Pop art was/is an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States, Andy Warhol being one of its leading figure. Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, news, etc. One of its most powerful instrument is creating collages, sometimes elements are removed from their known context, isolated, and/or combined with unrelated elements.
And this is something what it’s actually perfectly applicable to Lady Gaga’s third album called “Artpop”. It’s a vivid mixture of dance music (sub) genres, EDM meets hip hop, but nothing it’s art related, no matter how hard Lady Gaga try to shock her audience, followers and the media. Because – once again – this is more about shocking, more about the show, then about the music. What I said/write about “Born This Way” it’s pretty much applicable for “Artpop” as well. I still can sing while I’m showering songs like “Poker Face” or “Paparazzi”, I can’t recall a single melody from her previous album, those “hits” (“Born This Way”, “Judas”, and “The Edge of Glory”) were all less memorable then the songs from her debut album and listening to “Artpop”, around track 5 (“Jewels n’ Drugs”) I can’t recall a single good line or a chorus from her new songs. And this is pretty sad and disappointing. The production it’s fabulous, everything sound great and powerful, it’s quite minimal, but pretty fancy EDM, but there are no songs, the music it’s completely absent once again and a little bit scandal and controversy won’t make that frustrating feeling disappear. Read more Lady Gaga – Artpop (2013) ›

Worth to give it a like and grab it: Facebook/Zardonic/free downloads Semargl are a band from Kyyiv, Ukraine
formed in 1997 as a black metal band, later introducing dance pop and mallcore elements to their music. They ubsequently dubbed their new found sound, “Satanic pop metal” – also the title of their debut album released in 2012.
Born and raised in Venezuela, Zardonic encompasses everything from Glitch Hop and Electro to Drum & Bass and Hardcore, all while wearing a frighteningly enigmatic mask that has become his personal brand and signature. His most recent album, ‘Far Beyond Bass – The Vulgar Remixes’, released on grammy nominee AK1200’s label Big Riddim Recordings, features 12 remixes of the tracks contained in the original Vulgar Display Of Bass album, all crafted by top artists like Black Sun Empire, State Of Mind, Counterstrike, etc.
A collaboration between Semargl and Zardonic only can result in an explosive track! Read more Semargl – Credo Revolution (Zardonic Remix) free download! ›

Co-founder/drummer of the Grammy Award-winning rock band System of a Down and singer of the alt-progressive rock band Mt. Helium formerly known as The Apex Theory, Ontronik “Andy” Khachaturian currently produces and performs as an Electronic Music Artist and DJ.
“Anger Management” it’s his recent free release, an extended mix tape which includes 29 titles and runs for over 50 minutes. You can listen, share, give a like and grab it for free from the artist’s SoundCloud page right now.
This is a contorted trip into the post-dubstep, bass fueled modern EDM and the tape incorporate currently influential artists such as: Figure, Kill The Noise, Infected Mushroom, AK9, The Frim, xKore, etc.
Dynamic, noisy, enjoyable. Gonna f*ck up your speakers and your brain – so, grab it, don’t hesitate!! If you were out of space lately, this is also a good opportunity to catch up with the late trends of the EDM scene. For free. Can’t get better than this! Read more OnTronik – Anger Management, Mixtape, free download!! ›

Ladies and gentlemen! I only can hope that you are not so ladies and not so gentlemen, not that mainstream hipsters and not that fake anarchists who are populate the clubs, the subways, all the public and the private places nowadays, invaded our lives and overtaken the whole world. Well, there are still hope, while we all aware that not the hope dying last, but the idiot who are still hoping. Anyway! I actually just wanted to say that Spastic released his firs compilation album, it’s an epic collection of avant-garde/experimental, true-blood underground music, and hell yeah, it’s a free download, so, get your big fat or tight, tinny and skinny asses now and grab it from Sceptic’s Bandcamp page. It will blow your brains out.
It seems Mike Patton and John Zorn made a lot of followers and disciples while we’ve got 31 bands and lots of twisted out, sick stuffs to listening to. As a famous lyrics has said: “the only thing that’s missing is a bitch like you”, maybe only my project, Byzant At Sunset it’s missing from this release, but who knows, maybe next time we will fit in. But then again, this is exclusively my own little “problem” or frustration! The collection it’s flawless, each and every band deliver their own genuine thing and it’s a pretty sharp introspective of the state of the European alternative/underground scene A.D. 2013. Septic did an awesome job and a huge effort to put this compilation together and bring all these bands into our speakers or headphones. Read more Bang! Vol I. compilation by Spastic (2013) – free download! ›

A new project from Max Cavalera??! Or he is Mille Petrozza in disguise??!

Considered traitor, labeled hipster, Vegard Sverre Tveitan, better known as Ihsahn and probably most famous for his work with Norwegian black metal band Emperor, is one of the most talented and creative, innovative artists of our times. “Das Seelenbrechen” it’s his fifth solo release follow-up of his 2012’s “Eremita”.
Some old fans who followed him also through this first two solo albums, “The Adversary” (2006) and “angL” (2008) were later parted away while Ihsahn became more and more experimental and less attached to the classic metal sound and borderlines. “After” (2010) and “Eremita” (2012) were step by step departures from the conventional metal structures and arsenal and more into avant-garde and experimentation, exploration of the unknown and unconventional. And this is the path where Ihsahn continue to go further. Read more Ihsahn – Das Seelenbrechen (2013) ›

I’m into the music “thing” since I was born, or, probably, from a few month earlier, and I started doing remixes a few years back after I quit being part of different bands I played with more then a decade. The remix contests nowadays are rarely about music, but about involving and putting up much as possible people to promote through their own social network the artist in question. It’s pity, it’s sad, it’s undeniable.
Now it’s one of the very rare cases when a remix contest it’s about the music and not the social networks. We’ve got 24 recorded, quality sounds to work with and create something special out of Dvorak’s 9th Symphony.
Antonín Leopold Dvořák (September 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904) was a Czech composer. Following the nationalist example of Bedřich Smetana, Dvořák frequently employed features of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia – then parts of the Austrian Empire and now constituting the Czech Republic. Dvořák’s own style has been described as “the fullest recreation of a national idiom with that of the symphonic tradition, absorbing folk influences and finding effective ways of using them”.
Among Dvořák’s best known works are Read more DSO’s Dvorak Remix Contest ›

Some (so-called) specialists consider that the third album it’s the most important in the career of a musician or a band. While the debut album it’s like an introduction and a business-card, the second one defines more clearly the personality of the artist, the third it’s the album when critics and fans, the almighty audience, can decide if the artist worth our interest or it’s just another product of a saturated, cold and soulless industry.
BLN’s first, self-titled album was released after 13 long years of clubbing and gigging and BLN’s sound was more aggressive, he’s grooves where tensioned and contorted, his songs were filled with noisy and glitchy layers. At “Dizzy”, only one year after, BLN chilled down surprisingly, delivered a soft, more meditative IDM album leaving behind his industrial fueled, glitchy EDM roots. So, I was pretty curious in which direction BLN decided to took his ride this time. Read more BLN – Moldern (2013) ›