Articles by David Dacks

Various

Salsa Boricua de Chicago

PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2011

The biggest city of America's interior, Chicago, has had little recorded history of Latin music until now. With this compilation, the Numer...

Poirier Launches His Own Record Label

PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2011

As if Poirier wasn't busy enough pumping out his own tracks, producing and remixing other artists, not to mention DJing all over the world,...

Disco Great Loleatta Holloway Dies at 64

PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2011

Loleatta Holloway, one of the all-time great disco divas, has died. She was 64 and had been suffering from "a brief illness," according to...

Joy Orbison

"Jels" / "Wade In"

PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2011

If you prefer your bass music more linear and bludgeoning, Joy Orbison (now known as Joy O) won't let you down, with another great release....

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Megaflow

PUBLISHED Mar 10, 2011

These Spanish surrealists are really on to something. Megaflow is prog to the core, but progressive in the truest sense, in that they take...

Reggae Music Achievement Awards Announce Fifth Instalment

PUBLISHED Mar 9, 2011

Marking its fifth year, the Reggae Music Achievement Awards will honour the top talent in Canadian reggae at Toronto's Jamaican Canadian Ce...

Gushee

Gushee

PUBLISHED Mar 8, 2011

This is a fantastic debut by a broken beat power couple. ProF is notorious as half of turntable deconstructionists iNSIDEaMIND, whereas his...

A Hawk And A Hacksaw

PUBLISHED Mar 4, 2011

He's not Neutral any more. Over the course of five albums, Jeremy Barnes the former drummer for Neutral Milk Hotel, has traded in his kit f...