Articles tagged "electronic"

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AGF: Words Are Missing

by Mike Schiller

[22.Apr.08] :. AGF's subject is the voice, as she goes ahead and puts various voices through various processors and comes up with something that veers between danceable and horrific.

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Gregor Tresher: A Thousand Nights

by Mike Schiller

[20.Mar.08] :. For 80-plus minutes, you'll hear examples of just about every subgenre of electronic music that involves a constant kick-drum backbeat.

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Miss Kittin: Batbox

by Quentin B. Huff

[5.Mar.08] :. This is the story of a house kitten who's just a wee bit batty.

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Coburn: Coburn

by Mike Schiller

[24.Jan.08] :. Five minutes of listening makes it perfectly clear that, at least for this album, Coburn has left house behind.

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Alireza Mashayekhi and Ata Ebtekar: Persian Electronic Music

by Mike Schiller

[22.Jan.08] :. It's often the case that, given any track from the set, one would be hard-pressed to tell if it was a Mashayekhi or an Ebtekar composition.

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Kim Hiorthøy: My Last Day

by Mike Schiller

[3.Jan.08] :. Interestingly, Hiorthøy saves his best moments for the tracks with Norwegian titles.

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Alter Ego: Why Not?!

by Mike Schiller

[13.Dec.07] :. Alter Ego sacrifices subtlety for silliness, sublimity for splat.

 

Digitalism: Idealism

by Mike Schiller

[24.Aug.07] :. Digitalism truly clicks when its signature sound is all that is required to make a certain track function.

 

Strategy: Future Rock

by Mike Schiller

[10.Aug.07] :. Strategy's vision of "future rock", it seems, derives its vocals from the vocoders of Kraftwerk, its ambience from the kraut of Can, and its groove from the spaceship Funkadelic.

 

Svoy: Eclectric

by Mike Schiller

[8.Aug.07] :. Svoy has a wonderful idea of who he wants to be, but he spends so much of the album trying to live up to that standard that he seems to forget what makes his best songs so great in the first place.

 

Apparat: Walls

by Mike Schiller

[2.Aug.07] :. Apparat masters the art of balance, and does a bit too good a job of it.

 

Guitar: Dealin with Signal and Noise

by Mike Schiller

[23.Jul.07] :. The most rewarding tracks on Dealin with Signal and Noise are the noisiest ones.

 

Thilges: La Double Absence

by Mike Schiller

[17.Jul.07] :. La Double Absence is a lovely approximation of Persian and Afghan songcraft, with surprisingly subtle bits of electronics mixed in.

 

Gudrun Gut: I Put a Record On

by Mike Schiller

[29.Jun.07] :. I Put a Record On is hypnotic and fascinating in all the right ways.

 

Fridge: The Sun

by Mike Schiller

[20.Jun.07] :. It's rather wonderful to see that the chemistry that they've always maintained as a collective seems all but untouched by that multitude of time away from each other.

 

Yvat: Chroma

by Mike Schiller

[30.May.07] :. Yvat's new EP Chroma sounds at least as "designed" as it does composed.

 

Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid: Tongues

by Tim O'Neil

[19.Mar.07] :. A snapshot of the duo in their full flower, having mastered each others' languages and moved past any lingering reticence.

 

Four Tet: Remixes

by Nicolai Hartvig

[27.Nov.06] :. Kieran Hebden is the scavenger of the corners and the cracks. He pulls rogue elements of folk from everything rather than the genre itself. And all the pieces fit, which is what makes this album truly fascinating.

 

Steve Reid Ensemble: Spirits Walk

by Tim O'Neil

[13.Jul.06] :. Spirit Walk is ostensibly credited to the Steve Reid Ensemble, but the disc serves a far more important role as a companion piece to Reid and Hebden's recent collaborations.

 

Four Tet: DJ Kicks

by Tim O'Neil

[27.Jun.06] :. Insomuch as Kieran Hebden's sound is unassailably unique, his DJ Kicks is also a rather indescribable experience.

 

Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid: The Exchange Session Vol. 2

by Jennifer Kelly

[8.Jun.06] :. Who knew that free jazz's funkiest drumming and electronic music's warmest, most organic sounds were twins separated at birth?

 

Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid: The Exchange Session Vol. 1

by Scott Hreha

[31.Mar.06] :. Electricity and drum will change your mind? You better believe it.

 

Four Tet: Everything Ecstatic Part 2 [CD + DVD]

by Dan Nishimoto

[10.Mar.06] :. A literal makeover, Everything Ecstatic Part 2 offers a visual counterpart to Four Tet's latest album.

 
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Four Tet: Everything Ecstatic

by Stefan Braidwood

[20.May.05] :. Everyone's favourite purveyor of blissful beats has gone ballistic, and the smoking gun suits him -- when you're armed with as much talent as Hebden, you can make your own rules.

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Beth Orton: The Other Side of Daybreak

by Alison Wong

[15.Oct.03] :. The Other Side of Daybreak is a nearly new album. It comes as the sequel to Beth Orton‘s third studio album, Daybreaker (2002), in the form of a collection of remixes, retakes,...

 

Four Tet: Rounds

by Adrien Begrand

[3.Jun.03] :. For a guy in his mid-20s, London’s Kieran Hebden has made quite the name for himself in such a short period of time. His post-rock project Fridge has released four albums and numerous EPs and...

 

Manitoba: Up in Flames

by Adrien Begrand

[27.May.03] :. Canadian laptop whiz Dan Snaith is tired of “all this lazy, complacent, shitty electronic music” that has surfaced in recent years. This, coming from a guy who specializes in the...

 

Four Tet: Pause

by Jason Thompson

Electronic music is a funny medium. Purists balk at it, claiming there’s no talent required when composing with a bank of synths, computers, and sequencers, that it’s basically as easy...

 
 
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