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Datsik Rising: Dubstepper's Career Started With Challenge From Excision

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Dubstep producer and DJ Datsik may not be a full-fledged star yet, but he's certainly not far off.

In addition to having remixed a diverse array of artists, including everyone from Diplo to the Wu-Tang Clan, he also recently finished the 45 city Deadmeat tour -- which he co-headlined with house superstar and labelmate Steve Aoki -- and had a coveted late-night time slot at last month's Coachella festival.

It turns out that all of this success comes, at least indirectly, as the result of an uncharacteristic display of drunken arrogance from the otherwise almost shockingly humble Kelowna, BC native.

Datsik, who's known to his mother as Troy Beetles, was first introduced to dubstep after seeing fellow British Columbian Excision play a set at 2008's Shambhala festival. A bedroom hip-hop producer since his early teens, Datsik was instantly converted. A few weeks later, he tracked down Excision at a club in Kelowna and made a bold statement.

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Skrillex & Tiesto Crack Forbes Power List, Nicolas Jaar Drops Essential Mix, New Jacques Greene Song & More

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Further evidence of EDM's commercial strength, Tiesto and Skrillex have broken into Forbes power list. Tiesto found himself one spot behind Meryl Streep at No. 84, with declared earnings of $23 million, while Skrillex placed ahead of Tina Fey (ouch) at 92, with $15 Mil. EDM = Earn Dat Money. [Forbes]

Nicolas Jaar released his Essential Mix for Radio 1, somehow managing to work in tracks by Angelo Badalamenti, Jay-Z, Keith Jarrett, Feist, *NSYNC, Beyonce and Ricardo Villalobos. Wow. [BBC]

Jacques Greene has a great new track called "Prism," which Martyn played on his Rinse FM show this past weekend, off of Greene's forthcoming EP on 3024. Awesome. [YouTube]

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Deadmau5: Pauly D Has No Talent

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Deadmau5 has made clear his dislike of Jersey Shoreman turned DJ Pauly D before, but he certainly isn't afraid to continue his beef with the celebrity personality. According to TMZ, while shooting a music video in Los Angeles over the weekend, the DJ was asked if he thought Pauly D had any real talent. He promptly responded, "No, not really."

Though he did backtrack a little bit, he essentially stood by his position. Then again, in a blog post last week he sarcastically observed that, "since Pauly D and his hair obviously has no need for my advice, let me elaborate pass it along to someone who's actually serious about music." Take a look at the video below.

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Tesla Boy Explore Erotic Dreams on 'Fantasy' -- Song Premiere

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Russia's Tesla Boy have been making their brand of '80s-heavy synth pop since 2008, but the sound of their newest single "Fantasy" is best described by them.

"'Fantasy' is the first single of the new album. This song is about hidden desires, thoughts and fantasies, which people think improper or indecent to reveal," singer and keyboardist Anton Sevidov tells Spinner. "Everybody has such erotic fantasies and dreams -- you might be staring at a girl and imagining how she would look with her clothes off during love-making, but that is all you can afford, because, say, she is your best friend's girlfriend, or your teacher, or physician."

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Lal Member Says New Album Was a 'Disgusting Challenge,' Won't Do it Again

Matt White

Those bleak dystopian worlds we see in dark fictional films and television shows? Toronto electronic group Lal believe we're living those days right now.

"A lot of the media and movies coming out these days are talking about this dismal apocalyptic future, but, I think we are already living in that space," Lal singer Rosina Kazi tells Spinner.

The Toronto-born Bengali frontwoman for the politically charged act says the disenfranchised should consider it an opportunity, though.

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Squarepusher 'Ufabulum' Q&A: Electronic Pioneer Doesn't Know What 'EDM' Is

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Just two years after the release of his band project Shobaleader One: d'Demonstrator, Tom Jenkinson, aka Squarepusher, returned on May 15 with Ufabulum, a jagged, darkly beautiful instrumental album powered by the drill 'n' bass pioneer's signature pummeling drums, gurgling gleeps and soaring synths, and an absolutely mind blowing live show accompaniment.

Though stylistically unpredictable, Jenkinson has remained the consistent, both in output and in principle, unyielding in his quest for experimentation, vocal in his disdain for "cult of personality" stardom. Given electronic dance music's recent surge in popularity, one cannot help but wonder what the recondite bass virtuoso, whose recent efforts display flashes of contemporary influence -- a dash of French touch, a hint of dubstep wobble -- thinks of the rise of stadium house and "EDM," an updated version of '90's blanket term "electronica."

Realizing -- too late -- that I've assigned myself the role of informing Squarepusher about EDM feels a bit like explaining cyber sex to Tesla, and elicits an unnecessarily polite dodge and parry. In the conversation that follows, Jenkinson opts instead to discuss his refusal to abandon his initial premise, the principles that govern his artistic vision, and the relationship between the staggering visuals he's conjured for his live show and the accompanying music on Ufabulum.

How did you come up with the visuals for the live show?

Well, there's a couple of things which I suppose formed the basis of it, one of which was synesthesia, in the sense that quite a lot of times that I listen to music, I have a visual response to it in my imagination. I often have this in response to my own work, and I thought it would be quite interesting to try to recreate some of those images in conjunction with the music that I'm currently making.

One of the other reasons that got the project going, as well, was to try to make the link between picture and sound as coherent, apt and appropriate as possible, because quite often I find that when I watch the visuals which form a part of a musicians live show, or a DJ playing records, I find it hard to see, actually, a link between what I'm looking at and what I'm hearing. A major incentive to do this was to try to make that link as strong as possible, to make it such that, instead of the picture detracting from the sound, like I find in so many other people's performances, I actually am trying to make that link stronger, so that the picture brings something to the audio. So, one way of looking at it is that the pictures help the listener decode the audio. Anyway, that's what I'm trying to do. It's an experiment, very much an experiment.

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Gold Panda Drops New 7", Foals to Release New 'Tapes' Mix, New Simian Mobile Disco Video & More

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Gold Panda has a new 7" on the way, "Mountain" b/w "Financial District," which is his melancholic take on "modern hip-hop," with a nod to Drake collaborators Noah "40" Shebib and Boi-1da. [SoundCloud]

British rockers Foals are the latest band to contribute to !K7's Tapes series, following The Rapture and The Big Pink with a pretty eclectic mix that spans their tastes, from Blood Orange to Clark. In stores July 24. [ClashMusic]

New week, new video from Simian Mobile Disco. This one's for "Pareidolia," yet another dark instrumental joint from their new album Unpatterns, which has been on repeat over here for a minute. [YouTube]

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