[ July 5, 2005 / bookmark ]
Ilya Monosov’s “Music for Electronics and Hurdy Gurdy (2)” will infuriate nearby dogs and intrigue anyone with the patience and concentration to weather its eight and a half minutes, as it builds steadily from a hum to a screech. It …
[ July 4, 2005 / bookmark ]
Looking for some good picnic music on the Fourth of July? Well, here you go. Greg Davis (of the folktronic Arbor and Curling Pond Woods albums on Carpark Records, and the artfully drowsy drone-minimalism of Somnia on Kranky) has posted …
[ July 3, 2005 / bookmark ]
Quick Links: (1) Industrial act Nine Inch Nails has put another of the songs off its new album, With Teeth, up for public re-construction. NIN’s Trent Reznor had previously made “The Hand That Feeds” available as a series of raw …
[ July 2, 2005 / bookmark ]
This is a household where DVDs are rented, on occasion, based not on the director, or actors, but the score’s composer. Usually it’s just to see the music in action, as it were — to witness, say, how Cliff Martinez’s …
[ July 1, 2005 / bookmark ]
The second track on the new Tigrics EP, Mint Egy Befejezono (Highpoint Lowlife), moves with some speed from a treated field recording of a train, with its locomotive rhythm, to something syrupy, in which mechanized drums keep slipping up, like …