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Deru
Say Goodbye To Useless Press Release


Deru discusses the recording of his new Mush release Say Goodbye To Useless, as well as other projects that he has been up to as a member of the Track Team.
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03-22-2010 Lymbyc Systym Tokyo, JP Warszawa Records
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03/2010 - Open Mike Eagle Tours With Hellfyre Club
Open Mike Eagle will be joining fellow Project Blowed MCs Nocando, Intuition, and co-Thirsty Fish rapper Dumbfoundead, along with DJ Zo, on the Hellfyre Club tour this spring. The first leg of the tour has been announced, with dates up the west coast of the United States. Check out the shows page for city and venue info.
 
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03/2010 - Open Mike Eagle And Swim Team In Austin
Open Mike Eagle will be joining his crew, Swim Team, in Austin for an unofficial SXSW event called the Underground Hip-Hop Summit. Joined by such indie-hop stalwarts as C-Rayz Walz, Icon The Mic King, Existereo, and many more, the show promises to be epic. Also, if you can catch up with Open Mike this week in Austin, he's carying thousands of free download cards for some of our latest and upcoming releases. We've added info on the event to our shows page.
 
03/2010 - Thavius Beck On Huskey Radio
Producer/MC Thavius Beck stopped by Los Angeles' Huskey Radio, an online hip-hop radio station and news site. The interview may get a bit controversial, according to the folks at Huskey, so check it out for yourself.

 
 
03/2010 - Open Mike Eagle Gets Fresh Daily
Open Mike Eagle has profiled by Impose Magazine's Blake Gillespie in their Fresh Daily section.

 
 
03/2010 - Head Like A Kite Featured Burrito Band
Qdoba Mexican Grill has assembled a bunch of music for a free audio player on their site. The project is called Our Sound and also features artists from Peter, Bjorn & John to DJ Shadow. The music will also be available in Qdoba stores.

 
 
03/2010 - Busdriver Supporting Rjd2
Busdriver (and trusty right-hand-road-man Antimc) will be hitting the road with Rjd2 once again. Rj is billing this as his final tour, and has tapped Bus to play the 10 west-coast shows with him. Also on the tour will be Rj's friend and band-mate Happy Chichester. For more information, check out the shows page.

 
03/2010 - Her Space Holiday On Broadway
Her Space Holiday's "My Girlfriend's Boyfriend" from The Young Machines can be heard on Broadway this Spring when it will be used as curtain call music for the Elton John produced play Next Fall. The show opens at the Helen Hayes Theatre on March 11.

 
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Deru - Say Goodbye To Useless
FWD
I'm disappointed in myself. Literally, I'm writing this review, and I keep sighing. I need to get my act together. I need to be more legit. I need to be more like Deru.
 
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Deru - Say Goodbye To Useless
Boomkat
Having previously released for iconic electronica labels like Neo Ouija, Ghostly International and Merck, Deru now arrives at Mush for the release of his third album. Say Goodbye To Useless captures the producer (real name Benjamin Wynn) at the height of his powers, mixing hip-hop toughness with some eerily evocative sound design atmospherics that lend the album a real sense of depth and emotional grounding. "I Would Like" heralds a great start, opening with a crackly old vocal recording, sung in French and bathed in echo. It's all a bit Caretaker, actually. There are more vocals carried over for companion piece "I Want" whose scratchy, pitched up samples are bound to come with Burial-goes-Galic associations. The beats take shape as a shuffling hip-hop number here though, laying down a sturdy backbeat thud. Further into the record, productions like "Walk" really add to the all-important atmosphere that hangs over the album, supplying melody and mood-setting ambient textures with deft evenhandedness. Outside his work as a solo artist, Wynn has built a career for himself as a composer and sound designer, penning scores for the Paris Opera Ballet Company and earning himself award nominations along the way. Say Goodbye To Useless calls upon this sort of experience and far transcends the album's grounding in popular forms, providing moments of real compositional merit - as exemplified by the stirring use of a wind section during "Fadeaway". Apparently, even Kanye West's a Deru fan, having posted the "Peanut Butter & Patience" video (it's no "Single Ladies" though, is it Kanye?) on his blog recently, and undoubtedly, the kind of expectation-shifting, genre-crossing sounds exhibited here reassert the strength of Deru's talents - hopefully introducing his music to a broader audience along the way. - Boomkat
 
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ISO50
I’ve seen Deru play a few shows with Tycho, he always gets a crowd going with what some people might call IDM but it can’t be you know why because girls dance to Deru and girls don’t dance to IDM. This is definitely for fans of older Lusine but with a bit more noise, damage and darkness. - ISO50
 
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Deru - Say Goodbye To Useless
The Milk Factory
Deru is the solo project of Los Angeles-based artist and sound designer Benjamin Wynn. Dealing largely with decaying electronic textures, fuelled by crisp hip-hop beats, his music is characterised by haunting melodies and a dense cinematic feel. His first missive, Pushing Air, came out on Neo Ouija six years ago, and was quickly followed by an EP and a second album, Trying To Remember (Merck), a year later. Since, despite a handful of remixes and compilation appearances, there has been pretty little coming out of Wynn’s den. It has to be said thought that he has been busy with the day job, which consist, amongst other things, in making music, including for animated TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender, which aired on Nickelodeon for three seasons.
 
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Deru - Say Goodbye To Useless
The Silent Ballet
Deru is one man, Los Angeles-based Benjamin Wynn, and his latest effort, Say Goodbye to Useless, proves to be a focused approach to the genre of electronica. For as sweeping as it is in scope, it remains wholly coherent and concentrated. The songs may range from moody to danceable, organic to digitized, aggressive to soft-spoken, intricate to minimalist, but underscoring it all is an element of consistency. The same voices show up in song after song, the rhythms follow familiar patterns, and the composer's confident presence is felt throughout. Listening to the album beginning to end is akin to going on a long road trip across the heart of a continent: the landscape changes drastically, but the trusty car's comforting familiarity is there to carry us from place to place.
 
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Lymbyc Systym - Shutter Release
Cavendish Fixed Sterre
Instrumental, innovative and intrepid, sibling duo Lymbyc Systym returns to the airwaves this fall with their latest album, Shutter Release. The Tempe, Arizona, pair introduce fresh concepts that expand far beyond the constraints of genres or comparisons to similar acts. While not exactly electronic, yet not a traditional instrumental band, Jared and Mike Bell seek unadulterated originality on Shutter Release. Connections to bands like Ratatat and Broken Social Scene quickly break down as Lymbyc Systym set their own pace and present their own sound.
 
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