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Moderat is a collaboration between dubsteppers and Radiohead tourmates, Modeselektor, and gauzy electro-gazer Apparat (MODEselektor + appaRAT).  It’s an extremely well baked mix of the best things happening in electronic music at the moment, and a very equitable split of the space between these two rather disperate artists.
Opening with “A New Error”, a song that [...]

Shilpa Ray is a curious musical creature.  Lurched over a harmonium, she belts out heart-and-gut-wrenching, tongue-in-cheek howls, as if Billie Holiday was raised by wolves that washed down their dinner with bourbon.   She doesn’t quite fit in the blues jigsaw puzzle, though the heartache would be right at home there.  Her music is soulful, but [...]