XLR8R — One time XLR8R cover star Daedelus is about to hit the road again, and if that wasn't good enough news, he's also taking Montreal's king of bounce, Ghislain Porier, with him. read more more info

The Culture Of Me — We're no experts here on dancehall or ragga or any of the digital-filtered music to shake the streets of Jamaica, but we're going to fetch a giant guess here and say that this track and the accompanying video from Poirier (feat. Face-T) are goin... more info

Get Weird — Michael Johnson signed to Sub Pop with Holopaw, has recorded with Brian Deck (Modest Mouse), toured with Iron and Wine and Fruit Bats and developed an entirely unhealthy method of making music dubbed wino-synthesis. He more recently leant his voca... more info

Pasta Primavera — When New York’s synth funk techno master musician Eliot Lipp gets his lasers around the psych-dream-crazy-coolness of Daedelus‘ “LA Nocturn” it’s almost guaranteed to be great.  Guess what?  I was right!  Take a listen: mp3: Daedel... more info

Nialler9 — You know XXXChange’s production and remix work for Spank Rock, Amanda Blank, Santigold, Thom Yorke, Daedelus, Wiley and many more so it’s good news then that Shock and Transmission have teamed up to bring him over for his first ever Irish date on... more info

Nialler9 — Despite being on the radar since January or so, ‘Crystalised’ is the debut single from excellent Londoners The XX (no relation to the XX Teens). I listened to all the tunes on their myspace twice after a hectic week taking in 7 gigs in 5 days - C... more info

Stereogum — You'll need five listens of this new Busdriver track to get a beat on the dextrous, rapidfire tongue twirling at hand, which is to say it is a Busdriver track. The forthcoming Jhelli Beam is his eighth album and has a solid list of collaborators, ... more info

Nialler9 — As if you needed any more incentive after this, this, this and this as to why you need to see Daedelus on Saturday night in The Twisted Pepper, I’ve got a pair of passes to giveaway to one reader thanks to Choice Cuts. All you got to do is leave a... more info

MVSW — Interesting shows around Los Angeles this week: Monday 4/27 The Faint, Ladytron, Figo (DJ set) @ Music Box The Henry Clay People, Young Love, The Flying Tourbillon Orchestra, Swim Party @ Spaceland Fool’s Gold, Daedelus, Leopold and His Fictio... more info

Pasta Primavera — Daedelus always seems to amaze me.  Sometimes he can be way out there with experimental electronic music and the next moment he’s orchestrating almost pop like arrangements.  His newest effort comes about from a new venture - the Friends Of F... more info