Swedish House Mafia get down on it. Pop with soul? Surely you jest! Plus enough booty shakin’ bass for anyone to dig on. Check the new cd: it’s hot, and masterfully mixed. Enough said, shut up and dance:
KZSC Welcomes: Nite Jewel & Harlequin Baby
By Station Manager | Published June 27th, 2010Woah- what a killer lineup! This Wednesday, June 30th, KZSC Welcomes: Nite Jewel & Harlequin Baby at The Crepe Place in Santa Cruz. Nite Jewel is Ramona Gonzalez, a composer and songwriter from Los Angeles, CA. Nite Jewel’s music has been said to be a part of the new electronic chillwave genre. Joining Nite Jewel…
Electronic music from the center of Isolation
By Music Director | Published April 23rd, 2010KZSC recently received a copy of Mike Preuss‘s self-made album “Big Sur“. In it’s very homemade CD sleeve was this note: “Dear KZSC, This album was created by Mike Preuss alone in the wilderness of Big Sur, CA during a four month long creative camping trip with one microphone and a van chock full of…
Top plays!
By Music Director | Published April 14th, 2010Here is an update on our top Electronic, Rock, and the occasional Hip-hop plays! Rank Artist Recording Label 1 DUM DUM GIRLS I Will Be Sub Pop 2 SPLINTERS Kick Double Negative 3 SHE AND HIM Volume Two Merge 4 COCK AND SWAN Unrecognized Dandelion Gold 5 LOVE IS ALL Two Thousand And Ten Injuries…
White Hinterland’s “Kairos” is to die for.
By Music Director | Published March 18th, 2010Really really really. If you don’t remember le grand White Hinterland, their last album “Phylactery Factory” came out in 2008 and featured a lot of boring piano-based songs sprinkled with a few gigantic gems (“Napoleon at Waterloo” and “Dreaming of the Plum Trees” are so overly gorgeous that it makes the whole album close to…
How can I tell if I love you anymore? Nevermind, I know I do.
By Electronic Music Director | Published February 11th, 2010Riding high on the ‘chill-wave‘ movement of this past year and late 2009 comes Toro Y Moi‘s latest offering – Causers of This.
Scrambles the Death Dealer’s Top 10 Part 2
By Alec Howard | Published December 31st, 20095. Between The Buried And Me – The Great Misdirect (Victory) Not much else to say but BTBAM. This album is good, but not ‘Colors’ good, giving it the 4 spot. 4. The Black Dahlia Murder – Deflorate (Metal Blade) I was a little concerned with this album at first, thinking that TBDM’s overall sound…
Scrambles the Death Dealer’s Top 10 Part 1
By Alec Howard | Published December 29th, 200910. Mastodon – Crack They Skye (Reprise) I won’t even attempt to tell you what this album is about lyrically, but, this album reversed my decision on hating Mastodon, so I felt it deserved a mention on my list, but, it’s also a really good album. 9. Adagio – Archangels In Black (Listenable) Adagio is…
There’s local electronic bands in SC? Mm quaa??
By Music Director | Published November 16th, 2009That’s right sisters, and they’re here to knock the monochromes offa your outfit and offa your face. Harlequin Baby is the name of the fantastico: 2 girls, 1 guy, no baby, and notso gruesome. They make an edible brand of electronic music that is all crystals all candy all icecream all sexycute. ANDDD big news:…
Electronic Music Weekly + Charts!
By Electronic Music Director | Published October 7th, 2009Now is a good time for Electronic Music at KZSC. We have a bunch of new stuff goin’ on goin’ on, including the New Boys Noize, Metronomy, as well as some home-brewed local electro/experimental/psych from New Bengal Spice…