Articles by Alan Ranta

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  Younger Brother

  Vaccine

  PUBLISHED Apr 12, 2011

  For their first half-dozen years, Younger Brother were primarily a project between psy-trance producer Benji Vaughan (aka Prometheus) and S...

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  Kellarissa

  Moon of Neptune

  PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2011

  Larissa Loyva's sophomore album as Kellarissa (Finnish for "in the basement") sees the P:ano and Choir Practice collaborator emerging on he...

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  Wagon Christ

  Toomorrow

  PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2011

  Cornish producer wunderkind Luke Vibert has made just about every kind of electronic music since his debut in the early '90s, releasing his...

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  Simian Mobile Disco / The Juan MacLean / Blondes

  Venue, Vancouver BC March 8

  PUBLISHED Mar 9, 2011

  John MacLean is an odd individual. The New Hampshire resident, who started producing as the Juan MacLean after his band Six Finger Satellit...

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  Jib Kidder

  Library Catalog Music Series: Music for Hypnotized Minds

  PUBLISHED Mar 8, 2011

  Similar to how Madlib was given the keys to the Blue Note vaults for his Shades Of Blue album in 2003, bedroom producer Sean Schuster-Craig...

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  Meat Beat Manifesto / Not Breathing

  Venue, Vancouver BC February 4

  PUBLISHED Feb 6, 2011

  David Wright's experimental project Not Breathing was an inspired choice to open for Jack Dangers and his Meat Beat Manifesto. Wright has b...

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  Enemy Earth

  Bardo

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2011

  Enemy Earth experienced a metamorphosis heading into its second album. Where 2009's Interstellar Commute was the work of a young producer n...

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  The Books / The Black Heart Procession

  Vogue Theatre, Vancouver BC December 5

  PUBLISHED Dec 6, 2010

  San Diego, CA's Black Heart Procession live up to their name. Every song in their Vancouver set lyrically dealt with some aspect of heartbr...