For all the attention earned and influence exerted by Us3’s incredible 1st release, there really has not been any other tune of its kind to have the impact on listeners that “Cantaloop” generated. Mix master/musical alchemist Geoff Wilkinson leads his crew, featuring rappers KCB and Shabam Shadeeq, through a swingin’ foray into the Blue Note catalog, turning jazz …
Michael Silver (aka CFCF) is one of those rare talents to whom pop sensibility seems to be second nature. The Montreal native has been making music in his bedroom since he was 12 years old, and is about to release his sophomore LP ”Outside” on November 5th, 2013. He has previously released two EPs ”Exercises” and ”Music For …
This composer, pianist, and self-taught studio wizard makes big, bold electronic music using walls of synths, twinkling melodies, and amorphous bass rumbles. His previous two albums had him labeled by ambient patriarch Brian Eno as an electronic innovator, while an impressive sweep of artists such as Herbie Hancock, David Holmes, Coldplay, and lo-fi folkster King Creosote have called …
Telefon Tel Aviv: Joshua Eustis, Charlie Cooper. Additional personnel: Lindsay Anderson, Loyola University Chamber Orchestra. New Orleans based multi-instrumentalists Joshua Eustis and Charlie Cooper have come up with one of the most surprising and accessible electronic records in recent memory, at once underground and incredibly mainstream. Their debut album ‘Fahrenheit Fair Enough’ was an impressionist travelogue, combining an …
Meat Beat Manifesto mastermind Jack Dangers once proclaimed, “I always aim for the future. I never want an album to sound like the last one.” Although a seemingly uncomplicated statement, remaining true to his aspirations has presented an interesting conundrum for Dangers. MBM do have an easily identifiable sound. The template is built from acoustic (or at least …
Rather than a rehashed revisiting of the band s earlier sound, Greater Wrong takes a breathtaking step forward with an inventive, urgent …
Less than a year after the outstanding Rockstopper, Knifehandchop took a left-hand turn and released this 11-song laptop-laden exercise of an LP. Most of the ground covered here is what you’d expect from Tigerbeat6: furious tempos and heavy glitches centered in the IDM world with allusions to breakcore, video game music, hip-hop, ragga, jungle, and happy hardcore. The …
The dense, mathematical music Autechre pioneered on their debut album Incunabula is given a new twist on their follow-up, Amber. While percussion took center stage on their previous works, highly evolved melodies and textures dominate here. The spirit of electro still lives in the muted beats, rhythmically complex and strangely funky. But they don’t merely provide a background; …
The Kompakt label presents the work of Wolfgang Voigt’s Gas — a remastered deluxe package that includes all four of his Mille Plateaux albums: Gas (1996), Zauberberg (1997), K”nigsforst (1998) and Pop (2000). Wolfgang Voigt, in the past known under a great many pseudonyms such as Mike Ink, Studio 1 or Grungerman, is the driving force behind the …
The first CD compilation of Basic Channel releases from 1995 became one of the quintessential electronic music compilations of all time. Now, in a total surprise move, a companion CD, Basic Channel 2, has been released — featuring full-length versions of six of the label’s landmark club tracks released on vinyl between 1993 and 1995. From today’s perspective, …