I was digging for a track by Plan B the UK grime, folk, rapper last night and I ran across this release from Fourth City. It is a wonderful collage of drums and melody. Spacey chords lay float through salsa rhythms and pounding baselines. This is just an all around great cd. The cd is [...]

Now that everyone is using goole for everything we thought this was a nice little feature to keep up with Shift posts. Simply press the add to google button on the right hand navigation bar and Shift will display the latest posts on  you google homepage.

Diplo’s Mad Decent is a fresh label intoducing all kinds of killer tracks and artists to the masses. The podcast is chalked full of golden gems like only diplo can dig up.
Itunes: Here
Weblink: Here
Site: http://www.maddecent.com

We have been in Vegas all this week, learning how to be better at the internet. Thanks to Adobe and the Palms hotel for a great visit.
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Party at the Palms 1
Party at the Palms 2
Blue Men at MAX

This is a great complation put out this month by moodgadget. Every track on this thing is a gem.
About:
Moodgadget is a re-imagining of what a record label should be. Our main goal is to expose the diversity in electronically made music. In our opinion, the majority of music heard on the radio and television is [...]

This is a story that ran in last Sundays Washington Post. It was written by Lonnae O’Neal Parker and is extremely insightful and observant into the current state of Rap music and some Hip Hop.
My 12-year-old daughter, Sydney, and I were in the car not long ago when she turned the radio to a popular [...]

This could probable be titled “we love indie part II”, but good music is good music right? and Ray LaMontagne is just that. His new single “Three More Days” is a funk rittled diddy with a nice drum break and funky hook. Pick up his new CD Till the Sun Turns Black on Itunes.
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/raylamontagne
Site: [...]

are two Philly based djs that know how to party. Mixing everything from oldscool rap to they call Psychedelic Hip-Hop,these guys know how to get down on the decks. Great mixing skills and even better track selection maker them a DO NOT MISS if they are in your town. Check out my personal favorite [...]

Every Week XLR8R Magazine puts out one of the best indie podcasts around. It features new artists in the electronic, indie, and hiphop markets and it always a great way to get your day started.
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Last night I finally got some tables hooked up and recored a quick mix. Its not edited or mixed down just something to jam out to. Enjoy.

Tracklisting:
Outlines - Just A Lil Lovin (DJ Edit) - Sonar Kollektiv
Mazi feat Colette - Do You Want Me (Original Sax Mix) - Brique Rouge
Mastiksoul - Just A Feeling - [...]

As one of the figure head producers on the ghostly and a regular on stone’s throw labels dabrye has taken dark experimental hip hop to new places. His artist releases and EP’s continue to reach the speakers of progressive hip hop djs from around the world. Here is a short Bio and some links.
Dabrye is [...]

So I know this is not really a music podcast but these guys are awesome. Diggnation in a weekly video podcast hosted by Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose. They basically sit around and drink beer for an hour and talk shit about the top stories on digg.com. The commentary is hilarious and the stories are [...]