James Watts is the mind behind KiloWatts and his many different projects and styles. His work embraces the bulk of electronic genres, including breaks, IDM, techno, and downtempo. His fluency in piano is evident throughout his work, as is his penchant for jazzy riffs, intelligent structure, wistful melodies, and an often cheeky take on the current state and history of electronic music as a whole. His album “Ground State” is out on Native State Records, home to fellow pioneers Bluetech and Shen. It’s a collection of sweaty psychedelic downtempo grooves, churning molasses-thick basslines, and undulating synthetic sonorous mandalas. KiloWatts has albums on Artificial Music Machine that are full of visionary dimensions, fusing together a dexterous knowledge of sound synthesis, deep emotional articulation, and solid melodic intuition. Peppered throughout are releases with quality labels such as Harmonious Discord, Thoughtless Music, and his own outlet, KiloWatts Music, that celebrate his adept technical expertise, often bringing a whirlwind of digital wizardry in the form of glitches and edits. Furthermore, KiloWatts is signed as a Psymbolic--sounds artist of which the explorative A/V art piece entitled "microtakeover" can be viewed.. plus many of KiloWatts albums can be found via the Psymbolic sound shop. He began making music in the early 90s with DOS-based trackers and releasing them on BBSs through the demoscene. He was a driving force in the foundation of Soulseek Records, a netlabel celebrating independent musicians during a time of heavy backlash from the record industry against filesharing. The label helped show that independent electronic musicians can use filesharing to their advantage by promoting and collaborating with eachother. The label was born among a flurry of netlabels, many which still exist today. An ever-growing list of projects and collaborations exists. Skeetaz, with breakbeat cohort Bil Bless brings hard-hitting digital glitched-out psychedelic funk. His collaboration with singer Peter Van Ewijk is a mystical ride with vocals and guitar, nested atop edgy electronica. With Tanner Ross, an eerie style of dark techno is born under the name Voodeux for Dirtybird’s techno sublabel Mothership. Fellow Philadelphian MC Amagine delivers consciousness-driven motifs in their digital glitch-hop project called Super Galactic Expansive.


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[PRO-002] Vibesquad - The Worm EP - Out Now!


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Vibesquad
Sounds To Accompany Dance Move: The Worm
PRO-002
Proboscis

The EP is nothing less than a gritty dug-down crunked-out nasty grinder, bulging with earth-shattering bass that's sure to knock everyone down on the ground, stylishly humping their way across the dancefloor. Vibesquad is the multi-personality brainchild manifestation of Aaron Holstein. When Aaron isn't playing bass/keys for Boulder Colorado's all improv-breakz-down-tempo-ecclectica band Zilla or Sporque (with Ooah & Jamie Janover) he is hard at work creating electro crunk-gnasty gooey dancefloor throbberz and 3rd eye squeegeeing downtempo dub psy-hopperz at the Vibesquad labz.

01 - Vibesquad - Biggie Shorty
02 - Vibesquad - Funk Iz
03 - Vibesquad - Wobbleston

Audio samples Here



The Skeetaz EP


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01) Nein - Original Mix
02) Gators - Original Mix
03) Gators - Lawgiverz Remix
04) Nein - Justin Maxwell Remix
05) Gators - Crystal Distortion Remix

Release Date: 10-31-07
Format: CD and Download
Catalog # ADDICTECH004

Killer remixes here!

CD

Digital Download

Skeetaz myspace

Skeetaz website



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Brand spankin new pictures of Saturn here

I'll be having this gigantic rock over for dinner for the next three years. We haven't seen eachother in awhile, so there's a bit of catching up to do.



Help Heal Ananda


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A beautiful friend needs your help!

Please click the link below and read her story.
http://healing-ananda.blogspot.com

Prayers, donations anything you can do will help, please send this sweet little girl healing energy and positive thoughts!



Portal-training


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When traversing into a parallel universe, spacetime must temporarily become two-dimensional.

This feels a little funny at first.



KiloWatts - Quickfire (EP)


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KiloWatts - Quickfire

01 - Burn
02 - Melt
03 - Flicker
04 - Feed

Four Glitchy Psychedelic Progressive Breaks. Keep that fire burnin'.



Shocking Cats


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http://shockingcats.ytmnd.com

I could keep this running all day. At full volume.