Archive for January, 2010
On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook Haiti and devastated the country, with death toll rising over 150,000. Humanitarian efforts quickly took place, to aid on site, and to raise money through charities to help with the relief effort. Betamorph Records has partnered with AmeriCares Disaster Relief and Humanitarian Aid Organization to raise [...]
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Tags: dubstep
Mix : Woj – Yucca
Back in my past life, when I had a weekly DJ gig and a regular podcast, I met Woj. Sending me his mixes from Poland, Woj and I connected on a pure musical level, challenging each other to create a progressing story with our selections, showcase the latest releases, smooth out the rough transitions, and [...]
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Producing for over a decade, Ramble Jon Krohn, aka RJD2 is back with his fourth full length studio album, and all of the hype lives up to its expectations! With intricately cut up samples, funky percussion and original soul vocals, Krohn crafts an album full of tracks that have originally captured my attention back with [...]
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Tags: funk, instrumental hip-hop, soul
And one more list to squeeze in before January is over… Plus, these are always fun, don’t you think? The following entries of 15 albums reflect Reader’s Selections as aggregated from Your Votes. There is one catch to this list – these are all the albums NOT covered on Headphone Commute before, or appearing in [...]
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2009: Everything Everywhere for Everyone at once Experimental electronic music is a spiked frontier, full of anguished political minds that would be better to be called punk, traditional musicians that have grown tired with their normal style or instruments, bored teenagers that somehow believe that peacocking as a producer might get them chicks, and others [...]
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It’s easy to write about beautiful music. When the ambient pads wash over the gentle picks of a guitar and the distant eavesdropping of radio frequencies, it’s easy to write. When the soft piano chords are smothered in a generous dose of warm reverb, spreading over the field recordings of a rainy city street, it’s [...]
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Tags: ambient, minimal
What was your inspiration behind the concept of the album? the concept came to me one particular summers’ eve; i was walking my dog and i had a lot of heavy shit on my mind. i stood there for a minute looking up to the sky as my dog was sniffing for rabbits in the [...]
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Another exclusive mix prepared for Headphone Commute! This time, it’s Dag Rozenqvist, aka Jasper TX, mixing up his favorite tracks to keep you warm in the night… In the past few years, Rozenqvist has really stepped up in his production of dark ambient and acoustic drone pieces. Jasper TX 2008 release on Miasmah, titled Black [...]
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Talbot & Deru – Genus (Ant-Zen)
The sound is born out of electric static, slowly penetrating through the thick veil of noise until it rolls over a thump. The tremolo affected voices grow into a ten part choir consisting of members of Tenebrae professional chamber choir. The strings provided by The Duke Quartet become rhythmical, accentuated by a pulsing metallic micro [...]
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Tags: ambient, experimental, modern classical
How did you meet Joby Talbot? What were the serendipitous circumstances that yielded this amazing collaboration? Joby and I met quite randomly. He was a friend of a friend of my neighbor. My neighbor knew I was a composer so she invited me over for dinner one night while he was in town. Somehow we [...]
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Noël Wessels wants you to think everything’s going to be okay — that the storm has passed, the survivors are carefree and strong, and that, should trouble rear its ugly head again, there’s a good chance of escape. Turns out, the kind locals are killers. And, surprise surprise, the lovable protagonist is secretly mad, and [...]
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Tags: drum'n'bass
Can you describe your temporary departure from hardcore, how drum’n’bass was able to fill the void, and your current work with your/Eye-D’s hardcore label, Genosha? Roughly 11 years ago, my first explorations into the world of drum ‘n’ bass were quite literal escapes from hardcore, which had been taken hostage by its glow stick variant. [...]
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Two more reflections for you. In the first half of this installment, Bruce Adams, who back in 1993 was one of the co-founders behind Chicago’s Kranky shares his thoughts on music of 2009. Now running his own label, FlingcoSoundSystem, Bruce releases some experimental, dark ambient, avant-garde, and even abstract drone albums. In the second half, [...]
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Prepared exclusively for Headphone Commute, Sebastian Meissner, aka Klimek, mixes up his third installment of Random Noise Ballads. This 70 minute trip through a selection of hand-picked tracks is actually a composition of exclusive edits performed by Meissner to create an overwhelming acoustic journey via a less traveled territory of music. Meissner elaborates: “what i [...]
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Feel like you’ve had enough lists? Well, I’ve got one more… After many submissions of individual lists from Headphone Commute readers (see Best of 2009 – Your Votes), I’ve tabulated and aggravated and aggregated your selections into the following ten albums. This list pretty much hits the spot in terms of “best of the best”. [...]
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Reflections on 2009 : Rob Booth
Rob Booth of Electronic Explorations drops his massive list of favorite singles and albums, that deserves a dedicated post in our new Reflections section on Headphone Commute. Rob says: 2009 has been the year of bass, bass and more UK bass… I’ve not really had the chance to concentrate on anything else but dubstep, UK [...]
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Opening in mist, with disassembled activity both hidden and continuous, Seas Between is a work containing the solemnity of temporality, trembling tenderness, and the brightest side of sightless imagination. Corey Fuller was born in the United States, but while still very young, he relocated with his family to Japan, where he spent the next 20 [...]
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Tags: ambient, minimal
The Seas Between captures intercontinental distance between US and Japan. Tell us a bit about the concept behind the album, and how you came about creating this work. The title ‘Seas Between’ came from the idea and realization that the sea, specifically the Pacific Ocean, has been one of the only and few constants in [...]
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Michał Jacaszek [Gusstaff, Miasmah] Well , my music passions go a bit different way than time and chronology. In the 2009 I was discovering music released in past years, or created many decades ago (like in XIIth century for example). Modern music that got my attention in the 2009 come out from the Bedroom Community [...]
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Here’s the last list of music, highlighting my favorite albums of the year. Hope you enjoyed this trip. Meanwhile, my neighbors are going to go ahead and whine about the loud music coming from my office. I guess it’s time to go riding in the night. Start the engine, turn up the volume, and blast [...]
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