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East Coast
Winter Music Conference in Miami, or WMC for short, is the biggest electronic music conference in the world. For nearly 30 years, thousands of music aficionados, media agents and music lovers come to the white sands of South Beach to celebrate the latest and greatest advances in the industry. As if this weren’t enough to […]
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An artist ranging in mixed medias, Viktor Ortix was born and raised in Dallas,TX. Filled with a childhood of comic books and sketching super heroes, Viktor has harbored a healthy love of these things, as well as involving himself in the local music scene, for years. Living a nomadic life, he spends half of his […]
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Social Culture
[Cross published from JuiceRecipes. Full credit to this awesome site for always supplying updated and consistent health information for us to indulge and share with you all! Juicing is the F U T U R E! Ingredients Carrots – 2 large (7-1/4″ to 8-/1/2″ long) Celery – 3 stalk, large (11″-12″ long) Cucumber – 1/2 cucumber […]
![[Photo Gallery] KAYTRANADA Makes His Dallas Debut | Dallas,TX at Trees August 17, 2014](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/DSC08810.jpg?resize=600%2C375&ssl=1)
Electronic
KAYTRANADA, yes all capitals, is one of the most talked about names on the electronic bass scene right now. The Montreal beat maker, whose real name is Kevin Celestin, first blew up when he put his own spin to Janet Jackson’s ‘If’, creating an upbeat and irresistibly grooving track. Like the flames of a wild […]
![Mad Gods | Tastemakers of Originality [Interview]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/madgods.jpg?resize=536%2C260&ssl=1)
Social Culture
Serving as a center of inspiration for blooming artists and under-the-radar designers, the burgeoning talents within the city limits of Austin hardly stay in the underground for long. Mad Gods is one such creative venture, a lifestyle brand that produces some of the dopest and most mesmerizing tshirt designs we’ve come across. While we can’t […]
![Dose of Inspiration | Meet the Jenkstars [Interview]](https://i0.wp.com/composeyourselfmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/jenky-e1397677945282.jpg?resize=450%2C300&ssl=1)
Social Culture
If you consider yourself familiar with the festival circuit, you have more than likely come across the incredibly enticing work of an artist collective known as the Jenkstars. Founded on the belief that art opens minds, and thus can ultimately transform the world, this team of builders, thinkers, designers and performers come together to do […]
Electronic
Resonant Frequency is the combined kinetic energy of four electro-soul producers: Diamond Cuts (Vincent Seidl), Lando (Landone Reichle), Local Color (Ben Slade) and Focal Point (Preston Flynn). The future-funk quartet decided to combine their livetronica music production talent last November when they played the same house party. “At first we planned on touring together as […]
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This is one of my favorite new recipes, both for the flavor and for the teamwork it requires. My wonderful boyfriend, Jameson, is always in charge of the blackened salmon itself. We usually cook together, and this is one of our best dishes. I’m highly sensitive to the massive amount of smoke that the cooking […]
Electronic
Benji Vaughan, a legend of Shpongle’s label Twisted Records, is one of those kinetic producers with the ability to do it all. The London-based producer has crafted music on many ends of the electronic spectrum under different alter egos: Younger Brother (often with Simon Posford), Prometheus, and The Zap. Benji’s latest masterpiece Even Tundra was […]
Electronic
A well rounded pallet is necessary for appreciating any art form, and music is no different. Flavor of the Week will be the platform for sharing our favorite new tracks across a variety of genres. For our first week we’re listening to Glitch-Hop, a genre primarily categorized by its no holds barred, anything-goes tempos and […]