TAG: electronica

Jan19

Dan Black x Kid Cudi “Symphonies” Remix (MP3)

Meet Dan Black. He landed on the music radar in spring 2008 with “HYPNTZ,” a cut sampling Rihanna’s drums from that ditty “Umbrella” and a tribute of sorts to Notorious B.I.G.’s “Hypnotize,” and now he has a tidy debut ready for the airwaves. In the interim, he labored over the record, tediously blending Nelly Furtado with Daft Punk with The Smiths like a scientist in a lab. And now Cudi has laid down vocals for this remix of “Symphonies.”  It’s quite clever to bring the Man on the Moon star together with Black, whose sound can be summed up as sublime emotional dreamscapes Parisienne style.

Dan Black “Symphonies (Kid Cudi Remix)”

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Dec17

Dan Black comes to our friendly shores; Promises more tracks for US! (Video & MP3)

Internet curiosity & electronica artist, Dan Black, has announced North American tour dates in 2010 – just in time for the US release of his record “(un)” which I hear will have extra tracks on it! Lucky us!

Don’t miss it live!
February 18 – New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
February 19 – Montreal, QC @ Belmont
February 20 – Toronto, ON @ WrongBar
February 23 – Los Angeles, CA @ Cinespace
February 25 – San Francisco, CA @ Popscene / 330 Ritch

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Mar29

Para One & TTC: First Tango in Paris

Turning French hip-hop on its electronic head, the Institubes crew is preparing to take over the world 

By Si Hawkins

PARA ONE REALLY IS QUITE ADMIRABLY FRENCH, EVEN IN THE MOST TESTING of circumstances. It’s 3 a.m. in London’s slightly seedy Kings Cross district, and the Paris-based producer has found himself in the middle of a nu-rave nightmare.  Originally booked to play a nice low-key early set, he’s had a disagreement with the promoter and has been forced to follow frenetic Scottish dance-rockers Shitdisco, which isn’t ideal. Shitdisco’s set is subsequently gatecrashed by fellow indie scenesters the Klaxons, who then indulge in a manic sing-along and proceed to trash the stage while the audience follows suit.

Para deals with this most difficult of situations by getting quite fantastically drunk.  Not that you’d realize this, as he mounts the debris-strewn stage looking a picture of Gallic cool. Narrow of trouser, stylishly side-parted and with a Gauloises hanging elegantly from his …

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Apr18

Portishead: GREAT EXPECTATIONS

Portishead return to face impossibly high expectations. Self-conscious? We wouldnt have it any other way. 

By Michael Vazquez

In 1994, Portishead popped their U.S. cherry live for the cameras of  The John Stewart Show, at an afternoon taping attended by the type of tourists who attend television show tapings and who had no idea what the hell a Portishead was. So when they finished their first song with a murmur, the crowd, unsure of the end, hesitated for an extra-long second before clapping. Lead singer Beth Gibbon bolts (with feline grace, actually, this is not a Carrie moment) leaving Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley onstage. Its a little awkward especially without a commercial break. But something happens when they come out for their next song, at the talk-shows close: Abandoning the sedate delivery of the chorus in “Sour Times,” Beth rips shit apart at the end, wailing “Nobody loves meeeeeh! Stabbing on loves and sobbing on …

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Mar29

Jesu: Wave of Mutilation

From shoegaze to glitch to noise, how the most extreme forms of music are becoming more popular and how a former death metal guitarist is leading the way (by Andrew Parks) 

“Swans, Sonic Youth and later bands like Isis are  more important than Aphex Twin [to me] because  of the power that comes through them,” says Tim Hecker. “Aphex Twin on his own is great, but it’s also distilled Eno and evil cancer ward music in  some ways.”

On the surface, something like Hecker’s latest record (the cracked kaleidoscope of  Harmony in Ultraviolet) may sound like little more than a series  of ambient fuzz and feedback movements, but listen to it loud enough, and it’ll start resembling a Godflesh or Isis instrumental—waves of sound  meant to engulf the listener like a four-alarm fire. It’s no surprise then, that Hecker has remixed and toured with Isis, as well as collaborated with them at the 2006 Bleeding Edge Festival in Saratoga, CA. That once-in-a-lifetime duet of serrated sine waves, stomped effects pedals and overheated …

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