TAG: Bjork

Nov02

Bjork, GusGus :: The Best OF Iceland

by Althea Legaspi

Navigating downtown Reykjavík on a weekend night during Iceland Airwaves can be a precarious endeavor. Shattered beer bottles litter the ground, vomit-dotted sidewalks greet you around venues, couples makeout/grope on corners, and drunken partiers from all points around the globe cause a cacophony of multi-lingual chatter while stumbling around the streets, all of which adds to the blissful carnage. It’s the epitome of rock ‘n’ roll before you’ve even heard a note. And it is awesome. …MORE

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Oct05

STREAM New Bjork, James Blake and Martyn Albums (MP3)

Lots of goodness in the world of free album streams today. Plenty to get you over the hump. …MORE

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Aug04

Matthew Herbert Remixes Björk (MP3)

UK experimentalist sample boffin Matthew Herbert has given his patented wonky treatment to two songs, “Crysalline” and “Cosmogony,” off Björk’s upcoming Biophilia album. What happens when two of music’s most thought-provoking artists come together is pretty spectacular.

Check both tunes out after the jump. …MORE

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Jun27

New Bjork :: “Crystalline” (MP3)

When Bjork announced that her new project, Biophilia, wouldby “aesthetically, sympathising with sound and how sounds move and the physics of sound. And how notes in a room behave; how they bounce off walls and between objects and is kind of more similar to how planets and microscopic things work,” we held our breath and hoped that the whole thing wouldn’t end up a certain conceptual Icelandic backside. …MORE

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Jun14

Flying Lotus vs. Bjork / Massive Attack / Stereolab (MP3)

Flying Lotus has become one who likes to make grand gestures out of casual actions. Or maybe we’re the ones who turn his casual gestures into grand actions. Like the time he found an old forgotten DJ mix and turned it into a Stones Throw podcast that wowed the web for a couple of days. Or uploading a selection of rare or unheard tunes to his Soundcloud, including remixes of Bjork, Massive Attack and Stereolab. Everything the guy does seems to have a story, which is cool in this age of reckless online musical deluge. …MORE

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