Posts Tagged ‘glitch’
Geoff White comes from that group of early-Y2k musicians which explored the IDM genre on Force Inc, Merck, Neo Ouija and of course, Ghostly International. I’m talking, of course, about the era of clicky sounds from Metamatics, Deru, Proswell, Blamstrain, Lackluster, Geiom, Kettel, Dabrye, Tstewart and Lusine. Fans of this atmospheric experimental electronic music with glitchy percussion and nonconforming rhythms know exactly what I’m talking about. During 2002, [...]
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Tags: glitch, idm
I’m very excited to share today’s podcast with you!!! OK, three more exclamation points!!! Today we’ve got an exclusive, dirty, raunchy, grimey mix from the one and only Roel Funcken, tricking it up with glitch, dark IDM, and saw-tooth dubstep, plus a few more surprises here and there… You’re going to want to turn up [...]
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Tags: dubstep, glitch, idm
With a mysterious and at-once bright beginning, Tone Sketch booms in its own comfortable extents, both experimental and purely different from the future pop, awakening and triggering novel inspiration. After successful releases on labels such as Cotton Goods, Dynamophone, The Land Of, and Symbolic Interaction, Hideki Umezawa, known solely as Pawn, ushers into his musical [...]
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Tags: glitch, idm
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
Fans of clicks and glitch rejoice! Raster-Noton is in the house! Matt Storey, aka Vinyl Matt selects his favorite Raster-Noton cuts to create one of the most eclectic and challenging mixes on Headphone Commute, showcasing the label’s finest artists, such as Kangding Ray, SND, COH, Mika Vainio, Grischa Lichtenberger and of course, Alva Noto himself. [...]
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Tags: abstract, experimental, glitch
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
On my true Headphone Commute between New York and Philadelphia, Spring rushes past the windows of a high-speed tilting train. With two hours of music, a laptop, and spotty Wi-Fi service, I can catch up to the latest compilations that have truly excited me about the latest evolution of sound. Here are three of my [...]
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Tags: drum'n'bass, glitch, idm, tech house
Load up that rubber band gun with a stretched-out bass and snap the trigger on the dropping rhythm – the wobble bubble hip-bop is in the house! The 10th studio album from Dave Tipper, Broken Soul Jamboree, is about to slap you across the face, with its top notch production, acoustically rich other world themes, [...]
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Tags: downtempo, glitch, idm, psybient
Dedicated to all the people who are suffering from multiple sclerosis, Warsaw (Poland) based electronic music producer, Bartosz Dziadosz, releases his new album, My Life Begins Today as Pleq. The album hits my rotations out of nowhere, as it slowly lands on my desk, gracefully falling like the last leaf from the music tree of [...]
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Tags: glitch, idm
Editor’s Note: Headphone Commute would like to welcome a new contributor to our site, Caspar Menkman. Hailing out of The Netherlands, Caspar is a fan of sounds ranging from Flying Lotus to Intrusion to Hildur Guðnadóttir, and everything in between! He even wrote his thesis on the perceived aesthetic aura in new media, focusing on [...]
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Tags: glitch, idm, noise
What’s great about this album, is that there was more than a few times when I had that “aaaah…” moment. Perhaps what drove me to write this raving review about 7fingers is that there were those moments one too many. On every single track. I first found out about this album when the new release [...]
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Tags: glitch, idm, modern classical, piano
It’s been a while since we covered one of our all time favorite labels, n5MD. The last time we praised Mike Cadoo‘s label was in Headphone Commute’s Best of 2009 lists, where Plastik Joy, Port-Royal and Last Days grabbed the slots among our selections of the year. In 2010, Cadoo has been busy, releasing a [...]
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Tags: glitch, idm, post-rock, shoegaze
Mix : Shukry Adams – kw1v3r
After sharing with the commuters his previous mix, Ethereal Cinematicism, Shukry Adams returns with an edgier side of his likings. Listeners should expect to get enveloped in drone, noise, and even “douchestep”, in this slowly evolving, hour long journey. Here’s Adams, shining a little light on this darker corner of his psyche: i wanted to [...]
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Tags: dubstep, glitch, idm, piano
I guess that with the review of Roel Funcken’s – Vade, Interview with Roel Funcken, and now this EP from Funckarma, it’s officially the Funcken Week here, on Headphone Commute!!! The selection this week, is another mini-snippet-mix from the upcoming Funckarma release on SHIPWREC, titled Reascg EP. This is a 6 minute mashup of all [...]
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Tags: dubstep, glitch, idm
Roel Funcken – Vade (Ad Noiseam)
Here’s my remedy for a sleepy brain. A shot of caffeine with a touch of Funcken in my headphones. First the mixture goes down easy, drifting in and out of my peripheral hearing – then the beat latches into the neuron receptor, and unlocks its secrets with a click. Roel Funcken is one of the [...]
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Tags: dark idm, dubstep, glitch, idm
Once introduced to that delicious, sweet nectar, the addict constantly searches for more. Just another hit, another bump, another tweak to get one smiling. In my case, the choice of drug is music. Whether it be a melodic harmony within the player’s piano keys, or nasty glitch within his framework – I … WANT … MORE! [...]
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Tags: dark idm, glitch, idm
Like a hungry spider, returning to its nest of venomous eggs, the effect-rich sound of Frank Riggio crawls up your skin, and sinks its fangs in to open up a healed scab beneath your scalp. This album is dark, cinematic, enormous and elaborate. It is absolutely impossible not to compare Riggio to Amon Tobin – [...]
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Tags: electronic, glitch, idm
Jega – Variance (Planet Mu)
It took almost nine years for Dylan Nathan to return to the scene with his intelligent breaks and glitchy melodies, slapping it across the entire IDM spectrum under his Jega moniker. There were some hiccups in this release – the album leaked back in 2003, and Nathan chose to pull back the tracks, refile the [...]
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Tags: dark idm, glitch, idm
~Treibgut fits snuggly into the sonic world of Raster-Noton. For this EP, his first release for the label, Grischa Lichtenberger‘s primary sources are found sounds from the world around him, including the sound of a sliding tabletop, the noise of a radiator and the humming of a broken device. Apparently, the music reflects Lichtenberger’s reflections [...]
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Tags: abstract, glitch
Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto are unquestionably among the masters of modern experimental music. Noto has crafted a musical language all his own based on the most elemental of sound sources – electricity, static, white noise – and helped to raise laptop production to new heights. Sakamoto has such a varied an brilliant career, ranging [...]
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Tags: abstract, glitch, minimal, modern classical
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