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RanchSauce’s Picks: Favorite Tracks of 2012 (So Far)

By IntuiSean at May 14, 2012 | 9:54 am | 0 Comment

Tracklist: Dr. Dog - That Old Black Hole The Shins - Simple Song Burial - Ashtray Wasp Bruce Springsteen - Jack of All Trades Jack White - Love Interruption Santigold - Disparate Youth Sleigh Bells - Comeback Kid Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Man on Fire Grimes - Oblivion The Weeknd - Wicked Games Givers - Saw You First Dawes - A Little Bit of more...

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RanchSauce’s “Songs to Occupy By”

By IntuiSean at January 14, 2012 | 10:15 am | 0 Comment

Public Enemy - "Fight the Power" Neil Young - "Rockin' in the Free World" Tracy Chapman - "Talkin' Bout a Revolution" John Lennon - "Working Class Hero" The Nightwatchman (Tom Morello) - "The Whirlwind" Talib Kweli - "Distractions" Arcade Fire - "Culture War" Talking Heads - "Slippery People" Rage Against the Machine - "Know Your Enemy" Jimmy Cliff - more...

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RanchSauce’s 50 Best Songs of 2011

By IntuiSean at January 7, 2012 | 10:45 am | 3 Comments

Lana Del Ray - "Videogames" The Head and the Heart - "Lost in my Mind" TV on the Radio - "You" M83 - "Midnight City" Tom Waits - "Last Leaf" Dawes - "Time Spent in Los Angeles" Radiohead - "Separator" James Blake - "Limit to Your Love" Beirut - "Santa Fe" Eddie Vedder - "Longing to Belong" Joker - "Tron" Paul Simon - "Rewrite" Ryan Adams - more...

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When the Music Had to Stop – Ranchsauce Essay Pt. 3

By dizzurt at August 27, 2011 | 4:02 pm | 1 Comments

"No matter how lost you are, music can bring you home." -"The Music Never Stopped", the film Since I received my radio here at South Bay Correctional, I have had to establish a humbled approach to my music exploration. MP3 players have yet to be recognized as necessary for inmates. I personally believe that if rehabilitation is a goal of the correctional system, more...

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The Music Never Stopped – An Essay from Ranchsauce! Pts. 1 & 2

By Drift Dodgers at July 5, 2011 | 10:12 pm | 4 Comments

“Keep on dancin’ through the daylight, Greet the mornin’ air with song No one’s noticed, but the band’s all packed and gone. Was it ever here at all?” - Grateful Dead “The Music Never Stopped” Whether we are conscious of it or not, the strands of our being hum and resonate through sound. The Gods embedded humanity with musical more...

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Ott – Mir Review & Free Download

By ranchsauce at March 27, 2011 | 1:13 pm | 1 Comments

Ott returns to the United States to tour in support of his brand new full-length album Mir, which came out March 15th via his own label Ott Sonic Music. Get your copy here: Ottsonic.bandcamp.com and at all major online retailers In anticipation of the release, he is giving away the track “Adrift In Hilbert Space”: Ott - Adrift In Hilbert Space Ott’s more...

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Phutureprimitive – Kinetic Review

By ranchsauce at March 26, 2011 | 12:44 am | 0 Comment

[caption id="attachment_15849" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Artwork by Android Jones"][/caption] Three years back, while I was a sophomore in college, I began to build up a large collection of digital music. After amassing my first double-digit gigabyte Itunes library, I realized that the sky - or my laptop's 160 GB memory - was the limit. It was around more...

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Supersillyus – Tesselations

By ranchsauce at March 3, 2011 | 2:31 pm | 2 Comments

Download your digital or hardcopy version of Supersillyus' Double LP Tesselations here: www.Supersillyus.com Supersillyus' second album, Tesselations, drops today on Base Trip Records. A two disc (97 minutes) chromatic chronicle composed by one of the brightest producers the Northeast has to offer. Rob Uslan is a mad hatter, multi-instrumentalist and more...

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The Disco Biscuits NYE NYC RUN (Two Nights of Reviews)

By ranchsauce at February 21, 2011 | 1:35 pm | 0 Comment

[caption id="attachment_15022" align="aligncenter" width="520" caption="Photo by Julian Mackler / MACKME.COM"][/caption] 12/29/10 Terminal 5 New York City, NY By Ranchsauce The day after Christmas I hightailed it out of Texas and braved the insane ice storm that was currently devastating the Northeast. I felt like I was the only person in the world who more...

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It’s Time You Heard: The Great Mundane – Interview

By ranchsauce at February 15, 2011 | 1:56 am | 5 Comments

FREE DOWNLOADS: http://www.thegreatmundane.com/downloads/ www.thegreatmundane.com I have only known about The Great Mundane (Jeffrey Acciaioli) for a few months. I recall first seeing his name on a remix he produced for Bluetech and Kilowatts' collaborative release, Invisible Allies. After noticing that he was signed to Autonomous Music, I explored The Great more...

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Bluetech and Kilowatts are Invisible Allies

By ranchsauce at February 13, 2011 | 12:19 pm | 3 Comments

"Invisible Allies is the collaboration project of world-renowned producers Bluetech and KiloWatts. This powerhouse duo will hit the road in February to embark on their first US tour in support of their “Hyperdimensional Animals” EP that came out on November 30 2010. Both producers achieved highly respectable cult status in their individual careers for their more...

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Supersillyus – Me(meta)TATRON EP

By ranchsauce at January 27, 2011 | 11:44 pm | 2 Comments

Download your free copy of Supersillyus' EP Me(meta) TATRON at: www.supersillyus.com Supersillyus (Rob Uslan) will be releasing his massive double LP (two-disc) second album , Tesselations, on March 2nd. For now the naughty and silly producer has given us a free sampler EP featuring tracks from his upcoming release, a remix from his first album Grampaspaceshuttle and more...

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Ranchsauce’s Picks: Best Albums of 2010

By ranchsauce at January 6, 2011 | 12:21 pm | 9 Comments

15 Best Albums of 2010 Arcade Fire - The Suburbs An album that defines a generation from the most popular band of the millennium's Indie wave, The Arcade Fire. The band's first album, Funeral, seemed to be one of those unparalleled releases which most succeeding albums could not live up to. The Suburbs is a testament to the group's snowballing range of more...

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Blue Boy Productions – Getting Deep

By ranchsauce at November 25, 2010 | 7:19 pm | 1 Comments

Download your copy of Blue Boy Productions' Getting Deep at: http://blueboyproductions.bandcamp.com/ Blue Boy Productions (BBP) is Alex Russo (Production) and Chris Narainen (drums), co-founders of Boston's headiest weekly electronic event, Music Ecology. The duo has ignited the electronic community in the greater Boston area by continuing to produce smart, creative more...

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Younger Brother – Night Lead Me Astray EP

By ranchsauce at November 12, 2010 | 11:33 pm | 0 Comment

Download your copy of Younger Brother's "Night Lead Me Astray" EP at: iTunes Music or Beatport Younger Brother - Pound a Rhythm Younger Brother - Night Lead Me Astray (Younger Brother Remix) [caption id="attachment_10596" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Ruu Campbell - Photo©humansafterall.com/Nicole Cussell"][/caption] Younger Brother, once a more...

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Pretty Lights – Glowing in the Darkest Night

By ranchsauce at November 1, 2010 | 6:59 pm | 1 Comments

Download your copy of "Glowing in the Darkest Night" at PrettyLightsMusic.com Be sure to download the first two installments of the 2010 PL EP series, "Spilling Over Every Side" and "Making Up A Changing Mind" if you haven't already! Pretty Lights- Looking For Love (But Not So Sure) Pretty Lights- Shining Bright Despite The Plight Pretty Lights - Gold Coast more...

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Broken Bells – “Meyrin Fields” and “The Ghost Inside” EP

By ranchsauce at October 26, 2010 | 10:05 am | 1 Comments

In their first year, Broken Bells (Jim Mercer and Danger Mouse) have proven themselves as a timeless duo. Pristine production meets powerful lyricism. With only a handful of live shows under their belts, Broken Bells are already becoming one of those must see events. The group has just released "The Ghost Inside" and a previously unreleased song titled "Meyrin Fields" more...

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Nadis Warriors

By ranchsauce at October 15, 2010 | 7:18 pm | 2 Comments

When was the last time you were astonished? If you are like me and you believe that music shares a spiritual connection with our natural bodies, then you already have something in common with Nadis Warriors. Their influences include Pink Floyd, Terrance McKenna, Quantum Physics, and Raja Ram. So yeah, it's safe to say Nadis Warriors and like minded freaks like myself more...

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The Egg Fall Tour 2010 Ft. Sonic Spank

By ranchsauce at September 30, 2010 | 4:53 pm | 0 Comment

Although The Egg has been around for quite some time (originally formed in the early 90's by brothers Ned & Maff Scott), they found their niche amongst American audiences at Camp Bisco 7. Just before that show- in Mariahville, NY- their EP Forwards had reached critical acclaim with it's instinctive approach to live indie/jam/rock music. Once people had "lost their more...

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Time Crisis

By ranchsauce at September 29, 2010 | 10:00 pm | 1 Comments

Download your copy of Time Crisis' debut album: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/time-crisis/id392278295 Fameless Fam (check out OhWerd's introduction to the group HERE) has added an impressive new group to it's roster. Time Crisis (Will Brown and Jon Markson) is a wonderful example of just how badass music can be when electronic music meets its organic counterparts. more...

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