With titles like “Nostalgia for the Present,” “Why Do I Keep Ending Up Here” and “Decay of the False Vacuum,” the fourth album by Toronto-based duo Oneo Fakind is trippy before you even hit play. A study in synth modulations and spacey sound design, The Start of Something manages to raise deep and powerful questions about …
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New Artist Spotlight: Prospertine Brightens Up Darkwave With ‘Home’
Adren Leigh and Jeremy Bastard have both been fixtures in NYC’s art rock and electronica scene, Bastard as a solo producer and Leigh as the voice of indie pop group Arden and the Wolves. With their debut single “Home,” Leigh and Bastard have formed Prospertine, a “darkwave industrial dance pop” project in which each of …
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New Artist Spotlight: 1st Base Runner Is the New Electro Shoegaze Sound ‘All Thoughts’ Will Turn To
1st Base Runner is a new project from Austin-based artist Tim Husmann that only has two singles out so far in anticipation of his forthcoming album, Seven Years of Silence, but we can tell you already it’s going to be good. The “astral gothic” vibes of the electronic/dreampop/shoegaze rock hybrid tracks “All Thoughts” and “A …
This Is No New Artist: GNL Zamba Brings a Different Type of Hip Hop to the US
GNL Zamba is extremely well-known in his native Uganda, where he’s credited for building the country’s hip hop and luuga flow scene from the ground up. It’s a quite different style at first blush from American hip hop: passionate, tribal and fused with afropunk, but lunga flow and specifically Zamba’s style have been popular in …
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New Artist Profile: Anni Pohto Merges Electronica and Indie Pop, Creating a Musical ‘Closure’ for Herself
Swedish singer and songwriter Anni Pohto is hardly a new artist in the strict sense of the word, but she’s new to Your EDm and we’re glad to have found her. Having already released two EPs and a number of singles since 2014. Her style normally walking the line between pop, ambient indie electronica and …
New Artist Spotlight: Da’Vinci Sprinkles Experimental Tones Like ‘Stardust’ on Hip Hop Beats
You’ve got to love a producer who gives off the air of truly loving playing around with beats and composition, especially when it comes to hip hop. Those pockets along the genre’s timeline where experimentation in production has really been pushed have produced some truly great names as well as some of the best beats. …
EDMsauce.com Artist of the Week: Sha1000k
What is going on dance music fans! As we almost wrap up this month of the New Year, we are pleased to announce no stranger to EDMsauce.com, up and coming artist, and our Artist of the Week, Sha1000k! Sha1000k has been releasing music for some time now and really showing off his newest track, Make …
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Nicky Romero Joins Forces With Rising Protocol Artist Timmo Hendriks for “Into the Light”
Since the inception of Dutch DJ Nicky Romero’s Protocol Recordings in 2012, the imprint has blossomed into a multi-faceted brand with its radio show receiving over 40 million listeners every week. For his newest track “Into The Light,” Romero collaborated with Protocol’s very own Timmo Hendriks. The track uplifts and inspires with beautiful piano chords …
New Artist Spotlight: David Thompson Takes His Synth Pop Seriously With ‘The Wall’
The resurgence of indie synth pop in the late 00s and early 10s was sort of a breath of fresh air in a musical climate that prior to that had been pretty strictly divided between pop, EDM and Indie. Acts like M83, Cut/Copy, Hot Chip. Phantogram and even the Yeah Yeah Yeahs took the new …
New Artist Spotlight: Lost American Is No Longer Lost With a Tongue-In-Cheek ‘Thank You Miss America”
Nashville musician Chris E. Kelly called his electro project Lost American because at the time, he was an expat in Spain, having wandered Europe and Asia for years. Now that he’s retuned to his hometown, it seems he may keep the moniker; it’s certainly a “lost” sort of time for America, after all. Potential sociopolitical …