Timothy Gabriele is a writer who studied English and Film at the University of Massachussetts at Amherst. He currently lives in the New Haven, CT region with his wife, his daughter, his dog, and two cats. He has been featured in the book Goodbye Billie Jean: The Meaning of Michael Jackson. His column, The Difference Engine, appears regularly at PopMatters. Among his many current projects is a biographical blog series chronicling his life via mix tapes, which can be read at Documentary Mixtape.
Features
Thursday, February 2 2012
After Cease to Exist: The Far-from-Final Report of Throbbing Gristle
After a British government official declared them "Wreckers of Civilization", Throbbing Gristle understood their mission -- to destroy the Control society.
Tuesday, October 26 2010
What Was It That You Tried to Say? The Degeneration of the Voice in 'Kid A'
For being one of the defining albums of its time, Kid A certainly doesn't have much to say -- or at least that's what the band wants you to think. The band's thoughts on losing one's voice in an increasingly individualistic society suddenly takes on a much greater potency.
Thursday, September 24 2009
Various Artists: Factory Records: Communications 1978-92
Factory Records was as influential in design, sound production, and defining what a label could be as it was in music.
Thursday, July 9 2009
The Fawn in the Burning Forest: Our Beloved Monster
Unlike John Lennon’s clumsy attempts to appear working class or Mick Jagger’s incessant chauvinist posturing, Michael Jackson had no strong desire to be “authentic” or “real”.
Wednesday, November 12 2008
The Signal and the Violence of American Identity Politics
The oppressor in The Signal is an underlying, parental figure in absentia. It is industrial civilization as pathology, inextricably and somehow willfully divorced from reality.
1968 is Undead [30.Oct.08]
Why Does the Mix CD Still Exist? [23.Sep.08]
Some Things Just Can't Stay Buried [8.Sep.08]
Columns
Thursday, January 5 2012
2011: Music’s Most Electronic Year Yet
Vestigial organs like industrial music and the radio dial proved vital in 2011, while house and dubstep were invaded by hordes of uninvited outsiders, proving once again that electronic and plugged-in music is at the vanguard of change throughout the world.
Monday, October 10 2011
The Survival of the Industrial Sonic in a Deindustrialized West
In the '90s, industrial music crossed over into the mainstream with heavy guitar and massive personalities, but blue collar labor itself was disappearing...
Monday, July 11 2011
Techno’s Labor Force, Rock’s Betrayal, and the Birth of the Fascist Groove Thing
Electronic music has always maintained an ambivalent attitude towards labor, at once rejecting the notion of wage internment and creative inhibition while embracing the beauty of the cyborgian mechanics of the factory and the allure of discipline and dominance.
Friday, January 28 2011
The Science of Sleep: The Electronic Lullaby
In the age of access, it’s possible that Raymond Scott, Kraftwerk, and ARP may become as essential tools for infant soothing as “Rock-A-Bye Baby”.
Monday, August 23 2010
Chilled to Spill: How The Oil Spill Ruined Chillwave’s Summer Vacation
Empty nostalgia or a realignment of values, chillwave's alchemical waste-sounds may be on the cusp of a deadbeat summer.
Reviews
Thursday, February 9 2012
Cosmin TRG: Simulat
The former steppa TRG offers up some Berlin-inflected interstellar inflight entertainment.
Wednesday, January 11 2012
Mark McGuire: Get Lost
Mark McGuire releases his umpteenth album of impressionistic guitar drone ambient.
Friday, December 9 2011
Pink Playground: Destination Ecstasy
Shoegazer band Pink Playground fetishizes the past and clouds itself in reverb.
Monday, December 5 2011
Controlled Bleeding: Odes to Bubbler
Members of Controlled Bleeding do what they always do--everything but repeat themselves.
Friday, December 2 2011
Roska: Rinse 15
Roska shows us where we're at in 2011, though he frames this with himself in the center.
M83: Hurry Up, We're Dreaming [27.Oct.11]
Walls: Coracle [26.Oct.11]
Various Artists: Laid Compilation [19.Oct.11]
Pure X: Pleasure [30.Aug.11]
Tommy Four Seven: Primate [18.Aug.11]
Balam Acab: See Birds [8.Aug.11]
Algodón Egipcio: La Luche Constante [24.Jul.11]
Prosumer: Panorama Bar 03 [17.Jul.11]
Virgo Four: Resurrection [7.Jul.11]
Moritz Von Oswald Trio: Horizontal Structures [27.Jun.11]
Robag Wruhme: Wuppdeckmischmampflow [14.Jun.11]
Gray: Shades Of... [14.Jun.11]
Demdike Stare: Tryptych [26.May.11]
Friendly Fires: Pala [23.May.11]
Salva: Complex Housing [17.May.11]
Kangding Ray: Pruitt Igoe [28.Apr.11]
Magnetic Man: Magnetic Man [28.Apr.11]
Moebius: Blue Moon OST [27.Apr.11]
Bjorn Torske: Kokning [20.Apr.11]
Univers Zero: Heresie [19.Apr.11]
ANBB: Mimikry [13.Apr.11]
Jack Sparrow: Circadian [7.Mar.11]
Pinch: Get Up [3.Mar.11]
Mark McGuire: Living With Yourself [23.Feb.11]
Cut Copy: Zonoscope [9.Feb.11]
Bot'Ox: Babylon By Car [8.Feb.11]
James Blake: James Blake [7.Feb.11]
Shed: The Traveller [17.Jan.11]
Plastikman: Kompilation [13.Jan.11]
Tears Run Rings: Distance [13.Jan.11]
John Roberts: Glass Eights [14.Dec.10]
'They Live': A Polemic Ripe with Ambiguities [14.Dec.10]
Meat Beat Manifesto: Answers Come in Dreams [29.Oct.10]
El Guincho: Pop Negro [25.Oct.10]
Emeralds: Does It Look Like I'm Here? [16.Sep.10]
Oneohtrix Point Never: Returnal [10.Sep.10]
Various Artists: 2010 [30.Aug.10]
Conforce: Machine Conspiracy [11.Aug.10]
Wolfgang Voigt: Freiland Klaviermusik [26.Jul.10]
Rudi Zygadlo: Great Western Laymen [26.Jul.10]
High Places: Can't Feel Born [16.Jul.10]
Vex'd: Cloud Seed [15.Jul.10]
Actress: Splazsh [1.Jul.10]
To Rococo Rot: Speculation [29.Jun.10]
Starkey: Ear Drums and Black Holes [28.Jun.10]
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti: Before Today [9.Jun.10]
Thavius Beck: Dialogue [4.Jun.10]
Martyn: Fabric 50 [25.May.10]
Robert A.A. Lowe and Rose Lazar: Eclipses [13.May.10]
Caribou: Swim [21.Apr.10]
Moebius: Tonspuren [19.Apr.10]
The Seven Fields of Aphelion: Periphery [16.Apr.10]
Mi Ami: Steal Your Face [6.Apr.10]
Oren Ambarchi: Intermission 2000-2008 [14.Mar.10]
Pimmon: Smudge Another Yesterday [8.Mar.10]
Pantha Du Prince: Black Noise [4.Mar.10]
Oneohtrix Point Never: Rifts [9.Feb.10]
Four Tet: There Is Love in You [29.Jan.10]
Lindstrøm and Christabelle: Real Life Is No Cool [21.Jan.10]
Karuna Khyal: Alomony 1985 [20.Jan.10]
Final: Reading All the Right Signals Wrong [19.Jan.10]
Fenn O'Berg: Magic & Return [14.Jan.10]
Harmonia and Eno '76: Tracks and Traces [13.Jan.10]
Black to Comm: Alphabet 1968 [7.Jan.10]
Patrick Cowley and Jorge Socarras: Catholic [16.Dec.09]
Dada Life: Just Do the Dada [30.Nov.09]
Brock Van Wey: White Clouds Drift on and On [23.Nov.09]
Various Artists: Mind Expanders Volume 2 [20.Nov.09]
Kreng:L’Autopsie Phenomenale de Dieu [18.Nov.09]
Kiasmos/Rival Consoles: 65/ Milo [16.Nov.09]
Luke Hess: Light in the Dark [13.Nov.09]
Hecker: Acid in the Style of David Tudor [12.Nov.09]
Prins Thomas: Live at Robert Johnson Vol 2 [12.Nov.09]
Moritz Von Oswald Trio: Vertical Ascent [4.Nov.09]
Chris Lake: Crazy [29.Oct.09]
Ata Ebteka: Ornamentalism: Ata Ebtekar and the Iranian Orchestra For New Music Performing Works of A [28.Oct.09]
NOMO: Invisible Cities [26.Oct.09]
Air: Love 2 [14.Oct.09]
Robert Hampson: Vectors [12.Oct.09]
The Present: The Way We Are [8.Oct.09]
City Center: City Center [8.Oct.09]
Various Artists: Spiritual Jazz: Esoteric, Modal, and Deep Jazz from the Underground 1968-1977 [2.Oct.09]
Luke Vibert: Rhythm [18.Sep.09]
Various Artist: Round Black Ghosts 2 [16.Sep.09]
Various Artists: Fabrique [31.Aug.09]
Stardeath & White Dwarfs: The Birth [28.Aug.09]
Roedelius: Jardin Au Fou [13.Aug.09]
Kid606: Shout at the Döner [5.Aug.09]
Various Artists: Fly Girls! B-Boys Beware [30.Jul.09]
Blur: Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur [29.Jul.09]
Alva Noto: Xerrox Vol 2. [27.Jul.09]
Susumu Yokota: Mother [20.Jul.09]
Claro Intelecto: Warehouse Sessions [9.Jul.09]
Bibio: Ambivalence Avenue [9.Jul.09]
Studio 1: Studio 1 [9.Jul.09]
Lindstrom & Prins Thomas: II [5.Jun.09]
Jon Hopkins: Insides [2.Jun.09]
Chloé: Live at Robert Johnson [28.May.09]
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Out of Noise [22.May.09]
Tadeo: Contacto [21.May.09]
Elegi: Varde [20.May.09]
Zomby: Where Were U in '92 [13.May.09]
Moderat: Moderat [1.May.09]
Robert Henke: Atom/Document [28.Apr.09]
Jacob Kirkegaard: Labyrinthitis [21.Apr.09]
Various Artists: Protected Massive Samples [13.Apr.09]
Junior Boys: Begone Dull Care [10.Apr.09]
Guitar: Honeysky / Saltykisses [3.Apr.09]
Faust: C'est Com..Com..Compliqué [25.Mar.09]
Ricardo Villalobos: Vasco [24.Mar.09]
The Prodigy: Invaders Must Die [6.Mar.09]
Manual: Confluence [4.Mar.09]
Lowfish: Frozen & Broken [2.Mar.09]
Luomo: Convivial [24.Feb.09]
Mikkel Metal: Peaks and Troughs [19.Feb.09]
John Baker: The John Baker Tapes Volume 1 [13.Feb.09]
Xela: In Bocca Al Lupo [11.Feb.09]
The Lines: Flood Bank [6.Feb.09]
Pierre Bastien: Visions of Doing [4.Feb.09]
Helios: Caesura [27.Jan.09]
Grouper/ Inca Ore: Split [26.Jan.09]
Koen Holtkamp: Field Rituals [22.Jan.09]
Alva Noto: Unitxt [8.Jan.09]
Jackie O Motherfucker: Freedomland [6.Jan.09]
Seven That Spells: Black Om Rising [4.Jan.09]
Koushik: Out My Window [18.Dec.08]
Peter Rehberg: Work for GV 2004-2007 [16.Dec.08]
Raglani: Of Sirens Born [16.Dec.08]
The Alps: III [21.Nov.08]
Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution [18.Nov.08]
Tobacco: Fucked Up Friends [5.Nov.08]
Joe Gibbs: Scorchers from the Mighty Two [17.Oct.08]
Monolake: Hongkong Remastered [17.Oct.08]
Max Richter: 24 Postcards in Full Colour [2.Oct.08]
Adventure: Adventure [1.Oct.08]
Morgan Geist: Double Night Time [16.Sep.08]
Pole: 1 2 3 [11.Sep.08]
Pluxus: Solid State [10.Sep.08]
Univers Zero: Univers Zero (1313) [8.Sep.08]
Fenin: Been Through [2.Sep.08]
Irmin Schmidt & Kumo: Axolotl Eyes [14.Aug.08]
The Bug: London Zoo [11.Aug.08]
Booka Shade: The Sun and the Neon Light [11.Aug.08]
Vibert/Simmonds: Rodulate [30.Jul.08]
Various Artists: Dubstep Allstars Vol.06 [29.Jul.08]
Various Artists: One Hundred [25.Jul.08]
Daft Punk: Electroma [DVD] [22.Jul.08]
Alan Licht & Aki Onda: Everydays [17.Jul.08]
The War on Drugs: Wagonwheel Blues [15.Jul.08]
Black Devil Disco Club: Eight Oh Eight [14.Jul.08]
The Lines: Memory Span [26.Jun.08]
Jay Haze: Love & Beyond [20.Jun.08]
Steinski: What Does It All Mean? [18.Jun.08]
Ellen Allien: BoogyBytes Vol.04 [6.Jun.08]
Estelle: Shine [28.May.08]
Barry Adamson: Back to the Cat [20.May.08]
Ministry and Co-Conspirators: Cover Up [16.May.08]
Various Artists: Musicians for Minneapolis [13.May.08]
Theatre of Disco: Theatre of Disco [12.May.08]
Voyager One: Afterhours in the Afterlife [1.May.08]
Cloudland Canyon: Lie in Light [29.Apr.08]
Air: Moon Safari [18.Apr.08]
Meat Beat Manifesto: Autoimmune [7.Apr.08]
Rod Modell: Incense and Blacklight [21.Mar.08]
Kevin Ayers: The Unfairground [18.Mar.08]
Justus Köhncke: Safe and Sound [7.Mar.08]
Willits + Sakamoto: Ocean Fire [5.Mar.08]
Heidi Mortenson: Diamonds & Underwear [3.Mar.08]
Mtn. High: Wicked Wanderer [18.Feb.08]
Boxcutter: Glyphic [31.Jan.08]
Blogs
Thursday, September 1 2011
Pal198X Informercial by Neon Indian
Neon Indian has created a late night video oddity that is the perfect blend of eerie and nostalgic for the heady arthouse sci-fi camp of SubGenius propoganda films.
100 Essential Directors - David Cronenberg (Mixed Media) [12.Aug.11]
Desto, Clouds & Jimi Tenor - "Time Bird" (video) (Mixed Media) [11.Aug.11]
Plaid - "35 Summers" (video) (Mixed Media) [8.Aug.11]
The Flaming Lips and Lightning Bolt - "I Want to Get High ..." (video) (Mixed Media) [26.Jul.11]
Synkro - "Look at Yourself" (video) (Mixed Media) [25.Jul.11]
Perc - "My Head is Slowly Exploding" (video) (Mixed Media) [11.Jul.11]
Ekoplekz - "Uncanny Riddim" (video) (Mixed Media) [27.Jun.11]
Starkey feat. Charli XCX - "Lost in Space" (video) (Mixed Media) [23.Jun.11]
Grouper - "I Saw a Ray" (video) (Mixed Media) [22.Jun.11]
Com Truise - "Fairlight" (video) (Mixed Media) [22.Jun.11]
Kangding Ray - "OR" (video) (Mixed Media) [21.Jun.11]
Tropic of Cancer - "Be Brave" (video) (Mixed Media) [20.Jun.11]
Memory Tapes - "Yes I Know" (video) (Mixed Media) [15.Jun.11]
Venetian Snares - "Ever Stopped the Heaviest" (video) (Mixed Media) [7.Jun.11]
Ford & Lopatin - "World of Regret" (video) (Mixed Media) [2.Jun.11]
Marshall Jefferson - "Move Your Body" - 25 Years of House (Mixed Media) [1.Jun.11]
Wet Hair - "Labor of Love" (video) (Mixed Media) [26.May.11]
Arthur Russell, Gary Lucas, and Vin Diesel (Mixed Media) [13.May.11]
Salem - "Till the World Ends" (Britney Spears remake) (video) (Mixed Media) [12.May.11]
Lapalux - "Kelly Brook" (video) (Mixed Media) [9.May.11]
Konx-Om-Pax - "Live A/V Jam" (video) (Mixed Media) [5.May.11]
Jacques Greene - "Tell Me" (video) (Mixed Media) [3.May.11]
Friendly Fires - "Live Those Days Tonight (Back to '89 Rave Montage)" (Mixed Media) [29.Apr.11]
Dylan Ettinger - "Lion of Judah" (video) (Mixed Media) [25.Apr.11]
Magick Mountain - "One for My Ego" (video) (Mixed Media) [25.Apr.11]
Grouper - "Alien Observation" (video) (Mixed Media) [21.Apr.11]
Wire - Map Ref 41N 93W (Live on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon) (Mixed Media) [19.Apr.11]
Various Artists: Should Have Been Dead on a Sunday Morning (Free Download) (Mixed Media) [19.Apr.11]
DJ Wool feat Spoek Mathambo - "Kult Leader" (video) (Mixed Media) [31.Mar.11]
Sculpture - "What It's Like Most of the Time" (video) (Mixed Media) [14.Mar.11]
Shackleton & Strawalde Collaboration (Mixed Media) [8.Mar.11]
Protect-U - "U-Uno" (video) (Mixed Media) [7.Mar.11]
Matias Aguayo - "Ritmo Juarez" (video) (Mixed Media) [16.Feb.11]
d'Eon - "Kill a Man With a Joystick in Your Hand" (video) (Mixed Media) [7.Jan.11]
Demdike Stare - "Hashshashin Chant" (video) (Mixed Media) [3.Jan.11]
Sepalcure - 'Fleur' EP Teaser (Mixed Media) [17.Dec.10]
Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson: 1955-2010 (Sound Affects) [2.Dec.10]
Deftones - "Sextape" (video) (Mixed Media) [1.Dec.10]
Forest Swords - "Hjurt (Pariah Mix)" (Mixed Media) [24.Nov.10]
James Blake - "Limit to Your Love" (video) (Mixed Media) [22.Nov.10]
Egyptrixx - "Start From the Beginning" (video) (Mixed Media) [22.Nov.10]
Games - "Shadows in Bloom" (video) (Mixed Media) [17.Nov.10]
DVA feat. Badness, Riko, & Flowdan-Bullet a Go Fly (Dusk and Blackdown) (Mixed Media) [11.Nov.10]
Stellar Om Source - "Magnetic Depth/Rites of Fusion" (video) (Mixed Media) [4.Nov.10]
Moon Wiring Club - "Slumberwick Dreams" (video) (Mixed Media) [3.Nov.10]
Tamaryn - "Dawning" (video) (Mixed Media) [2.Nov.10]
Nicki Minaj x Will.I.Am - "Check It Out" (video) (Mixed Media) [1.Nov.10]
White Car - "No Better" (video) (Mixed Media) [1.Nov.10]
Pinch - "The Boxer" (video) (Mixed Media) [28.Oct.10]
Grubby Little Hands - "Twelve Tones, Two Windows" (video) (Mixed Media) [20.Oct.10]
PVT - "Light Up Bright Fires" (video) (Mixed Media) [19.Oct.10]
Matrix Metals - "Flamingo Breeze Part 4" (video) (Mixed Media) [18.Oct.10]
Avey Tare - "Lucky 1" (video) (Mixed Media) [18.Oct.10]
Kelis - "Scream" (video) (Mixed Media) [11.Oct.10]
Memoryhouse - "When You Sleep" (video) (Mixed Media) [8.Oct.10]
Nosaj Thing - "Coat of Arms" (video) (Mixed Media) [6.Oct.10]
Blame feat. Ruff Sqwad - "On My Own" (video) (Mixed Media) [4.Oct.10]
Darkstar - "Gold" (video) (Mixed Media) [3.Oct.10]
Donaeo - "I'm Fly" (video) (Mixed Media) [1.Oct.10]
M.I.A. - "FACEBOOKGOOGLEMYSPACEYOUTUBE" (Mixed Media) [30.Sep.10]
Accentuate the Positive: Why Music Critics Write So Many Favorable Reviews (Sound Affects) [23.Sep.10]
LV feat Okmalumkoolkat - Boomslang (Mixed Media) [8.Sep.10]
Mount Kimbie - "Would Know" (video) (Mixed Media) [3.Sep.10]
Liquid Liquid - "Optimo" / "Cavern" (Live @ Jimmy Fallon) (video) (Mixed Media) [9.Apr.10]
John Foxx - "Flightpath Tegel" (video) (Mixed Media) [1.Mar.10]
The Best Singles of 2009: Shakira - "She Wolf" (Mixed Media) [10.Dec.09]
Spiritual Jazz: Esoteric, Modal, and Deep Jazz from the Underground 1968-1977 (Consuming Consumables) [8.Dec.09]
V for Vacancy (Channel Surfing) [5.Nov.09]
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Higher Than the Stars (stream) (Mixed Media) [18.Sep.09]
Cloaks - R.F.I.D (stream) (Mixed Media) [17.Sep.09]
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within dir. Yony Leyser (trailer) (Mixed Media) [16.Sep.09]
Low - "Transmission" (video) (Mixed Media) [31.Jul.09]
Steel Harmony - "Transmission" (video) (Mixed Media) [31.Jul.09]
Covers of Joy Division's "Transmission" (video) (Mixed Media) [31.Jul.09]
Leyland Kirby - The Darkness That Separates Remembering From Not Remembering (video) (Mixed Media) [29.Jul.09]
Disco's Not Dead (Sound Affects) [13.Jul.09]
PS22 Chorus - "I'll Be Your Mirror" (video) (Mixed Media) [13.Mar.09]
The Texturalists vs. The End of Time (Sound Affects) [14.Nov.08]
A Prehistory of the Pandemic (Sound Affects) [18.Jul.08]
Who Listens to Music These Days? (Sound Affects) [14.Jul.08]
The Threat Posed By Girl Talk's New Album (Sound Affects) [20.Jun.08]
