Williamsburg is quite a contradiction. Despite the small town Main Street aesthetic of the Brooklyn neighborhood, it has become a catchall hipster haven for art school dropouts, transient scabs, and self-absorbed bohemian types in above average tax brackets ravenously gentrifying the area. Yet with the social discrepancies whirling around him, Chaz Bundick seems pretty indifferent. It’s possible that his high-energy performance to a throng of sweaty revelers at New York’s nightlife stalwart Webster Hall the previous night has left him a bit lethargic. Or maybe he’s simply got music on his mind. “I’m seeing lots of influence from trance and house,” he says as a car whizzes by blaring the latest from Rihanna’s canon of hits. At 25-years old, he’s developed a keen sense of musical trends. He’s well aware that the times they are a-changin’. “People are getting more used to it on the radio, it’s becoming more normal to hear four-on-the-floor beats. Even hip-hop artists are using those beats. That’s helping people open up to electronic music.”
James Blake isn’t your average electronic musician. The 23-year old British composer and former dubstep producer has harnessed, over the span of several EPs and a fantastic debut full-length album, an exciting and fascinating ability to create some of the most creative music to come into the realm of electronica in quite some time. At first, it almost sounds minimalist, with haiku-like lyrics being repeated over only a small spectrum of sound, but then it builds into a fantastic symphony of carefully selected tones and sounds, with Blake’s own distorted and velvety voice floating in between. The result is truly astounding.
Destroyed continues along the path taken on Moby’s last album “Wait For Me” but with dark and light hues sharply contrasted this time. It was apparently recorded while Moby was touring and suffering from insomnia at night.
Behold the sonic anatomy of a Euro-Synth-Pop-Ballad gone cinematic…
Diary of a Mad Black Stevie is an audio diary of everything I’ve been thinking about listening to and experimenting with for the past couple months. This project gives you a look into the mind of a young black woman who has the ability to travel through other dimensions
Don’t you hate it when they fall threw the cracks? You discovered them through your most visited music website, listened to their album only to have multiple eargasms and was then forced to listen to their back catalogue to explore more. At this point, you had to let everyone know. You created tweets dedicated to your favorite line, became a fan on FaceBook for all of your friends to see, constantly talked to everyone about how “it will change your life” and was excited when they in turn shared your enthusiasm after only one listen. It was just a matter of time until they would break big and the whole world could enjoy this pungent music experience, but it never happened.
Wise Blood aka Christopher Laufman is already a star–you just don’t know it yet. This past Summer, the Pittsburgh born musician released a free EP entitled `+`, that garnered him recognition across the Blogosphere. Fader loved it, Stereogum loved it, Even Pitchfork jumped on dubbing him a ‘rising star.’ With a unique sound that is comparable only to a brooding wrestling match with Girl Talk, Queen, Gucci Mane and a bunch of bass.
By day the 21-year old, who turned down Julliard to be a pop star, works in a cemetery as an undertaker. By night he’s Wise Blood, the pop star, crafting sample based pop perfection influenced by everyone from Madonna to Slim Thug. Today, Wise Blood has inked a deal with Dovecote Records to release his next project. Art Nouveau Magazine caught up with Laufman from his new home in NYC to talk about pop music, samples, Britney Spears and why on earth he turned down a scholarship to Julliard to be a pop star.
Remember a couple of weeks ago Kanye West Is Dead was a trending topic on Twitter? Well, Blac Waldo has proclaimed Mr. 808′s and Heartbreaks as a goner with this pretty dope dance cut. Listen and download it below. CLICK FOR MORE
Three-piece band, Fenech Soler may have been born and raised in the UK, but they’ve managed to create indie electronic music that evokes the best French Disco Pop. CLICK FOR MORE
