interviews / The Bomb
DJ Krush had concerns about touring, and he wasn’t keeping them to himself. Before traveling from his native Japan to the United States in the spring of 2003, he posted a message on his website:
I’m a bit reluctant to …
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[ April 25, 2003 / bookmark ]
[ April 25, 2003 / bookmark ]
the crate / Widescreen Ambient Music
Over the course of four full-length CDs, Steve Roach’s Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces (Projekt, 2003) extends itself beyond the traditional realm of music. The sheer mass of sound — in terms of length as well as depth — is …
[ April 25, 2003 / bookmark ]
the crate / Mille Plateaux Debut from Canadian Glitch-meister
Glitch is the word, have you heard? The term “glitch” is shorthand for the use, by electronic musicians, of bits of sonic material that mimic the sounds associated with everyday technology that has ceased functioning effortlessly. The most common example …
[ April 11, 2003 / bookmark ]
the crate / Around the World in 54 Minutes
Big Ben, or another London clock tower quite like it, bangs at the opening of Sound Polaroids (Bip-Hop), an album credited to Scanner + Tonne. The record contains five tracks that take field recordings from specific cities and transform them …
[ April 11, 2003 / bookmark ]
the crate / R2D2’s Idea of Dance Music
“You can’t beat radio,” says an upbeat voice at the start of the song “Radio,” the opening track of Oki-Doki’s eight-song album Vila Kula, on the Denmark-based Jenka Music label — the same folks who previously gave us the strong …