May 15th, 2008

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2008-05-14 :: Overview :: Digital::Nimbus Playlist #285

This synopsis of new release coverage was broadcast on Digital::Nimbus Playlist #285 dated May 10, 2008. Label coverage includes Highpoint Lowlife, Infine Music, Aliens Productions, Jealous Edison, Dalaki, Andrei Terskikh, Tympanik Audio and Haunted House.

category: reviews
 
2008-05-12 :: C-34 :: Watch Yourself EP (MinimalRome, 12inch)

"...Watch Yourself is a remix project that investigates and experiments with various avenues of electronic music, from electro to downtempo electronix, from techno back to analogue ambience..."

category: reviews
 
2008-05-12 :: Kettel :: Myam James Part 1 (Sending Orbs)

"...Myam James Part 1 sees Kettel at the absolute height of his powers and is a triumph for Sending Orbs. Every moment is essential... Unforgettable, iconic, quite simply perfect electronic pop..."

category: reviews
 
2008-05-10 :: William Basinski + Richard Chartier :: Untitled 1-3 (Line)

"...Initially manifesting as solid soundslabs, layers of detail reveal themselves as the act of focused listening unearths hidden pearls...."

category: reviews
 
2008-05-05 :: Overview :: Digital::Nimbus Playlist #284

This synopsis of new release coverage was broadcast on Digital::Nimbus Playlist #284 dated May 3, 2008. Label coverage includes Sending Orbs, Underscan and Fich-Art.

category: reviews
 
2008-04-29 :: Victor Delicato :: Self-Titled EP (Sterpete Dischi)

"...This sound, found lying between southern Tuscany and Rome, has absorbed the sun and sounds of past years to produce a passionate electro disco that is as individual as it is enthusiastic..."

category: reviews
 
2008-04-28 :: Overview :: Digital::Nimbus Playlist #283

This synopsis of new release coverage was broadcast on Digital::Nimbus Playlist #283 dated April 26, 2008. Label coverage includes Electr-ohm, Binary Dilemma, n5MD, Rednetic, Resonant and Tympanik Audio.

category: reviews
 
2008-04-28 :: Jennifer Cardini :: Feeling Strange (Kompakt)

"...Feeling Strange finds its most powerful voice when played start to finish, the songs chosen for Cardini's Kompact debut are individually fresh and funky. Many different bass synth riffs, percussive elements, and bass drum kicks are used to great effect..."

category: reviews
 
2008-04-26 :: Rod Modell :: Incense & Black Light (Plop)

"...A new skin for the old psychoactive ceremonies, with its drone-gauze, its gushes of steamy hiss, and subtle speaker-quake, all spun through reverberant echo-space, this year's Modell is decidedly top of the range..."

category: reviews
 
2008-04-18 :: MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO :: Live at Slim's (San Francisco, CA)

Event coverage for the Autoimmune Tour with Meat Beat Manifesto, Raz Mesinai's Badawi, Dub Gabriel & Bomb at Slim's (SF, CA) on April 11, 2008.

category: features
 
2008-04-08 :: Christ. :: Blue Shift Emissions (Benbecula)

"...Subtly hidden and integrated into the warm swathes of electronic sound are elements of ambient, glitch, jazz and all manner of other influences cunningly processed, reinterpreted and redefined in Christ.'s own inimitable style..."

category: reviews
 
2008-04-06 :: BLOC WEEKEND :: March 14-16, 2008

"...Bloc Weekend is not a generic music festival, not by a long shot. The organizers of this Southern England extravaganza successfully brought together some of the greatest electronic artists from across the globe, two years running. The festival is well planned, the accommodation comfortable and practical, the crowd friendly and trouble free, the music loud but perfectly audible..."

category: features
 
2008-04-05 :: Overview :: Digital::Nimbus Playlist #280

This synopsis of new release coverage was broadcast on Digital::Nimbus Playlist #280 dated April 5, 2008.

category: reviews
 
2008-04-01 :: MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO :: It's all about the rhythm

I had the rare opportunity to speak with Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto a couple of weeks prior to the release of their latest full length Autoimmune coming out Spring 2008. As Jack prepares to embark on yet another tour in support of their latest full-length, we take the time to discuss several key elements that define Meat Beat Manifesto.

category: profiles
 
2008-03-31 :: Autechre :: Quaristice (Warp, Ltd. 2CD)

"...Often completely abstract and disjointed, Booth and Brown's work balances rhythms, melodies and all manner of complex experimentation, not to mention a myriad of different genres, to concoct an amalgam of styles they make their own..."

category: reviews