• I Say She’s Too Dramatic

    So, I’m pretty much pumped about any dance music coming out of Canada right now. Deadmau5, Crystal Castles, always MSTRKFT (beginning with DFA1979 of course), and Chromeo is certainly no exception. Not only is Business Casuala completely excellent album, but one of its tracks showed up on my favorite game franchise in the FIFA 11 …

  • Remembering Maps

    Sometimes a song grabs you and won’t let go. When I heard Taylor Franks’ “Like Me”, it kept going off in my head all day long, with its beautiful hazy guitars and chanted vocals. Taylor, who records now as Jazz Massand was part of the dearly missed Nashville band Maps, was gracious enough to let …

  • Supernova: The JCVD Mixes

    So, we’ve been hard at work the last couple weeks putting together an EP of remixes for Loyale’s track Supernova. His album “The Heater” was released back in August of this year, and we asked him if it would be cool to put our spin on the track. What came out were three very different ideas, and so we thought we’d share them all.

  • Esso – [Harlem] Put Yr Lighters Up

    We found this acapella on the 2DopeBoyz Empire State mixtape. There was no beat behind it to work with, so this is an imagining from scratch. The guy has several of his albums available for free on his website, his most recent being The Anti Socialite. Also, follow him on Twitter @ESSO (and us @JCVDmusic). …