Guitarist Eivind Aarset plays a dark brand of trip-hop-infused jazz fusion, chords hovering like sulfurous clouds, ominous yet plaintive, beats that are mechanical, but also seductive and atmospheric. On two albums, Electronique Noire (1998) and Light Extracts (2001), Aarset has …
Luke Vibert (aka Wagon Christ) is promoting his Kerrier District collection, out now on the Rephlex records. On November 21 of last year, while in Tokyo, he recorded a mix of his tunes for web radio outlet Station Samurai FM …
Deadbeat, aka Scott Monteith, is currently on tour, playing San Francisco this weekend, with Monolake and Joshua Kit Clayton; Detroit in February, with Monolake and others; and across Europe throughout March. He contributed the A side to a three-artist single, …
Slate.com on the audio fallout of Monday’s Iowa Democratic caucuses:
I’ve heard it replayed so often, the [Dr. Howard] Dean scream is starting to sound good to me too. … Who’ll be the first hip-hop artist to sample it?
Tuesday, January …
Nanoloop is the name of a sound editor created for the Nintendo Game Boy. The cartridge includes a sequencer, which can be fiddled with in real time, while the song is playing, and a wave form editor, in which you …
In time, we may come to understand what, exactly, drives 400 Lonely Things. That will occur down the road, when there’s a full body of work to be listened to from a distance, something that will, having reached a critical …
Associations are often made between contemporary electronic music and jazz. There are various reasons for the comparison, among them jazz’s emphasis on improvisation, its embrace of error and chance, and its status as the closest thing post-war pop culture ever …
It’s been a big week for streams. First the two-part Brian Eno interview from TechTV, then the Beans video from Warp Records. The general purpose of Disquiet.com’s Downstream section is to link to recommended free electronic-related music on the web, …
The artists on Warp Records have long drawn on the rhythms and technology of hip-hop for their sounds. The label has been cementing that relationship, most recently with the release of music by vocalist and producer Beans, a former member …
Gavin Bryars, the British composer, talks about having his phone go off during one of his own concerts:
I had a choice. I could either open the bag to switch it off, thereby making the phone sound louder, or let it …