interviews / Woodshedding
Greg Davis was raised in the suburbs of Chicago. “I lived an hour outside of Chicago,” he says, “and the city I actually lived in, we lived 15 minutes outside of that city, so we were very much in the …
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interviews / Click It
Several years ago, an employee of Mille Plateaux Records mentioned to me, in passing, that one of the most played songs in the label’s office was, of all things, a remix of a track by r&b singer Aaliyah.
In other words, …
[ November 15, 2002 / bookmark ]
the crate / Danceable Mix, with Footnotes
Scion (aka Rene Lowe and Pete Kuschnereit) was given the enviable task of taking music from the back catalog of the Basic Channel record label, which specializes in bare-minimal techno, rarely more than a thudding distant beat pounding below a …
[ November 15, 2002 / bookmark ]
the crate / David Byrne’s Field Guide to Blip Hop
In the face of countless electronic-music compilations, the Luaka Bop record label, run by David Byrne, faux-hubristically titled its entry The Only Blip Hop Record You Will Ever Need — and then added Vol. 1, in order to further hedge …
[ November 15, 2002 / bookmark ]
the crate / Four Aussies Focus on Details
The Dorobo record label has produced a four-track compilation of resolutely elemental sounds. The title of the compilation is Grain, which suggests both the physical-world reality of dust and texture, and the compositional technique known as “granular synthesis.” (Granular synthesis …
[ November 14, 2002 / bookmark ]
the crate / Music for Casual DJing
The title of the compilation Music to Listen to Music By (Privatelektro Records) may have been intended as a joke, but it’s worth taking at least a little seriously — what with John Cage’s famous comparison, in his book Silence, …