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Scissorkast 11

steve — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 05:04:33 +0000

Lucky for you, the first Scissorkast in too long is an all-music/no-talking affair. (I need an XLR adapter for my microphone). 100% new music, much of it unreleased, hitting the usual mix of instrumental electronic, emotive headphone post-rock, experimental dancefloor stuff and the like. Joyously looping, meticulously crafted sounds. Stuff from the US, UK, and [...]

ScissorMix Vol. 11: Summer Break

jz — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 16:08:32 +0000

…And just in time for the upcoming NYC heat wave, it’s a new installment of the ScissorMix series designed to make you get up and move! I wanted to get this out in time for The 4th of July but there’s a new tiny person in my life and, as a result, some of my [...]

ScissorMix Vol. 10: Down with December

jz — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:15:33 +0000

Here’s a new installment of the Scissormix series out just in time for the holidays. This mix lives solidly in the realm of downtempo. So it’s perfect to throw on after a long day of shopping/family/work and whatever other stresses come your way this holiday season. A pretty decent mix of new and old on [...]

O N E S U N: It Gets Cold Mix

steve — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:20:38 +0000

A compilation of moody, ethereal, abstract but chilly beats and textures from Justin Kim, aka O N E S U N. Features Tycho, Active Child, Mount Kimbie, Pictureplane, Grimes, Nosaj Things, Mux Mool and much more.

Substantial Sessions 07: Empire State of Mind

steve — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 01:28:11 +0000

Did this mix over the Summer for our amazing developers at Substantial and realized I never posted it here on Scissorkick. Sure, they are great developers, but what’s more impressive is the collective musical knowledge in their office. I wanted to dig deep with a mix of old and new. The heat was on. The [...]

Levek

Brendan — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:59:15 +0000

“I enjoy a good space jam while sorting through the Disney VHS collection,” reads the myspace bio. Levek—also known as David Levesque—enjoys a strange existence indeed. But the key word there is ”enjoy.” By day, David drives a bus of elementary schoolers. By night, he crafts deeply poetic, folky tunes with tribal rhythmic schemes. I hesitate [...]

ScissorMix 9: Focus

jz — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:33:46 +0000

Right back again with another installment of the ScissorMix series. I’ve been making up for lost time and came across a wealth of new, great tunes so quickly that this thing basically put itself together.

Boss Kite

Brendan — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:09:57 +0000

“Skwee” is one of those little bitty “genres” that keep popping up nowadays. I hate to say genre, because a lot of them are more like trends than anything else, and I don’t exclude skweee from that group. Maybe it’s just a personal thing—I don’t like my music all cut up into a million little [...]

ScissorMix 8: Stretching Out

jz — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:21:05 +0000

Souleance, Bullion, Rare Earth, Games, Kelpe and more.

Sprung!

Walker — Wed, 04 May 2011 14:37:22 +0000

Walker throws up a mix with Midnight Lab Band, Jatoma, Captain Planet, Jason Forrest and more.

BJR: The Double Dip

steve — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:04:49 +0000

AIM, Slow Hands, Lone, Wagon Christ, Com Truise and more.

ScissorMix 7: DJ Marmon

steve — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 04:24:14 +0000

Tasteful, soulful Deep House mix from up-and-comer DJ Marmon.

Jatoma

Walker — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:32:46 +0000

Music critics tend to carry big bags of creative insults, and one of the more bizarre is the allegation of “wallpaper music.” To some jaded critics, certain music is so inconsequential, so “background,” that it fades into unnoticeability like so much flowery wallpaper, or the corn-cob curtains in Marge Simpson’s kitchen. But home decoration need [...]

BJR : Boom Shiva

steve — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 02:04:36 +0000

Mount Kimbie, Space Dimension Controller, Shigeto, Colm K and more.

Scissorkast 10

steve — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:29:58 +0000

Walls, Emeralds, Yppah, Golda Panda and more.

ScissorMix 6: Tasty Leftovers

jz — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 06:06:58 +0000

Ebo Taylor, Bottin, Greenwood Rhythm Coalition and more.

Snoretex

steve — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:03:21 +0000

Even though the weather in NYC is shitty, it’s always a great day when I can post something new created by a close friend. Sam Willis, one half of Kompakt recording artists Walls and the fantastic DJ/blog duo Allez-Allez is a busy man these days up in Hackney, but somehow found the time to launch [...]

Eleven Tigers

Walker — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:53:32 +0000

Somewhere along the line, various strains of electronic music separated into unspoken (or overspoken) factions, such that some tunes sound distant, ethereal and ghostly, drowned in reverb and static, and others sound compressed, crunchy and in-your-face to the point of bludgeoning. Of course, there are exceptions to every rule, and plenty of acts avoid these [...]

Phone Home

steve — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:39:24 +0000

It’s a real shortcoming of Hallmark as a company, that they don’t offer a “Post-Rock brings families together” greeting card. New York’s Phone Home is the second duo of brothers (the awesome Lymbyc Systym is the other) to channel potential angsty rivalry into beautiful musical alchemy. On their first 4-song self-released EP, Michael and John [...]

Ilya Santana

Dave Marmon — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:21:47 +0000

More than one promising dance music producer has met their end by succumbing to popular musical trends. While the “new disco” sound has grown in popularity over the years, the genre has been inundated with imitators who have nothing to offer but one lackluster production after another. Producer extraordinaire Ilya Santana is one man who [...]