Tuesday, May 21 2013
Poisonous Relationship: Garden of Problems
This vinyl and digital only “album” feels more like a DJ's tool than a pure record, but it works best when the experimental nature of the music is unfurled and the artist just lets loose.
Friday, May 3 2013
Major Lazer: Free the Universe
Each bar straddles rapid snares that pop and snap like firecrackers rippling on a waterbed mattress of liquid bass. Is this starting to sound like dirty talk? Then you're starting to get it.
Tuesday, April 16 2013
DJ Sun: One Hundred
This record relaxes on your sofa and instead of asking you to grab it a beer on your way to the fridge, it offers to share those that it brought. It’s all give. It’s easy. When the hour grows late you might even ask it to stay a little longer. And when it’s time to part, you'll already be planning to do it again.
Wednesday, July 25 2012
Wednesdays This Fall: An Early TV Preview
To combat the titans of fall TV ratings, Modern Family, Criminal Minds, and American Idol, the networks are offering up space aliens, superheroes, and a monkey!
Tuesday, September 13 2011
Hans Nieswandt: Hans Is Playing House
Hans Is Playing House is a serviceable but typical remix record, with all of the blessings and curses associated with such releases.
Wednesday, August 24 2011
Hercules and Love Affair: Blue Songs
What do you get when one of the most innovative dance producers working today tackles one of the most irritating music trends in the last 30 years?
Thursday, August 18 2011
Joaquin “Joe” Claussell: Hammock House: Africa Caribe
A misguided attempt to class up some old salsa tunes by adding remixes, jazz piano, and Sacred Rhythms.
Thursday, August 4 2011
M A N I K: Armies of the Night: I Declare War
This dreamy attempt to capture the atmosphere of a semi-fictionalised New York is admirably ambitious but a little too distant.
Wednesday, July 13 2011
Kate Simko: Lights Out
Kate Simko's debut full-length might have you longing for the film score fanatic in her.
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.
