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After five years over the mixtape circuit, the quirky Los Angeles-based hip-hop group OverDoz landed a major-label record deal via the RCA imprint Polo Grounds. Offering rappers Joon, P, Kent, and Creamie, OverDoz initial earned evaluations to Outkast and Digital Underground in 2008 if they released their debut mixtape Bowties …

Sounding just like a mixture of Morcheeba, Danger Doom, Macy Grey, and Beck, Pillowfight is a task from producer Dan the Automator and singer/songwriter/violinist Emily Wells. Both met while carrying out in the Calgary Folk Event, finding themselves combined collectively during an impromptu workshop and creating a productive improv program …

Mixing minimal techno’s fondness for repetition using a playful approach up to date by the tests of Pierre Henry and Matmos, Brooklyn’s Pearl Necklace may be the task of Bryce Hackford and Frank Lyon. During the period of a calendar year, the duo extracted examples from found noises, Ingmar Bergman …

London’s wonky pop singer Tirzah first found listeners’ attention with her bold single “I’m Not Dance,” a cooperation with Micachu & the Designs’ Mica Levi that blended garage area beats and an odd recorder test into something ear-catching. Tirzah and Levi became close friends during their period in the Purcell …

The riotous party music played by international ensemble Fumaça Preta (pronounced “Foomassa Pretta” and meaning “Dark Smoke”) combines deep, fuzzy psychedelic funk inspired by from Brazilian macumba, batacuda, and latter-day tropicalia to James Dark brown, analog electronica, Turkish psychedelia, garage rock, and post-punk. Through his many moves, Portuguese-Venezuelan manufacturer and …

This Nordic experimental supergroup originally contains core trio Mats Gustafsson (sax), Johan Berthling (bass guitar), and Andreas Werlin (drums), who released music beneath the name Fire! The group became a member of alongside the idea of a brand new method of improvised music, with several influences from free of charge …

Youthful Portland, Oregon musicians Jared Ryan Maldonado and Timothy Heller met in past due 2011 when Maldonado was in tour using a shared friend’s band. AN ONLINE correspondence started and both portrayed a wish to work on a far more regarded project compared to the different musical retailers they’d been …

Forming from the ashes of London’s indie rockers Pete & the Pirates, Teleman exchanged that band’s brash design for any subtler approach. Vocalist/guitarist Tommy Sanders, his keyboardist sibling Jonny, and bassist Pete Cattermoul created Teleman soon after Pete & the Pirates disbanded in 2012, adding drummer Hiro Amamiya to total …

Londoner Raisa K’s eager interest in taking part in and learning music led to an educational route that led her to review in the Guildhall College of Music and Theatre. There she fulfilled Mica Levi, who guide her in to the globe of experimental pop. Playing keyboards for Levi’s Micachu …

Originally Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, Lady Lamb may be the stage name utilized by Aly Spaltro, a singer and songwriter whose music is a beguiling and imaginative fusion of folk, pop, and indie rock. Spaltro was created in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1990, and relocated to Brunswick, Maine with her …