Sam's Top 25 of 2012: #6

Radioactive-Imagine Dragons

Sit back, light up, and take a puff to a tune that’s a dubbed out blend of electronic with a slight folk-ish tinge that just pounds along with a very stoner minded sound that’s just demanding to be sampled. Here we have Imagine Dragons performing a tune that fits their namesake with a very dubstep inspired electronic rompt of slightly folk inspired paces showing that this band really does have a variety of sounds they’re willing to explore and pull off with the greatest of ease.

If this is the sign of the apocalypse then things are shaping up to be pretty trippy.

Sam's Top 25 of 2012: #24

Too Close-Alex Clare

You Know dubstep moved from this underground sound to a mainstream tool of trying to stay hip and current and while I’d like to say that it’s still a pretty cool idea to drop a beat straight on its head every once in a blue moon too many people are starting to make it go the way of the auto-tune, but of course before that there was this hip little number from one Alex Clare in, “Too Close.”

Not going to lie this songs beat is pretty damn sick people and the first time I heard it I thought it’s mix of this very vocally talented singer with a kind of tribal undertone to the beat mixed awesomely when things dropped and got a little dubby and interestingly enough this managed to have some crossover appeal and has become quite the hit.