Articles by Daniel Sylvester

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  NYPC

  NYPC

  PUBLISHED May 20, 2014

  Fantastic Playroom, the debut from New Young Pony Club, was a minor success due to the inclusion of four previously-released zeitgeist-conf...

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  Various Artists

  Hyperdub 10.1

  PUBLISHED May 16, 2014

  Although Hyperdub Records was founded by Scottish producer Kode9 to promote a fresh new genre called "dubstep," the label's ten-year annive...

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  Tobacco

  Ultima II Massage

  PUBLISHED May 9, 2014

  At the end of the '00s, Thomas Fec created the alter ego Tobacco to release music deemed too eccentric for his primary musical group, Black...

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  Kreidler

  ABC

  PUBLISHED May 9, 2014

  Kreidler have always been an "electronic band" by proxy. Over the past 20 years, the Düsseldorf quartet have been making classic and authen...

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  Stone Owl

  Sweaty Disco Balls

  PUBLISHED May 9, 2014

  Striving to capture Detroit techno's original funk and disco brotherhood, Stone Owl combines rolling bass lines, four-on-the-floor drum bea...

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  Claude VonStroke

  Urban Animal RMXS

  PUBLISHED May 2, 2014

  Claude VonStroke is what you would call a "producer's producer." Growing up near the musical mecca of Detroit, VonStroke crafts technically...

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  The PepTides

  Love Question Mark

  PUBLISHED May 2, 2014

  Love Question Mark, the fifth LP from the PepTides, could very well have been titled 31 Love Songs, as the theatricality, ambition and them...

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  Sd Laika

  That's Harakiri

  PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2014

  While it seems like most modern producers are interested solely in texture (Hudson Mohawke, Rustie), mood (Crystal Castles, Evian Christ) o...