Golden Scissors

Through italian label La Valigetta they all want to wish us an amazing summer 2012 so they are giving away the third issue of the free mixtapes series signed by their lovely label Put A Heart Into Your Record Bag. There is no waste on the tracklist; if you haven’t been updated on the latest [...]

Sydney producer Isaac Tichauer is one of the new sensations, his sound, which is a mix of disco, 90s, house and even tropical rhythms is spreading like wildfire through the blogosphere and here is the first proof. He’s been working over the past 6 months on his debut “Devotion” and we can finally enjoy it [...]

This post is all about space…starting with the original songs, found on the sophomore album by the Brooklyn based instrumental post-rock band named Spaces till the contribution of the experient romanian musician Shelby Cinca. Shelby under his dance/electronica persona – Triobelisk, picked the first 2 songs of “Nothing Exists But Atoms And The Void” album [...]

For the fans of Lana Del Rey… but mostly for the ones who’re not, here it is a really interesting cover of “Blue Jeans” by Manila Kiddo. With a discrete but strong in character sound re-work blended with warm vocals Manila managed to create a song worthwhile to keep in your music library. Don’t know [...]

Hard to believe we are already in October. My favourite season of the year, the summer, passed by in a flash. Gladly, the days still remain hot here in Portugal, and i just remember to write about one of my favourite artist revelations of the year. Let me introduce you to the world of Michael, A [...]

Categories: 80's, Ambient, Breaks, Hip Hop, Music

It’s all well and good to like this new breed of disco-synth-electronica that has been coming our way hard and fast, but how many times have you stopped to appreciate the sampled tracks that have inspired these modern day tunes? I decided for my first post on Golden Scissors, I should start off with the [...]

Categories: 80's, Disco, Music

Ryan Grieve and Leo Thomson make the Aussi duo that goes under the name Canyons. They started to work seperatly and joined at first not to produce together but to create Hole In The Sky Records instead. But the inevitable happened and short after the label started they’ve released the first Canyons EP named Lovermore. [...]

I’m starting to have that happy feeling that summer music releasing letargy is over… DFA has definetely not made a pit stop,  keeping on throwing out amazing stuff. This time it’s the Fall On Your Sword EP named “The First Time I Saw Jupiter”. Fall On Your Sword (FOYS) is not just a band, long [...]

Here we go for the 15th lap! These mixtapes don’t need too much introduction, i’d say it’s more for the action kind of post! This time Flight Facilities presents with an awesome mixtape with 24 tracks meticulously chosen to make us happy for long time. Mustang and Stopmakingme help to cope with the fact that, [...]

Today i feel motivated to write about things i can’t buy (unfortunately)… Dan Levy and Olivia Bouyssou Merilahti compose the french/finnish duo named “The Dø”. They both come from the classical branch of music and started working together in 2005, making music for cinema, dance and theatre. Still in 2005 “The Dø” released their fist [...]

Joe Goddard, the co-member of Hot Chip and also half part of The 2 Bears is back, this time as himself! Released by DFA “Gabriel” EP is out there for you all! With 4 tracks and the precious collaboration of Valentina on vocals and Jesse Rose on production this EP will heat even more the [...]