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Featured Gallery Music Ph.D. in Funk-ology: Chromeo

August 10, 2011 - 10:37 am

Of all the performances at Saturday’s HARD Summer Music Festival, Chromeo was responsible for rallying the masses into an energetic frenzy more than any other act. The project, composed of P-Thugg (Patrick Gemayel) on keyboards, synth, and talk box and Dave 1 (David Macklovitch) on guitar and lead vocals pride themselves on creating a dance-worthy eclectic sound which they affectingly refer to as lovers funk.

Prior to show time, P-Thugg set up equipment for the gig as Dave 1 invited ChinaShop into his trailer for a preshow chat. In the calm before the Chromeo-induced storm, Dave revealed the genesis of the duo’s “ridiculous” nicknames, his persistence for finishing up his Ph.D., and discussed the surreal experience of being personally invited to jam in the home of Darryl Hall.

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Gallery Music HARD or BUST

by Nicole Pajer and Catie Laffoon

August 9, 2011 - 11:33 am

If this year’s HARD Summer Festival theme had to be summed up in one word, it would have to be “naked.” On Saturday, the celebrated electronic music festival brought thousands of music lovers to Los Angeles’s Downtown Historic Park for the sold out music fest. Swarms of festival goers arrived in their rave-worthy best; dressed in the smallest amount of clothing they could get by in without earning them a police record.

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Gallery Music Daedelus Graces Movement’s Red Bull Music Academy Stage

by Mike Bucher and Joe Gall

June 9, 2011 - 12:19 pm

With a mission of bringing together musicians, DJs and producers from diverse musical and cultural backgrounds to exchange ideas about music and their knowledge of how life in the industry works, Red Bull Music Academy has helped emerging, innovative talent get their wings including many of the acts that were seen on the dedicated stage throughout the weekend.

Daedelus, well-known around the electronic music industry as one of today’s cornerstones of new sound graced the Red Bull Music Academy stage incorporating a deep jazz element into his Movement set proving his nickname — “mad professor” — true.

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Gallery Music Com Truise Gets His Wings

by Ryan Patrick Hooper and Joe Gall

June 8, 2011 - 10:41 am

Mid-fi synth-wave, slow-motion funk. How could you read it and not want to hear it? But Com Truise does you one better — he offers up a visual accompaniment with just about everything he releases. To announce a trio of shows — first trip overseas to Sweden, his two-hour show at Movement 2011 and a set in Toronto — Com pumped out a slick graphic to let you know. He designed the artwork for his Ghostly International debut, “Galactic Melt,” due July 5. He rocks a t-shirt he designed to coincide with said release.

These, ladies and gentlemen, are the perks of being the digital art director for a global pharmaceutical firm and a budding New Jersey-based DJ whiz.

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Featured Gallery Music She’s Like a Female Phenomenon: RuPaul

by Nicole Pajer and Dustin Downing

June 2, 2011 - 11:56 am

Take catchy lyrics like “She’s like a female phenomenon; she’s a glamazon,” add a peppy dance beat, and you have the title track on RuPaul’s latest musical endeavor, “Glamazon.” In support of the follow up to Ru’s chart topping “Champion,” Amoeba Hollywood kicked off the release of “Glamazon” with a fan-filled RuPaul CD signing.

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Gallery Music Beatport CEO Matt Adell Provides Conventional Wisdom

by Rich Thomas and Graham John Bell

March 10, 2011 - 5:25 pm

The music is omnipresent, the winter part is questionable, but the backbone that props up WMC every year is always the conference part of things. This year, the Miami Convention Center plays host to WMC’s numerous panels, product demos, and all the extracurricular fist-bumping and business card exchanging that connects DJs and producers around the world. The latest in wearable LED illumination is on display. Need a DJ booth custom-made to look like a pair of white sunglasses? They’ve got it. Motion-sensing control surfaces and app-based, virtual DJ technology is always a big thing. But if you want to see product in action, your best bet is to sidle up next to the DJ booth at your favorite club and train spot. Just make sure to follow proper etiquette. But onto business.

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Gallery Music Vagabonding with David Morales

by Rich Thomas and Graham John Bell

March 9, 2011 - 5:17 pm

Sweaty, smelly, hot and cramped—and that’s just the cab ride to the venue. Our second stop of the evening was the official WMC Opening Night Party at the Vagabond downtown, where Frankie Knuckles, David Morales and Hector Romero were spinning house music so deep they should have been handing out free life preservers at the door. If Tenaglia’s set at the National was the appetizer, this was the main course, and the Vagabond did not disappoint.

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Music Welcome To Springfestival: Austria

by Shop Keeper

January 13, 2011 - 10:01 am

In 2010 Springfestival celebrated its momentous 10^th anniversary, featuring an array of richly diverse live and DJ talent from across the globe including Zoot Woman, Zombie Nation and Erol Alkan, for what was the festival’s best year to date. Thousands of people from all over Europe flocked to Austria to enjoy the splendour of an enchanting city whilst experiencing some of the world’s leading performers and musicians performing day and night.

2011 witnesses the 11^th instalment of one of Europe’s most intriguing festival propositions returning across 1^st-5^th June, set in the beautiful and enchanting UNESCO World Heritage city of Graz. Alongside hosting its finest underground clubs, Springfestival boasts some truly breathtaking locations; a cave, nay a dome carved in the middle of a mountain, a spectacular fortress, a man-made steel and glass river island, and the “Friendly Alien” Museum of Modern Art are spectacular backdrops making for a unique audio-visual experience, combining four days and nights of amazing music, workshops and stimulation. The locations are scattered around the city centre, all within walking distance or catered for by a shuttle bus.

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Music Forces Collide at Red Bull Culture Clash LA

by Shop Keeper

December 1, 2010 - 12:27 pm

After much success across the pond in London, Red Bull Music Academy Culture Clash will make its U.S. debut in Los Angeles on Thursday, December 2nd at Exchange LA. Four L.A. based, but internationally known and well-respected music collectives will participate and battle to be named winner by the crowd. The collectives will be Dim Mak, Dub Club, Smog and Stones Throw.

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Gallery Music HARD Haunted Mansion

by Dustin Downing

November 2, 2010 - 12:36 pm

Every couple months in Los Angeles, a few thousand people have a quaint get together titled simply, “HARD“. It is here were they are entranced by the finest envoy of eclectic electro this side of the Mississippi. Well, unless HARD is on rotation in New York.

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