KASKADE- TURN IT DOWN

The American DJ, Kaskade has been blessing us with amazing electronic music for years now,
but his latest album, "Fire and Ice" was monumental in the electronic music billboards, hitting
#5 on the iTunes chart on its first day of release.

Kaskade, who resides in Los Angeles has collaborated with female vocalist, Rebecca for most of his past albums. This album features a broad set of collaborations, with vocals and other electronics from artists such as Skrillex, Steve Aoki and Fiona.

The top songs on his latest album are "Eyes", which was released prior to the album's official release,
"ICE", and "Turn it Down", which just came out with a music video this past week.
The video received a whopping 2,000,000+ views in only 2 days on YouTube. The music video features lead vocalist, Rebecca along with other female vocalist, Natasha, with closeup shots of them singing in different outfits on a neon-lit ice rink. The video incorporates ice-skating, smoke and beautiful light along with illustrated visuals of lips singing the lyrics of the song.

Here is the video!

SF's MiMOSA

San Francisco native, MiMOSA is an electonic dj is a dubstep/glitch-mob/grime DJ who has been blowing up for the past couple of years. After releasing his fourth album, “Silver Lining”, he has slowly become one of the most popular American, underground DJs in the United States. He is said to be one of the top west-coast exports, touring other areas of the US for only two years now.

The young producer’s energy on stage is said to be “magnetic” and he has been priveledged enough to share the stage with such big-time electronic artists as Rusko, DatSik, Bassnectar and Flying Lotus. His name quickly spread after his two festival shows in the California desert at Coachella and Burning Man. His sound is said to take his audience through sounds of urban chaos and unreal euphoria. Last year, we at Karmaloop missed out on his performance at Paradise Music Club in Boston, but are looking forward to covering his show tomorrow at the larger Boston venue, Royale.

MiMOSA’s quickly spreading talent and fame stems from his thick fan-base on the west coast, but east coast fans alike all pledge their allegiance.

“His show (at Paradise) was unbelievable. His combination of sounds surprised me thoroughly!” said new fan, Rachel Liou.

We will update you on his show later this week! For tickets, you can visit ticketmaster.com, but hurry up, because rumor has it that this show will most-definitely sell out quickly! 

GOODWOOD NYC

New York City-based company, GoodWood, is a simple brand that prides itself on offering bracelets, necklaces and other jewelry all made of wood. The small company started out in 2007 combining both art and fashion when designing products that are engraved and assembled into wooden accessories. All of the products are designed in the GoodWood workshop in Brooklyn, NY and retail in stores in Manhattan, Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

The company’s products are hand sanded, painted and assembled with careful attention to detail. The logo combines a G and a W, giving the look a simple, yet elegant design. Many GoodWood products have been worn by celebrities, such as Snoop Dogg, Nas and Chromeo. The company also collaborates with other brands such as Nike, DC Shoes and Mishka, and plans to collab with more companies, mainly based in New York City.

GoodWood products range in price from $19.99 up to $200. They offer custom designed pieces, which are completely hand painted, and involve crystals and wood inlays. KARMALOOP.com’s underground brand-segment, KAZBAH started offering GoodWood products on the site in 2010. With much success, the company is now featured exclusively on KARMALOOP.com and because of the “upgrade”, thousands of new consumers are purchasing GoodWood’s special accessories. 

ARAAB-MUZIK / SBTRKT Review

November 3^rd was the SBTRKT show at Royale Boston. As noted before, this dude has been buzzed about non-stop for the past couple of months in the states and overseas. The show scheduled for 8PM, with synth-electro opener, Araab-Muzik didn’t commence until 10PM. This delay was a surprise for myself and the group of people I was with, along with that fact that Araab-Muzik ceased to impress.  

Araab’s set, which was most-likely only 30 minutes was rushed. He was most likely late to the venue, but luckily, SBTRKT amazed the audience with his electro-soul filled percussion. Another surprise: There were two dudes on stage and SBTRKT’s mask was REALLY small! I was looking forward to seeing an epic tribal mask, such as the one seen in all of his photo shoots. Regardless, he was fast-paced and multi-tasked the whole show, banging on some drums and working with electronic equipment at the same time. The crowd was a weird one…The place didn’t get packed until Araab-Muzik FINALLY showed up. All in all, I think this night was bad luck and swayed my opinion of Araab-Musik’s “amazing” reputation. As for SBTRKT, I was glad he/they went beyond my expectations and sent the audience into another light.

- PETER

*LRG WINTER/ARTIST COLLAB

After the recent death of LRG’s creative director, Jonas Bevacqua, the funky, urban clothing line revamped their fall/winter collection. LRG, based in New York City has been one of the most popular brands sold on Karmaloop for almost a decade. Bevacqua’s sudden death was all over the media with many assumptions that the cause was drug-based. Hidden messages can be seen in stitching suggesting marijuana use, not to mention the logo is a tree.

The fall and winter collection this year is a combination of bold, bright colors, with jackets and coats that are more “gentlemanly”, rather than LRG’s usual street-wear sported by rich white kids and overweight rappers. They are trying to expand their consumer market by paying closer attention to designs as well as rounding up an artists’ collective that will design many different types of t-shirts and hoodies. One of the collaborations that LRG did with famous artists is a video shoot with muralist, AUGOR.

AUGOR and a film crew drove to the mountains of southern California, where they shot AUGOR bombing the side of an empty train car. The visuals from this shoot features musician Blu, LRG Snow team rider Justin Bennee, LRG Skate team members Chico Brenes, Tommy Sandoval, and Billy Marks. The location set LRG apart from their typical urban setting, and with snowy mountains in the background, the company shows us that they are ready to spread their new designs of the winter season.  

CLICK HERE FOR LRG HOLIDAY VIDEO