Slash says Eddie Van Halen would’ve been “phenomenal” on any instrument


Slash has spoken in praise of the late Eddie Van Halen in a new interview, saying that the Van Halen guitarist would’ve been “phenomenal” on any instrument he chose to play.

Van Halen passed away at the age of 65 back in October following a battle with cancer.

Slash was asked about Van Halen’s legacy during a recent interview with Consequence of Sound, with the Guns N’ Roses guitarist offering the view that Van Halen was “such a gifted musician”.

“Any instrument he had chosen to play would have been phenomenal, because he just had that pure musical talent. And he chose guitar, because that’s what turned him on,” Slash said.

Eddie Van Halen at the Joe Louis Arena during Van Halen’s “5150 Tour” on May 9, 1986, in Detroit, Michigan (Picture: Ross Marino/Getty)

“And for somebody with that kind of musical talent to get turned on to rock‘n’roll guitar was sort of unique unto itself, because most of us guitar players are a ragged bunch of rock‘n’rollers who don’t have too much technical ability or schooling. We just sort of go for this raw thing. And he had that, but he also had this musical, sort of classical gift.”

Slash also described Van Halen as “an innovator” among guitar players, “creating new things with whatever his imagination came up with”.

“So he was just an amazing artist, period.”

Slash was among the performers to honour Van Halen during a tribute that was organised by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last month.





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Micco & Elias – Slow Tidings (In:Most Remix)


Out now is a super soul-filled drum and bass re-lick of ‘Slow Tidings,’ a track originally written and produced by Micco & Elias. Putting their production and MC capabilities alongside one another, they made their version with additional vocals by Aria Vince.

Now this record has been made by another duo. The arising talents of In:Most are unquestionably on display here, and they deliver a highly textured remix that highlights the fluidity of the original whilst bringing about a little more pace.

Get involved with this edit and take a listen below.





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Subtronics Remixed the Popular “Oh No” TikTok Song Into a Drum & Bass Banger

It seems Subtronics doesn’t get much sleep these days. In the past month, he debuted his new label Cyclops Recordings, released the imprint’s first compilation, and even saw his collaboration with GRiZ, “Griztronics,” added to Fortnite‘s in-game radio. Now, he’s back with a drum & bass hybrid remix of “Oh No” by Capone.





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BROHUG pay homage to their hometown on towering 30th delivery of 2020, ‘Stockholm’ – Dancing Astronaut


by: Ross Goldenberg


Dec 15, 2020

BROHUG have readily persisted as the Swedish trifecta that the house music space categorically deserves, and they’re now solidifying an ungraspable 30-release count on their 2020 scoreboard. Skipping any attempt to summate just how insuperable they’ve been since January, BROHUG are now potentially serving up their year’s closing number—though probably not, considering their unsuspected yet welcome release habits lately—with a nod to their home city, Stockholm, Sweden.

“Stockholm” is a grand finale that effortlessly places an irreproachable bow on top of BROHUG’s ultimate holiday present. Falling on the more toned-down side of the trio’s high-end bass house genius, “Stockholm” is a suitable tribute to John Dahlbäck, Christopher Lunde, and Niklas Lunde’s stomping grounds, and a choice selection to serve as BROHUG’s lofty 30th delivery over the past 12 months.

Featured image: BROHUG/Instagram

Tags: brohug, Stockholm, sweden

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Taylor Swift considered releasing ‘Folklore’ and ‘Evermore’ next year


Taylor Swift said she considered pushing the release of ‘Folklore’ and ‘Evermore’ to next year due to the pandemic, in a new interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe.

The live interview, spanning more than 50 minutes, also celebrated Swift’s crowning as Apple Music’s songwriter of the year for her work on the two surprise albums.

Swift has previously said she considers each album to be a “one-off era”, so writing two related records involved her completely rewriting her own rulebook. She also said she contemplated releasing the albums in 2021 when there would be a greater sense of normalcy.

“This is one of those things where I kind of had to just sort of throw out any playbook I had,” she told Lowe.

“In times like these when everything is uncertain and everything changes in your world, I guess I just sort of took it as an opportunity to embrace the fact that even if you think you have control in normal times that’s an illusion. If you’re making stuff, put it out if people need music and you’ve made music put it out.

“There was a time in the beginning of the process where I was like ‘I will wait till January when things are looking more normal then I will put out ‘folklore’, and I was like that’s my old brain thinking that there’s any way that I can control this.”

The singer also said she, like many artists, certainly felt the pressure of having to release a better record than her previous work.

“What happens to you as your career builds… is that if you’ve accomplished a thing in the past, all of a sudden you’re expected to accomplish that thing plus another new thing plus this other thing over here,” she said.

“I had felt at times – when I felt a lot of pressure – like I was doing some sort of obstacle course, and that’s not how you should feel when you’re creating.”

Watch the full interview below:

NME gave ‘Evermore’ a five-star review when it arrived earlier this month, praising Swift for “[pushing] the boundaries of her indie reinvention, adding a bit of ‘1989’-era gloss to produce a beacon of hope”.

When ‘Folklore’ was released in July, NME gave the album four stars, welcoming the singer’s initial “indie-folk makeover”.





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Your EDM Premiere: Members of Signs Re-brand and Switch the Tempo With New Project Cecil Hotel [Flexout Audio]


While the disillusion of the experimental French bass music trio Signs left a big gap in the genre’s landscape, they each promised they would be back in some form after their parting Naegleria EP on Division in early 2019. Julian and Niko have rebranded individually as Digger and Opsen respectively, with the latter being part of the already renowned Burr Oak with The Clamps. Lionel (now Le Lutin), meanwhile, has been getting back to his jungle and dub roots: working on combining amen breaks with deep bass and now re-connecting with Niko to start the hefty 174 project, Cecil Hotel.

With a few tracks on last year’s ProgRAM 100 and a halftime/techno EP on Flexout’s WAVE series, their first stand-alone D&B track makes a strong claim that Cecil Hotel (Hotel Cecil) will be all about vibes and merging old school amens, breakdowns and dub bizness with modern neuro-tinged and sometime violent synths. “Sour” is an homage to its creators’ namesake, the notorious Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Now called Stay on Main, the site is a stop on the famous Haunted Hollywood Tour due to the shocking number of freaky deaths that have occurred there from when it opened in 1927 pretty much right up until present time.

So if the guys in Cecil Hotel want the project to be all about vibes and the LA Cecil Hotel is well known for murder, does that mean “Sour” should have murderous vibes? Sort of. “It’s like when you enter a hotel and go to your room, you get a vibe,” explained Lionel. If you’re listening to any form of deep bass, you definitely get those heavy vibes: goosebumps, bass face, nostalgia, Et al., and in the case of Cecil Hotel and their debut “Sour,” absolutely murderous synths.

Said murderous bass synths on “Sour” sound more like a long train scraping the underside of multiple rusty steel bridges than a creepy hotel but they are, indeed, sour. In fact, Cecil Hotel have basically created the sonic equivalent of “sour,” and we didn’t even know we needed it. Turned into its own one-note syncopated beat pattern, this so-modern-it’s-heretofore-unheard-of sound is paired with classic jungle kicks, snares, amens, dub vocal samples and ravey backing melodies throughout the track. In the middle, however, where the “sour” synth is at its most aggressive, the beat turns imperceptibly into a more modern, almost jump up kick-driven thing that’s sure to bring the dancefloor vibe up in the Hotel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB4l7PrcgwY

“Sour” is meant to introduce Cecil Hotel and let fans know generally what they’re about but anyone who knew Signs will know that their unconventional approach will realize this is just the lobby. Their are 19 floors at the Cecil Hotel and 700 rooms; that’s an almost infinite number of track combinations and, like the actual hotel, you never know what’s behind each door (or “play: button).

“Sour” will release on Flexout Audio this Friday, December 18, but it’s available to purchase or stream now on the label’s Bandcamp Page.

 



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Tulum’s Upcoming Zamna Festival is Feared to Be a Superspreader Event in the Making

Tulum is seemingly becoming a hub for in-person festivals amid the pandemic, and a reported lack of precautions is causing concern over repeated COVID-19 superspreader events.





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Four Tet and Madlib deliver first single from upcoming joint project, ‘Sound Ancestors’


by: David Klemow


Dec 15, 2020

Four Tet and Madlib on a joint album wasn’t on many of our 2020 bingo cards, yet here we are. The pair have formally announced a collaborative effort called Sound Ancestors, due in January on Madlib’s Invazion imprint. Leading the project is the duo’s debut single, “The Road of the Lonely Ones.”

According to Four Tet, the album has been a long work-in-progress, with Madlib and the Sixteen Oceans producer collaborating digitally over a lengthy stretch of time, passing track concepts, loops, vocal cuts, and more to each other for several years. Sound Ancestors will be credited under Madlib’s name with Four Tet determining the project’s arrangement. Says Four Tet,

“I was sent hundreds of pieces of music over a couple of years stretch and during that time I put together this album with all the parts that fitted with my vision.”

“The Road of the Lonely Ones” closely follows Four Tet’s double-sided link with Radiohead‘s Thom Yorke and Burial on “His Rope” and “Her Revolution.” Furthermore, Four Tet’s new Madlib cut comes after one of the year’s most enticing full-length LPs and handful of high profile remixes including numbers for Caribou, Tame Impala, and Krust. Listen below.

Featured image: Crack Magazine

Tags: Four Tet, Invazion, joint album, madlib, The Road of the Lonely Ones

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Austin Blau Graces Us With Industrial Head Smasher


What happens when you take a heavy industrial sound, mix it with some dark overtones and ambient breakdowns, while introducing a new style of harmonic industrial-trance arpeggios? You get a fantastic track, just like the one from Austin Blau below titled Night City. What an incredible track – the best piece is the overall mix and master of the record that shred through your headphones in ultimate clarity. Really influential record for super-influential people! Take a listen to this banger below.





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Naomi Ackie to reportedly star as Whitney Houston in upcoming biopic


Naomi Ackie is reportedly set to play Whitney Houston in an upcoming biopic titled I Wanna Dance With Somebody, set for release in November 2022.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ackie is currently in negotiations for the role with Sony and its TriStar division. Her latest appearance on the silver screen was in Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker, where she played a character named Jannah.

I Wanna Dance With Somebody will be written by Anthony McCarten (Bohemian Rhapsody) and directed by Stella Meghie (The Photograph).

“We spent the better part of the last year in an exhaustive search for an actress who could embody Whitney Houston,” Meghie told The Hollywood Reporter.

“Naomi Ackie impressed us at every stage of the process. I was moved by her ability to capture the stage presence of a global icon while bringing humanity to her interior life.”

I Wanna Dance With Somebody has the backing of Houston’s estate as well as music producer Clive Davis. Pat Houston will produce the movie on behalf of the Houston Estate, along with Davis, Primary Wave Music’s Larry Mestel, Denis O’Sullivan and McCarten.

“Whitney just makes you want to get out of your seat and sing and dance!” Nicole Brown, head of TriStar, said in an official announcement made on August 4.

Last month, Whitney Houston was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, with Alicia Keys giving an induction speech for the star.

Houston was joined by Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, The Notorious B.I.G., T. Rex and more in the class of 2020 inductees.

During the ceremony, which was broadcast on HBO, Keys paid tribute to the late star, who died in 2012.

“Whitney Houston is one of one,” she said. “There is no one like her and there never will be.”





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