Archive for January, 2011
From 1989 to 1994, Brian McBride used to run a radio show at the University of Texas’s station called The Dick Fudge Show: It’s an old four track tape from 95 that i made for my long lost radio show, the dick fudge show. the side of the tape says Dick Fudge Tapes 95: Chicago [...]
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Mix : riverrun – inspirations
Daniel Land has quietly descended on these pages with his ambient project, riverrun, at the end of 2010. His slow evolving explorations of sound in Pentimento drenched our studios in dense layers of sound, and a profound state of being. It seems that Land set off to create a record in a vacuum of influences. [...]
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Tags: ambient, drone
Here’s a short, but very sweet Sound Postcard from Hauschka: I’m thinking about saving this as my ring tone… Hope Volker won’t be offended ;) Also on Headphone Commute Hauschka – Foreign Landscapes (130701) Hauschka – Ferndorf (130701) Interview with Hauschka Two and a Half Questions with Hauschka Best of Modern Classical 2010 (feat Hauschka)
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I remember the very fist time I heard Hauschka. Strange bells, cardboard clicks, and metallic slaps accompanied each note. At first, I was not aware that this was a prepared piano – an altered instrument with placed objects between the strings and hammers. Upon learning of Volker Bertelmann’s exploration of possibilities through instrument modifications, I [...]
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Interview with Hauschka
Hey Volker. We last spoke after your release of Ferndorf, where you introduced a few stringed instruments into your music. On Foreign Landscapes you took on an entire orchestra! Tell us how this collaboration has evolved. Oh i think with twelve people it is a small orchestra, and i am really happy that i could [...]
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The past year has been Bedroom Community’s biggest and busiest yet with no less than four album releases, a Whale Watching tour that actually turned into three (thanks Eyjafjallajökull!) – numerous collective and individual events, appearances and collaborations, and even a presidential visit to the Greenhouse Studios. Here are some of our artist’s individual highlights [...]
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Lists, lists, and more lists! Here are four more for you to swallow. Will these ever end? At least these are by our favorite artists!!! It’s always neat to know what they select… Stephan Mathieu 2010 Rotations (alphabetical) Akira Rabelais. Caduceus, CD on SamadhiSound, 2010 Anika. Anika, LP on Stones Throw, 2010 Bird By Snow. [...]
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Cover version of Broadcast’s “Until Then” recorded by Rafael Anton Irisarri with Benoit Pioulard, in memory of Trish Keenan. Here are some words from Rafael: Benoit and I were working on our collaborative project this week and decided to record one of our favorite songs as a tribute. We were both extremely saddened by Trish Keenan’s [...]
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Following an extensive two part interview with bvdub, we conclude our week long artist feature with a Sound Postcard entry from Brock Van Wey himself: This is a recording of how I begin my day almost every morning – to the sound of my students in my classroom before class begins. This particular recording was [...]
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Interview with bvdub (part two)
Read interview with bvdub (part one) Your music conveys more than words. Yet some of the titles of your tracks frame the concept behind the message. Silly question – how do you come up with these titles, and how much of the meaning to they intend to relay? All of the titles specifically frame the [...]
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Interview with bvdub (part one)
That topic of death and passing away is something that you have admittedly been obsessed with. Is it a fascination, phobia, acceptance or something else? Can you please shed more light on this? What was once a nearly crippling fear turned to acceptance, and then to fascination. It’s been something I’ve been obsessed with for [...]
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Here are some more reflections for you to digest. Today we feature favorite selections of the year from four label owners: Richard Chartier of Line, Jonathan of Hibernate, Yann Novak of Dragon’s Eye, and Jeremy Bible of Experimedia. Richard Chartier / Line RICHARD CHARTIER . top 10 of 2010 list Pan Sonic – Gravitoni Lovesliescrushing [...]
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Here’s a true story. One morning I woke up between the two worlds – the one created by my mind, and the one perceived by it. With the remaining bits of dreams still lingering in my peripheral consciousness, I set off to the start of a new day. But the dreams kept coming back. In [...]
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Tags: ambient, ambient dub
[Editor's Note: Words by Dag Rosenqvist of Jasper TX and De La Mancha] 2010 has been a strange year. Intense and weird. It sort of just ran by me while I was busy with other things. There have been some bad things but there has also been good ones. I guess it all evens out [...]
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Imagine a mash up of Thom Yorke, trip-hop beats, and celestial choirs, and you’ll only have an inkling of what to expect with The Hurt Kingdom, the new release from East Midlands artists To Bury a Ghost. These ambitious lads marry thundering bass lines with swooning emotional passages, capped by delicate strings. They carry it [...]
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Tags: post-rock
Mix : PvC – Dawn Secrets
Peter van Cooten has been involved in music for over 50 years now. Based out of Utrecht, Holland, Peter has been feeding his passion for ambient music by consuming the sounds ranging from Klaus Schulze, to Tangerine Dream, to Bill Laswell and of course, Brian Eno. After being invited to compile a mix for Dutch [...]
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Tags: ambient, experimental
The beast is awake. Daydreams turn into nightmares. This is not real. This is not real. The walls perspire and the muscles ache, as the sound rolls over your blanket and crawls under your bed. There it shakes off its frequencies and morphs into an over-compressed standing wave, too loud to mix, until its entire [...]
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Just like last year, somehow I managed to torture myself with a great restraint of releasing these “Best Of” lists, only one per day. Believe me, there’s nothing more I want, than to share all of this music with you! Especially this selection of albums that falls into one of my favorite categories! This is [...]
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Music evolution spins in cycles. A new development in sound hoards a following of copycats, too anxious to proliferate the world with the nuclear output of their laptops. There are some that fail. There are some that surf along with the wave before it breaks, emerging from nowhere and receding back to nothing. And then [...]
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I don’t timestamp music with transitions… I timestamp life transitions with the music… A period here, a semicolon there… Music played for long lost friends, and music that I play for them again right now… Because even if you’re not right here, and you can’t hear these sounds, I know you’re listening. And even though [...]
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