The most recent “one-minute vacation” from Aaron Ximm’s quietamerican.org site is an MP3 of a family occasion recorded by Joseph Young — less a field recording than a home recording. It’s a raw sample from a master’s-degree project Young …
The BBC’s Breezeblock radio show has up, currently, a stream of an interview with Squarepusher (plus music from his new Warp Records album, Ultravisitor), in which he talks about, among other things, his difficulty describing his own music. Stream …
Radio Free Albemuth was Philip K. Dick’s last book. It makes a fitting subject for the Sine Fiction series of scores for classic science fiction novels, if for no other reason than its protagonist works in the music industry. Technically, …
Hot Roddy (born Chris Cook) has posted three free songs on the 8bitrecs.com netlabel, here: “Hope” is that rare breed, a sitar rave-up, with vaguely drum’n'bass-style tabla percussion matching its stop’n’start pacing; “Fade” is a tasty downtempo post-rock nugget …
Many observers of electronic music have come to categorize their albums by record company, but the small Progressive Form label doesn’t lend itself to categorization. The company, based in Tokyo, Japan, has overtly artful and hyper-attentive sound constructions to its …
The Sine Fiction series sponsors electronic musicians to compose soundtracks for science fiction novels. Among the most recent Sine Fiction entries is Jos Smolders’ five-track, nearly half-hour score for Roadside Picnic, written by the Strugatsky brothers, Arkady and Boris. Smolders …
EU are the somewhat funky side of globalism: two Russian musicians — Ilya Baramiya and Sasha Zaitsev (or Baramia and Zaicev, depending on your transliterator) — with a trunk full of hip-hop and prog rock, and a contract with a …
The Marseille, France-based Bip-Hop label may have lent a name to a generation of computer-enthusiast musicians (bip) with a taste for the rhythms of post-rap pop music (hop). Or it may have borrowed a bit of vogue wordplay already in …
Why is it that the most commonplace good-time pop-music elements — for example, a lilting electric-guitar melody and a cliché hip-hop drum loop — can combine to form something almost unbearably delectable? The musician Dim Dim (known to friends and …
Philip Scheffner builds art from field recordings that he makes on his travels. A/C (on the Pong label) contains a kind of program music, in which the winding narrative that his sounds accompany is the course of his journey: insect …