shut down as the sun set and the more hair than flare DJ took to the stage — who would want to miss it? But Bassnectar’s set wasn’t without complication as Lorin Ashton, the California-based multi-instrumentalist behind the name, is quick to point out.