Articles by Joshua Ostroff

BP vs. Effcee

Destroy All DJs

PUBLISHED May 1, 2004

The inherently illegal nature of mash-up culture has created some difficulty as it moves towards legit releases. So L.A. duo BP and Effcee...

In Living Color: Season One

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2004

Sketch shows live and die by the cultural saturation of their catchphrases and in 1990, In Living Color had everyone from grade school kids...

For Those About to Mock, We Salute You

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

Summer: I was being sarcastic.Marissa: So was I.Summer: Which we never were before Cohen showed up and introduced us to irony. Jackass!The...

Fragile State

Voices From The Dust Bowl

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

Way back in the day, the chill-out room was a space where exhausted ravers could cool down to ambient beats. But somewhere along the line,...

Ennio Morricone/Various

Remixes Volume 2

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

So you’re arguing with an ex-girlfriend, a boss or maybe just your average old arch-nemesis, chances are a whistling sound, denoting a dust...

Various

Rewind 3

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

For the third volume of Ubiquity’s "original classics re-worked, remixed, re-edited and rewound,” the California label ditches the remixes...

Freddy vs. Jason

Ronny Yu

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2004

The return engagement of the late, great '80s slashers is a fanboy's wet dream but the horror genre has been so thoroughly skewered that it...

Layo and Bushwacka!/Various

All Night Long

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2004

Tons of nightclubs have attempted to brand themselves (and make a quick buck) by releasing tenuously-related records, but Layo and Bushwack...