Caffeine Machine’s Quinn Arlington Waters has put out his third music video, Untitled #8, from the album Race Music. It employs the use of the glitch technique known as Data Moshing to get an edgy yet psychadelic effect insted of straight cuts. It’s like being squeezed out of a playdough machine at the end of the universe, dig?

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How can you argue with such raw expression? Abner Jay’s I’m So Depressed surpasses in its heart much of what’s been released by all sorts of darling indie bands. And it’s one guy with no fancy production, instruments, or promotion campaign. It makes me wonder what the future of so called “outsider” art is since pursuing music now seems to be synonymous with self-advertisement. Is is dangerous to have insiders with no outsiders?

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Kakkmaddafakka is a Norwegian indie band formed and based in Bergen. These guys have a lot of humor in their music and videos, but also lots of sensitivity. In a way they are more like a boy band, which makes me a groupie. I love them.

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The Blueberries. Isn’t it a funny name for an Uruguayan band? This young group have been making people dance with their songs ever since they released their first album for free through their website last December, with raw riffs, sticky melodies and a familiar Mersey beat. They could be compared a bit with Vampire Weekend, but we’d rather let the music speak for itself.

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We checked in with Aussie band, The Black Ryder, and asked them whether their new album, Buy The Ticket, Take the Ride, was a labour of love or if it fell into place really quickly. Aimee Nash, one half of the duo, replied that ‘it was definitely a labour of love considering we wrote, recorded and produced the entire album ourselves. Some songs were easier than others, and some took over a year to complete. Scott engineered the album yet we produced everything together so there were many tireless hours spent at the studio desk’. Said Scott Von Ryper, the other half of the group: ‘Most of it fell into place really quickly and then took over a year to refine it all. Some songs were written and recorded in a night, and then we just kept layering and tuning it until it sounded the way we dreamed it should be. We got told many times that early versions we were playing to people sounded ‘finished’, but we couldn’t help ourselves. The production side of creating music can be very enjoyable as well, so we took our time to explore it’. [Read a Secret Playlist by The Black Ryder]
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If you ever happen to find yourself riding across the mid-west on horseback with an iPod jangling about in your holster, be sure to let Calexico soundtrack the experience. They’re cleverly fusing a range of genres, mixing some good old country with US indie, a bit of jazz and even, in 2003’s Feast of Wire, some smatterings of electronica. Lead singer Joey Burns gives a healthy amount of cowboy twang and the soaring orchestral background and sweet country guitar licks add a real atmosphere to the music.

Listen to the Calexico song, Convict Pool.
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The indie, electronic pop duo Plastic Operator paired up whilst studying audio production at London’s Westminster University. In 2004, they released their first three track EP. Their music reminds me of bands like The Fashion, Crystal Castles and Cut Copy.

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