A legendary session at one of our favorite los angeles FM stations, KXLU, Adventure Time shows off the sampling skills that makes them a great live act. Always enthusiastic emcee Busdriver, and the multi-talented Jonathan from Jogger guest appear on this special session.dublab is supported by listeners like you. Become a Sustaining Member:https://w…

Protect Me aka “PROPRO” is a duo hailing from Van Nuys,CA. Playing shows since 2008, they cleverly mix House and Experimental Hip-Hop in its Punkest form with their sound. They are set to release a new EP, ‘Mirror’,on 8.18 through their label Panorama City Muzsic.بقلم Alejandro Cohen

Richard Fearless presents Metal Box, broadcast from his shipping container studio situated on the peninsula of land between the River Thames and the River Lea in London’s East End. Fearless’ career as a DJ, founder of cult band Death in Vegas, and head of the independent label Drone have cemented Fearless’ reputation as a diverse maker and renowned…

Muscle Beach is the unmediated congregation of Neil, Maisy, Jane & Bennett – an LA 4-piece with a 9th ear, dedicated to the splendor of the human soul.بقلم Alejandro Cohen

David J is a British alternative rock musician, producer, and writer. He is the bassist for the gothic rock band Bauhaus and for Love and Rockets. With his new release Tracks From the Attic, David J invites listeners on a most fascinating journey: we’re looking through boxes of tapes, getting reacquainted with an artist we’ve known for a long time …

John Hardin takes the ancient aboriginal instrument known as “didgeridoo” to new places via digital technology. His music transports the listener with ethereal otherworldly soundscapes, organic rhythms and primal dance grooves.بقلم Alejandro Cohen

H31R blends electronica and hip hop together creating an enigmatic but complementary sonic experience that pushes the fickle boundaries of genre. JWords and maassai both grew up listening to a variety of genres and later using the sounds of their youth to expand on the potential and style of their own music. It wasn’t until the two met while playin…

When the Soft Moon rises, valleys are flooded with cold light. Static crackles, petals fade to pale and a chill runs deep. The Soft Moon shower us with songs like rain from the sombre sky of a stark city. This is concrete music for human hearts. As the tension builds fissures form. Look within and you’ll fine joy within each dark pulsation. This is…

exilio’s first concert of the season explores music with contrasting texts and textures to mend the differences between emotions, seasons, cultures, religions, and colors. We wish to invite the listeners to navigate the definition of light and darkness through artists’ minds and music.Featuring composers such as Tormis, Dett, Dunphy and Panufnik al…

This is an early live performance from Jana Hunter – a non-binary indie acoustic/folk musician based in Baltimore and the founder of the band Matty and Mossy. Hunter was signed to Gnomonsong, a record label run by Devendra Banhart and Vetiver’s Andy Cabic. Hunter’s solo debut album Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom was the label’s debut release. In 200…

Just a few weeks after the release of their seminal album Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven, Canadian post-rock treasures Godspeed You! Black Emperor play a live set on dublab. Tune in for a performance by the influential group recently unearthed from the dusty hard drives in the dublab vaults.…

Long Wave: suspending time and immersing the listener in a widescreen of soundThis months episode features special guest, Steve Roden.TRACKLIST:Steve Roden – ‘9-Sided Room’ – broadcast via TouchRadio (Touch, 2007)steve roden – ‘first’ – small songs for kack jirby (papa voce, 2016)Steve Roden live in the studioSteve Roden – ‘The Radio’ – The Radio (…

In support of his 2005 album When the Detail Lost its Freedom for the ever-crucial Kranky records, Brian McBride of atmospheric ambient outfits Stars of The Lid and Bell Gardens dropped by dublab for a live rendition of his recent material. In his creative process, McBride recorded guitar, piano and numerous other sources to a keyboard sampler, the…

Rodriguez is a legend we’ve been hooked on ever since Nobody turned us onto “Cold Fact,” his powerful statement of psych-soul from 1970. The album originally released on Sussex Records has risen from obscurity and recently been reissued by the wonderful folks at Light in the Attic Records. Rodriguez himself spent years off the general public’s rada…

Brooklyn’s Effie Briest comes to LA. An all women punk and pyschedelic band. Take a hint of Siouxsie and the Banshees’ rougher edges here, a pinch of Pink Floyd’s expansive prog-rock structures there.بقلم Alejandro Cohen

PELLYVISION is a monthly cohesion of sound and vision. Alex Pelly synthesizes live video to accompany sounds from an artist of her choosing.Green-House is the project of Los Angeles based artist Olive Ardizoni. Approaching the project with an intentional naivety, they craft songs that find freedom through simplicity. As a non-binary artist, they ho…

Indie rock and electronic duo Over the Atlantic perform live for dublab. Bevan Smith makes music and sound, built and manages the Involve label and is a noted conjurer of extinct birds. As composer/creator he has worked on music for art projects, theatre shows, museums, dance works, Japanese TV adverts and films, notably the Bafta award winning “To…

Get slimed by one of Philly’s finest! Kurt Vile is indeed a cat to slither to. His slinky slank sound is super soul for the generation on hold. Stop, don’t get up from that couch! Plop down and put on something nice like these “sprout session” sounds. Kurt cruised into dublab to play some fine sunny stoned songs. So please enjoy and when this cat i…

Gyan Riley graced the dublab studio to share a live solo guitar piece, insight into his music explorations and some rare recordings. Gyan has collaborated with some of the brightest music minds in the world, from contemporary peers such as Nico Muhly to elder pioneers including his father, Terry Riley. This interview found him fresh from performing…

Beneath Detroit showcases previously unheard music from live concert recordings that took place between 1979 and 1992 at the Detroit Institutute of Arts (DIA) as part of the Creative Music at the DIA program. The Creative Music at the DIA concerts highlight an important avant-garde community jazz movement that prominently featured Detroit-based mus…

This is a live performance of Los Angeles-based composer Colloboh, recorded and filmed at the dublab studios and featuring new compositions utilizing modular synthesizers. Colloboh – experimental producer Collins Oboh. Born in Nigeria, raised in the DMV, and now at 28 years of age, Colloboh asserts himself as a no-nonsense contender of electronic m…

On December 20th dublab celebrated the grand opening of Space 15 Twenty LA’s most radical retail experiment with “WIDE OPEN WAVES,” a live sound flash featuring dj sets by the dublab soundsystem + live performances from Warpaint and Nosajthingبقلم Alejandro Cohen

Jeremiah Chiu is Los Angeles-based artist, musician, educator, and community organizer. Chiu’s hybrid practice often operates under his studio moniker, Some All None, where projects lie at the intersection of art, music, technology, and publishing. Chiu is Full-Time Faculty in the Graphic Design Department at Otis College of Art & Design, a recordi…

Qur’an Shaheed (b. 1992, Pasadena, CA) is a pianist, poet, singer and songwriter based in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, CA. She has been playing piano since the age of four, trained extensively in classical and contemporary music. Since 2012 she has been developing her practice as a songwriter alongside her solo piano and ensemble work. She released …

Veranda Culture performed live for the very first time at the dublab 21st Anniversary. All new music performed at his loft studio in Melbourne, Australia, alongside close friend and studio partner Luke Coleman.Veranda Culture is a musical project established by Australian electronic music artist and dublab resident DJ Griffin James (known mostly fo…

Listen in and watch La ReDaDa’s special live performance, created specially for dublab’s 21st anniversary celebration.La ReDaDa is a musical multi-region commando and danzón sextet located in the remains of Mexico City´s colonia de Los Doctores.Watch the video here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yffgoyptv6U&list=PLwv1SuXh4kHx4MlmcDYjKKeTHEwGROqln&…

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This is a live performance by Ghorba that took place during dublab's 21st Anniversary celebration in 2020.Ghorba is a Los Angeles-based producer, live act and DJ. She organizes a party, FM+, for womxn and nonbinary people, and helps run a workshop series, FeM Synth Lab, which encourages music production among femmes. Her debut album, Zero Threat to…

Unreleased Sun Araw live improvisation from 2011 Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAaZWvc5PVE dublab is a listener supported non profit organization. Support this, and all other programs by becoming a Sustaining Member: https://www.dublab.com/support/membershipsبقلم Alejandro Cohen

Listen in and watch Koreatown Oddity’s special live performance, created specially for dublab’s 21st anniversary celebration. The Koreatown Oddity is Los Angeles producer/emcee, Humorist, Screenwriter, and overall visionary. He grew up around Hip Hop through his mom who made jewelry for rappers and was down with Grandmaster Caz and Ice-T. He Releas…

Listen in and watch Silent Servant’s special DJ set – with visuals by Eva Aguila – created specially for dublab’s 21st anniversary celebration. WATCH HERE Silent Servant’s prolific output as a producer and artist has laid the groundwork for much of the most ambitious and forward thinking electronic music of today. As a member of the now defunct San…

“Dimensions of Voice” highlights 3 artists who use voice as a central instrument; as landscape, sound bath, conjuring device, and fluid transmission between worlds, binaries, time and space. An extension of the Art of Performance Series, “Dimensions of Voice” is a broadcast of sets by Colin Self, Odeya Nini and Anna Oxygen, all who engage in compos…

“Dimensions of Voice” highlights 3 artists who use voice as a central instrument; as landscape, sound bath, conjuring device, and fluid transmission between worlds, binaries, time and space.An extension of the Art of Performance Series, “Dimensions of Voice” is a broadcast of sets by Colin Self, Odeya Nini and Anna Oxygen, all who engage in composi…

“Dimensions of Voice” highlights 3 artists who use voice as a central instrument; as landscape, sound bath, conjuring device, and fluid transmission between worlds, binaries, time and space. An extension of the Art of Performance Series, “Dimensions of Voice” is a broadcast of sets by Colin Self, Odeya Nini and Anna Oxygen, all who engage in compos…

The band Telecaves and dublab film visionary Alex Pelly have created a special offering for the dublab Proton Drive Fundraiser. This audio/visual collaboration blends a live, improvised music performance by the duo Telecaves with visual accompaniment from Alex. Enjoy this journey into the beautifully oblique.…

Ximeno Records 10 Year Anniversary Broadcast aired- August 6th 2021 on dublab.com -featuring DJ's Stretch Armstrong Koco aka Shimokita Natasha Diggs T-Kay Boogie Blind Small Change Skeme Richards Fresko Jah Jonny Loopy Lexa Estaban La Groue Tropicaza Skinny Pablo Mo Manley Live Performances by: The Overlines Malik & the Freqtones Produced by- Danny…

Listen to SOLTERA’s special live performance, created specially for dublab’s 21st anniversary celebration.SOLTERA is a producer, dj and performer based in Los Angeles. The project SOLTERA was born in 2017, two years after her father passed away. She is self-taught, learning how to make beats, play keys and write/sing. She is the co-founder of CASA/…

Micachu & the Shapes are one of the funnest bands to watch perform. We trust you’ll open up your imagination wide as you’re listening to this great band fly through some tunes full of quirkiness and punch. Think of the incredible gestures they made while making these sounds. Maybe they are beating drums, ukulele and keys in a jumpy stomping jam or …

Pregnant is the bottomless and humble musical interest and hobby of Daniel Trudeau. The project has existed for over a decade in all plausible slews and fashions from a solo incarnation on into a quintet and is always presented first and foremost as Electronic Pop, although that definition cannot and will not fully sum a conclusive aural understand…

Davia Spain is a prism. The light and dark of a life buoyed by triumph and marred by tragedy is refracted through her work, the lilt of existence as recognizable as her lithe contralto. Her art is a melange of mediums, a stew of classical and jazz training, electronic experimentation, theater, intrepid filmmaking and sinuous dance. Her latest work,…

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Dublab x FEMMEBIT Present: The Art of Performance – W/ Jackie Stewart and Eva Aquila.Jackie “Oblivia” Stewart started performing sound in 1979 in Portland, Oregon. Mostly performing within groups until 2001, when she performed a DJ “throw down” of sorts (both DJ’s performed at the same time) and it ended up as a collaboration. Groups Jackie has per…

Listen to Suzanne Kraft’s special, stripped-down guitar set, created specially for dublab’s 21st anniversary celebration.Suzanne Kraft is the solo moniker of Los Angeles-based producer and DJ Diego Herrera, who is also a member of neo-disco group Pharaohs. … Disco-influenced EP Green Flash appeared on Running Back in 2011, followed by Horoscope on …

Dublab x FEMMEBIT Present: The Art of Performance – W/ Nailah Hunter and Anna Luisa Petrisko.Nailah Hunter is a Caribbean American experimental composer and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles. Inspired by high fantasy & nature magic, she creates immersive sonic worlds for rest and rumination with harp, layered vocals, glistening synths, and…

This performance by Mexico's La Redada was part of dublab's 10th anniversary celebration in 2020. Find more of their music here: laredada.bandcamp.comبقلم Alejandro Cohen

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For dublab’s 21st anniversary celebration, Sonoran band Margaritas Podridas recorded this live session in the studio Onda Sonora, in Hermosillo, Mexico. It was prepared in a very d.i.y format with cloth from their local fabric store and some help from their friends. The band also included a little sneakpeak from their upcoming album.Margaritas Podr…

Listen in and watch Suzanne Ciani’s special live set, created specially for dublab’s 21st anniversary celebration.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2W-wd6nF8I&feature=youtu.beSuzanne Ciani is a composer, recording artist, and pioneer in the field of electronic music and sound design. She is best loved for her fifteen albums of original music which f…

To call NO ZU anything less than energetic would be unjust. The Melbourne-based outfit, fronted by band/cult leader Nicolaas Oogjes, has been making they’re own brand of noise since 2007. Whilst touring the states in early 2014 NO ZU crammed into the dublab studio and rained maximum musical joy down on the office and surrounding areas. Click play t…

The brilliant guitarist Peter Walker inspired a legion of strummers with his 1960’s albums on Vanguard. In 2006 Peter graced dublab along with one such devotee, Jack Rose (rest in peace), for an incredible set of guitar illuminations. Check out the Tompkins Square release, “A Raga for Peter Walker” featuring new tunes by Peter and tributes by fans:…