Tag: dance

Daily Yinz –  Ali Berger & the Next Level Commitment – Confessions

Craving Runs This Hurting World is a two-track release from DepthWorks Audio Geometry, a sub-label of Berger's Trackland umbrella. "Confessions" is a flitting, elusive piece of jazz-inspired electronic music. Each muted percussive hit sounds inquisitive and alive, like it's learning on the fly its place in the greater sequence. The beat is overlaid with a … Continue reading Daily Yinz –  Ali Berger & the Next Level Commitment – Confessions →

Daily Yinz – Oscar Celedon – pink pushpop

The electronic artist's new album is Spectrum of Perception, Vol. 1. You might expect a track called "pink pushpop" to be full of summery synth pads and sugar-spun melodies, but that's not the case here. A percussive heartbeat skips along like it's powering a body in flight from some shadowy pursuer. Grating horn blasts and … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Oscar Celedon – pink pushpop →

Create or Suffer: Celebrating Life with Ron Mist

Illustration by Lily Ekimian Ragheb & Ahmed T. Ragheb, Photograph by Shauna Miller, Images by Unsplash Originally published with The Pittsburgher in June 2021. Art does not have a point. And that is the point. There is no practical reason for art—it can’t change a lightbulb, you can’t use it to get from one place to another, … Continue reading Create or Suffer: Celebrating Life with Ron Mist →

Daily Yinz – Glo Phase – Dreamself

Pittsburgh-to-LA transplant's latest release is Manifesto. Glo Phase has always been a master of the headspace. His downtempo electronic compositions massage the brain with weathered textures, deep melodic plunks, and precise drum programming. "Dreamself" establishes a cascading dance rhythm punctuated by low burbles of bass, then adorns that central pulse with a shifting sequence of … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Glo Phase – Dreamself →

Daily Yinz – Maya Universe – Say It Right

Producer and vocalist Maya Universe's debut EP is Glimmer. From the six-song release, on which Maya Universe showcases sounds that range from the sparkling, moombahton-style balladry of "3am" to the stark, subsonic spoken word of "Still I Rise," the track that stood out to me the most was "Say It Right," a creeping fever dream … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Maya Universe – Say It Right →

Daily Yinz – CHARIOT FADE – Make Yours Like Mine

CHARIOT FADE's latest single is the ebullient "Make Yours Like Mine." McFadden and Whitehead's 1979 hit "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" is an irrepressibly sunny groove that struts in the face of doubt. On "Make Yours Like Mine," CHARIOT FADE use a prominent sample of that McFadden and Whitehead classic to create their own take … Continue reading Daily Yinz – CHARIOT FADE – Make Yours Like Mine →

Daily Yinz – Oscar Celedon – The DJ That Always Carries a USB

A new release from the DETOUR dance music collective. Oscar Celedon's debut EP, Coming of Age, contains four tracks' worth of intricate rhythms, thumping bass, and melodic layers that interact with subtlety and deftness. Closer "The DJ That Always Carries a USB," which sounds like the name of an extremely specific superhero, stirs to life … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Oscar Celedon – The DJ That Always Carries a USB →