For a good while now, the main man behind San Francisco's Frite Nite label, Paul Salva, has stood firmly behind his label, making sure its delivery of futuristic, eclectic electronic music ran smoothly as it remained tasteful and interesting. But the label head makes music too, under the name Salva, and next year will see the release of his own full-length album, Complex Housing. Before that record drops via the Friends of Friends label -- complete with remixes from Machinedrum, My Dry Wet Mess, fellow Bay Area producer B. Bravo, and Lazer Sword's Lando Kal -- we can catch its first single over on The FADER, entitled "Blue."

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Somewhere in the middle of the separate-but-similar worlds of electro, dubstep, cumbia, hip-hop, and house exists Argentinian duo Frikstailers (pronounced: "freak-stylers"), a party-starting outfit that wants to show you the future of South American club music. And on its recently released four-soung EP for the ZZK label, Bicho de Luz, the Frikstailers do just that.

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San Francisco DJ/producer Daniel J. Grenier has been crafting bass-heavy, dubstep-leaning electronic music in relative obscurity for quite some time now. Under the simple moniker DJG, Grenier slowly and quietly built a sizable discography of assorted 12 inches and EPs for an array of different record labels over the course of about three years. His well-crafted tunes are moody, danceable, exciting, and above all else, very personal. Today, DJG let loose a mass of his unreleased songs in a two-part collection he's titled Voids.

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Like Oneohtrix Point Never and many of the artists that recently performed during San Francisco's On Land Festival, Seattle's The Sight Below chooses form over function when composing his dense, panoramic soundscapes. Producer Rafael Anton Irisarri crafts his amorphous songs with little more than heavily effected guitar strums, meandering synth loops, and almost inaudible rhythms that usually consist of a lonely, pulsing kick drum. Much of The Sight Below's sophomore album, It All Falls Apart (out now on Ghostly), follows that same style -- borrowing heavily from the ideas of minimalist and ambient composers like Brian Eno and John Cale, along with a bevy of electronic music's more entrancing genres. You can download two beautiful songs from that record, "Burn Me Out From the Inside" and "Fervent," before The Sight Below makes his way down to our fair city to perform at The Independent with Germany's Pantha du Prince on Saturday, September 18.

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I've just recently been turned on to the work of DJ/producer Alex Ryan. The San Francisco resident has been making original tracks and edits centered around disco, house, synth-pop, and other playful electronic sounds for nearly six years now, under the name Team Everything. While he still DJs under that moniker, Ryan has a new project underway with friend and musical collaborator Jasper Speicher. They call themselves Water, and this strange, upbeat dance track, "Kurt's Place," comes from the duo's debut album, which is still in the works. Check out our exclusive first listen after the jump.More >>

Lately it seems like it's become increasingly trendy to tack any kind of world music-related buzzword onto your musical project. DJs, producers, and club nights are calling themselves 'tropical' despite having no real knowledge of the music, thinking the whole of an islander's sound palette consists of a bongo sample and a beat that isn't straight 4/4. So, it's getting to be that fans, critics, and artists alike need to be more discerning with the usage of certain genre descriptors. With that in mind, believe me when I say that L.A.'s Rainbow Arabia is an excellent globally minded production duo, dead set on joining the audio aesthetic of equatorial regions with its percussive, bass-heavy dance music.

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Something terribly huge and potentially awesome is going down at the Mezzanine tomorrow night. Under the flag of The Beat Electric Dance Show, a large number of San Francisco's best dance music DJs and producers are convening for one epic night of disco, boogie, soul, funk, and house music. The burgeoning Party Effects production outfit will perform its live proto-house tunes. The ladies of Hot Tub will own the club's stage with electro-leaning booty music and oversexed vocal stylings. Along with hosting the whole party, the Beat Electric crew of DJs will be dropping jam after burning dancefloor jam throughout the seven-hour party. And that's not to mention one of my favorite Bay Area production duos, Tres Lingerie, which will also be bringing its own funky disco beats to the Mezzanine's amazing soundsystem.

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The upcoming third album from Canada's R&B-obsessed electro-pop duo Chromeo doesn't need any more help getting talked up online -- fans have been loudly anticipating Business Casual since the album's first single, "Night by Night," came out nearly a year ago. Regardless, this remix of the latest track to break off that forthcoming record, "Don't Turn the Lights On," by San Francisco DJ/producer/Dirty Bird Christian Martin, warrants a nod on its own. Hear it after the jump.More >>

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I recently learned what exactly makes a cumbia rhythm, and it's basically a slow-grooving shaker making a simple rhythm like "CHK-chky CHK-chky CHK-chky CHK" and so on. "Basta Ya," a stellar track from ZZK stalwart El Remolón, is officially a bit of electronic cumbia excellence thanks to the producer exchanging the obligatory shaker percussion with some simple mouth-made sounds. But that's just the beginning; the inimitable talents of singer Lido Pimienta threaten to overshadow the eclectic instrumentation on this soulful number.More >>