Chicago Groove Via Hamburg

Chicago producer, visual artist, and electronic master Blackdaylight (Thomas McCauley) just dropped his newest release, the 14-track Nemesis, with Hamburg label Kreislauf Organization.

His fantastic cover art is a real eye-grabber.

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Location: Hamburg, Germany; Chicago, Illinois, USA
Music License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Germany

Audio preview of "Big Chill" --the last track on the new album, Nemesis:

808 State's O.T.E.P

808 State are a British electronic group who take their name from the Roland TR-808 drum machine. Since 1987, they have been making top-notch electronica (house, techno, electronica, rave, acid house, experimental, ambient house, New Wave, and Madchester) and are considered pioneers of the acid house sound. At Rancho Oddio, several 808 State CDs are beloved, including 90 / Utd. State 90 and Gorgeous.

At the official 808 State website, the band offer their free EP O.T.E.P. to visitors in exchange for email address.

Their first Top 10 UK single was "Pacific State," a chillout anthem and perhaps the only hit single ever featuring an electronic clarinet. Listen to travel back to 1989!

You may also remember "Cubik" which can be considered their signature song, another Top 10 UK single.

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Skrillex and OWSLA Free Treats

The insanely popular, Grammy Award winning, producer Skrillex and his OWSLA label helped popularize dubstep in a big way. In the spring of 2011 and again in 2012, the label released free label sampler comps of hours of their music.

If you are an electro house and dubstep fan, and if OWSLA follows that freebie schedule again this year, you will want to get the 2012 sampler now before it disappears.

There is one catch. You have to register with Beatport. Founded in 2004 and based in Berlin and Denver, Beatport is the largest music store for DJs in the world.

Free treats include one zip with all 19 tracks in MP3 format [320 kb/s, 3+ hours] 

01 - Look Who's Back (Original Mix) - KOAN Sound feat. Foreign Beggars
02 - Chess Fight (Original Mix) - The Juggernaut
03 - Ruffneck (Full Flex) (Munchi Anonymous Revolution Remix) - Skrillex
04 - Vandalism (12th Planet Remix) - Porter Robinson
05 - Secret Heart feat. Anna Yvette (Original Mix) - Sazon Booya, Anna Yvette
06 - Wake Up Call (Original Mix) - Nick Thayer
07 - Alone Time (Original Mix) - Plastician
08 - Kill The Silence (Original Mix) - Zardonic, Bare Noize
09 - A Shot Of Bruschotti (Original Mix) - J. Rabbit
10 - Bad Boy feat. Jamtech Foundation (Original Mix) - Flinch, Jamtech Foundation
11 - Cities (Original Mix) - Alvin Risk
12 - Brohammer (Original Mix) - Topher Jones
13 - The Drifter (Original Mix) - Child In Disguise
14 - No Fun Intended (Original Mix) - The M Machine
15 - Funky Flex (Original Mix) - Ghastly! feat. Arielle Williams
16 - Glowing Owl (Original Mix) - culineR
17 - All For This (Original Mix) - Stratus
18 - Devastate (Original Mix) - Style Of Eye
19 - Leaving Here (Original Mix) - Two Fresh