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Das deutsche Elektronik-Duo Digitalism hat den neuesten Teil der renommierten " DJ Kicks "-Reihe produziert. Damit treten Jens Moelle und İsmail Tüfekçi die Nachfolge von Klangvirtuosen wie Photek und Maya Jane Coles an, welche sich zuletzt bereit erklärten, für die Serie zu kompilieren. Erscheinen wird das Werk Anfang Juli – wie immer – beim Label !K7 Records. Die beiden Hamburger lassen sich dabei nicht lumpen und präsentieren auf dem Sampler allerhand exklusives Material, unter anderem einen Remix für die New Yorker Dance-Punks The Rapture . Aber auch WhoMadeWho und Housemeister finden sich in der Ansammlung wieder. Bereits an dieser Stelle können alle Interessierten das ...

Digitalism has lovingly created a mix for !K7’s legendary DJ-Kicks series. For these two young Germans, Jens Moelle and İsmail Tüfekçi, joining the ranks of contributors to the series was nothing short of a dream come true. Twelve years ago, the duo met as two record store workers in Hamburg, admiringly selling the DJ-Kicks series [...]

Afghan girls work at a first Internet cafe for women in Kabul March 8, 2012. Afghanistan opened its first female-only internet cafe, hoping to give women a chance to connect to the world without verbal and sexual harassment and free from the unwanted gazes of their countrymen. Credit: REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail

Mikkey teams up with Lupe to highlight the increasing amount of senseless killings in the Chi-Town area. I wish more high profile artists would step to the plate and speak on this topic instead of glorifying it over and over in their music. Check out the track and what Mikkey has to say about it below. In light of “37 SHOOTINGS, 46 VICTIMS & 9 MURDERS” during Chicago’s first ‘warm’ weekend, the Trayvon travesty, 6-year old Aliyah Shell, and in honor of my cousins Ismail & Malik that were gunned down last summer...I felt as though this was the time ...

The UK’s Charlie Hilton has been privately working on a project he’s calling Collector’s Edition and, until a few days ago, the public had no idea what to expect. The first thing to be released from the album is a bonus track titled “Mother” featuring Khalil Ismail- a duo, and a song, that work really [...]

The UK beatsmith and D.C. rapper/singer join forces for a single dedicated to the most important women in their lives.  Click the link for the stream and download.

Charlie Hilton has been busy moving below the surface working on his upcoming project titled Collectors Edition. A few days ago he dropped this track titled “Mother” featuring Khalil Ismail which will be a bonus record on the project. Definitely a feel good record and good sign of what’s to come on Collectors Edition. That [...]

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Filed under: News , Exclusive , RPM , New Music 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. "Can we skip dubstep?" Isi, faux-tired of talking to North Americans about music they don't even make, asks Spinner. He laughs, and adds, "They are saying it's the new hip-hop." Moelle intervenes, because even though Digitalism -- who released their second studio album 'I Love ...

Hurray! Our Lucerne-based New Wave favs Les Yeux Sans Visage finally bring out their debut album Tomorrow Is A Million Years in February 2012. The band, consisting of Remo Helfenstein, Ismail Osman and Flavio Merlo, just announced its release together with this stream of a first song off it. «Oblivion» will also be released as single on January 6 on Little Jig [...]

So much Deerhoof news! First off, Deerhoof has announced the upcoming release of a limited-edition clear blue vinyl 7-inch collaboration with David Bazan, properly titled DeerBazan . The record will include David Bazan-penned lyrics sung over instrumentation by Deerhoof, will be released by Polyvinyl Records on January 17, and will be kept to a meager 2,000 copies. It’s the latest in a series of collaborative 7-inches that has included Busdriver , Jeff Tweedy , and Xiu Xiu . The A-side features the Deerhoof vs. Evil ( TMT Review ) track “No One Asked to Dance,” and the B-side features the Bazan classic “Gas and ...

They're the odd couple of indie dance, two Germans with disparate gifts that unite to create a balance of throbbing beats and glimmering melodies. Fair-haired Jens Moelle, who's a little more techno, and swarthy Ismail Tüfekçi, who's a little more rock 'n' roll, formed Digital...

Filed under: Exclusive , Spinner Interview , RPM , Q + A V2 It's been four years since German duo Digitalism released their pop-friendly dance rock album 'Idealism,' a perfect embodiment of the "French Touch" movement they helped forge in 2007, along with similarly minded artists like Justice , SebastiAn and the rest of the Ed Banger/Kitsune Maison camps. Breaking out with hand-crafted edits and high-profile remixes for Daft Punk , Cut Copy , Klaxons and Depeche Mode , the rave rockers, who met in a Hamburg record store, continued to build a stalwart following in the indie electronic community with their dancefloor-primed singles 'Idealistic,' 'Zdarlight ...

Achtung! Digitalism’s second album is named ‘I Love You, Dude’. I’ll admit, the title made me giggle: it made me think about this recent American farce and the perpetually wigged out comedy team of Cheech and Chong. However, there is nothing funny about this record. The German duo of Jens Moelle and Ismail “Isi” Tuefekci have managed to put together a sonically stellar set of 10 songs that will capture your dance-loving heart. I hope... Continue reading Album Review: Digitalism – I Love You, Dude