Electronic art music
Emancipator escaped from the Underground Railroad Chain Gang in the 11th century. He invented the hot air balloon, with which he chartered the Amazon River. He invented wine. Emancipator found the formula for the crystallization of ice during a quiet Japanese winter. He perfected the art of agriculture. He can climb trees faster than you. Emancipator bleeds ambrosia. He discovered Iceland. He can breathe... more

Electronic
Main Sequence lives in Portland, OR and makes sample-based music. The Ownership Society represents his first full-length release. It took 2 years and was created using nothing but records, a turntable, a mixer, an MPC-3000, and Digital Performer. The Ownership Society plays with many ideas that are floating around our society today, which oddly enough were embodied in the recordings of past decades. It ranges in styles of hip hop from... more

Psychedelic
" Amplified Heat sounds like it took the blues, made it snort a serious dose of cocaine and turned up the amps." - The State News Even though the Ortiz brothers have been on the Austin music scene since 1999, they emerged as Amplified Heat in 2003, stemming from a stripped-down blues outfit originally formed in Houston. Blowing out the speakers of clubs around Austin and its surrounding areas, they quickly garnered die-hard fans who... more

Indie
What is this? Why does a band from Jackson, MS, here in the 21st century, sound like no other band from Mississippi or the south, for that matter? It's a rock band: a quintessential quartet of drums (Jody Suarez) , bass (Jakob Clark) , guitar (Joshua Clark) , and keyboards (Chris Michaels) . But thats where the similarity with so many other bands ends. LBE buzzes and hums with a power all its own. Theres... more

Hip-Hop
The covers are finally coming off The Unveiling, the debut LP from MarQ Spekt and Karniege as The Invizzibl Men. The result is a ferociously hard hitting record bristling with gunmetal beats and lyrics still dripping with spray-paint. While others attempt to recreate hip-hop’s golden age, The Invizzibl Men reinvent hardcore east-coast hiphop, annihilating verses over futuristic boom-bap. -last.fm ... more

Electronica
Toxic hurricane sludge, endless war and the eternal question of what to do with one’s Saturday night when the world’s about to implode… Cubik and Origami mine these topics and more on Slept In On Doomsday, their new release on Dinner Party Records. Originally known for the slow-burning downtempo funk of their eponymous debut on Wide Hive Records, and an intricate beatbox/instrumental EP in 2007, the duo have since broadened... more

Electro
Singer. Beatboxer. Songwriter. Live looper. One-man vocal band. Kid Beyond loops and multitracks his voice onstage to create his own live backing tracks – layering his impassioned lyrics over his own beatboxing and vocal instrumentation. The result is a riveting, soulful brew of pop electronica. What takes most people an entire band to produce, Kid Beyond executes with his own mouth. You're in the presence of a higher... more

Flamenco
I'll write more as soon as I figure out what to say about myself :) ... more

Hip-Hop
LET ME TELL ALL OF YOU WHY I DO THIS. I was Born and raised in Austin Texas (2-1)I spent the first seven years of my early childhood in Queens New York in Bland Projects. My father moved me back to Texas around eight years old and from then on I made occasional summer visits. I didnt see my father much growing up. working long nights as a Port Authority officer at the World Trade Center kept him away. On his days off I spent time with him... more

Hip-Hop
Don't take Grayskul's sometimes dark, mystical aesthetic the wrong way--MCs Onry Ozzborn and JFK aren't trying to be Goth or ghoulish. "We never go into anything like 'oohh, let's be eeevil on this one. We're gonna get 'em!' It just comes how it comes," explains Onry. Born out of the Pacific Northwest's Oldominion hip-hop collective, Grayskul emerged as a group in 2004 touring with Rhymesayers artists Eyedea and Abilities. And they made... more