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Eliane Radigue | January 28, 2010
An Appreciation on the Occasion of Her 78th Birthday
Composer Eliane Radigue will be 78 on January 24th, 2010. Radigue’s music is extraordinarily moving, at times harrowing, endlessly yielding new layers of sound, and, yes, drone fans, indeed blissful.
December 10, 2009 1:44 pm The fourth annual Fun Fun Fun Fest went down last weekend at Waterloo Park in Austin, Texas, and the two-day, 90-band extravaganza brought something out of the underground for everyone. Experimental metal, indie rock, blog-hype rap, classic punk rock, indie stand-up comedy, and bleeding-edge dance music all made an appearance alongside the FFF’s mechanical bull and skateboard ramp mainstays. Though Day 1's heavenly weather gave way to Day 2's miserable drizzle and muddy mosh pits, a few poncho-covered mohawks were a small price to pay for some of the world's most forward-thinking music. A suggestion? Give the poor merch table people a tent so…
Fun Fun Fun Fest, Waterloo Park, Austin, Texas
Keith Rowe/Sachiko M
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Those who know his artistic output certainly have noticed that any recognizable tones of a guitar successively fade from his electronic production. This album is no different. Only occasionally we get to hear unfolding string sounds, touched with or treated with an object.
Jozef Van Wissem
It Is All That Is Made
Picking up a record by Dutch lute player and composer Jozef Van Wissem is always a deeply (spi)ritual experience.
Kammerflimmer Kollektief
Wildling
Wildling does not restrain any metaphorical punches to try and pry open your third eye, to awaken your body to a new transcendence and then set you free to your own surrealist devices.
Dusk & Blackdown vs. Grevious Angel
Margins Music: Redux
While this is almost antithetical to old-school dubstep, its newfound popularity in the last couple years has led several artists to seek out new ways of ‘resisting’ this intrusion of pop upon their bassline.
March 3, 2010
Redshape
The Dance Paradox
The latest beau of the masked ball is techno producer Redshape, behind whose slightly unnerving red plastic visage allegedly hides a Famous Techno Producer In Disguise.
The Opposite Sex
"Frozen Heart, Frozen Mind"
[ Self-Released ]
Jarvis Cocker
"Angela"
[ Rough Trade ]
Push-Pull
"Wright, Right?"
[ Joyful Noise ]
M for Montrea...