Upcoming Events This Week: January 27th - February 2nd

Friday, February 1^st
Emancipator, Random Rab and Tor at Irving Plaza
Tickets - $19.50
moe. at the Best Buy Theater
Tickets - $32.50-35
Chris Lake and Fareoh at Webster Hall
Tickets - $15

Saturday, February 2^nd
moe. at the Best Buy Theater
Tickets - $32.50-35
Feed Me and Mord Fustang at Webster Hall
Tickets - $30-35
DJ Vadim and D.V.S.* at Brooklyn Bowl (Brooklyn, NY)
Tickets - $8

Emancipator - Minor Cause


Chris Lake - Build Up


Feed Me - BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix


D.V.S>* - Beginning (feat. Govinda)

Song Of The Day: Emancipator - Minor Cause (Free Download)

Image Courtesy of Loci Records

American producer and Portland, Oregon native Emancipator (aka Douglas Appling) has just announced his third album Dusk to Dawn, which will release January 29th on Loci Records. In anticipation of this upcoming release, they've released the first single 'Minor Cause' as a free download. Emancipator is a breathe of fresh air in the electronic music scene today, offering vibrant, intricately composed instrumentals, refreshing downtempo and upbeat tracks, and unique collaborations. Currently gearing up for their 2013 Winter Tour, Emancipator is scheduled to perform dates across the Country including a performance at Irving Plaza in New York City on February 1st, and at Paradise in Boston, MA. Support for this tour will include Random Rab, Tor, Little People and ODESZA.

Emancipator - Minor Cause

Song Of The Day: ODESZA - Above The Middle (FREE DOWNLOAD)

Image Courtesy of Loci Records

Currently supporting Emancipator for the West Coast leg of their tour alongside Little People, ODESZA is,  "a production duo made up of Harrison Mills (Catacombkid) and Clayton Knight (BeachesBeaches) based out of the Pacific North West, United States. They met their senior year in college and decided to spend the summer as recent graduates collaborating on an album. On September 5th, 2012 they self-released a free LP entitled Summer's Gone, creating a delicate balance between dreamy sun trickled melodies, glitched out vocals, crunchy drums and large sweeping basslines."

You can find information about their upcoming shows with Emancipator on their website, as well as a free download of their recent LP Summer's Gone.

ODESZA - Above The Middle

BONUS: ODESZA - Nomadic Firs-Cover Bombs (ODESZA Edit)

Song Of The Day: Emancipator - When I Go (Michal Menert Remix)

My apologies, as my music player/cloud website appears to be having technical difficulties, so I will posting all songs on YouTube until I find a solution.

Today's entry comes from Michal Menert, straight off of Emancipator's new album Remixes, released yesterday, June 21st, 2011. The album consists of numerous remixes of tracks from Emancipator's 2010 release, Safe In The Steep Cliffs, by artists such as Big Gigantic, Blockhead, Michal Menert, Ooah of the Glitch Mob, and Emancipator, aka Douglas Appling, himself.

Many have noted that Michal Menert's sound is similar to earlier releases from Pretty Lights, while it is tough to not draw comparisons between the two as Michal Menert is now on the PrettyLightsMusic label, Menert co-produced Pretty Lights' first EP Taking Up Your Precious Time. Michal Menert's style has remained true to the original, drawing influences from funk, psychedelic rock, blues and hip-hop, and relying heavily on his own instrumentation and sampling, it continues to grow around itself while remaining on the same course.

This track, and the whole album are available here.