As Chrome Canyon, Morgan Z makes synthesizer music for the imagination. His Stones Throw release Elemental Themes makes you hunger for films starring Harrison Ford on a planet far away in search of bounty. He has an awesome new flexi in the new L.A. RECORD and will play Saturday with Peanut Butter Wolf, Pharoahs and more at Los Globos. This interview by Daiana Feuer.

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This album is one of those most rare gems, an album that follows through on the promise of hip hop and breakbeat that rarely gets fulfilled: full sample immersion that leaves its sources big and bold yet fully, delightfully rearranged, a true collage braided together lovingly with original combinations of boxy beats and tinkling treble tones.

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DUBLAB PRESENTS KRAUTROCK CLASSICS WITH NITE JEWEL, CARLOS NIÑO, PHAROAHS, DNTEL, DAEDELUS, SUN ARAW, AND MORE ON FRIDAY JUN. 1ST AT THE FORD AMPITHEATRE, 2580 CAHUENGA BOULEVARD, EAST, HOLLYWOOD. 6:00PM/ $15/ ALL AGES

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Daze of Heaven impressed me the most, if for nothing else because this guy approached loop-driven music from the exact opposite perspective of most one-man bands that might play Pehrspace or the Smell. Instead of creating beats with his mouth or a machine and then using that as a platform to make noise atop the beats, Daze of Heaven sets up his soundscape first, blasting his clarinet into the mike, then putting sounds from his mouth and from found feedback (I’m talking serious crackle, the kind of hiss that sounds like rain hitting drywall) into the mix. When he’s all done setting up the sound, this dude jumps into his drumset, which he plays standing up, in attack mode, almost at random and yet synced somehow with the swirling noise mess he’s cocooned around himself.

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champoyhate Before becoming a singer, Anika was a political journalist splitting her time between Bristol and Berlin. But after meeting Portishead producer Geoff Barrow, she quit her job as correspondent and released an album she recorded with Barrow’s latest project BEAK> in just twelve days on Stones Throw/Invada. She speaks here from somewhere in the [...]

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“CREATIVE CULTIVATION: dublab’s summer 2011 fundraiser dinner” Tuesday, July 19th / 7-11pm L.A. based non-profit DJ collective, dublab is hosting their summer 2011 “Creative Cultivation” fundraiser dinner on July 19th at JF Chen Loft,  featuring live music by Lucky Dragons, and Devandra Banhart, alongside DJ sets by dublab board member Peanut Butter Wolf and more. [...]

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L.A. RECORD is co-presenting the Buddy Society with Puro Instinct, Diva, Dam-Funk, Vex Ruffin & PB Wolf on May 21 at the Highland Park Ebell Club and here we bring you a mix made by PB Wolf to preview the show. Buy your tickets here. For more info, visit the Facebook event page. DOWNLOAD HERE.

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Stones Throw is celebrating its quinceañera with a series of shows that will be recorded live, straight to vinyl, right there in the flesh. Sounds cool, huh? The shows will be free but only 100 people get invites. Try your luck and see if you can nab some tickets given away on Stones Throw’s website, [...]

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