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No Time To Waste

- Source: XLR8R

Everyone is an appropriate moniker for a group—"supergroup" might be a stretch—that collects such a varied array of talent.

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Orbiting

- Source: XLR8R

Bambounou 's early releases— Animism , Cobe , "Night" b/w "Brawl," and Fructose , with Joakim —didn't necessarily set the Parisian producer (real name Jéremy Guindo-Zegiestowski) apart from his contemporaries, though Fructose was as quirky as one would expect from Joakim.

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Swedish Rockers Graveyard Write What They Know on New Album

- Source: Rolling Stone

It's not that Swedish hard rockers Graveyard have a dark worldview, but certain themes tend to recur in their lyrics: war, economic upheaval and betrayal, all set to terse, chugging guitar riffs on their latest, Lights Out. "We just try to write about what we see going on around us," singer and guitarist Joakim Nilsson says.

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Taste Test: Joakim

- Source: Beatportal

For his Tigersushi label, he plays the role of visual designer, promotions man, curator, A&R guy, and, of course, producer.

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Joakim: Find a Way

- Source: Beatportal

(Clearly, this is a talented family: in addition to her work in film, she's a dancer, singer, runway model, and the inspiration for Poni Hoax's 2008 album Images of Sigrid.)

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Joakim Writes of Plato, Dictators and Outsiders on 'Nothing Gold'

- Source: Spinner

Joakim Bouaziz is one of those quietly influential, jealousy-inspiring multi-talents whose ambition, punk aesthetic and deft mastery at all he undertakes have secured him a revered position in the dance music community -- and virtual anonymity elsewhere, despite having released three genre-spanning, critically acclaimed artist albums and a slew of high profile remixes.

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Must Hear Tracks: Week 42

- Source: Beatportal

It's a huge week for new releases, as some of the most celebrated names from every corner of the electronic dance music spectrum drop big new singles.

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Lars Åhlund’s Second Coming – “Fire in Ödeshög”

- Source: Meadow Music

"I usually describe my music as full of clichés. If someone else had used this term you'd perhaps interpret this as something negative, but I on the contrary love to play with the expected, and therefore I usually say like this: Instrumental and improvised music doesn't have to be difficult, simplicity doesn't have to be boring. Surprise by playing the expected. The music should be like a Tarantino movie, – beautiful, violent and full of clichés."

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An Arctic Voyage With Lars Horntveth: Jaga Jazzist Man Interviewed

- Source: The Quietus

He might be standing on the deck of a former whaling trawler deep in the fjords off the coast of Tromsø in Arctic Norway, his mildly receding hairline blown almost upright by unforgiving blasts of wind, his coat spotted with snow, but though this is skrei fishing season – the period between January and March when cod migrate through the area in order to spawn – he's here for another reason altogether.

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Meet ceo: Inside the Mind of Eric Berglund of the Tough Alliance

- Source: Pitchfork Media

EB: well, it was just what had to happen and it felt really natural in the end. for me ceo is just the next chapter of what i began at a young age, what you for some years knew as the tough alliance. but to really answer your question i think i have to go way back and get kind of personal even if i know that i will come across as a pretentious bitch to anxious minds. i have to paint a bigger picture cause it feels crucial to me now to make this as clear as possible. laugh, cheer, or spit or do whatever you have to at it, this is just what i have to do. so i always had-- though most of the time time paralyzed by confusion and fear-- a very strong sense of hope. it seemed so abstract because it was incomprehensible to me and obscured by my mind and almost everything around me, by everything people call reality. but deep down i always believed in a place where things made sense, where i could really live and not only survive. once in a while it sparked up and two seconds of that illumination was enough to make months of darkness bearable. and naturally for such a long time i just chased that feeling, tried to capture and understand it, but by doing so just pushed it away. it was really complicated, 'cause that profound hope was mixed up and entwined in a terribly complex web with a lot of dark and destructive desires that also were a part of me. and since i never accepted those dark forces, but feared them and pushed them away-- like i learned when i was a child that i had to to survive-- they only got stronger and also created an opposite pole: this vain belief in purity, order and beauty as a salvation. i just tried to escape or hung around missing my virginity instead of facing what took it and deal with it. instead of accepting it and make it a part of me and by doing so becoming whole and being able to move on. but as things simply didn't make sense in my mind and as i didn't understand i had to go beyond it, i started dreaming, a dream that only

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Tigersushi = X

- Source: Urlaubshits

Joakim 's label Tigersushi is 10 years old this year, and in celebration, the label has just seen the release of More G.D.M. X , a compilation featuring some unreleased tracks, and some label classics, as well as a continuous DJ mix by Joakim which delves into the more experimental side of the label.

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