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Pure Bathing Culture casts a luscious glow over the skies of 2012 with an EP that still leaves the heart in a constant state of yearning. Insatiable hearts that have...

Yung Life has just released a brilliant summer tune, “Solarbeats,” boasting not only a summery character but also a striking timeliness. Through a tolling piano riff and heavy tribal drums,...

To follow up last week’s demo, College Park, Maryland’s Abhi & Dijon have officially moved forward with their collaboration project. The two recently uploaded their first single under the new name, blending several different...

Max Basic is the newly adopted moniker of an artist who, at least for the time being, wishes to remain more or less anonymous. What I can tell you though...

MJ MJ records use their Serious Sauce compilations as a vehicle to introduce talented beat producers to the world. Volume 3 is a sensuous split by Psymum and Damacha. Both producers pay...

Majical Cloudz present something simultaneously overwhelming and arid in “Bugs Don’t Buzz,” the latest track from their upcoming release via Matador. It’s stripped of popular musical convention, based primarily around...

m_o_d_e_s or “modes” is an anagram of “demos” and was originally supposed to be just that; a bundle of orphan, rough-cut outtakes. Instead, Marten Roork (a.k.a. Tomemitsu) decided to run...

Since I first posted Samn Johnson‘s music on PORTALS, his canon has gradually evolved. Many mainstays of the young Ann Arborite’s classical-informed epics remain, whether they be a melding of electronic elements...

My introduction to Sing Leaf was with his remix of Foxes In Fiction‘s beautiful “15 Ativan”. That was almost 3 years ago, and Canada’s David Como is still making amazing music....

Following a successful Kickstarter project, Virginia-based synthpop project Mirror Kisses has eagerly released his latest album Heartbeats, the follow-up to last year’s niche-popular Bad Dreams LP. And following in the...

Earth. Wind. Water. Fire. These four elements play a fundamental role in the way our planet functions. Sound often requires a similar structure in order for music to stimulate the brain and...

The Internet Age has brought about its fair share of innovations for the way art is made and dispersed into the world today. The way we collaborate has certainly been...

Sunglasses Kid is a brazen 80s cinematic pop mason. The British beatmaker suspends layers of smoky synth pads with synthetic brass blasts, plasters on some digitized bass slaps, weighs the...

Who knew that you’d be someone / Who knew that you’d be somebody? “Be Someone”, which appears to be the debut track from Toronto producer gees, aims for the big time....