Archive for May, 2010
Mix : HC – Oceanica
Sun… Ocean… Calmness… Being in a meditative state of mind, attempting to clear out all thoughts and rid myself of negative energy, I put together a mix to compliment my breathing. As the water sways in waves, so does my breath, and so does everything else. Rotations… Cycles… Beginnings… This ambient mix with a touch [...]
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Weird morning. Nothing is working. No, actually worse – anything I touch breaks! First I spill a bowl of dog food on the floor. Individual kibbles dispersed in an array of equidistant mosaic. I even spent a few minutes studying it, crouched on the floor. Then the AC is still broken. Registering 78 degrees by [...]
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Conversations with Alain Mongeau
Alain Mongeau is the founder and artistic director of MUTEK, the International Festival of Digital Creativity and Electronic Music of Montreal, Canada. I’ve had the privilege of interviewing Alain prior to the MUTEK’s 11th edition, taking place on June 2-6 of 2010. Tell us about your involvement with MUTEK. Were you there since the very [...]
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Event : MUTEK 2010
If you haven’t heard me rave about MUTEK yet, well, now is the time. I am absolutely excited to be attending this year’s 11th edition festival, taking place in Montreal, Canada in less then a week – on June 2nd through 6th. I am also deeply honored to announce that I will be covering the [...]
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I am super excited to share with you our very first guest Sound Postcard, submitted by Basten Bask. Looks like Basten is currently somewhere in Peru with his recorder, and he was able to capture the amazing sound of an Icaro – a shamanistic medicine song. This is absolutely incredible! In this recording you can [...]
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I know that an album is timeless, when after many years I return to it, and it still sounds fresh. Not only does the sound not age, but I feel like I should tell everyone about it all over again! And the music… it slowly hovers over the roofs of the sleepy houses, swirling down [...]
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Tags: instrumental, post-rock, shoegaze
Tell us a bit about the title of the album, “Chasing After Shadows… Living with the Ghosts”. Is there a story behind it? There is no specific story. It’s a general statement about human existence. Shadows represent reflection but not true reality. We all chase after things that are not real at times. It could [...]
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Mix : Bop – Micromixes
Let me introduce you to Bop. Hailing from Saint-Petersburg in Russia, Alexander Dmitriev is a new breed of producer intent on re-writing the rulebook with an intoxicating ice-cold sound; embracing influences from deep techno and minimalist dubstep through to IDM and ambient drum & bass. This is beautiful, melodic, micro-glitchy d’n’b that should definitely get [...]
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Loscil – Endless Falls (Kranky)
It begins and ends with rain. But when the waterfalls subside, a picturesque landscape reveals itself through haze and fog. Vast fields of textural sound unfold beneath the soaring heights, with a slight pulse of bass vibrations, originating from the unexplored depths, and an echoing muffled synth line, dying in the cavernous emptiness of this [...]
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Tags: ambient, dub
What is the connection of your music to rain? Mostly the fact that I live in a rainy city (Vancouver) and this affects me which affects my music. The sound of rain is also very interesting – a randomly generated texture comprised of many small sounds. You already commented on your choice for using vocals [...]
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Here’s an interesting 40 second recording… I was driving around Malibu and got pretty high up in the mountains, hoping to record a short piece of quiet and a few singing birds. It was difficult finding an isolate place with no cars going by every twenty seconds. I kept hearing distracting sounds, until I finally [...]
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A lot of great music in this one! In this installment of Sound Bytes, I want to cover a few compilations across a spectrum of genres. Not only do these showcase the latest in dubstep, drum’n’bass and techno, but I promise you that this sound is unlike anything else you’ve heard before. In all cases, the compilations [...]
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Tags: drum'n'bass, dubstep, techno
I brought you some ocean from the West Coast. I crouched down as close to the water as possible without getting wet, so that I could capture the waves roll across the beach in stereo [from right to left]. If you listen closely, when the waves crash on the sand and rush towards me in [...]
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My Reflections on the music I listened to one, two and three years ago, has guided me to revisit previously loved albums by Marsen Jules: Herbstlaub (City Centre Offices, 2005) and Les Fleurs (City Centre Offices, 2006). While I was digging through my collection, attempting to dust off these gems for yet another rotation, I [...]
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Tags: ambient, modern classical
Tell us about your label… OKTAF is a new label for authentic music in the field of ambient, avantgarde classic and modern jazz. It´s a place for my own music as well as cooperations with other musicians and special compilation projects. Aside from the release of CDs we also have the “OKTAF SKETCHES” series with [...]
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Out of nowhere the air became dense. I grabbed my recorder and rushed downstairs. Before I got a chance to adjust my levels, and right after I opened the door, the street lit up with a strobe-like intensity, my headphones exploded with amplified electricity, and it began to pour… Aaah… the sights, the smells, and [...]
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Sound Bytes : Hyperdub Special
This special installment of Sound Bytes features not just three, but five quick entries covering the very latest releases from one of the ground breaking, boundary pushing, genre bending labels, Hyperdub. This UK label is run and operated by Steve Goodman, aka Kode9. It is Hyperdub that introduced us to William Bevan – aka Burial [...]
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Tags: dubstep
Mix : Mnemonic45 – Spring Rain
Macedonian producer, Goce Gligurovski, composing under the name Mnemonic45, takes us into the sounds of nature, attempting to synthesize and sample the “wind on trees”, birds in “conversation”, and river stone “society”. For this mix, he selects some of his favorite artists to create a moving ambiance of sound. myspace.com/gocegligurovski [ S T R [...]
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I spent a few hours immersed in listening to and writing a flashback review for Orbital – In Sides. The melody of The Box got stuck in my head, and the only way I could release the ghost of the nostalgia is by playing it on the piano. Here’s my short impromptu interpretation of the [...]
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Orbital – In Sides (ffrr)
Fourteen years ago, in May of 1996, Orbital released their fourth full length album, In Sides. I remember the day when the disk finally arrived, and I carefully put it into the CD tray while leafing through the booklet. I remember when The Box finally came on. The entire ritual of absorbing the music for [...]
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Tags: electronica
Experimedia Headphone Commute Mix
Cole Pierce - LAKE ODESSA


