In a nutshell, the best way to describe this album is a spacey, yet organic breakbeat journey. From spacey atmospherics to crunchy dancefloor drums, the Backyard Banger's sound is everything you...

From the moment The Liquid Crystal Project begins, you know that J Rawls is on to something. The same type of something Bradford Marsalis, Guru and Jay Dee were on when Buckshot...

Releasing a standout album earlier this year, French artist Wax Tailor has a hip-hop background but his culture is huge and you can feel it in his music. After a long and successful tour in France,...

Influenced by Britain’s acid house and ambient undercurrents as much as Eastern sounds, Banco de Gaia has gradually gone deeper and wider with each of his albums since 1995’s “Last Train To Lhasa.”...

Who can help a laugh at the name Vincent van Go Go? Vincent van Go(gh)? Go? That is so silly, you say. But this name is just the entrée into the band – and they will have you chuckling and...

In a groove culture ruled by the two-step and head nod, dancers everywhere are looking for an album to make them resurrect the dances of old that required energy and stamina (read: the running-man,...

Known for their production work, as members of the France based instrumental hip-hop band Hocus Pocus and DJ crew

Mayday! came into the public eye last spring when the video of single “Groundhog Day” became one of the most-viewed videos of all time on YouTube, with a little over two million hits in two days....

I don't wanna damn this record by weighing it down with highbrowisms, but I will say this: Rarely is music that's deemed "challenging" or "important" as straight-up good as Return to Cookie...

Of course, the names Laurent Garnier and Carl Craig need little introduction at this point. Words like “seminal,” “versatile,” “leaders,” and “dare-devils,” “gifted,” and “fathers” are often...