(04.06.08) ELECTRONIC music has always had an underground image. Illegal acid parties, warehouse techno raves, house revelry in derelict buildings; what about three days in […]

IDM. Intelligent Dance Music. A genre name as absurd as the music is, or at least was, brilliant. It is, or at least was, often […]

(10.21.07) NOT so many years ago, people saved up for weeks so that they could buy the vinyl record they had heard at a friend’s […]

Sleepless :: September 22nd, 2007 The festival started with opening showcases on Thursday evening. Becuase of scheduling issues (and budget) I was unable to make […]

(07.03.07) “When a robot can conceive of multiple robots and therefore multiple possibilities in addition to itself and its singular possibility, then it will have […]

(Published 06.11.07) ARRIVALS can include so much of the unexpected. After pretty smooth and uneventful flights towards overcast Montreal I found customs to be a […]

BRAINWAVES :: Night One (11.17.06) OK, it’s always a good sign when entering an experimental music festival (Brainwaves) to have your first thing be running […]

(05.29.07) TAKING to the stage for a wonderfully elongated evening of experimental and ambient music included openers The Phonographers Union, Son of Rose, Loscil and […]

(10.15.06) A month later and decompression has finally set in. It’s somewhat difficult to describe the vast amount of musical experiences one can consume during […]

I just heard today (Saturday, October 7) the unfortunate news that Tower Records, after years of toiling in bankruptcy (and suffering from maladies both internally […]