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Roman Flügel, Fatty Folders
Photo by Hussein Chalayan [Dial] If you follow dance music as obsessively as I do, you’re likely to feel like there’s something at stake with every 12″ and MP3 that flows your way. Between the...
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LWE’s Top 5 Artists Who Defined 2011
Photo by Marwane Pallas What does it mean when the artists who “define” the year are all artists who have been around for at least five years? Considering the list below, it doesn’t speak as much to a...
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LWE’s Top 30 Tracks of 2011 (30-21)
Graphic by Mark Hofmann 2011 will not be remembered as a particularly good year for the world. Between a myriad of horrifying natural disasters, the uncertain outcome of the Arab Spring, political...
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LWE’s Top 10 Albums of 2011
Graphic by Mark Hofmann You know a year has been fruitful for dance music when the singles, good as they are, happen to be eclipsed by a crop of especially great albums. 2011 was just such a happy...
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Roman Flügel, Cookie Dust
[Live At Robert Johnson] Though far from formulaic, many of Roman Flügel’s records are consistently similar: house, with impeccable FM synthesis and a good dash of quirk. Cookie Dust, Flügel’s latest...
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Little White Earbuds June Charts 2012
Kazumasa Teshigawara‘s “Today’s Smile” 01. Unknown artist, “Spotlight” (Pittsburgh Track Authority Remix) [Spotlight] (buy) Despite tags at the ends of the titles, remixes are often indistinguishable...
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Glimpse/Martin Dawson/Alex Jones, Fat Controller
[Hypercolour] Hypercolour has done a great job of differentiating itself from contemporaries. There are patches of functional tech house in the label’s catalog, but they’ve been tempered by more...
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Roman Flügel, Even More
[Clone Jack for Daze Series] When it comes to Roman Flügel, imposing boundaries is a bad idea. Yes, the German’s music is always unmistakable in terms of timbre and melodic progression, but in recent...
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DJ Koze, Amygdala Remixes II
[Pampa Records] Much like DJs making their own extended edits or dancers crying out for one more tune at lights on, DJ Koze prolonged the afterglow of his widely adored 2013 Amygdala album with two...
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Little White Earbuds April Charts 2014
Chart courtesy of The Economist 01. Alex Israel, “Colugo” [Crème Organization] (buy) I could not have predicted Alex Israel would try his hand at making 90s-garage-house-inspired music, yet I’m hardly...
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Steve Mizek’s Year In Dance Music 2014
Traditionally, LWE publishes its year-end list as December is still wrapping up and records continue filing into shops, albeit at a slower rate. With how much ground we aimed to cover, it was always...
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