Posted by: Flicker

Editor’s note: I am very pleased to present our newest Beatery contributor: Flicker! Flicker and I go so far back that we actually were friends before we even knew what electronic music was. As our first non-DJ blogger Flicker is going to fill in some holes I feel we have in our coverage of the electronic music cosmos. Taking the the “D” out of EDM, look forward to hearing everything from ambient to break-core. Speaking of which, take it away Flicker! ~ Jay

As this is my first submission to The Beatery, I thought that I would post something a little brutal. Take it!!

Bong-ra is one of the more well-known breakcore producers, and while he is generally categorized as raggacore, he has produced a few tracks in the last five years or so that sample some great Slayeresque guitar with his familiar breakbeat sound. The album “Full Metal Racket” is a combination of songs from two previous releases – “Sick Sick Sick” and “Grindkrusher” – plus a couple of remixes by Doormouse and Sick Boy.

I’m sure that we can all list off a dizzying number of electronic music sub-genres, and here is one more.

I present to you: Death Breaks! Drum and Slays? Intelligent Thrash Core. I don’t know what it’s called but I love it, and I want other producers to jump on the bandwagon. I think it’s obvious that death metal and breakcore go together like pickles and peanut butter (meaning a delicious combination). That’s a fact – look it up.

The following tracks are my picks for best of the album.

Slaytronic

Bloody Cenotaph

Terrorizah

More on his site HERE

Posted by: Matt

I started to write up an epic post about how much I heart L.A. breakcore pop band Captain Ahab, about how they have a new album out in a few weeks and are touring the West Coast right f*cking NOW but the Wikipedia article pretty much sums up everything I wanted to say about them:

Captain Ahab is an electropop duo based in Los Angeles, California. They refer to their sound, a DIY take on dance music, as ravesploitation. The band is made up of Jonathan Snipes and Jim Merson. A typical Captain Ahab live performance consists of playback of recorded beats from a computer and vigorous singing by both members of the band. While performing, members of Captain Ahab are usually partially undressed, covered in sweat, and constantly forcing themselves into physical contact with members of the audience. While their lyrics are satirically misogynistic, their live performance is thoroughly homoerotic.

In June 2006, Captain Ahab won the Snakes on a Plane music contest, with their song “Snakes on the Brain”.

On September 28th, 2006, the song “Girls Gone Wild” was played briefly in “The Convention”, the second episode of the third season of The Office.

Their single “Was Love” was written for and played in the first season episode “Gravedancing” on the Syfy series Caprica.

Jonathan writes and performs the music. Jim gets naked and dances. Jonathan also teaches at UCLA and contributes music and sound design to several television shows. Jim rubs his sweat on you.

I’ve seen them twice at the Hemlock here in San Francisco and had an absolute blast both times. As luck would have it, they are playing there again this Friday (3.19), and I highly recommend you all go with me. Seriously.

Videos with music after the jump.
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