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Musician Jose Maria Rodrigo pilots his drone-based electronic music onto your headphones like someone bringing a massive starship in slow and steady. “Industria Proxima,” off his July 10 Montgo netlabel release, Por Debajo de las Cosas Ordinarias, opens with an …
One is tempted to call Larkian’s “Droxma_1″ a drone, but it’s so much more than that, more specific, more earthly, more tangible. There’s too much detail in “Droxma_1″ to relegate it to mere, to even superior, drone-ness. It begins in …
Detroit-based musician Ryan Crosson’s The Plane Ride EP, on the Archipel netlabel, opens with its strongest material: “Bow String,” six and a half minutes of cross-step minimal techno built almost entirely from percussive elements, just a scattering of ping pong …
Sometime yesterday, the counter in the Other Minds catalog at the Internet Archive, aka archive.org, clicked up one notch, to 206 from 205. Yet, due to the phased processes of database tools, especially those employed by a system as …
The beautiful thing about artificially produced harmonies, like the picturesque swamp musk of David Last’s three-minute “Landscape” (MP3), is the indefinite division between a singular complex sound and a set of individual sounds. The piece plays out like a …
Quick Links: (1) This year’s Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle, September 2 – 5, will feature a sound art exhibit, “In Resonance,” with curators Fionn Meade and Rob Millis (link). … (2) Details on the 3rd Annual Festival of New …
Close the week with one of the web’s most generous podcasts (MP3), the occasional hour-long sequences of music from artists and labels associated with brainwashed.com. The latest, dated July 16, features music by Out Hud, Mimir, Eau Claire, …