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Oct 09 2012
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Beautiful Swimmers – O Yea video

Beautiful Swimmers, the duo of Ari Goldman and Andrew Field-Pickering, make dance floor music that veers towards the abstract but still maintains the beat and vibe. This Friday night they’ll be throwing down tunes in advance of Oslo’s Lindstrøm for Red Fridays and Blisspop at DC’s mecca of great dance music, U Street Music Hall. Today we’ve got the video for O Yea, which features beautiful exercising ladies who don’t mind at all being trapped in an 80s video special effects machine.

Just a few days ago they released an hour long DJ mix called Loose Control on SoundCloud, with some secret unreleased gems soon to appear on their label Future Times. Don’t miss this show!

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Jun 14 2012
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Mustafa Akbar – Call Me video

DC music video of the day! Mustafa Akbar a.k.a. Mustabar is well known as a frequent collaborator with just about all of the talented bands on the Fort Knox Recordings and Eighteenth Street Lounge labels. He’s also the gracious host of the annual Mustock festival at his home in Lignum, VA. His project with Rex Riddem, Nappy Riddem, plays a show tonight at Monserrat House with local ska band The Chariots. But before it all, Mustafa Akbar put out a couple of soulful solo albums, and today’s video comes from his 2009 release That Day.

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May 31 2012
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Typefighter – You When You’re Older video

DC music video of the day! Tonight you won’t want to miss a fantastic folk-rock show at the Black Cat with out-of-towners Plume Giant and locals Ugly Purple Sweater and Typefighter. Today’s video comes courtesy of the late & lamented SocialStudies DC blog, for the soon-to-be-released Typefighter song You When You’re Older. The video comes from last winter in the secluded Montrose Park in Georgetown.

To promote tonight’s show, Ugly Purple Sweater and Typefighter both covered a song written by the other band, and released the results as a free download on Bandcamp.

See you there tonight!

Apr 16 2012
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Volta Bureau – Love Cubed

DC’s hottest new electronic band, Volta Bureau, has posted a brand new song Love Cubed. These guys put on a great show and their tracks are sure to get peak time plays from respected DJs all over the world. The EP comes out April 24th on Nurvous Records.

Previous Volta Bureau gems:

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Apr 03 2012
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Drop Electric – Finding Color In The Ashes video

DC music video of the day! Drop Electric makes beautiful soundscapes that work both in headphones and on stage. Their vibrant take on shoegaze has gotten a lot of positive press among fellow DC music bloggers DC Rock Live, DC Music Download and DCist’s Three Stars. They recently released a single, Santo Domingo, as a teaser for their soon-to-be-released new album. Today we feature the video for the title track of their 2010 album Finding Color In The Ashes, which you can download right now for free!

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Jan 19 2012
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some dance music downloads for ya

I haven’t done any SoundCloud embeds in a minute, so here’s some dance music you should get with & download.
All Good Funk Alliance Re-Edits

Clicks & Whistles – Neva Get Caught (Tittsworth Remix)

Dec 28 2011
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free Outputmessage remix

Outputmessage released a free track on SoundCloud as a thank you for an awesome 2011. Download Syracuse (Evan Scott’s Piano Dub) while you can!

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Dec 12 2011
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new music from Screen Vinyl Image

Let’s get things started here with a couple of tracks from Arlington’s Screen Vinyl Image. These are taken from their forthcoming album Strange Behavior, dropping any day now!
Screen Vinyl Image – Night Trip

Screen Vinyl Image – Revival

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