The Beat Generation: And The Beat Goes On…
posted in: Features • Pop
Friends, we at The Beat Generation have some good news and some bad news. Let’s start with dessert first and then we’ll have our veggies. The summer is shaping up with stellar releases already from Com Truise, Digitalism, SebastiAn and Skrillex along with upcoming records from Junior Boys, Justice and many, many more. Now the bad news: this will be our final installment of The Beat Generation. I know, it’s sad! But all good things must come to an end at some point or another. So, with this final installment, we wanted to show a final display of love and affection to the artists that make up the Electronica Channel on OurStage because without them, there would be no Beat Generation. We could dedicate whole columns to great OurStage artists (in fact, we already do) but this week we’re showing a couple beat makers a little bit of extra special attention.
Andrea Baroni
Baroni has been a dominant force in the Electronica Channel in the past few months, winning the whole channel three times since last October. Baroni also moonlights as the keyboardist for Italian metal band Icycore and his background in rock music shows through in his music. His track “Silent Signals” (currently competing in Electronica) mixes in elements of industrial, ambient and synth-pop into a swirling whole. You can check out the track below.
Wharmton Rise
Wharmton Rise, the moniker of one Andrew Lawlor, is another familiar name to anyone that has spent time listening to the Electronica Channel. The prolific composer has been active on OurStage for a long, long time already. One quick glance at his profile page reveals chart success going back to May of 2008. Since then, Lawlor has been racking up badge after badge on the site”he’s already earned a Top 10 badge in Electronica this year. And he’s no one trick pony. Lawlor seems to be intent on getting as much of his music out there as possible. He always seems to be creating and introducing new pieces to the OurStage community. You can check out his track, “Downtown Desolation” below.
Casey Desmond
This singer has had her myriad talents recognized outside of OurStage already”after all, she was chosen as a contestant on NBC’s The Voice and, according to her OurStage bio, Desmond has done a little modeling work on the side. A good looking woman with a strong set of pipes? Her track “Rendezvous””a song which has kept her nearly ever-present in the Top 40 standings in Electronica these past few months” helped us fall in love with the singer first though. We wish Casey the best of luck in wherever she goes next with her musical career. But please, do you expect this girl to not kick butt in whatever she does?
i am jen
The New York-based Jen Scaturro crafts electronica heavily in debt to a singer-songwriter’s voice and perspective. It also carries a very polished, professional edge to it. Makes sense as Scaturro has had a good deal of experience in the licensing and commercial composition game, having had her music in Sundance’s Iconoclasts, A&E’s The First 48 and MTV’s The Real World. Her work also covers a great deal of ground stylistically song to song. “Broken In All The Right Places” is a bubbling little slice of melancholy electro-pop while “At The Same Time” is minimal electronica with fantastic vocal harmonies. You can check out her track currently in competition, “My Other”, below.
Well guys, it’s been real. Take care and keep on rocking.
