In this edition of FDL: Digital Evolution. 23 year-old London native Illectrix has a style based on synthesis: part funk, part electro, part glitch; all soul. From synthesis, to a step change. The artist’s new album, Digital Evolution, reflects a lot of work in the lab: sounds, ideas, and genres transformed into tactile, visceral electronic…

MDBP 2014 tickets are on sale now. Grab the interactive mixtape, including the world premiere of new remixes of Diplo’s hit “Biggie Bounce” and “Boy Oh Boy” right here. The idea of the music festival is semi-mythic to us: Woodstock is a high school history lesson, and a hand-me-down, and an entire genre of clothing…

Ricky Rouse Has a Gun (SelfMadeHero), a new graphic novel from Jörg Tittel, illustrates all the weirdness of contemporary copyright culture — and our need for new sources of inspiration. These are strange days for intellectual property. We live in quotes and click-able links. We accept retweets as a measure of meaning. Curation is, like,…

In this edition of Staff Picks: punk and rock and friendship; all, maybe, in equal measure. Download Radical Friends, February’s forty-track mixtape Bundle, courtesy of the fine people over at Tangled Talk Records. Consider it your crash course in UK hardcore, which feels about right for an end-of-Monday. Listen up: new music from Gnarwolves, The…

Friday Download is dedicated to curating the best download-able objects on the web, courtesy of BitTorrent Bundle for Publishers. In this edition of FDL: collection and redemption. Scrapper is the story of Hollis Wallace (Michael Beach, The Wire); a man who seeks out survival in scrap metal; selling what he finds to support his sick…