Mar 14, 2012 12:00AM
As a purveyor and creator of electronic music
made from cold, hard machines—as well as a
Berliner who grew up in East Germany before
the wall came down—Paul van Dyk isn’t usually
pegged as the sensitive type.
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Jan 1, 2011 1:00AM
With tracks titles like “Destroy 2000 Years Of
Culture,” “Start The Riot,” and “Deutschland (Has
Gotta Die),” Atari Teenage Riot (ATR) offered a
harder-edged electro-punk alternative to the bigroom
trance and glowsticks that defined the mid-
’90s electronica explosion.
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Jan 1, 2011 1:00AM
When Bostich + Fussible (Ramón Amezcua and
Pepe Mogt) were growing up in Tijuana, Mexico,
their music listening was serious sound clash: Local
mariachi bands, American pop, Germany’s Neu! and
Kraftwerk, even Hot Butter’s 1972 smash,
“Popcorn.”
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Dec 1, 2010 1:00AM
A bedrock element of Stereolab’s continental cool, Laetitia Sadier’s voice is unmistakable. Hearing its breadth of variation on The Trip, from the “grey disco” of her “Un Soir, Un Chien” cover to the languid “Natural Child,” reveals the depth and fluidity that can be uncovered in a new context. For her first solo album, Sadier experimented with a new setting while keeping a foot anchored on comfortable ground, splitting recording time between Emmanuel Mario in the UK, who worked with her group Monade, and lo-fi singer/songwriter Richard Swift, who opened for Stereolab’s last U.S. tour and works out of his Portland studio.
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Nov 1, 2010 1:00AM
When Underworld’s Rick Smith and Karl Hyde
realized time (and perhaps life, at least as recording
artists) was passing them by, they knew that drastic
measures were required.
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Oct 25, 2010 9:00AM
EQ.com Exclusive Below, read Jason Scott Alexander’s full interview with super indie producer and mixer Peter Katis on the making of The Philistines Jr. new album If A Band Plays in the Woods... (Tarquin Records, released October 19, 2010). For
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Oct 19, 2009 5:00PM
The weather at Treasure Island festival last Saturday (October 17) was almost shockingly warm. Last year, the small piece of land between San Francisco and the East Bay was sunny, but the wind and cold took over by the end
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Aug 1, 2009 6:40AM
Sometimes having eclectic taste in
music is a burden. That’s what
Adam Freeland (also known simply
as Freeland) discovered upon
making his second full-length
album, CopeTM. Freeland got his
start as a breakbeat DJ in the mid-
’90s, releasing his first mix CD,
Coastal Breaks, Vol. 1, in 1996.
Since then, the dancefloor has
been his bread and butter. He continued
putting out mix CDs,
launched his own label (Marine
Parade), and released a debut solo
album, Now & Them, in 2003. But
he never zeroed in on one type of
dance music.
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Jun 29, 2009 12:20AM
Experimentation,
Perfectionism, and Distractions Mixed to
Produce Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
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