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Veld seemed aptly named, as the sprawling Downsview park does somewhat resemble the type of vast South African fields of the festivals’ namesake. It’s also the name of Deadmau5’s most recent single, and he just happened to be headlining the festival, so it made even Read more
I woke up Saturday noon to a simple one line email from my editor at Spinner, “Can you interview Justice at 330 pm?” Obviously, the answer was yes, I would say yes even if I was in a quadriplegic full body cast. There was no Read more
The last time I saw Alphapup’s Nosaj Thing was about a year ago at a packed show at the Drake Underground. You’d think that a free show would have even more packed-er results? Oddly no, but good for us who had lots of comfortable dance Read more
Posted on Aug 1st 2012 3:00PM by Jesse Ship Buraka Som Sistema thrive on a melting pot of cultures and sounds that emerged from Portugal’s colonialist domination of countries like Angola. Pulling rhythms from African and Latin music, you would never think that world music could Read more
Scion’s automotive facilitation of cutting edge music culture gets its own week in Toronto, and will be kicking off with Mansion’s already well known Happy Endings party series at the dim sum restaurant by day, formerly known as the Bright Pearl Restaurant, that now actually goes Read more
I’m breaking the silence of my inner peace by sneaking notes, and it reminds me of the time I spent 10 days in silence at Suan Mokh, a Buddhist Vipassana retreat at a temple in Southern Thailand. But I’m not in Thailand; I’m Read more
Waiting to speak to Simian Mobile Disco backstage at the Hoxton, I got to meet Chris, Diplo‘s tour manager who gave me this pithy hair advice. “Dude, it’s like a mushroom cloud on the sides but I wanna see it more nuclear on the top! You need MORE Read more
[Apparently a lot of people have been asking for this one. The file links didn’t transfer properly when I changed the name of the site, but that’s now been fixed. Here we go again. Enjoy – Cap’n Ship] I was fortunate enough to attend this Read more
My very first featured Q&A, everrrrrr. Done on the cusp of Fool’s Gold Records as A-Trak had just wrapped up with as Kanye’s DJ tour. What a fine young label magnate you have become. Thanks for the memories FormatMag! FEATURES, OTHER A-Trak January 29, 2007 By Jesse Read more
I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I really enjoyed this. Solid mix of old andnew with no predictable bits. From the DJs: “”A bunch of it is stuff I’ve recently found while digging, there is the mellow jam from our recent Planet Mu record Read more