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The Untz Podcast is a weekly dose of artist features from the world of electronic music. Running the gamut from house, trance, and dance, to the edges of the EDM spectrum: dubstep, breakbeat, livetronica, downtempo, and drum & bass. Host Anand Harsh interviews promoters, DJs, producers, and other experimental artists--from the underground to the mainstream, and everything in between. The Untz Podcast is packed with live, studio, and unreleased tracks. For more info on electronic music artists, news, and events in your area, visit www.theuntz.com.
Xavier Boyer of the electronic and synth-pop act Tahiti 80 is featured on The Untz Podcast this week. Their latest album, The Past, the Present, and the Possible, is out on February 22nd.
Bass music pioneer FreQ Nasty is featured on The Untz Podcast this week. His latest release, Dread at the Controls, is out today on Muti Music. FreQ Nasty will be headlining the Monsters of Bass Tour along with MartyParty and Opiuo throughout February.
Dark and seductive melodies layered carefully over chill, mid- and downtempo beats make up the signature Emancipator sound. His tour down the Atlantic seaboard with Blockhead begins January 25th.
Indie hip-hop beat artist Hot Sugar is featured on this week's The Untz Podcast. His new EP Muscle Milk comes out January 26th.
BT is featured on this week's The Untz Podcast. Brian Transeau has been a luminary in the electronic music industry since the 90s. His latest album, These Hopeful Machines, has been nominated for a Grammy for Best Electronic/Dance Album.
Stockholm's house prodigy Avicii featured on this weeks' The Untz Podcast. Having remixed and collaborated with some of the biggest names in the business, Tim Berg has found himself a spot in the DJ Top 100.
DJ Stump of the Cincinnati-based, livetronica act Skeetones is featured on this week's podcast. Skeetones have a free EP out now called, Techtonics.
Torin Goodnight AKA Bird of Prey is featured on this week's The Untz Podcast. His latest EP Dreamcatcher, blending dub, trance, organic, and inorganic sounds is out now.
Purple opera pioneer MartyParty is featured on this week's The Untz Podcast. His new EP Skukuza is out today on The Confluence.
Glitch and dubstep producer Matt B of Bass Science is featured on this week's program. He's got a new EP, 'Out of Step,' dropping next week on 1320 Records.
Multi-instrumentalist, DJ, and producer D.V.S is featured on this week's The Untz Podcast. Derek VanScoten has developed a crunk style that incorporates his various instrumental talents, and it's garnering him deserved attention in his new Brooklyn home.
Minimal tech and house DJ/producer SuperDre is featured on this week's The Untz Podcast. Her single "Get Em Up" feat. Flying Without Wings comes out Dec. 1st, and her EP will be released in January.
Lee Rous of breakbeat pioneers Plump DJs is featured on this week's The Untz Podcast. The duo recently signed to Grand Hotel, found a home at Fabric Nightclub in London, and are on their way to do club dates in the UK, Australia, Dubai, and Southeast Asia.
Aaron Mader AKA Lazerbeak is featured on this week's The Untz Podcast. The indie hip-hop producer has a solo debut Legend Recognize Legend out now.
Chiptune act Unicorn Kid is featured on this week's The Untz Podcast. Oliver Sabin is turning heads with his popular remix of The Gorillaz "Superfast Jellyfish." His new album will be released early next year on Ultra Records.
Charlie Hitchcock is featured on this week's The Untz Podcast. Hitchcock is the original guitarist for the early livetronica group Particle. He is rejoining the band after 5 years for a Halloween swing through Colorado to celebrate Particle's 10th anniversary.
The livetronica outfit Somasphere out of Lincoln, NE has a brand new record out now entitled Sine Language. Brett Smith, guitarist and producer for the band, is interviewed on this week's The Untz Podcast.
Jason Hahn of the Nadis Warriors is the guest on this week's The Untz Podcast. The psychedelic and ambient trance act has a new double album out now, Shamanic Invocations and Molly, Where Did Lucy Go?
Curt Heiny and Justin Aubuchon of the crunk and glitch duo Archnemesis are featured on this week's The Untz Podcast. Their EP Diamonds and Glass is being released on 1320 Records this Thursday, October 7th.
The music of Jamie Watts AKA KiloWatts is featured on this week's The Untz Podcast. He has a new EP out today called, The Right Words.
David Satori and Zoe Jakes of Beats Antique are featured on this week's The Untz Podcast. The new Beats Antique album, Blind Threshold, is out now.
Anthony Thogmartin, guitarist for the electronica act Papadosio is the guest on this week's The Untz Podcast. Papadosio will be playing the Wuhnurth Festival this weekend in Spencer, IN.
This week's The Untz Podcast features Russ Randolph and Zion Godchaux of the livetronica duo BoomBox. They just released their sophomore album downriverelectric this summer, and are currently on a Fall tour through much of the South, East, and West.
Part two of a special double episode featuring Ryan Burnett, guitarist and producer for the livetronica duo Signal Path. The new Signal Path album drops this tomorrow, September 1st.
Part one of a double episode featuring Ryan Burnett, guitarist and producer for the livetronica duo Signal Path. The new Signal Path album drops this Wednesday, September 1st.
Loyal Divide's Adam Johnson is the guest on this week's The Untz Podcast. Loyal Divide will be playing the North Coast Music Festival, Labor Day weekend at Union Park in Chicago, IL.
Bassist Jesse Miller from the livetronica act Lotus is featured on this week's The Untz Podcast. Lotus will be headlining the Liberate Music and Yoga Festival on Aug. 21st, and both nights of Summerdance Aug. 27th and 28th.
DJ's Preston Walker and Henry Allen of Virtual Boy are featured on this week's The Untz Podcast. The latest Virtual Boy EP, Omega Supreme, is out now on 1320 Records.
Eric Hilton of Thievery Corporation is featured on this week's The Untz Podcast. Hilton wrote and directed "Babylon Central," which is out now on DVD.
Rob Myers is featured on this week's Untz Podcast. He's a beat-master for Fort Knox Five, sitarist for Thievery Corporation, and one-third of electro/lounge/drum and bass act Thunderball.
Camp Bisco 9 is under the microscope, this week, with The Untz correspondent Natty Morrison. Discussion includes Thievery Corporation, Rusko, Orchard Lounge, and of course, the Disco Biscuits.
Aaron Simpson is featured on this week's The Untz Podcast. He's a drum and bass DJ out of Seattle with his own record label, Simplify Recordings. NiT GriT, a dubstep San Jose dubstep phenomenon has been burning up the charts with his Simplify release Synthetic Heaven.
This week on The Untz Podcast, get a preview of the Forecastle Festival, July 9-11th in Louisville, KY. The program features an interview with San Francisco's Ana Sia, who is DJ'ing Friday's Forecastle late night party.
Dissolve is featured on this week's The Untz Podcast. DJ Liam Shy and violinist Valentin Santana combine electronic, classical, and tribal elements to create a whole new brand of trance.
Hammered dulcimer virtuoso Jamie Janover of the live electronica duo LYNX and Janover is featured on this week's The Untz Podcast. Janover is also the organizer of the electronic music festival Sonic Bloom, taking place June 25-27th in Bellvue, CO.
DJ and producer Eliot Lipp is featured on this week's The Untz Podcast. His brand of electro and hip-hop has garnered him a growing fanbase on both coasts and middle America. Lipp's side project Dark Party has a new single out today, June 22nd, called Patrol Patrol.
Rain is featured on this week's The Untz Podcast. He's a mid-tempo DJ with a lot of dark grooves, heavy melodies, and ethereal vocals on his Phutureprimitive project. His new EP is entitled Luminous.
On this week's The Untz Podcast, Rob Rayle, A.K.A. Outersect, is featured on the program. Rayle, a Bay-area ethno-breaks DJ with a background in synths and keys, recently jammed with trance legend Simon Posford. His new album is called God Love the Fool.
Matthew Kratz, a.k.a. Kraddy, is featured on this week's The Untz Podcast. A founding member of the Glitch Mob, Kraddy's intense beats and sharp cuts have placed him at the forefront of the glitch movement.
Jason Hann of EOTO is featured on this week's The Untz Podcast. Hann comprises half of the live improv drum and bass, dubstep, and house duo EOTO along with String Cheese Incident bandmate Michael Travis. EOTO plays about 200 shows this year, and will be appearing at several festivals this summer.
Dhruva Ganesan from Sub Swara is featured on this week's The Untz Podcast. Dhruva, along with Haj and Dave Sharma mix dubstep, breakbeat, and hip-hop at their live shows, and have put out numerous remixes from some of the biggest artists in electronic dance music.
On this week's The Untz Podcast, special guest John Gallup is featured on the program. Gallup and his promotional crew Cicada Rhythm have been bringing electronic music to the Plains states for more than a decade. Cicada Rhythm is partnering with the Wakarusa Festival to put on Interstellar Meltdown, two stages of electronic music with acts like Ott, EOTO, Mark Farina, Tipper, and more.
Master producer, DJ, and the founder of Twisted Records Simon Posford is featured on this week's The Untz Podcast. Posford is one of the biggest names in ambient and psy-trance, producing groundbreaking albums under the name Hallucinogen and Shpongle. He is currently in the midst of a US tour promoting his latest album Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland.
DJ Vadim is featured on this week's Untz Podcast. Vadim is a DJ, producer, and the head of his own label Jazz Fudge. He specializes in hip-hop, glitch, and soul beats and is on tour now with Bassnectar.
DJ Thibault is the guest on this week's program. Based in Austin, Texas, Thibault is known for spinning indie house and his big Daft Punk vs. The Clash mashup. His new project, Auto Body, with Felix Moreno of Future Rock, is about to release a debut EP, Priest Party, on April 9th.
On this week's The Untz Podcast, live electro and dubstep trio Savoy are featured on the program. DJ's Gray Smith and Ben Eberdt and drummer Mike Kelly discuss the band's origins as a jazz-funk combo in Boulder, their transition to electronica, and their behind-the-scenes creative process.
Aaron Holstein, better known as VibeSquaD is interviewed on this week's Untz Podcast. Listeners will get a taste of his dubstep, hip-hop, and house fusion. For more info on VibeSquaD, including album releases and tour dates, check out www.theuntz.com.
In this second half of a two-part interview with The Untz, Marc Brownstein of the Disco Biscuits and Darren Shearer of the New Deal discuss the origins of the Join, the infiltration of electronic music into the world of pop, Conspirator, and the monstrosity known as Camp Bisco 9.
In the first half of a two-part feature, Marc Brownstein (Disco Biscuits) and Darren Shearer (The New Deal) sit down for an interview on the Untz Podcast. Darren and Marc discuss the latest New Deal album, Live: Toronto 7.16.2009, as well as the new Disco Biscuits album, Planet Anthem. Marc and Darren, along with keyboardists Jamie Shields of the New Deal and Aron Magner of the Disco Biscuits just completed 3 midwest dates as The Join, an all-improv, electro-house supergroup.