Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeroes have been around on blogs for a while now. Little over a year ago, they released their debut album ‘Up From Below’ and the group has received a healthy amount of positive reactions to…
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Damon Cameron and Glen Cassidy form the duo called So I’m Jo. These Australians are the creators of Indie/Electronica/Disco/House/Lazy Pop music, using “useless 80’s synths” they buy off eBay. Never mind the name or the instruments, or even the fact…
You know house music. You must, it’s about everywhere nowadays. As ancient history (no, actually Wikipedia) tells us, house music was born in Chicago in a club called The Warehouse. Since it’s birth in ‘the Miami of Canada’, the genre…
Here’s an update on two guys blogged about before. Let’s talk some Tyler Hampton first. Past Autumn, Dutch house label Flamingo Recordings hosted their first Remix Contest. The record-to-be-remixed was ‘Automatic’, originally produced by Funkerman. More than 500 participants sent…
Let’s start with this: all the best wishes for 2010! In 2007, two Swedes called Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss grew tired of constantly sending music through email and shady download sites so they invented something new: the Soundcloud. From…
As you are reading this, the Jackplug is going through some maintenance. Next to new layout and a brand new address, ‘thejackplug.com’, there is also a new list that might be of your interest, featuring posts by other blogs. Check…
This guy from Hamburg is Marco Niemerski, but you might know him for his House/Funk/Disco productions he releases under his alias Tensnake. He started releasing his records in 1999 as Marc Moureau. That led to sounds like these. And here’s…