Archive for September, 2011
Conversations with Sean Horton
What are the roots of the festival? How did it come to existence, what was the original idea behind it, and what does the name, Decibel, represent? The roots definitely came from my upbringing in Detroit, where I was exposed to early 90s warehouse party culture in high school. It was there that I first [...]
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Decibel 2011 : Preview
It’s official! Headphone Commute is covering Decibel Festival 2011! The 8th International Festival of Electronic Music, Performance, Visual Art and New Media will take place across multiple venues in Seattle, WA, from September 28th through October 2nd – that’s five full nights (and days) of music! I’ve already scoped out the locations of venues and the [...]
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Interview with Monolithium
Monothlithium has made some big steps very quickly, playing at Mutek within months of the fist tracks being mastered, and at Decibel a few weeks from now. What do you attribute that to? The big factor I think, is the fact that it emerged fully formed. I had an EP already planned and was finishing [...]
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Monolithium has appeared out of nowhere. He’s shot from non-existence to performances at Mutek and Decibel, not to mention a vinyl pressing (with Error Broadcast), in under year. But much like the purple space rock of his EP’s cover art, just because something is new to your galaxy doesn’t mean it hasn’t spent eons forming [...]
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Tags: bass, crunk, dub
Welcome back to a second entry in our Sound Bytes Label Special, covering a new California-based independent, Time Released Sound. Founded by Colin Herrick in March 2011, this small, independent, California-based label releases hand-made, limited-edition albums and EPs, with painstaking details and loving attention. “Focusing primarily on classically infused and folk based ambient and electroacoustic [...]
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Tags: ambient, modern classical, piano
Welcome to the world of Debian Blak, where beats and bass copulate in a blissful marriage. Profiled in Headphone Commute’s Sound Bytes column on post-dubstep, Leeds-based Rowan Perkins has been turning heads in the community dominated by loyal followers of Mount Kimbie, James Blake, Flying Lotus, and friends. For this exclusive and very special mix, [...]
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Tags: bass, dubstep, post-dubstep
The music of Italian modern classical composer, Fabrizio Paterlini, first appeared on Headphone Commute with a review of his collection of “lost” music, titled Fragments Found (self, 2010). With his delicate piano keys, Paterlini quickly made it to our Best of 2010 list, subtitled Music For Watching The Snow Slowly Fall In The Moonlight, alongside Dustin [...]
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So you finished your album, and are ready to spend the next five minutes engaging in that vile act of self-promotion. The word itself is enough to make a real musician gag. And since you made this music just for yourself, why spread the word about it? To make absolutely sure that your music is [...]
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After releasing Nils Frahm‘s previous two albums Wintermuzik (2009) and The Bells (2010), as well as an Unter | Über EP (2010) and a collaborative release with Anne Müller titled 7fingers (2010), the UK based purveyor of modern classical, IDM and post-rock, Erased Tapes Records prepares for a new installment from one of the rising [...]
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Tags: piano
Conversations with The Caretaker
Some research suggests that olfaction (sense of smell) is the highest memory triggering sense. What are your thoughts on auditory triggers, and more importantly, music itself? It’s always been shown that through music we remember certain situations and times. The brain is always amazing when it comes to storage and recall but then becomes a [...]
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