Archive for July, 2009
In the past few years I have become a bigger fan of simple and elegant works, sometimes consisting of a single instrument, sometimes of a single theme. I wonder if it is perhaps related to the process of aging and a calming mind. Ambient music begins to make more sense. The silence in between is [...]
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Tags: modern classical
Can you elaborate on the title of your album, Marking Time? I used to think that putting titles to instrumental music was a waste of time. But these days I feel like there’s something totemic in naming songs – that a song isn’t truly birthed, isn’t truly alive, until it’s been given a name. It’s [...]
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I am way overdue to give this album a proper review. I first heard The Versailles Sessions back at the end of 2008, when this Leaf release immediately made it on to my Best of 2008 list. Then, as time flew by, I was expecting to cover the upcoming release, Océano. The latter is expected [...]
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Tags: dark ambient, modern classical
With The Versailles Sessions you moved from working with samples of modern classical works to collaborating and writing for the actual musicians. Tell us about that experience. It was different in the sense that the sound sources i worked from where of a very specific period, the baroque in this case. I didn’t write anything [...]
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Coming in with slow jazzy percussion, deep rumbling bass, and all acoustic instrumentation, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble enters from the shadows of ghostly vocals and crackling dust. Violins, trombones, and jazz trumpets howl and growl, along digitally effected beats and bit-crushed atmospheres of decay. Darker than future jazz, yet lighter than doom jazz, the purveyors [...]
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Tags: dark idm, experimental jazz, future jazz
Do you have any plans on releasing a recording of an actual live performance? Well, we release live stuff under the Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation. The new live improv album ‘Succubus’ has just been released on Ad Noiseam. We did released the live album ‘Doomjazz Future Corpses!’ in 2007. Any memorable moments from your tour? [...]
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Boomkat is not exactly a record label. And it’s not really known for its compilations. But it is a famous online music store for all of your underground musical flavors, from dubstep to hip-hop to IDM and modern classical. Towards the end of 2008, Boomkat launched a sister site : 14tracks.com. Every week, 14tracks presents [...]
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Tags: dubstep, garage
VA – 88 Tapes (Keshhhhhh)
Keshhhhhh Recordings is based in Cambridge (England) and is run by Simon Scott (you should know him as the ex-drummer from the shoegaze band, Slowdive). I’m not exactly sure what Simon has in mind for the future of his label, but I must say, he’s off to a pretty good start. First of all, he’s [...]
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Tags: ambient, experimental
Mix : HC – Intelligent Breakcore
This mix has been in the making for quiet some time. Maybe not in its actuality, but at least in my head. It all started when I was compiling Headphone Commute’s Best of 2008 list at the end of December last year. I wanted to select some of my favorite tracks and create hour-long sessions. [...]
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Tags: breakcore, dark idm, idm
Danish electronic producer, Anders Trentemøller, sets aside his studio equipment used to make some of the finest raw and tight minimal house grooves, to put together a compilation of some of his favorite downtempo tracks from Copenhagen. Harbour Boat Trips is a commissioned selection of folksy, ambient and electronic tracks, sprinkled with beautiful vocals, beats, [...]
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Merck
Interview with Gabe Koch How would you describe Merck’s output when talking to someone not familiar with electronic music? That’s one of my least favorite things about running my label, having to describe the music on it to people not familiar with electronic music. Mainly because you really can’t, especially in limited social situations. I [...]
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