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Modular People‘s latest signing, Movement, have released their debut single on the label and it should come as no surprise that it’s simply stunning. Between the deep vocals, minimalist synths, and steel drums, it’s hard to pin down what elements I’m most attached to.

Feel Real will be out May 24th in Australia or May 28th in the US. If you live in Australia and want to catch them on tour, allow me to recommend the following shows alongside Flight Facilities:

Thu 23 May – Corner Hotel, Melbourne
Sat 25 May – Oxford Art Factory, Sydney
Sun 26 May – Oxford Art Factory, Sydney

Movement on:

SoundCloud | Facebook | Twitter

//Ziad Ramley

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From the get-go, you can tell that Hurt is going to be a brilliant track. Then, at 0:40, singer Gabrielle Cooke (better known as Ursa Minor) lays down a luscious vocal track and something magical happens – it just elevates this track to a whole other level. Hurt is Sunday-approved and out via Invader Records on May 27th.

Ursa Minor on:

SoundCloud | Facebook | Twitter

//Ziad Ramley

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Toronto producer Kevin Donnelly aka. Death Ledger’s much-needed sophmore EP, Lost and Looking, is a gorgeous expansion of the dark, experimental tones that he unveiled to the world late last year.

Death Ledger on:

SoundCloud

//Ziad Ramley 

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The Roots Bongo Band Announces New Single Release

Gambia’s first and only self-composing Reggae Band announced the release of their newest single ‘Never give it up’ from the debut album ‘Leaders of Tomorrow’. It is, what the members call, a ‘Roots-Pop-Reggae’ track sung by the band’s female vocalist Nina Beste. Having aired on Radio Stations across the country, the band has now produced a video clip, shot by their production company ‘Roots Bongo N’Dabli Productions’. The track is meant to inspire, as well as give hope to the listeners, bringing across a message of positive thinking, dedicating oneself to ones dream in life, and to ‘Never give it up’ no matter the struggles and difficulties faced by everyday life.

About The Roots Bongo Band
The Gambian based band was initially formed in 2001 by the two male vocalists JoeHero and Afang Maakangbaa. The band started of as an acoustic set of three members, performing mostly at bars and hotels in the touristic areas of Gambia. After collaborating with Nina Beste in June 2009, the band was newly formed and introduced Nina as their new female vocalist.

About the debut album ‘Leaders of Tomorrow’
The debut album ‘Leaders of Tomorrow’ was recorded in London, UK in late 2011. After completion the band decided to launch it in their home country of the Gambia, where it has since been promoted by the band through local Radio and TV stations.
The album consists of 10 ‘World-Beat’ tracks and two remixes. The European-African vibes and influences give the band and the album a unique sound and strong identity.

The Roots Bongo Band is currently on the Kombo Tour of 2013 that takes them to several towns and districts around the costal area of The Gambia.

For more information about the The Roots Bongo Band and the album ‘Leaders of Tomorrow’ please visit:

http://www.rootsbongo.com

http://www.facebook.com/RootsBongoBand

The sound of Northern California’s hip-hop group, the Digital Martyrs, is both newfangled and distinguishable, which had always left a breathless impression on fans at attendance. Their objective in the industry mirrors the intent of hip-hop acts of yesteryear, to provoke and to stimulate. From the antagonistic but affirmative undertones in the lyrics, to the soulful and gritty instrumentals behind them, the Digital Martyrs have stayed successfully relevant despite there obvious movement away from pop-ish, shiny-swag-filled, bubble gum raps. Their efforts are to diverse the hip-hop brand in their sound fusions with old American funk and soul, Brazilian Jazz, and, at times, reggae, and utilizing the rhyme schemes which is only over-shadowed by its abrupt, political nuance. It is the hip-hop that is “all honest,” and “against the grain.” – KUMSFM Geek Thug Radio’s DJ and Live Manikins’ MC, Justin Rubio aka Mr. Lingo. With the anticipation of their new self-entitled album, the soundscape they have created will sure to deliver consistent work to their growing following.

The Digital Martyrs distinct sound stems from a lifetime of musical influence, owning residual characteristics of artists they look to for inspiration, ranging from Immortal Technique to Brother Ali, Mos Def, to Sage Francis.

Some of Digital Martyrs’ co-collaborators include Ras Kass, Planet Asia, Styles P of D-Block, Bambu, Power Struggle, Rocky Rivera, Kiwi, Task1ne (Sacramento), Mad Flows, Live Manikins, Mikial, After Hijrah, 580, Century, Mahtie Bush, Fatgums, Otayo Dubb, Beatrock Music, Associated Fresh, The Understudies and Balance.

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Over a hundred DJs added “How It Feels” to their sets after it was released last Tuesday, and more will surely follow.

“Sure hits the spot! It’s fun, cool, and very enjoyable to listen to. Very in-style production” – Itai Simon

https://soundcloud.com/ioani/ioani-how-it-feels-to-me

Ioani is an Athens-based producer that delivers a mainstream sound on any House-type track, from minimal / progressive, to more funky stuff. His songs are praised for their artistic quality, contemporary production and emotional impact.

“How it feels to me” is a Ioani’s third EDM tune, and part of an on-going album project that will feature talented singers from all over the world, as well as, traditional Greek instruments.

www.ioani.com

Hip Hop’s New Sex Kitten Is The New Queen Of The South

Gin X delivers a hit with an unrivaled flow. Delivering catchy punch lines with lyrics that uplift women and she does it all with pizazz and sex appeal. If you took Missy, Shawna, and Brittany Spears and shoved them into Eartha Kitts body you would get Gin X. She is the best thing to happen to Hip-Hop since the mixtape.

https://soundcloud.com/ginx904/04-love-you-when-im-drunk

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Robotaki does a wonderful job twisting an upbeat indie rock tune into this slick n’ sexy summer jam. Audiophiles rejoice! Free .wav download for the first 1000 fans!

Robotaki on:

SoundCloud | Facebook | Twitter

- StatiK

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I had the chance to hop on Skype with Victor Pool from the Dutch duo, Vicetone, recently and I’ll be honest with you – I was just as curious to learn more about this production powerhouse as I’m sure you all are. In a little over a year they’ve shot into the electronic music spotlight, dominating Beatport, Hypem, and SoundCloud charts with their (frankly, phenomenal) productions.

Let’s start this off nice and simple: What did you guys get up to today?

Haha, same as we do every day – we worked on new music in the studio!

When did you guys really get serious about music?

It really started about a year ago, somewhere in March, when Ruben decided to build a home studio. The day the studio was finished he invited me [Victor] over to join him in the studio and we just began to work on a track. This resulted in a few more tracks and we got a lot of positive feedback from our friends and family, so we decided to step it up after the summer ended. Since then we’ve practically been in the studio every day and made a lot of music together. We both have our own studio setup now so there won’t be a moment where we’re not working on Vicetone music!

What’s your production setup? Any elaborate plans to expand it?

We don’t use any hardware gear really, it’s all in the box. We are planning to upgrade the studio after our first tour, and maybe buy a hardware synth or two. It’s not a necessary asset in production though, it’s more of an expansion – a lot of soft synths will do just fine and most sound excellent. Besides a hardware synth, we’re always looking to buy new plugins that are not really well known – we’ve gotten some really unique and cool effects out of plugins few producers use or know about.

Where does the name “Vicetone” come from?

People sometimes think that the word ‘Vice’ has something to do with Victor’s name, but it’s actually the other way around. Ruben really liked the word ‘vice’, and Victor liked the word ‘tone’, so we decided to combine them! Coming up with a name was actually a pretty long and tedious process. We just couldn’t think of a good name that wasn’t already in use by other artists or companies. So we were pretty relieved after finally finding a way to combine 2 words we really liked into an artist’s name that was unique and pretty cool sounding… in our opinion at least, haha..

Can you shed some light on your creative process? How do you start a track? Are there any elements that you always have a hard time with?

The creative process usually starts when we work on melodic ideas separately in our own studios. Most of the time we come up with a melody and try to find a sound with it, or we try to create an unique sound and then make a melody that fits that sound. So it goes both ways, and often a new and unique sound results in a full blown track. Very often after we have a small melodic idea, the other person will take that idea and improve on it and add to it. A lot of our tracks have melodies that were started by one of us, and finished / improved by the other, and those tracks are a lot of fun to work on. It also depends on the kind of track we’re working on – with remixes, for example, we usually start with creating our own chord progression that fits the vocals like we feel it, and then continue with different sounds and ideas. So when we are both in the studio preparing to work on a track, we always have an idea already.    

How is work shared between the two of you? Do you each have specific strengths?

We think we share a lot of the same strengths, but in a slightly different way. Ruben for example starts of his melodies by playing them on the keyboard and then progressing them in the piano roll. Victor usually starts with drawing in the melody in the piano roll. So we both have a little bit of a different workflow when it comes to composing our own melodies. What we think is very important is that we work next to each other every day. We’ve been doing that since the start and we feel it’s the best way to work on music, and of course a lot of fun!

I understand that you’ll be coming over to North America in the next few months – which cities/venues do you really want to play?

We’d really love to play anywhere… the scene in the US is so big right now, we can’t wait to go there. We don’t really have a favorite city or venue – but we’d love to play in the big cities like Miami, LA and New York!

What upcoming projects do you have in the works that you can talk about?

We are working on a LOT of projects as we speak, almost seems too many… We have an original track on Nicky Romero’s label Protocol Recordings that will come out this summer. We’re really excited for that track! We’ve also just remixed his next release together with Krewella called ‘Legacy’, so you guys can expect that one soon as well. Also, we’ve got a lot of other remixes and originals that we finished the last couple of months, so there’s a ton of new stuff coming out. We’re stoked to release everything we’ve been working on for the last few months!!

If you could collaborate with anyone, who would it be? Well, a couple of weeks ago we said we’d love to collab with Nicky Romero, and that hasn’t changed, but it might happen sooner than you’d think!

Has the city that you live in had a big impact on the style of music that you make?

Not at all. As far as we know, the most popular genre in our area is techno. Most of the clubs here in Groningen are playing a lot of techno and  it’s not really our style. Our environment hasn’t been a factor at all in our music taste, since all the music that we listened to and liked was available on the internet. If anything, the internet helped us shape our music style! Everybody can hop on the internet and have access to pretty much every song out there, so that is the main way we got attracted to the music style that we love to make right now.

Do you ever feel locked into producing progressive house because that’s where you made a name for yourself?

Not really. There is a reason why we started out making music with our own style, whatever genre people think it is. We will always be making the music that we love and that’s why producing is so much fun for us. We actually made a lot of different tracks that nobody has heard, where we tried to switch things up and experiment with different styles and sounds. They’re very different sounding, but most of the time, we want melodies, harmonies, emotions and energy to be the foundation of our tracks.

Vicetone on:

SoundCloud | Facebook | Twitter

    //Ziad Ramley

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