Posts Tagged ‘electronica’
Here’s one of my favorite quotes by Elvis Costello (courtesy of Tigon’s blog) - “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture – it’s really a stupid thing to want to do.” This concept becomes even more pronounced once one spends many years engaged in this [absurd] activity. Myself included. Verbs, nouns, and especially adjectives, repeated [...]
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Tags: electronica, glitch, idm
Amon Tobin – ISAM (Ninja Tune)
Listening to Amon Tobin’s latest album requires preparation. You can’t just throw on the record in the background and expect it to woo you. It requires a certain setting, a certain mood, a focused attention and an acute sense of perception. ISAM is a new full length release from Tobin since his 2007 Foley Room. And since it took him [...]
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Tags: electronica, experimental, idm
Mix : Mnemonic45 – First of May
Goce Gligurovski’s Spring Rain mix appeared on Headphone Commute back in May of 2010. A year later, Mnemonic45 returns to our podcast with a dedication to International Workers’ Day, commonly celebrated across Eastern Europe and the rest of the world in more than 80 countries. For this mix, Mnemonic45 takes us across his favorite jazzy electronica, [...]
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Tags: electronica, glitch, jazzy
This vinyl only mix by Optic Echo‘s founder Mike Jedlicka was formulated to represent where the light and dark meet at the first flicker of dawn. You’ve been awake all night with a feeling of a constant undertow pulling the world away, a premonition of something unknown to come. A vague hallucination of old memories and new dreams [...]
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Tags: ambient, dark ambient, electronica
The Easily Embarrassed project is a Netherlands group consisting of three electronic musicians – Jeffrey van der Schilden, Nick van der Schilden, and Peter Spaargaren. The crew have been producing for the past four years, releasing full length albums and EPs on labels like Cardamar, Cosmicleaf and Soundmute. For this Headphone Commute podcast, Easily Embarrassed [...]
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Tags: electronica
Today we are excited to present you with an exclusive mix from Warsaw based producer, Bartosz Dziadosz, known to the world of IDM and electronica simply as Pleq. Comprised mostly of original tracks and remixes from many favorite artists, such as offthesky, Nebulo, Spyweirdos and others, the mix takes you through a somber trip of [...]
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Tags: electronica, idm
(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
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
Before I dive into this melodic and emotional IDM album, I want to talk about the label. Symbolic Interaction is an independent label run by Kentaro Togawa out of his hometown, outside of Tokyo, Japan. Togawa started the label in 2007, and in the last three years released about twenty five albums (Out In A [...]
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Tags: cinematic, electronica
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
In this installment of Sound Bytes, I wish to cover a few compilations that recently grazed on the cones of my speakers. I’ve got some ambient, downtempo, and IDM here for you to munch on. And what’s more delicious about this organic cocktail is that a lot of it is FREE! Bon appetit! Made of [...]
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Tags: electronica, idm, psybient
Orbital – In Sides (ffrr)
Fourteen years ago, in May of 1996, Orbital released their fourth full length album, In Sides. I remember the day when the disk finally arrived, and I carefully put it into the CD tray while leafing through the booklet. I remember when The Box finally came on. The entire ritual of absorbing the music for [...]
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Tags: electronica
Out of a small label in the UK, run by fabulous Miss Alice and Andrew Hargreaves, comes a beautifully crafted release from The Archivist. This is only the second release for the label, but OK, it’s got my attention! At first, I was a bit surprised at the intricate production behind the album, The Keeper [...]
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Tags: downtempo, electronica, idm
When Phylum Sinter sent me a promotional copy of his digital release on En:peg Digital, little did he know that I was already a fan. And how could I not be, when his music tickles my spine with triggered percussion jittering across beautiful harmonic atmospherics and refined melodies. Like in Telefon Tel Aviv‘s Fahrenheit Fair [...]
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Tags: downtempo, electronica, idm
With only five albums and a handful of EPs and even some 7-inchers, Berlin-based Uwe Zahn, signed off from producing music altogether, with the last track on Lilies (City Centre Offices, 2004), titled Good Bye Forever. But Arovane‘s music doesn’t age. In fact, it is one of those rare occurrences where it gets better and [...]
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Tags: electronica, idm
The Sutemos collective is a Lithuanian net label which has been releasing free EPs and compilations since January 2004. Intelligent Toys is one of their best series, in which the label collects works from a roster of eclectic electronic musicians across the globe. And this fifth installment is one of my absolute favorites. First of [...]
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Tags: ambient, electronica, idm
From the very few opening notes, I know that I’m in for a treat. As the album progresses, I get wide-eyed, and instead of paying attention to details [I know I will be coming back for more later], I spend time researching, tracing the steps that led me to accidentally miss this album, and calling [...]
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Tags: ambient, electronica, modern classical
It’s about time that I got my hands on Jase Rex’s fifth release, appropriately titled Five. Critics universally agree, that unlike his moniker suggests, Rex is not just Another Electronic Musician. And though the past releases by Rex were closer to subdued melodic electronica, this album clearly puts the D in IDM. Familiar playful glitchy [...]
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Tags: electronica, glitch, idm
It seems that bigger labels started to steer away from straight up IDM in the recent years. Perhaps the passing away of Merck, and the resurrection of Neo Ouija may be a testament to that. Even n5MD chilled out and turned towards emotional electronica. In my opinion it has to do with evolution of sound, [...]
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Tags: dark idm, electronica
Should I even bother covering this? It’s not like Liam needs my help. His 5th studio album, Invaders Must Die, barely hit the streets, and already all of the notable publications have lauded this long awaited album with more than favorable reviews. It’s not like Liam needs my words to boost his career, although it’s [...]
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Tags: big beat, breakbeat, electronica
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