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Free !K7 compilation

Free !K7 compilation

Looking back to a successful summer, Berlin-based record label !K7 offers its supporters some free downloads. Most of the tracks, including a dub version of “My Piano” by still-hyped Hot Chip or “Brainfreeze” by grandmaster Carl Craig, can be fou...

Melt! Festival Announces Lineup

Melt! Festival announces lineup

Our favorite German festival (besides our own, that is!) just unveiled a shockingly comprehensive initial lineup. Running in its twelfth year, the Melt! festival is known for finding and booking indie rock and electronic music luminaries. This ye...

Melt! Festival finalises lineup

Melt! Festival finalises lineup

Germany's Melt! festival just announced the exciting final acts of their celebrated three-day-long event, which takes place July 17-19. As previously reported, the lineup is awesome. We already knew Aphex Twin, Klaxons, Foals, Oasis and Bloc Part...

Herbert squeals again

Herbert squeals again

***UPDATE*** Good news for pig lovers, bad news for Matthew Herbert. The go-ahead for Herbert’s concept album The Pig has been creatively stifled; recordings of a pig’s death have been disallowed since no farmer would allow it. According to Herbe...

Jamie Lloyd moves towards the light

Jamie Lloyd moves towards the light

One of Australia’s finest independent labels, Future Classic, will release electronic popster Jamie Lloyd’s Beware of The Light next month. Emanating from Sydney’s Mad Racket scene, Lloyd moved into the limelight after his 2006 debut Trouble Wi...

Musicians inspire auction house

Musicians inspire auction house

Global auction house Phillips de Pury & Company will be staging a music-inspired contemporary art sale. This is the third time the English company has organized such an event, but this time they’ve invited avant-garde electronic luminary Matt...

Optimo - Walkabout

Optimo - Walkabout

Japan-based Mule Musiq has set up a new label called ‘Endless Flight’. This label will feature releases that will crossover the borders of music. And who’s more appropriate to kick off the label’s first release, than Glasgow crossover wizards Opt...

The Invisible ties in with the current NY spirit

The Invisible ties in with the current NY spirit

It seems as if a new way of thinking (in the music industry), initiated by New York-based bands like Hercules And Love Affair, TV on the Radio and Antony And The Johnsons is moving over to Europe. These bands all stand for openmindness, individua...

Micachu - Erudite popster

Micachu - Erudite popster

Micachu, a.k.a Mika Levi is a 21-year old musician from the UK. Her debut album "Jewellery", produced by influential electronic musician Matthew Herbert and released on Rough Trade, was tipped by many critics to become the album of the year. She...