Archive for July, 2010
Once again, I’m back with a Reflections entry, to check out my listening patterns, one, two, and three year ago. I hope this doesn’t bore you out too much, as it gives me pleasure to revisit the dusty albums which deserve another worthy spin. Staying true to my last promise, I have revisited Dictaphone, Rudi [...]
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Dragon’s Eye Recordings
Interview with Yann Novak Hey Yann, hope you’re doing well. So where are you living these days? Right now I am living in downtown Los Angeles, and I really love it here. And here’s a fun question I like to ask now and then: What did you do this past weekend? Last weekend I performed [...]
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After his previous appearance on Headphone Commute with an excellent modern classical mix, Later, Cole Pierce returns with a grab-bag of soothing summer tunes that cut through the heat, your ears, and your heart. Just like the last time, this mix is actually in two parts: Zombies and Vampires, presented here in one piece for [...]
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I am always hungry for new music. I think I continue to consume the sounds, so that I can recreate that moment. That moment of when one hears that sound, and is taken away out of this world into another. That moment, reminiscent of your childhood memories, when you would put on your headphones and [...]
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Tags: ambient techno, dub techno, minimal techno
Interview with Stephen Hitchell and Rod Modell of Deepchord Presents Echospace Liumin is a lot warmer than your previous release, The Coldest Season. To what do you attribute that change, and how has your sound evolved between the albums? [SH] This is a great observation and one we attribute to our travels. The Coldest Season [...]
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From the mysterious depths of Hiroshima, Japan, arrives an inconspicuous, yet meticulously packaged 10″ square packet. Inside is a hand-numbered elaborately printed envelope containing two photographic prints, two random newspaper clippings (I’ve got a photo of an Italian train station, and a shot of an Asian artisan), and a full length album from Akatombo, titled [...]
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Tags: electronica, idm
Tell us about your label, Hand-Held Recordings HHR was set up about a year ago. Presently, it’s main function is to release Akatombo recordings, and hopefully, in the not too distant future, recordings from other artists & projects that I think deserve a wider audience. The label’s ethos is, literally, a genre-free zone – anything [...]
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Mix : Shukry Adams – kw1v3r
After sharing with the commuters his previous mix, Ethereal Cinematicism, Shukry Adams returns with an edgier side of his likings. Listeners should expect to get enveloped in drone, noise, and even “douchestep”, in this slowly evolving, hour long journey. Here’s Adams, shining a little light on this darker corner of his psyche: i wanted to [...]
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Tags: dubstep, glitch, idm, piano
I guess that with the review of Roel Funcken’s – Vade, Interview with Roel Funcken, and now this EP from Funckarma, it’s officially the Funcken Week here, on Headphone Commute!!! The selection this week, is another mini-snippet-mix from the upcoming Funckarma release on SHIPWREC, titled Reascg EP. This is a 6 minute mashup of all [...]
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Tags: dubstep, glitch, idm
Roel Funcken – Vade (Ad Noiseam)
Here’s my remedy for a sleepy brain. A shot of caffeine with a touch of Funcken in my headphones. First the mixture goes down easy, drifting in and out of my peripheral hearing – then the beat latches into the neuron receptor, and unlocks its secrets with a click. Roel Funcken is one of the [...]
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Tags: dark idm, dubstep, glitch, idm
First, I’ve got to ask, what prompted you to go solo? Don and I are both trying out other avenues right now while we maintain doing our brother funck. It’s natural that every person also has something to say on their own, so while Don got busy being a father for his new guy I [...]
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