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  Dallas DJs Recommend Songs for Your Social Distancing

  March 16 at 4 a.m.

  There are plenty of things we can recommend for your period of social distancing, but we know that you're most likely going to strip down to your underwear and clean your house in a panic — whether you have roommates or not. And you might as well use this time...

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  ‘Leonbridges’ and Other Bizarre DFW Bandcamp Pages

  Monday, December 2, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  Many contemporary DIY artists and labels owe much of their success to Bandcamp for providing a popular, user-friendly platform with one of the most acclaimed payout models in the music industry. Artists such as Car Seat Headrest and Soccer Mommy used the streaming service as a launchpad, and it is...

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  10 Electronic Music Documentaries That Will Make You an Expert

  Friday, July 19, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  The world of electronic music is dense and varied with more genres, subgenres and non-genres than most other types of music. To the uninitiated, it can be intimidating. To those who just discovered dance music in the last decade, there is a common pitfall of lumping it all under the...

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  Dallas Observer Mixtape With Feezy

  Wednesday, July 3, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  After a long break, we are back to wrap up the final run of Observer Mixtape. We are almost to mixtape No. 200, and this week we feature Feezy, a scene veteran with two decades behind the decks. Feezy walks the fine line between the pop sounds of crowded Deep...

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  The DJ’s DJ: Danny Tenaglia Looks Back on His Origins Ahead of Dallas Appearance

  Thursday, June 13, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  Danny Tenaglia has a yellow sticky note on his refrigerator, “3 p.m. interview with Elvis from Dallas Observer.” A 3 o’clock call to Tenaglia is unanswered. A text from Tenaglia comes over about 45 minutes later, “Hey Elvis, so sorry, I’m just waking. Had an unexpected marathon in the studio...

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  Dallas Hip-Hop Producer Tha Kracken Brings Beat Battle Performance to the EDM Scene

  Thursday, June 6, 2019 at 4 a.m.

  Hip-hop album sales reached commercial supremacy in the mid-'90s. It was the most decadent era in hip-hop culture, and music producers took home a substantial share of profits. It's the era that made Kanye West, Just Blaze, The Neptunes and Swizz Beatz household names and filthy rich. Even the original...