 Blueprint Artist Spotlight: KILL PARIS
Mon May 13, 2013
Kill Paris began his journey into music composition at age 16 learning how to play the guitar, which soulfully reflects in his Future Funk style and bass guitar riffs in his music today. After receiving his recording arts degree in Florida, he moved to Nashville, TN, the heart of Rock/Country in the U.S. and produced for and performed with several Country music bands/singers. But it was his attraction to electronic music composition that led him into the heart of Los Angeles, California where he currently resides today.
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Blueprint Artist Spotlight: AUDIEN
Fri May 3, 2013
In the middle of a global explosion of Electronic Dance Music, a genre that thrives in the most exclusive nightclubs of the world's cosmopolitan cities, a prodigious producer has emerged from the unlikeliest of places. The small seaport town of Mystic, Connecticut, has been the home of Audien (AKA Nate Rathbun) for his entire life, and it's in a small apartment in Mystic where Audien began creating music in 2008. Using a very basic set up, and a secret cocktail of plug-ins, Audien worked diligently to hone his craft. By age 17, while his friends were either preparing college applications or teeing up jobs, Audien began to test the waters by sending his unsolicited music out to producers, labels & bloggers.
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 Blueprint Artist Spotlight: OLIVER
Fri Apr 5, 2013
Oliver have found the beating heart inside the dance machine. Whether moving bodies at the world's biggest electronic festivals, or hand-crafting digital gems in the studio, the producer / DJ duo of U-Tern and Oligee are responsible for some of the funkiest, toughest, and most diverse dance music today.
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 Blueprint Artist Spotlight: CARNAGE
Wed Mar 27, 2013
"Making music is about having an impact," exclaims DJ Carnage. It's easy to feel the impact on every track the Los Angeles-based artist produces or remixes. With a versatile mindset and deft approach, he siphons electro, hip hop, pop, and trap into an intoxicating brew unlike anything out there. It's dirty, defiant, and diverse.
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 Blueprint Artist Spotlight: DAMIAN LAZARUS
Wed Mar 13, 2013
Driven by an almost childlike curiosity, a vivid imagination and wicked sense of humour, he's used his role as a DJ, label owner and now musician to nurture and share the most exciting and experimental music on the planet. Drawn to the darkness, but buoyed by the light, ever ready to embrace new ideas and different perspectives on music and the dancefloor, Lazarus is always ahead of the curve, with a wry smile on his face and a neat trick up his sleeve, How many DJs do you know who've played 'Reviewing The Situation (from the Oliver! soundtrack, no less) half-speed to a jubilant crowd at DC10 in Ibiza. How many DJs do you know who've received a sitting ovation on the dancefloor?
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 Blueprint Artist Spotlight: DUBFIRE
Wed Mar 6, 2013
Grammy-winning recording artist Dubfire is renowned for his seamless DJ sets, groundbreaking music, and his innovative label, SCI+TEC. Widely recognized as one of electronic music's most versatile artists, Dubfire initially brought a pioneering sound to the masses during his days as one-half of the distinguished DJ & production duo Deep Dish, which led to a catalog of timeless dance classics, a Grammy for remixing Dido's "Thank You," and numerous international awards to their credit.
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 NOISEY: SHLOHMO DIDIT
Wed Feb 27, 2013
"We live in a complicated time for independent music. It seems as though there are hundreds of pseudo-indie labels buying and selling artists based on their subcultural worth like some sort of weird musical stock market. The WEDIDITÊCollective may be able to offer up some sort of answer to this system. WEDIDIT is a group of friends based in LA headed up by Noisey favorite Shlohmo and they are making some of the best electronic music to come out of the United States at the moment. I talked to the man himself to get to the bottom of how WEDIDITÊcame to be.
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 JAMES MURPHY & PAT MAHONEY of LCD SOUNDSYSTEM HAVE A CONVERSATION
Tue Feb 19, 2013
Pat: My father is an economist and my mom's an actuary at an insurance company. We did have music in the house all the time, like folk and for some reason reggae which was kind of weird for a white suburban family, and plenty of rock music. I always wanted to play the drums but my parents made me play the saxophone which I hated. They told me that there'd be 15 drummers in the band and only one saxophonist and there was like 25 saxophonists and 1 drummer. No one wants to have drums in their house. When I was 13 I heard the Violent Femmes and was sold. I remember riding a bus with this kid and he was like I like hardcore and I like punk what do you like, and I said I like Violent Femmes and he just rolled his eyes. But he was Scotty Cum Stain from a fine local punk ensemble.
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 ARITZIA's "This is The Remix": CYRIL HAHN
Tue Feb 12, 2013
"These days, the distance between obscurity and notoriety can be as short as a single Facebook post. Just look at Vancouver's newest electronic wunderkind Cyril Hahn. Nine months ago, the soft-spoken 25-year-old art history student was making moody downtempo bedroom remixes for kicks, and posting them on his Soundcloud, mostly for friends. But in July, The xx linked his broody yet buoyant mix of Destiny's Child's ÒSay My NameÓ on their one-million-strong Facebook fan page, and nothing's been the same since."
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 Blueprint DJ Spotlight: SLEEPY TOM
Mon Jan 25, 2013
Getting his first break with us during the Youngblood Sundays years at Venue, Sleepy Tom has grown from being a hungry young DJ in Vancouver to a budding, internationally recognized producer. With upcoming releases on Fool's Gold, 2013 is shaping up to be a big year for this young Vancouver talent!
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 The Waldorf Hotel: A Blueprint Events Restrospective
Fri Jan 18, 2013
It's no secret that we love The Waldorf Hotel-- and it's been clear lately in the city of Vancouver that we're not the only ones that feel this way. As a promoter that's existed for going on 16 years now in this city, we've had our share of shows at the Waldorf over the years. Going all the way back to the early 2000s, we hosted shows before & after Waldorf Productions (the current occupants of the Waldorf as most people know it now) took over, so we're well acquainted with the ins & outs of this historic venue. In the wake of Waldorf Productions' eviction and the uncertain future of the building, we decided to run through a lil' history lesson for you guys on Blueprint and our storied past with the Waldorf Hotel!
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 Blueprint Artist Spotlight: SALVA
Thur Jan 11, 2013
A versatile solo producer, crowd riling DJ, owner of the revered Frite Nite label (B. Bravo, Eprom, Ana Sia) and key figure in the Friends of Friends collective, Paul Salva knows how to control a room. After dropping one of 2012's biggest tracks, a collaborative remix of Kanye West's ÒMercyÓ that not only reached #1 on Soundcloud, but received spins on Power 106 FM (LA), Power 105 FM (NYC), and Shade45XM, Salva's work promotes complexity through a synthesis of contrasting styles, showcasing dips into house motifs, grooves in smooth boogie funk, and massive roiling bass waves that has garnered support from the likes of Pitchfork, FADER, FACT, BBC's Benji B and Skream & Benga, A-Trak, Low End Theory, Snoop Dogg, Diplo, D?m-Funk, Night Slugs, and many others.
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Blueprint Artist Spotlight: BRENMAR
Wed Jan 9, 2013
Brooklyn by way of Chicago based DJ and producer, Brenmar, represents a strange musical paradox. Somehow defying the odds, he marries the artificial gloss of commercial R'n'B with the urban grittiness of underground styles like Chicago footwork and UK bass.
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 Blueprint Artist Spotlight: NICOLE MOUDABER
Thur Jan 3, 2013
Propelled to the forefront of today's scene by her flawlessly executed sleazy house and techno sounds, Nicole Moudaber is now an unstoppable force.
Two of her recent remixes topped the Beatport Techno Chart for weeks on end. The Moudaber mix of Sian & Mladen Tomec's ÔFront Pocket' on Octopus and her version of Carl Cox ÔChemistry' on Intec, which also scooped a prestigious IDMA at Miami's Winter Music Conference, winning the award for ÔBest Minimal/Techno Track'.
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 Blueprint Artist Spotlight: SINJIN HAWKE
Tue Dec 18, 2012
"Even though "The Lights EP" (Pelican Fly) was his official release, Sinjin Hawke has been putting in work for quite some time. He launched a groundbreaking series of parties in Montreal, Boomclap, featuring artists like Dj Rashad, Lunice, Kingdom, Africa Hitech, and Jacques Greene, he's released a slew of club ready bootlegs with dutch vanguard Truants, and has graced an abundance of venues throughout Europe and North America.
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 Blueprint Artist Spotlight: NUMARK
Mon Dec 10, 2012
Nu-Mark began DJing at the age of 13 in Los Angeles. Over the course of the last two decades, he has amassed a collection of over 35,000 records and refined his production skills and performance to the point where he is widely recognized as one of the key figures in DJ culture.
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 Blueprint Artist Spotlight: JESSE ROSE
Thur Dec 6, 2012
Jesse Rose was raised on Motown soul, jazz and eighties funk in London, moving to Bristol to begin throwing club nights with old friend Jamie Anderson at the beginning of the nineties. In 1997 Jesse moved back to his hometown London and soon started playing regularly around the capital, honing his particular blend of Chicago house and early Detroit techno. He releasing his first mix CD 'Tec-House Living' on the Subversive label under his Deeper Sound Of Bristol moniker before founding Front Room Recordings with Chris Belsey in 2001.
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