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You might not be a fan of Cadence Weapon, but it's hard not to like the real life side of Rollie Pemberton. The Edmonton-born rapper -- once that city's poet laureate -- who recently relocated to Montreal knows all about his hate-it-or-love-it reputation.
"I made my bed for myself, you know? I can't be surprised," he tells ...
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You might not be a fan of Cadence Weapon, but it's hard not to like the real life side of Rollie Pemberton. The Edmonton-born rapper -- once that city's poet laureate -- who recently relocated to Montreal knows all about his hate-it-or-love-it reputation.
"I made my bed for myself, you know? I can't be surprised," he tells ...
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Everyone knows Steve Aoki. The 34-year-old is a scion of cool: L.A.-reared socialite, world-traveling DJ, record producer, and the founder of Dim Mak Records, which broke artists like Bloc Party, the Gossip, MSTRKRFT and the Bloody Beetroots. Now, with the full-length record 'Wonderland,' Aoki is on his own roster and ...
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Kate Struthers
When Doldrums' Airick Woodhead isn't making ephemeral, drummy collages of noise and video, he's at home in Montreal YouTubing James Brown videos. "There's this one of him giving dance instructions but he's really just high out of his mind," Woodhead, the former lead for Toronto-band Spiral Beach, tells Spinner. The Doldrums' ...
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Kitsuné Music
Jens Moelle and Ismail "Isi" Tüfekçi, of the Hamburg-born electro house duo Digitalism, were raised on Eurodance and the cultural movement that is Berlin's electronic dance Love Parade, so North America's current obsession with all-things-electronic, particularly dubstep, is a little passé to them.
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Within certain dance music circles, the story of moombahton's flukey origins is new lore. In fall 2009, Dave Nada was being a bad influence to his teenage cousin by DJing his "skipping party" in Washington, D.C. Between reggaeton records, he cued up and pitched down the Afrojack remix of Silvio Ecomo and DJ Chuckie's ...
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Christian "XI" Andersen is amongst the leaders of Toronto's ever-growing, room-throttling experimental electronic music scene. Lurking around the loose confines of dubstep, house and breaks, the 25-year-old DJ/producer -- a product of the city's legendary drum 'n' bass and jungle scenes -- commands more and more ...
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