Archive for August, 2008
Mr. Evan Bartholomew… For connoisseurs of tech house, he is known as Evan Marc. For fiends of psybient and dubbed out downtempo, he is Bluetech – the West Coast producer of psychedelic influenced IDM sound (PsyDM) and an owner of a prolific record label, Native State Records. But a recent shift in economics of the [...]
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Tags: ambient techno, minimal techno
Tim Arndt is back with another release on n5MD! L’Eixample is immediately a more mature, focused, and detail-oriented design. The title (Catalan for “extension”) refers to a Spanish district in Barcelona, and indeed draws on impressions and inspirations on Arndt’s latest travels to Spain. The production employs a composition of subdued tones and light beats [...]
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Tags: ambient, idm
Igorrr – Moisissure (self)
Slap! What an album… I’m really out of words. Let me attempt. Track one – Valse En Décomposition – baroque organ chords with a low-fi trip-hop beat followed by a bee buzzing turning into glitchy classical piece. Track two – Oesophage De Tourterelle – light piano arpeggios, tremolos and octave scaling progressions turning into insane [...]
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Tags: breakcore, drill'n'bass
Can you possibly describe your composition process? My compositional process begins with an acute act of listening, no matter what the desired result may be at the start of a project. I often spend hours listening to just one facet of a sound, building this intense dialogue and relationship with it. As the dialogue develops [...]
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Exploring the rhythm beyond its regular structure is the main objective in this abstract and experimental album by Kamran Sadeghi, titled Through Thickness. Like little insects beating their wings against an aquarium where rabid fish circle the dying microphone, the sharp frequencies in the swirling noise of clicks is just one image floating to the [...]
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Tags: experimental, minimal, noise
Jack Dangers is back! And on Planet Mu out of all the labels (for European distribution; Metropolis picked up the US release). What a perfect fit, seeming that Planet Mu is one of the established labels spearing the evolution of experimental and intelligent flavors of dubstep. Right off the bet, what’s amazing is that unlike [...]
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Tags: dubstep, idm
Pórhallur Gunnarsson hosts a popular Icelandic talk show, Kastljós. The show is broadcast six nights a week on a national television network. Almost a hundred thousand viewers tune in each night. That’s about one-third of the population of Iceland, which is located in the North Atlantic Ocean just south of the Arctic Circle. The climate [...]
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Tags: classical, modern classical
Cougar – Law (Layered)
On the first listen, Madison based (Wisconsin, US) instrumental five-piece band, Cougar, sounds peculiar – not fitting into any specific classification (and proud of it!), yet tending to be loosely associated with post-rock more than any other genre. But after returning to their debut album, Law, for the second time, I realize that it’s exactly [...]
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Tags: indie rock, post-rock
Dark and brooding, Blackfilm envelopes you like a thick fog creeping off a cooling swampland. I recall a quote by Jim Morrison (which got embedded in my brain after Emmanuel Top’s 1994 single Turkish Bazaar) – “The music was new, black, polished chrome and came over the summer like liquid night“. Blackfilm is the anonymous [...]
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Tags: cinematic, instrumental hip-hop, trip-hop
Lock all the doors and walk up the stairs. Turn down the lights and slightly raise the volume. Breathe slowly and try not to wet your pants. The boards creek somewhere in the attic. Lustmord enters the house. With deep moans, low drones, and bass rumbles, the walls begin to ooze evil, and if you [...]
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Tags: cinematic, dark ambient
The fragmented world of random memories mixed by a disk jockey is one thing. An album is another. Listening to an album you always start at the beginning. You always start at track one. Dag Rosenqvist, under his moniker Jasper TX, opens up Black Sleep with a swell. It dynamically expands into a quiet drone, [...]
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Tags: ambient, atmospheric, drone
Mixing up everything from IDM to dub, electro and hip-hop, Modeselektor puts out a truly fun album that keeps me bopping up and down. There is evident humor in some of the tracks and that’s exactly that attitude that forces me to spin Happy Birthday! on for a fun ride. Not to mention an excellent [...]
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Tags: breaks, crunk, electro, grime, idm
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