BBC Radio 2 has a streaming (and sprawling) hour-long audio-documentary on chill-out music, put together by Chris Coco. It includes interviews with musicians (Mixmaster Morris, Nightmares on Wax) atop an ongoing backdrop of musical examples, from Erik Satie to the …
The standout on Mérida, Venezuela-based Rafael L. Garnica’s four-track Naif EP, a free download from the Microbio netlabel, isn’t the familiar techno of the title cut. And it isn’t “From LA” (the name of which includes a witty parenthetical clarification: …
Keith Fullerton Whitman (aka Hrvatski) went to Japan and all we got was a free half-hour live recording in the form of a stereo MP3 file. Come to think of it, that’s not a bad deal. Recently uploaded to the …
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — They came for the music, but they stayed for the Y2K jokes. The Laptop Battle in San Francisco on Sunday, April 18, promised an evening of competitive electronica. But while the individual performances were occasionally inspired, …