Archive for February, 2011
(click the image to enlarge) Last week, we featured the first installment, Re:pose, of a two-part exclusive mix series for Headphone Commute by Access To Arasaka. Today we conclude the session with a glitchy IDM mix of AtA’s favorite selections. Get your ears ready, as we ease into the sounds from Tympanik Audio and kick [...]
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Tags: idm
Today’s Sound Postcard comes from Emanuele Errante, who recently has been profiled by Headphone Commute in our Interview with Emanuele Errante as well as review of his latest album on Karaoke Kalk, Time Elapsing Handheld. The following entry, as the title suggests, was captured in Ireland, on the lake of Kylemore Abbey (Lough Kylemore, Connemara). [...]
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The truth is, I’ve been meaning to review an album from Berlin’s Karaoke Kalk for quite some time now. And it’s not only because some of my favorite artists found a home on this label, like Hauschka for his debut Substantial (2004), Senking for a self-titled debut Senking (1998), and Dakota Suite for The End [...]
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Interview with Emanuele Errante
Your 2008 release Humus was an ambient masterpiece sprinkled with elements of electronica and IDM. In addition to synth soundscapes, your latest album features a lot more acoustic instruments. Tell us a bit about that progression. In my works I have always tried to find the right balance between acoustic sounds and electronic sounds. The [...]
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It’s been like a whole month since I’ve selected a new Track of the Week. I’ve been pretty busy, I guess… But it took a new single from Submotion Orchestra to wake me up from my hibernation. So today I share with you a preview of a single from an upcoming full length, due out [...]
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Interview with Her Name Is Calla
The Quiet Lamb speaks as much to the silence between passages as the music itself. Was this intentional? Its quiet majesty is truly breathtaking. Thank you! It was intentional, for various reasons. The album was always meant to be enjoyed as a whole, and the silence gives the listener a moment to think and reflect, [...]
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(click the image to enlarge) Today, the United States is celebrating George Washington’s birthday as its President’s Day holiday. Another snow storm has covered the eastern coast; and as the flurries continue to blanket the pavement, we ease into the day with a gorgeous mix by Access To Arasaka. I first fell in love with [...]
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Tags: electronica
Reflections : Gloomy Sunday
(click to see entire image) Today, I’m trying something new… An in-depth reflection on one specific track (song), and some of its incarnations through the years through variety of covers. And what better way to kick this one off than with a one titled Gloomy Sunday… Read on, and make sure to hit [play] along [...]
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When winter arrives and the sky goes grey I like to close the blinds of my apartment, turn the heater up to eleven and cuddle up in my bed. Usually this custom of mine goes together with the computer placed on my bed and a thick blanket of music that fills up the air around [...]
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Interview with Tim Hecker
Editor’s Note: In June of 2010, I attended MUTEK, an international festival of electronic music, taking place in Montreal, Canada. During my stay, I interviewed many artists in person (yes, I know, I’ve failed to share many of these gems). Among them, I had an opportunity to talk with Tim Hecker. The following is a [...]
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Headphone Commute’s Sound Postcards project was inspired by Taylor Deupree‘s One Sound Each Day project, where for a year, Deupree would record a sound, regardless of how ‘mundane’ it at first appeared. As the owner of the amazing 12k label, and one of the pioneers behind the ambient and minimal genres, it’s only suitable for [...]
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I first discovered Dustin O’Halloran when his beautiful track appeared on Explorer’s Club series, from Loaf (on which I accidentally landed after an appearance from Hauschka, Nils Frahm and Jóhann Jóhannsson). I then gravitated towards O’Halloran’s release on Sonic Pieces, titled Vorleben, and immediately fell in love with his music. His album was later featured [...]
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Tags: modern classical, piano
Interview with Dustin O’Halloran
Talk about the moment when you discovered that you had synesthesia. How has this condition affected your composition? I always had this condition, but never really understood it or knew there was so much information about it until I started to study painters with this same condition. It really opened up a whole new world [...]
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Snobo, aka Gosh from Yaputhma, is a Riga (Latvia) based musician, DJ, and most importantly, music lover. With the early 90s spent as a guitarist and singer/songwriter, the late of that decade producing house, jungle, and trip-hop, and the 2000 mostly DJing at Riga clubs and lounges, Snobo eventually slowed down his sets to nearly [...]
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Tags: ambient
You have been producing music for well over a decade now. How has your sound evolved over the years? I think my music has always been a mixture of numerous influences, styles. I love electronic music, space and trance, but too, world music, classical, even pop rock. I guess that, since 1996, when Asura was [...]
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Interview with Boy Is Fiction
What have been the greatest musical influences on your music? For as long as I can remember I’ve been really easily distracted. My attention span is average at the best of times but music was always different. When I was growing up my folks had a huge collection of vinyl and discs that I’d disappear [...]
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Here, at Headphone Commute offices, our bins are overflowing with promos, our mailboxes are screaming with “listen to meeee!” subjects, and our hard-drives are constantly churning, fragmenting and archiving. We have given up a long time ago on listening to _ALL_ of the music out there, and complaining about its abundance is also a sin… [...]
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Cepia – Cepia (Cepia Music)
Huntley Miller’s 2007 debut, Natura Morta, on Ghostly International as Cepia ends with Untitled II. His sophomore release on his own Cepia Music, self-titled Cepia, begins with Untitled III. Perhaps it is meant to tie the three years together, perhaps it’s nothing more than a lack of words for the titles, or maybe there is no [...]
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Tags: experimental, idm
What is the main theme behind the album, and why did you choose to go with a self-titled approach? There isn’t a main theme behind the album, but to me, it’s an album in the classic sense where all the pieces are related and it’s designed to be listened to all the way through. It’s [...]
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Mix : James Alaska – Aheverse
James Alaska is a London based composer. He began DJing at the age of 16, drawing inspiration from the likes of David Mancuso, Larry Levan and Danny Krivit. Over a period of 20 years he ran club nights and held DJ residencies in Liverpool and London. These included gigs with the likes of Andy Weatherall, [...]
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Tags: ambient, minimal
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