After a week of long, hard labour in the office, coalmines or computerstore (we don’t know what modern jobs are nowadays) most people come home and blast some Toto to start their weekend. Seeing as not all of us still live in the 80′s, we here at Incubate Blog have compiled a list out the [...]
[Incubate Week Blowout] Week 6
February 8, 2013
[Global Mashups] An introduction: Gang Colours + Mahesh Vinayakram
July 30, 2012
The coming weeks we’re gonna elucidate our Global Mashups-programm. Together with Generation Bass and Hivos, the Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation, we presenting the follow-up to the successful first edition of last year. At Incubate 2012 will six western musicians/producers work and perform together with six musicians/vocalists from India and Indonesia. Later on they’re also gonna record this material, which will [...]
[Go to] Appelsap + three acts you can’t miss
July 20, 2012
Appelsap (appeljuice in Dutch) is a festival that brings fresh music since 2001. In the early days it was mainly hiphop, but the last couple of years they’re mixing things up. With headliners as Danny Brown, French Montana & Schoolboy Q has the organization from Appelsap still got his focus on hiphop. But with the Colors [...]
[Report] PITCH Festival – Day two with Nosaj Thing, Shlohmo, Nathan Fake and many more
July 11, 2012
Last weekend it was the second edition of the electronic two-day festival PITCH. This Monday I gave you the report of day one, which included shows from The Weeknd, Jacques Greene, Azari & III, Jameszoo and more. Today part two including Shlohmo, Nathan Fake, James Holden and again many more. I started this day with one of the [...]
[Report] PITCH Festival – Day one with The Weeknd, SBTRKT, Jameszoo and many more
July 9, 2012
Last Wednesday I’ve posted an article including some tips for the electronic festival PITCH. Last year was a blast and this year the organisation took it to ‘nother level. Six instead of four stages, almost twice the audience, two times bigger area and even more (live) acts. Read here my report of day one of [...]
[Go to] Pitch Festival + Five acts that you can’t miss.
July 4, 2012
One of our favorite new festivals from last year was definitely Pitch. A nice new festival which pays more attention to top-notch electronic music and mainly focusses on live acts. Big headliners were Flying Lotus and Jamie Woon, personally we were more surprised by the new or smaller acts like Dorian Concept, Mount Kimbie and Nicolas Jaar. A new edition is [...]
[Spotifriday] Your weekend soundtrack – Week 18
April 27, 2012
Pretty similar to our IncuThursday‘s (especially yesterday) we try to put really different styles and genres in the Spotifriday. And we guess that you can that we succeeded today; Aggressive avantgardehiphop, Canadian folkmusic, spacetronica, ’80s auto-tune r’n’b eletropop and to top it all; An industrial soundtrack for a Finish movie from a Slovenian band. Have fun! [...]
[Spotifriday] Your weekend soundtrack – Week 9
March 2, 2012
The weekend is approaching so we got some new albums on Spotify that you should check out. Besides Monolake all the bands/acts are coincidentally all boy/girl-duo acts. Perfect soundtrack for the upcoming spring? Talking about checking out; Did you already saw our new Spotify-playlist with artist who play at Incubate 2012? Memoryhouse – Little Expressionless Animals [...]
Incubate’s individual top 10 year lists! Part eight: Dyon’s picks
December 23, 2011
We posted the ‘top 486 releases of 2011 according to you‘ a while ago, now it’s time for the individual Incubate employees year-lists! Every day until the end of 2011, we’re going to post the top 10 year-lists of the Incubate employees. There’re also links to Spotify (or to other sources where you can find [...]
The top 486 releases of 2011 according to You
December 6, 2011
86 top-10′s submitted, 486 unique releases submitted resulting in a top 448 releases of 2011; yeah, the call for year-lists seems to be quite a success. It’s not a big surprise the magnificent Let England Shake-album by PJ Harvey ended up on number one in the We Are Incubate year-list 2011, followed by The War [...]
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Strolling along with Purling Hiss at Area51
May 24, 2013
After seeing Thee Oh Sees nearly destroy Area51 last week I was glad to see the place still standing. What were we to do without our regular supplier of garage bands? Luckily the skatepark/venue was still where it ought to be, this evening containing Purling Hiss and Richie Dagger. After 10 minutes spent judging the skaters [...]