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For Your Head: Chaos Control Live Dubstep Set

By Drift Dodgers at May 5, 2012 | 12:34 pm | 0 Comment

Chaos Control is the collaboration of veteran producers Planewalker from New Mexico and Mister Chill'R of Portland. Planewalker has been making psytrance for years before beginning to successfully experiment with dubstep. We hope he sticks with the genre, for his unique, nuanced style and production skill make for some dynamic dub. Mister Chill'R is a talented and more...

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Monday Mix 26: griff Live at Rainbow Serpent 2012

By Drift Dodgers at April 2, 2012 | 10:11 am | 0 Comment

Multi-instrumentalist and producer Griff Burnell, known as griff, has a great ear and brings us a smooth, sexy downtempo mix from this year's Rainbow Serpent Festival in Melbourne, Australia. It's a luscious set, full of guitars, orchestral strings and piano, combined with ambient atmospheres and electronic grooves. Two solid hours of chill-out beats from the best EDM more...

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ReturnTrip Mix Downloads

By Drift Dodgers at March 24, 2012 | 10:07 am | 0 Comment

Born in Japan and living in Vancouver, BC, prolific DJ and producer ReturnTrip has developed a deep, refined style of electronica that incorporates dubstep, IDM and drum & bass beats with melodic instrument samples and moody atmospheres. Dark, patient and at times cinematic, his mixes are great background beats and soundtracks for life. Made of small clips and more...

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Monday Mix 24: Mouldy Soul ft. Eurythmy & Swingesthesia on GLITCH.FM

By Drift Dodgers at March 19, 2012 | 9:43 am | 0 Comment

This is an instant classic. It should be released as a compilation album and people that don't like electronic music should be forced to listen to it until they do. Its a two hour live mix from Mouldy Soul featuring a jazz guitarist, some hot promos from Bran Richards and Dephicit, never before heard material from Mr Swingesthesia and a chilled, glitchy guest mix from more...

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Imagika Om – Basura Sagrada Downtemple Set

By Drift Dodgers at March 13, 2012 | 9:19 am | 0 Comment

"Imagika started her relationship with music as a dance performer and performance ritual artist, and quickly added remixing and producing music for her dance performances and productions to her repertoire...Her performance background is reflected in her musical style, and is heard in her ability to create soundscapes for performances. She is a multi-dimensional digital more...

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Artist Spotlight: Mr. Bill

By Drift Dodgers at March 11, 2012 | 3:57 pm | 1 Comments

"This project is based around evocation, I like to write music that excites the ear and the brain. This requires me to explore all sorts of strange production methods and musical theories to keep exciting my senses." - Bill Day Mr. Bill is a complex musical mind emerging from Sydney, Australia. His sound is hard and dark, many-layered and melodic. He experiments more...

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Evolutionista Mixtapes

By Drift Dodgers at March 8, 2012 | 9:25 am | 3 Comments

Evolutionista is the design and music moniker of independent Oakland artist Griffin Crafts. How a DJ like this can be so anonymous with all these clowns running around hot on tour is beyond me. I'd rather listen to him spin than to some career remixer any day. The mixes below contain some of the best music I've posted, and he has 225 followers on his Soundcloud. Let's more...

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Monday Mix 23: Desert Dwellers Live at Still Vibrations 2012

By Drift Dodgers at March 5, 2012 | 9:42 am | 0 Comment

Take a trip to distant lands with this solid representation of Desert Dwellers' evolving sound. Probably my favorite Desert Dwellers mix released yet, Amani's set from Still Vibrations IV in Edmonton, Canada. With almost two hours of downtempo, dubstep and deep, entertaining beats, the set contains material from their newest release, as well as brand new tracks I more...

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Govinda – Alchemy Amalgamation Mix

By Drift Dodgers at February 28, 2012 | 8:51 am | 1 Comments

Shane Madden, known as Govinda, really impressed us when he brought his music to the Northeast in December, and I've been rocking this mix ever since. He's an immensely talented producer, DJ, and performer, playing virtuoso violin in his live sets. "Classically trained" doesn't begin to describe it! A unique blend of tribal elements with driving dance beats from hip-hop more...

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New Thriftworks Album is a Free Gem

By Drift Dodgers at January 15, 2012 | 12:13 pm | 0 Comment

Thriftworks returns with a more polished and engaging version of his lush and organic hip-hop beats - although you can barely call them that anymore. Though certain elements of the musical roots remain, an arsenal of modern bass and diverse samples have been unleashed. Using haunting and exotic vocal samples, delicate strings and gangster bass, he has brought us an more...

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Artist Spotlight: Nicolas Jaar (Clown & Sunset)

By Drift Dodgers at November 28, 2011 | 2:24 am | 0 Comment

Nicolas Jaar is an electronic music prodigy and multi-instrumentalist who at 21 produces elite beats and runs the Clown & Sunset label in NYC.. Born in NY, he grew up in Santiago, Chile, returning to the states as a teenager. Haunted by Mulatu Astatke and Erik Satie, he started to make music in 2004 at the age of 14. The organic house and downtempo beats he more...

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Take Your Medicine: The Doc Riz Mixes

By Drift Dodgers at November 22, 2011 | 8:43 pm | 0 Comment

Tyler Risom, known as Doc Riz, is making a name for himself in Portland, OR. He is a Portal Patch veteran and proud papa of the two killer mixes featured below. Enjoy the talent of this young man and catch him live before he's all blown up. These sets show tremendous skill and an understanding of many genres, encompassing both hard-edged bass music and dubstep, as more...

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Bird of Prey – Production Q & A, “Birds of Paradise” Debut

By Drift Dodgers at October 2, 2011 | 9:09 am | 5 Comments

Bird of Prey (Torin Goodnight): Hey! So the week of Burning Man I decided to offer a Q&A session to anyone that had production questions they wanted to ask me. I then spent a good hour or so responding to them as honestly and thorough as possible. Since many people were away, I wanted to repost my responses so that anyone who may be interested but missed it can have more...

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Monday Mix 10: Bassnectar – Color Storm Remixtape

By Detective Flanders at September 19, 2011 | 3:40 pm | 1 Comments

Bassnectar (Lorin Ashton) has just released his Color Storm Remixtape. It took a year or so to put together and is now finally complete! The Color Storm Remixtape is a 30-minute set compiled of some completely unreleased material, as well as some classic mashups that you may have heard at a recent festival or on his latest tour this past year. You can stream and more...

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Desert Dwellers Mix Downloads

By Drift Dodgers at September 10, 2011 | 3:35 pm | 2 Comments

Desert Dwellers is a longtime collaboration between electronic music pioneers Amani Friend and Treavor Moontribe. It has become a ‘virtual band’, using the internet as a collaborative space in which concept albums are created with cutting edge techniques that blend the modern edge of electronica with ancient sounds. Based in Santa Fe, Desert Dwellers has grown more...

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Monday Mix 6: DJ UMB – Beautiful Dervish (A Journey Into Sufi Dub)

By Drift Dodgers at August 8, 2011 | 8:35 am | 0 Comment

DJ UMB is a masterful DJ that seeks to incorporate sounds from all over the world with popular styles like Dub, Dubstep, Lazer Glitch and House. Co-Editor of the Generation Bass Blog, he has held down residencies at London clubs and put together over 40 free mixtapes, ranging from "Transnational Dubstep" to "Afreaka" beats; check his Soundcloud. Tribal more...

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phidelity – The Man, The Mixes

By Drift Dodgers at July 28, 2011 | 12:57 pm | 0 Comment

The multi-talented Kris Northern out of Portland, OR, is one of the greatest minds in the music industry. Creating as phidelity, the prolific producer tries his hand at every genre out there, from House to Dubstep to Funk, Uptempo dance to Downtempo chill-out. A developing producer of strange, glitchy concoctions, he is a staple of northwest sound, a popular blogger more...

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Monday Mix 2: DJ Frane – Digging Society Mix

By IntuiSean at June 13, 2011 | 6:21 pm | 0 Comment

This week's mix by DJ Frane, recorded for the Digging Society Radio, is a blast of throwback funk n' soul tunes. Frane mixes up the perfect sounds for these first sunny days of summer, grinding up some OG classics into a slow-burning leaf of his quintessential trip-hop style. You can find the rest of DJ Frane's So-Cal inspired down-to-earth beats on his record label, more...

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Lightning In A Bottle Mixtape Winner, Set Times and Compilation!

By Drift Dodgers at May 25, 2011 | 3:19 pm | 0 Comment

We couldn't be more excited about this weekend's Lightning in a Bottle Festival at the beautiful Oak Canyon Ranch in Silverado, California. Three days of incredible music, live art, theatrical performance and Yoga is what I need to kick off my summer! Visit Lightninginabottle.org for tickets and more info! Congratulations to the Sex Pixels, winners of LIB's mixtape more...

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Monday Mix 1: TreeMeista – US Dubstep Mini-Mix

By dizzurt at May 23, 2011 | 10:35 pm | 0 Comment

Treemeista - US Dubstep March Mini-Mix A good friend to LiS' very own Dyaphonoyze, Treemeista [aka Andrew Hygate the King of the Trees], has launched an effective and hard hitting mix on the 1s and 3s, bringing back the feel of dubstep I was hearing about 2 years ago. The Humboldt Bass Crew co-founder and networking master has produced an effective blend of more...

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