Author archive for Phil

  • Beat the Heat [Soundcloud Roundup]

    By Phil on May 15, 2013
    Now, I don’t know where you’ll be reading this from, but here in LA it is way too goddamn hot. I can only handle so much sunny time vibe, and I often find my mind drifting to thoughts of luxury ski resorts and days filled not with sweat and high AC prices but with snow angels, sore legs from a day [...]
  • Disclosure – You & Me (Baauer Remix)

    By Phil on May 14, 2013
    Disclosure’s latest track ‘You & Me’, a vocal driven garage anthem with a wonderful video to boot, has recently gotten the remix treatment from Baauer, the beloved and hated creator of ‘The Harlem Shake’. My first concern regarding this remix was the style that Baauer has helped to propagate - big, cheesy 808 trap bass tracks with very little concern for movement [...]
  • Duke Dumont feat. A*M*E – Need U (100%)

    By Phil on May 7, 2013
    Duke Dumont and deep house are synonymous. If you’ve been paying any attention at all to the UK charts or pretty much any upbeat deep mix, you’ve certainly heard his latest track, ‘Need U (100%)’, which has just been released in North America. There is an interesting philosophy at play here, more than the track itself, in terms of building [...]
  • Bonobo [Interview]

    By Phil on May 4, 2013
    Bonobo (Simon Green)’s music is art. The term is tossed around quite lightly in regards to music these days, yet there are only a relative handful of musicians that craft their work with such intricacy, beauty, and care as Green does. His 5th album, The North Borders,  had an incredible impact this year, displaying both a new side of the multi-talented producer [...]
  • MITSUDA: Tribute to Yasunori Mitsuda

    By Phil on April 29, 2013
    Video games and music have had a long and symbiotic relationship. Since the earliest of games, electronic musicians have been sampling and chopping the bleeps and bloops with grand results. Some of the more popular games to sample have been Chrono Trigger and Xenogears, two beloved roleplaying games with soundtracks composed by the great Yasunori Mitsuda. To show tribute to this [...]