SONG OF THE DAY: Kill Paris ft Marty Rod and Alma – “Falling in Love”

What do you get when you mix glitch and R&B pop? “Falling in Love,” the new single from Kill Paris (aka Corey Baker), seamlessly mashes ’90s-era R&B/pop with subtle glitchy beats. Imagine your favorite old school Brian McKnight or Next love song with a glitchy bassline for an idea.?? Elevating this song from the majority of EDM productions is the radio-quality songwriting and high-quality vocal production. Rather than sounding like an electronic artist trying to make a pop song, it sounds more like a quality pop producer introducing glitch and electro elements into their songs.? The fact that this is on Skrillex’s label OWSLA is kind of mind-blowing as well, since it shows he has an ear for pop and not just club bangers.

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REVIEW: Empire of the Sun – ‘Ice on the Dune’

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Written by Dustin Michael

When I first heard the debut album ?Walking on a Dream? from Empire of the Sun back in 2008, I was immediately hooked. And although many music critics blasted this new collaboration between Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore for various reasons, electronic music lovers all over the world instantly cherished Steele’s Bowie-esque vocals, Littlemore’s throwback electropop, and all the additional over-the-top costuming (headdresses and swordfish dancers included). The bizarre black-and-white music video titled ?Eclipse Broadcast? further fueled the flames of the band’s prowess and potential. I guess at the time we all needed something in the EDM underground that had the potential to dwarf what was going on in the pedestrian pop world.
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SONG OF THE DAY: Breach – “Jack”

What is Jack? Well, let’s start with Who is Jack. In the classic house track “Can You Feel It” by Mr Fingers (aka Larry Heard), Jack is the mythical deity who “declared Let There Be House and House music was born.” Jack as a verb describes dancing to house music and getting it in, so to say. For Ben Westbeech, aka Breach, “Jack” single is a throwback to old school house with the playfully repeated vocal line “I Want your body, everybody wants your body, so let’s jack.” The simplicity of the track is so refreshing that it becomes addictive after the first listen. With the current ’90s house revival, the track’s release couldn’t be more perfectly timed. As classic as “Jack” sounds, the bouncy house groove has enough modern elements and sounds to make it fit in 2013 just as easily as it would have in 1993. The hairy video has gone viral and fits nicely into the video meme that the Duck Sauce guys have been broadcasting (“Big Bad Wolf” and “It’s You”). If house isn’t your thing, check out the Cazzette remix of Ben Westbeech’s last vocal release, “Something for the Weekend,” for some harder beats (and shame on you for not embracing the “universal language spoken and understood by all”).

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