Kevin Press
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Happy long weekend friends. The Quick Brown Fox – Nerve’s Ending. In-your-face happy hardcore from Hamilton’s Halley Labs. Nice and crunchy. Download comes with two wallpapers. So you got that goin’ for you. Snoof – Shine. New track from Carpentersville, Illinois’ most famous DJ/producer. (Don’t mean for that to sound snarky; Christian Salas is awesome.)…
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My money’s on Kamasi Washington to go down as one of the great jazz artists of our time. Decades from now, he will be recognized as a key 21st century follower of Miles, Coltrane and the rest of them. I’m also betting you didn’t hear that here first. His triple-album solo debut The Epic deserved…
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A lot of my fondest memories of CKLN-FM involve an old friend by the name of Mike Hansen. We first met in the mid-1980s. He hosted an overnight show after my 12 – 2 a.m. timeslot. It was the noisiest, most gleeful radio program I’d ever heard. I’ll never forget the time I walked in on…
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Tristan de Liège and Benjamin Hill have been making music together for more than a dozen years. “[N]ot always consistently or very seriously,” as de Liège puts it. Still, the partnership has persisted. Not even distance (or for that matter, a dance-rock phase) could keep them from working together. Originally from Oklahoma City, the two now call Los Angeles and…
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Maël Madec is In Love With A Ghost. This is something of a secret. Which isn’t right. In Love With A Ghost is the sweetest, most evocative music project I’ve heard since I returned to music writing last winter. Not sweet as in saccharine. Quite the reverse. This is all-natural, good-for-you sweet. The kind that will…
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Enjoy my friends. C418 – Dief. Out of Germany. This gorgeous ambient mini-album maintains a 90 BPM count throughout its seven tracks. Daniel Rosenfeld – best known for his Minecraft video game compositions – is the man behind C418. Neidex – What I Said (Original Mix). “I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.”…
