Join People Under the Stairs in Brazil as they give you an in depth look behind the scenes of their visit last October to Sao Paulo. Including live show footage, live tv appearance recordings, radio shows, Brazilian bbq and some plane fun. They are 4 different episodes narrated and edited by Thes One himself.

We’re tickled pink to announce a very special new addition to our blog family, long time friend and one of our favorite music scribes, Jen Boyles! Om fans will recognize her name for in depth interviews w/ Mark Farina and Derrick Carter, Kaskade, King Kooba, Rithma, Afro-Mystik and many more. She’s been covering electronic music for over a decade! We’re honored to have her writing for us, she’s already uncovered music from New Order produced indie rockers The Scanners and quite possibly the last magazine still standing worth reading Self Titled.

Jen Boyles has been fighting in the trenches of electronic music since there were such things as JNCOs, and for that matter, vinyl. Getting her start at super-hip alt-weekly City Pages in Minneapolis as a nightclubs and dance music reviewer, she went on to work for a whopping eight years for the now all-digital URB Magazine, and has enjoyed stints with BPM, CNET, and Chicago’s New City. She enjoys thrift stores and finding deals on cool street wear far more than the average person should is partial to UK comedies and a bit of cheese. Her favorite interview of all time was with Mike D of the Beastie Boys. You can email her if you want at Jenboyles(at)gmail.com.

A short documentary about a new vinyl pressing plant in Cleveland Ohio, called “Gotta Groove Records”. They specialize in 7" and 12" Vinyl creation/manufacturing using PVC molding. Check them out here:

Source: The Mint Collective

King Britt is putting his last dance record out on Nervous Records. He will be retiring the dance / house productions to pursue a more experimental sound. The former Digable Planets member took to his website to tell his fans of his retirement from dance production.

From King Britt
“Well, its been a minute since I released an album of original material. The Intricate Beauty will be coming this March/April on Nervous/FiveSix. I had a great time working on it and collaborating with the beautiful singers, Rucyl, Lady Almaa, Ryat and Astrid Suryanto, as well as remixing Kim English and Byron Stingly exclusives for the album.

“Now” features vocals from Astrid Suryanto. The track is an interesting direction for King. It sounds like a Telepopmusik track featuring a Tracey Thorn (Everything But The Girl) vocal. What do you think?

King Britt’s “Intricate Beauty” will be released on April 20, 2010.

Listen & Download: King Britt Feat. Astrid Suryanto “Now” (Right Click To Download)

For all you Bearbrick, Kid Robot, Giant Robot fans out there…Medicom Toy’s has teamed up with the team behind Tim Burton’s upcoming adaptation of Alice in Wonderland to release toy figures of the characters from the film.

The figures include Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter and Mia Wasikowska as Alice, rendered in 17-cm and 30-cm offerings. The Bearbrick pack features a Mad Hatter Kubrick and Cheshire Cat Bearbrick. All figures will be released on Feb 13th.

Source: collabsociety.com

Two of the illest dudes i know on the mpc and turntables had a nice little impromptu session last Saturday at the Elbo Room in San Francisco. Teeko of 4onefunk fame and Exile were on some next level business basically defying the laws of what i thought was possible on the mpc and turntables. Check the footage below.

In celebration of the Bassnectar’s feature in one of the most reputable electronic magazines in the world; IDJ, Bassnectar has prepared a special mixset featuring new remixes, edits, mash ups and re-re-re-edits. This 44 minutes and 25 second transmission is straight up bass in your face. Download the mix from the widget below and check the tracklist after the jump.

Om Records is proud to announce an exclusive partnership with the Canadian based AudioAcademy.fm, an electronic music resource center geared towards production and music industry related business. We’ve decided to run a little contest, the Battle of the DJs in which we will fly out the winner to WMC and invite them to play our annual Miami event on Thursday, March 25th 2010. The contest runs from January 11th to March 14th, click here to find out rules and regulations as well as how to enter. “We’re really looking forward to working with Audio Academy for this years Battle of the DJ contest,” says Jonathan McDonald of Om Records. “We believe that it’s very important to help emerging talent gain exposure through such outlets setting the stage for a debut at the largest electronic music conferences in the world.”

For more info on the AudioAcademy and it’s new turntable software audioDJx, please click here. Stay tuned for more announcements regarding the Om: Miami 2010 event.

Greetings thirsty ones,

The time has come to bottle up the GPA Check out the shenanigans below…

First, I removed the labels from the bottles, rinsed and sanitized them in the oven. Look how happy I am after getting it done.

I made a simple syrup out hot water and dextrose and added it to the car boy to get the yeast all pumped up.

I stirred it in gently.

Next, I used a siphon pump to transfer the beer out of the carboy and into the bottles.

Once all the bottles have been filled, natural CO2 from the beer pushes the little amount of oxygen out of the bottles and it’s time to cap!

And voila, delicious bottled GPA! The beer will sit in the bottles for 2 weeks building up natural carbonation and then will be ready to DRINK!!!

Looks like San Francisco/Brooklyn band Lemonade may finally get the love they deserve. I’ve been a fan of these guys for some time now and happy to see that this may be their year. Their new EP “Pure Moods” is out this March and features remixes from SF’s Ghost on Tapes, Hackman, and Le Chev on True Panther Sounds (Distributed by Matador Records).

This is Lemonade’s follow-up to their praised and explosive debut album. This EP is an utterly unique take on electronic dance music, this time focused and melodic. It incorporates more explicit soca, dub, and calypso influences into Lemonade’s existing ravey palate. Even if those sounds are channelled through 16-bit samples and city stories the record has a certain wetness to it- a rich vegetation of sounds. Tight electronic arrangements layered with Alex Pasternak’s fiercely clattered drums, Ben Steidel’s invitingly rubbery bass and Callan Clendenin’s wobbly vocal harmonies float in and out of scope. The whistles of Bedstuy’s West Indian Day Parade ring out in “Banana Republic”, Ballearic synths carress “Remain In Jah”. The EP’s leading track “Lifted” somehow submerges its anthemic chorus and raindrop synths under a deafening waterfall. It feels good. If their debut was citric slime, this EP is an orange; firm and almost uniform in its peel, sweet and wet inside.

Listen & Download: Lemonade “Lifted”