British-Chinese producer Eric Lau recently built some interest for his upcoming album Quadrivium with "Star Trekking," a space voyage of a track that preserves the original boom bap in its DNA. The record is out this Friday, February 25th, and in case the world needed just a little more to bolster

New band alert! Please welcome rock group extraordinaire Axiz, a new band who has caught the attentions of Korean netizens for their powerful, raw instrumentals and unique group lineup that includes four males and one …

Instrumental hip hop has spilled into pockets around the globe -- particularly LA, where artists like Tokimonsta, Daedelus, and Flying Lotus have defied all sense of beat structure in favor of tinkering, stuttering, and intellectual head bobbing. Canadian producer/DJ Lunice, conversely, is carving

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Moscow beatmaker Pixelord channeled his inner child on Keramika ("ceramics"), his new chiptune-centric EP on Hit and Hope. Compared to his January EP Fish Touch, the new one is less dubby, more twisted cartoony -- a soundtrack for an f'ed up kids' show that you keep watching well into your 60s. The

You can't get more fresh-faced than Lulu James. At 21, she's released just two singles on the Internet within the last few weeks, but her career has kicked off with an epic bang. Last year she supported the amazing Ghostpoet, and she recently got an first-rate shoutout in the Recommender. Then, of

It's like a campaign slogan. Chris Alfaro worked on a few different projects, but the one that's got the catchiest everything is his solo work under the name Free The Robots. In the LA instrumental beat scene, there are a ton of personalities. There's the space age funk of Dam-Funk, the jazzy

Imagine the media as a hydraulic system: broadband has dramatically expanded the pipes and channels through which cultural data, including music, passes. The result has been a monstrous increase in the volume and range of music that the average listener can access. Before file-sharing, a music

Eskmo travels through levels of nature in his video for "Cloudlight," the opening track from his self-titled 2010 release on Ninja Tune. Over the slow, grinding beat, the San Francisco producer carries a box of ashes to its final resting place atop a cliff. It's a break from the abstract imagery

Mr. Bibal I seriously thought it was pronounced "Bee-BAL" but according to the little voice emulator clip on the new track by the Parisian producer, it's "BIB-bull." Doesn't matter, really. The beat is still nasty. Bibal is back with a one of track built on J Dilla loving drums and oscillating

Yes, he is part of THAT McFerrin lineage. But that doesn't haunt Taylor McFerrin, son of the iconic voice artist Bobby McFerrin. Taylor has found his own niche on Flying Lotus' Brainfeeder imprint, and has even incorporated his father's art of beatboxing into his jazzy instrumental hip hop work.

Scottish instrumental indie band Remember Remember started with Graeme Ronald as an unconventional one man band. The Glaswegian musician used traditional instruments, a variety of wind-up toys, and all manner of found instruments, filtering the resulting music though his collection of effects and

Sometimes actions speak louder than words. Glasglow experimental act Remember Remember’s “Scottish Windows” is a serene instrumental from their album The Quickening. The pretty xylophone chimes are paired with bleak but dreamy animation from Becky Manson, sparking childlike memories of story time.

Some people wear multiple hats, Bomba Estéreo’s Li Saumet wears multiple (pairs of) shoes. The Colombian bomb(a)shell had two pairs in tow during the group’s funky show at New York’s (le)Poisson Rouge on Wednesday night. Vocalist Saumet ascended onstage at the peak of an instrumental crescendo for

Santa Ana, California’s Chris Alfaro just wants to Free The Robots, and his forthcoming album Ctrl Alt Delete is the soundtrack to what will happen when our android brethren are cut loose. Free The Robots makes a sound in the vein of other instrumental hip hop coming out of LA these days. He’s

Danish producer Anders Trentemøller, who goes by his last name, is one of Europe’s hottest electronic musicians. His video for the instrumental single “Silver Surfer” from his 2010 album Into the Great White Yonder features one of the coolest over-the-top concerts of all time. Be there vicariously,

French producer Onra is putting together a whopping 32-instrumental track compilation combining hip hop beats with vinyl from Southeast Asia. Chinoiseries -- the second part of a two-part series that dropped in 2007 -- samples sounds from China and Vietnam (the latter the heritage of Onra's

San Fran's dreamy tinker Mikey S. Maramag, aka Blackbird Blackbird, just dropped a lovely video for an even lovelier song. "Tear" is a brand new instrumental single made from fluttering beats and pleasing atmospherics. The video is a colorful time lapse, apparently filmed from a car window. In

A year in, a year out. Sudanese-American producer Oddissee had a busy 2010, and the evidence is compiled on A Year In. The DC-based beat maker collaborated with Stik Figa, Homeboy Sandman, and TOKiMONSTA (there's that name again!), not to mention plenty of stand-alone instrumental production. One

Brazilian band Garotas Suecas plays what can only be called psychadelic tropical garage rock. Their light and fuzzy sound gets serious with some excellent instrumental solos, like in this video. ...

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