Archive for November, 2010
Matthew Cooper, recording as Eluvium, has been at the center of modern classical, ambient, and minimalist piano scene, with his intricate pieces released by Temporary Residence Limited. Recently, we have interviewed Cooper in Headphone Commute’s Two and a Half Questions with Eluvium, where we discussed his recent album, Similes. Today, Matthew has submitted an entry [...]
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Interview with Subheim
Hello Kostas, two years have passed since the release of your debut album, Approach. Probably a lot has changed in your life. How have these changes reflected on your new record? There have been changes for sure, however most of them had to do with following my own dreams at a faster and more focused [...]
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Happy Thanksgiving to my US readers and listeners! It seems that I have been busy these last couple of months sharing with you Guest Sound Postcards from my favorite artists… That doesn’t mean that I stopped capturing the world through the microphone myself… Here’s a quick treat for you, fresh off the press – a [...]
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Track of the Week : worriedaboutsatan – 63 (She Was Trying To Sleep I Was Trying To Breathe)
Today we are featuring a track off of n5MD 10th anniversary compilation, The Reconstruction of Fives. This special release features tracks from the label’s catalog covered by a specially selected group of artists, including Nadja, Architect, Ben Lukas Boysen (Hecq), Dalot, Jasper TX, Rafael Anton Irisarri, Boy Is Fiction, Miwon, Bersarin Quartett, and others! On [...]
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Sound Bytes : Samadhisound
With this installment of Sound Bytes we are accomplishing two things at once: introducing your ears to the music of Samadhisound, a label setup by David Sylvian and Steve Jansen; and welcoming on board a new contributor to Headphone Commute – Peter van Cooten, the man behind the wonderful AmbientBlog, featuring mixes, podcasts, and reviews [...]
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Tags: abstract, avant-garde, experimental, experimental jazz, noise
It’s been a while since we heard from one of our favorite modern classical composers, Rudi Arapahoe. In 2008 he amazed us with his masterpiece, Echoes From One To Another released by Symbolic Interaction. Since then, he remained silent, while his music played on… We’re honored to host a Sound Postcard from Rudi’s archive. Recording [...]
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Temporary Residence Limited
Interview with Jeremy deVine Hey Jeremy, how are you? What did you do this past weekend? I’m fine, thank you. This weekend I worked, as usual. I don’t spend much time doing otherwise these days, it seems, but it hardly feels like work compared to every other job I’ve ever had. Temporary Residence Limited has [...]
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Spending three quarters of an hour with Hummingbird is like sinking in a couch in a company of an old friend. All ego driven thoughts, all roles, and all façades just disappears. And all you’re left with is just yourself, and the soothing sounds of the Hummingbird. Distant bells, lightly touched piano keys, and reverb [...]
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Tags: modern classical
Talk a little about your decision of remaining anonymous. This decision was made for no other reason than to put out music under a different name, or in this case, a hidden identity – I personally wanted to release something that would be considered and valued for the musical content and not for the artists [...]
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Mix : DJ Walkman – Varpa
You know DJ Walkman, don’t you? He is one half of the Lithuanian netlabel team, Sutemos, that brought us some of our favorite artists through the critically acclaimed Intelligent Toys series! Today, DJ Walkman takes off his managing hat, and puts on a pair of DJ headphones to bring you one of the finest mixes [...]
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Tags: electro, electronica, idm
It’s early on a Sunday morning and I sit down in my studio to go over the latest promos I have received. Sometimes I look around my desk, piled with unopened packages and press releases, scratch my head, and wonder how I’m going to get through all of this, let alone pick out the gems [...]
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Tags: ambient, modern classical, neo classical, piano
I guess the first obvious question is, what prompted you to take this brave leap forward and put your own vocals on the record? – it’s really as simple as feeling a need to, or an interest – it can be quite easy to get caught up doing the same thing over and over again- but [...]
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Simon Scott has previously appeared on these pages via Headphone Commute reviews of Nivalis, and 88 Tapes as well as his own Reflections on 2009. These days Scott continues to run his own label, Kesh Recordings, with hopefully more releases to come soon. Meanwhile, Simon stops by to contribute his selection to our Sound Postcards project: I [...]
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We’ve got another album sampler for you! This time, it’s an 18 minute meditation session, with selection of the tracks from the latest album by Mark Harris – The Boy Observes The Ocean released by Hibernate Recordings. Thick ambient pads, swell in layers of sounds, filling the empty spaces with vapors soundscapes, and then recede [...]
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Tags: ambient, minimal
Thomas Fehlmann has long been a towering figure in electronic music. He was producer on The Orb’s Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld and executive producer for Sun Electric. He and Palais Schaumburg bandmate Moritz von Oswald (of Basic Channel fame) famously collaborated with Juan Atkins in the early nineties as 3MB. More recently he’s been producing [...]
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Tags: ambient, dub techno
This Friday’s Sound Postcard comes to us courtesy of Scott Morgan, known for his many beloved releases as Loscil on the Chicago based Kranky label. Our latest favorite album was released this past March, 2010, titled Endless Falls (read Headphone Commute review). Since then, Morgan self-released a 3-track digital EP, Versions, featuring reworked variations of [...]
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We’ve been loyal followers of Brooklyn based Temporary Residence Limited for a while now… It seems that every year, the label manages to push our listening boundaries and introduce us to new music, that inevitably makes it on to our “best of the year” lists. In 2006, we were devastated (in a good way) by a collaboration [...]
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Tags: instrumental, modern classical, post-rock
Open up those dusty venetian blinds, we’ve got another crrrazy in the house! Igorrr has been scrrrewing with our brrraincells since the 2008 self-released Moisissure (later picked up by Acroplane). In Headphone Commute’s review I comparrred Gautier Serre’s music to the production by V.Snares, Bong-Ra,Enduser, and Doormouse, so the followers of intelligent, and often chaotic breakcorrre, should be proud of [...]
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Tags: breakcore
Her Name is Calla hail from Leicester, Leeds and York in England, and create a splendid mix of quiet, loud, and expansive music that is rarely heard anymore. They describe themselves as a post-rock band striving to make music that reaches the listener’s emotional core. With The Quiet Lamb, they have far exceeded those expectations. [...]
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Tags: post-rock
How did you get involved in the production for Infra? Wayne called me up. Its usually like that – a bolt from the blue and suddenly something new is happening – actually i wouldn’t have it any other way – planning is overrated. Your music was previously used in film – tell us about the [...]
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