Articles tagged "electronic"

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Various Artists: Factory Records: Communications 1978-92

by Timothy Gabriele

[24.Sep.09] :. Factory Records was as influential in design, sound production, and defining what a label could be as it was in music.

Yesterday's Jukebox

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Signer: Next We Bring You the Fire

by Mike Schiller

[20.Sep.09] :. Get your tweeters ready, people.

Capsule Reviews

Capsule Reviews

The Gentleman Losers: Dustland

by Dominic Umile

[9.Sep.09] :. Backed by an ample base of beautiful music, these Finnish brothers aren't losers at all.

Capsule Reviews

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Moby: Wait for Me

by Mike Schiller

[8.Jul.09] :. It sounds a lot like Play again, sure, but ten years older, wiser, and more exhausted in the best possible way.

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The Crystal Method: Divided By Night

by Mike Schiller

[23.Jun.09] :. While the vocalists and instrumentalists involved certainly contribute to a varied and interesting listen, many of those guests are either poorly chosen or awkwardly integrated into the sound.

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Mixed Media

Ghislain Poirier - “Wha La La Ling feat. Face T” (video)

by Alan Ranta

[1.Jun.09] :. I never liked the direction Ghislain Poirier has been headed in recently… until I saw this video of “Wha La La Ling” from his new Soca Sound System EP. Alright,...

Mixed Media

Tosca - “Elitsa” (video)

by Alan Ranta

[29.May.09] :. If you have ever taken the time to look in a mirror on acid or shrooms, you may be able to relate to this Tosca video of a selection from 2009’s No...

Mokira: Persona

by Dominic Umile

[21.Apr.09] :. Persona is infinitely unpredictable, and manages to be quite soothing at the same time.

Ohgr: Devils in My Details

by Mike Schiller

[12.Dec.08] :. Devils in My Details, then, is the complete and utter reversal of the artistic trajectory that Ogre's work with Ohgr and Skinny Puppy Mach II set up.

Sa Dingding: Alive

by Deanne Sole

[28.Jul.08] :. Alive is exploratory yet ultimately gentle. It's more daring than most of China's mainstream croon-pop, but similarly unwilling to strike out at its audience.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kim Hiorthøy: My Last Day

by Mike Schiller

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

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.

Electronic: Get the Message: The Best of Electronic

by Patrick Schabe

[9.Oct.06] :. Electronic may have only been a side-project of a supergroup, but for its brief life it provided some of the best dance-pop of the '90s.

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.

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

[1.Oct.01] :. 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...

Electronic: Twisted Tenderness

by Andy Argyrakis

Electronic features former band members of New Order and The Smiths (Johnny Marr and Bernard Sumner) who join together for their new release in which they twist and turn sounds of all styles, shapes,...