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Ready to ‘Get Loose’? SUBSHIFT & Cave ….

SUBSHIFT, a DJ and producer hailing from the UK, is known for his energetic tech house style. With his releases signed to prominent labels such as Insomniac Records, Techne, Hau5trap, and Confession, SUBSHIFT has paved his own path within the electronic music scene. His journey took him to some of the most iconic venues like Ushuaia Ibiza and Ministry of Sound in London.

Meanwhile, Cave Studio, an Italian duo deeply influenced by the underground music culture, infuses their tracks with raw energy and a street-inspired aesthetic. The distinct styles styles between the two couldn’t be a better fit all around and the merging of the minds has created a time-testing production in “Get Loose.”

SUBSHIFT’s rise to fame includes performances at prestigious events like Tomorrowland Belgium and a headline show in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Supported by DJ Snake, Goodboys, and Tchami, his music continues to gain traction worldwide.

Cave Studio has also made significant strides, with their tracks receiving support from heavyweights such as DJ Snake, Tiësto, and David Guetta. Their music has been featured at renowned festivals and venues like Tomorrowland, Ultra Music Festival, and EDC, building a solid global following.

“Get Loose,” their latest collaboration featuring LexBlaze, is a showcasing of their creative synergy. Inspired by a memorable trip to Miami Music Week, this track is crafted to resonate in diverse settings – the club, road trips, down time in the home, ect. – it all works. With deep basslines and exotic percussion, “Get Loose” captures the spirit of the summer season in a refreshing manner.

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Oh doom! orchestrated a sonic dichotomy in their tone-setting post-rock debut, All Our Songs Are Slow and Sad

Oh doom! set the tone for their forthcoming discography with the release of their elegiac debut single, All Our Songs Are Slow and Sad; but given the artistic intensity within the inaugural release, expecting the unexpected would be safer. The release ensues from an ambient post-rock composition filled with art-rock motifs and reverb-drenched choral guitars that pull textures of shoegaze into the production until the track steadily builds in momentum throughout the extended 8-minute duration. While attention spans may be waning and artists are churning out 2-minute pop tracks left, right, and centre, Oh Doom! exhibited the beauty of foregoing instant hooks for mind-shattering crescendos, cinematically constructed by distorted walls of noise, powerful enough to reverberate right through you. The kinetic alchemy within All Our Songs Are Slow and Sad is a visceral attestation to the raw, creative power of Oh Doom!, who have the potential to rise to the same heights as Low and Mogwai. Not pedestrian enough for unoriginated post-rock assimilation, the single broadsides with Grandaddy-esque polyphonic synthetics which infiltrate the paradoxically tender yet monolithic production.  Yet, perhaps the most striking beauty in the single lies in how, regardless of the intensity of the instrumentals, the pensively diaphanous vocals […]

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Neacal unveils single ‘The Bell’ alongside thrilling music video

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Singer-songwriter, musician, producer and composer Neacal, is the emerging solo chamber pop project of a musician based in Belgrade, Serbia. His debut single ‘The Bell’ released on July 19th, 2024 via Neacal Music and premiered on tastemakerCLASH Magazine. His musical journey began as the founder of one of the most well-known instrumental progressive/post-rock bands from Eastern Europe, boasting nearly 5 million streams across platforms, tours across Europe and Asia, along with writing original soundtracks for numerous video games. 

‘The Bell’ was written, produced and mixed by Neacal, with co-mixing by Ivan Lubianyi and mastering by the revered Ian Shepherd (Deep Purple, New Order). Neacal has been a composer for over 16 years, mostly specialising in instrumental music. He has redefined his sound, crafting orchestral pop songs as a means to navigate through trauma and reinvent his musical language.

‘The Bell’ features twirling piano motifs which create movement and prepare for a cascading array of delightful melodies. It’s contrasted by a rich, velvety voice and builds to a full-bodied ending that leaves the listener grasping for more.

The music video is eerie and ominous, with Neacal donning a stoic facial expression throughout. Shot in a natural landscape, the video features lush greenery, rustic abandoned buildings, and gloomy skies. With Neacal as the focal point throughout, he’s seen in various settings taking part in seemingly random activities like wandering aimlessly, throwing stones, removing a blindfold and hanging upside down from a tree. All of this brilliantly expands on the theme of confinement and the illusion of powerlessness, which form the foundation of the track. The video ends with Neacal standing among an expansive field of grass, while the sky cracks open with lightning and thunder symbolising his breakthrough. 

Neacal shared: “’The Bell’ is a song of a then suppressed part of myself that came to recognise its own power. A fraction of me which I buried deep down and hadn’t been in contact with since the beginning of my cognition was slowly getting stronger throughout the period when this album was created… and the “prison” holding this inmate started to slowly crumble. In ‘The Bell’, the prisoner explores the inevitable escape, and it realises its agency—it knows that the change that is to come will take place not just when the barrier is weak enough, but when the prisoner will apply the pressure as well, leading on the charge with other demons kept locked at the time.”

Watch the music video for ‘The Bell’ below:

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Sean Kingston and His Mother Indicted on Federal Charges in $1M Fraud Scheme

Sean Kingston and his mother have been indicted in South Florida on federal charges of committing more than $1 million worth of fraud.

Kingston, 34, and his mother, 61-year-old Janice Turner, made their first appearances Friday (July 19) in federal court, according to court records. A Miami grand jury returned an indictment earlier this month accusing Kingston and his mother of participating in a scheme to defraud victims of high-end specialty vehicles, jewelry and other goods through the use of fraudulent documents.

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Kingston was booked into the Broward County jail on similar state charges last month following a May 23 arrest at Fort Irwin, an Army training base in California’s Mojave Desert where he was performing. Turner was arrested the same day as her son, when a SWAT team raided his rented mansion in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

According to the federal indictment, Kingston and Turner falsely claimed that they had executed bank wire or other monetary payment transfers for high-end items when no such transfers had taken place. Investigators said Kingston and Turner then kept over $1 million worth of fraudulently purchased items despite not paying for them.

The warrants for the state charges say that from October to March, they stole almost $500,000 in jewelry, more than $200,000 from Bank of America, $160,000 from a Cadillac Escalade dealer, more than $100,000 from First Republic Bank and $86,000 from the maker of customized beds.

The Jamaican American performer had a No. 1 hit with “Beautiful Girls” in 2007 and collaborated with Justin Bieber on the song “Eenie Meenie.”

Robert Rosenblatt, an attorney for Kingston and his mother, didn’t immediately respond to a message seeking comment from The Associated Press. He previously said they looked forward to addressing the charges and were “confident of a successful resolution.”

Kingston, whose legal name is Kisean Anderson, was already serving a two-year probation sentence for trafficking stolen property.

His mother pleaded guilty in 2006 to bank fraud for stealing over $160,000 and served nearly 1.5 years in prison, according to federal court records.