Check out some of the ‘The Leader’s’ favorite digital releases now available on halcyondigi.com

Easy Street Records was founded way back ’83 in New York City and has been releasing influential and commercially successful records and soundtracks since. The label’s sound is predominantly soulful vocal house containing hints of jazz, funk, R&B, and disco but you’ll also find healthy doses old school street sounds like Freestyle, Hip-House and Electro in their catalog which is now available for download on halcyondigi.com

No mom, we’re not finally giving up on records and going into Uncle Hershel’s diamond business… DnP is a Berlin-based label and distributor of boutique electronic music imprints so hard-to-find that we felt like we’d smuggled something when we received the shop’s first shipment. With halcyon now carrying imprints like Deep Data, Enliven, Eintakt, Kalk Pets, Maruca, ContentIsMissing and the brand new Naif, now you can be the jobless Berlin hipster you always wanted to be right here in America.

DJ/Producer Levon Vincent’s Novel Sound and Deconstruct imprints had a great year in 2009 and he doesn’t seem to be slowing down. For a peek behind the curtain at what makes this hotly tipped talent tick, check out his choice of Ten tunes from the halcyondigi.com catalog.

War, Recession, Climate Change, Terrorism, and to top it off Michael Jackson is dead. True, the Yankees won the World Series, so it wasn’t a total write off, but 2009 mostly blew. Good thing we had some amazing music to help us through.

In March ’09, halcyon broke with it’s 10 year tradition of dance music purism to make room for the launch of it’s first indie-rock section. The foray into the world of Alternative Rock and the like has been a huge success, many thanks to our indie music buyer, Karim…. In this interview, Karim chats about breaking ground at halcyon, why “indie” doesn’t necessarily mean rock and what under-the-radar albums should be on everyone’s watch list for the new year.