Blow Your Head Episode 4: Drop the Lime
Diplo's Blow Your Head debuted a month back on the large-scale media project Potato as a cultural biography series documenting the experiences of forward-thinking artists. While previous episodes have featured 3BallMTY, MikeQ, and Rusty Lazer, this week delves into the life of New York's Luca Venezia, or Drop the Lime.
The Crystal Method, Tommie Sunshine, Drop the Lime and more to perform benefit concert ‘EDM for Sandy Relief’ at Gramercy Theatre
As New York gets back into working order after the devastating effects of Hurricane Sandy there are still thousands of people along NY and NJ's coastlines, from Staten Island to Sea Isle City, who have been displaced from their homes - or left with no home to go back to at all. This Monday at the Gramercy Theatre, "EDM For Sandy Relief," plans to raise funds for those of us outside of Manhattan, who lost more than just power and convenient subway lines. Headlined by the Crystal Method, Tommie Sunshine, Drop the Lime and more, the event plans to donate all proceeds to the American Red Cross and will also be holding a canned and non-perishable Thanksgiving food drive as a well as a silent auction held by the shows sponsors. Come out and show your support.
Bert on Beats turns up the bass with release of new Modern Vampires EP
Fresh from New York's Trouble & Bass label, the folks who bring you releases from the likes of Drop The Lime, AC Slater, Plastician, and others, is a new EP from Estonian producer Bert on Beats. The three track EP, Modern Vampires, offers a range of bass heavy style. The EP isn't easily constrained into a genre; we hear bouncy bass lines and stuttered vocal loops on the title track, a crazy dramatic flute melody on "Flute Thing," and Diplo-like drum kick on "Get Your Freak On." It's not dubstep, it's not moombahton, it's not electro house, it's just heavy bass and it's well-designed for the dance floor.