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Ruby Isle emerged in the first 2000s using a passel of slick, snappy, electro-pop music which were steeped in later-’80s dance-pop and mediated by an ironic sensibility that nodded to contemporaries like Junior Senior and Yelle. The music group sprung from a cooperation between Tag Mallman, an effective (not forgetting …

Like Harmonic 33 and Reload, Harmonic 313 is a moniker of Australian electronic manufacturer Tag Pritchard. In Feb of 2009, Warp Information released Harmonic 313’s debut, When Devices Exceed Human Cleverness, an archive deeply rooted in Detroit techno, dubstep, and instrumental hip-hop.

Drug-rap duo the Leak Bros. was a one-off cooperation between NY shock-rapper Cage and Tame One, previously of defunct, early-‘90s rap staff the Artifacts. The group’s debut coincided with Tame One’s initial solo providing, When Rappers Strike (2003), which included both on “Drip Smoke cigarettes”; and on Cage’s EP Weatherproof, …

Washington, D.C.-elevated, Brooklyn-based producer/vocalist/video artist Vanese Smith started launching instrumental hip-hop CD-Rs beneath the name Pursuit Grooves (an extension of her prior MC moniker, Pursuit) on her behalf very own What Rules imprint in 2006. Her off-kilter beats started attracting international interest, and soon monitors of hers made an appearance …

Ever the diligent record spelunker, Dayton, OH’s Ruckus Roboticus has found his niche by digging through the dustiest out-of-the-way thrift shop crates searching for underground kid-centric vinyl. Blending Sesame Road and Unwanted fat Albert with hip-hop breakbeats, he produces a whimsical, danceable mash-up of pop lifestyle and electro-funk, but unlike …