TAG: Royksopp

May18

Booka Shade – More! (Review)

Booka Shade

More!

Released by Get Physical Music


World-renowned electronic live act and one of Germany’s finest electrohouse duos, Walter Merziger and Arno Kammermeier AKA Booka Shade, are back with their fourth full-length on their own groundbreaking and prolific label Get Physical Music. They’ve been working on these songs in the studio for the last 18 months, and the new album shows Booka Shade trying to develop their melodic tech-house sound.
Feb22

Bomb the Bass – Back to Light (Review)

Bomb The Bass

Back To Light

Released by !K7


My first experience with the music of Bomb the Bass (also known as Tim Simenon) was through Kruder & Dorfmeister’s masterful compilation, The K&D Sessions (1998), on a dub version of the track “Bug Powder Dust” with Justin Warfield (originally released on the magnificent and genre-defining 1995 album Clear). The work on Clear has a quality reminiscent of the musique concrète stylings of Pierre Schaeffer, which made it a remarkable and highly noteworthy album. His subsequent albums have always represented an evolution and departure from the preceding work, as if done by a completely different artists, and this explains how Simenon’s work has always found a superb depth through his varied musical interests--it’s probably because he spends a lot of time actually thinking through the music. Currently we find ourselves with the new Bomb the Bass project, Back to Light, a quick follow-up installment to his 2008 release Future Chaos. From the get-go the album announces itself through insidious emotive aural effects, which through a blistering barrage of time-travel sounds, encompass the listener in a feeling that although intense, evaporates rather instantly.
Mar26

Royksopp – Junior (Review)

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Junior



Known for their electro-poppy European flair, Junior contrasts Royksopp's glitchy, bone-grinding synths with an '80s pop mystique and robust vocals from Scandinavian artists Lykke Li, Robyn and Karin Dreijer Andersson (The Knife). Each track presents a concentrated yet relatively simplistic arrangement of drums, synths and vocals, all of which come together to create frantic anxiety on some tracks ('Tricky Tricky') and epic anthems on others ('Royksopp Forever'). Yet, despite the seemingly polar nature of such songs, the tail end of the album asserts its identity and provides an overall ...
Jan29

Animal Collective Tops KCRW Top 50 Albums

KCRW has released a list of thier top 50 album currently being ‘caned’ as the brits might say (if it was 1998). No real surprise that Animal Collective tops the list, along with Glasvegas and R

Jan25

Royksopp new album feature Robyn, Lykke Li and Karin Dreijer (The Knife)

Norwegian duo R