Albini often said he’d rather be referred to as an engineer than a producer, and that his primary goal was to record musicians (often using entirely analog equipment) as they might sound playing live. I grew up on dance music with synths and filtered samples etc. and found this approach kinda weird in principle? But looking back, there are some bands where you wouldn’t want it any other way.
May 8, 2024
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orchestral yet intimate and personal. loving the contrast of full bodied computer sounds with something ancient and all knowing at the core. def one of the producers with the most to offer right now.
May 4, 2024
before Skrillex was the american dubstep poster boy but after his time as lead singer for pop-punk/emo/screamo band From First to Last, there was a brief period where these two parts of his musical influence coalesced into vocal driven emo dubstep fusion and it was SICK. none of it was ever officially released and it only existed as low quality MP3s he put up on his myspace back in the day. these pre-skrillex tracks became somewhat legendary in the skrillex fan community and high quality remakes and edits circulated for years in lieu of studio quality versions of the real ones.
in this EP, underscores faithfully recreates songs from this era of the Skrillex fandom and pays homage to this little known but hugely influential part of Sonny Moore’s career. it’s actually insane how much these sound like the originals, down to the weird MP3 artifacts and synth growl sound design.
the songs are great in a vacuum but if you don’t know the originals here they are for a side by side
Lustbug
Turmoil
Oceans
Father Said
May 24, 2024
Difficult though it may be for the old vanguard to accept, I believe most if not all vital innovation in the jam band format is coming from the industrial electronic musical sector.
Autechre are a great example of one such band who - late in their careers - have released dozens of hours of improvisatory and fresh takes on old material performed live and categorized by the year and city in which the performances took place.
These recordings are then - of course - fawned over and endlessly analyzed by obsessive devotees and electro-hippie freaks who collect, distribute, and bootleg them along with whatever other unreleased or previously unknown material they can independently gather.
It is, as ever, a brave new world, and change is confusing, but if you listen with an open mind you’ll surely find yourself entranced by Autechre’s Psycho-Electronic Experimentations …. Peace and Love✌️
Feb 6, 2024
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Finally saw this for the first time (on 35mm thxx Prince Charles Cinema) and wow. Jonathan Glazer and co-writer Jean-Claude Carrière spending all of pre-production re-writing the script without informing the studio… DP Harris Savides pushing the boundaries of underexposed film and getting the craziest deepest browns and purples out of Kodak stock… Alexandre Desplat starting with what seems like a very polite classical score and then gradually bringing in heavy synth bass… and of course Nicole Kidman throwing herself headlong into an insane role (and apparently bullying the producers for more $$$ when they finished under budget)
Nov 10, 2024
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Because of the extensive tradition of pirate radio in the UK (from Radio Caroline on down), London probably has the most insane landscape of 24/7 internet radio in the world. I've tried to rank these in terms of approximate popularity ranging from NTS (as mentioned) on down to purely DIY weekend-only amateur collectives like LWSTD. If you don't know the stations in your city, just have a quick google and do some Instagram "Following" list exploration and it should be pretty easy to find more (e.g. in Amsterdam check out Echobox, Radio Tempo Não Pára, RRFM, etc...)
- NTS (Dalston) https://www.nts.live/
- Rinse FM (Hoxton) https://rinse.fm/
- Worldwide FM (Islington) https://worldwidefm.net/ (currently mostly on ice but great archive)
- Balaami (Peckham) https://www.balamii.com/
- Soho Radio https://sohoradiolondon.com/
- Reprezent Radio (Brixton) https://www.reprezentradio.org.uk/
- Netil Radio (Hackney) https://www.netilradio.com/
- Subtle Radio (Hackney) https://www.subtleradio.com/
- Voices Radio (Kings Cross) https://www.voicesradio.co.uk/
- Aaja (Deptford) https://aajamusic.com/radio/
- Do You!! Radio (Hackney) https://doyou.world/
- LWSTD https://www.lovewillsavetheday.fm/
Apr 4, 2024
The less you read about it (or look at maps) the better. Just enter via Haight Street, turn your phone off and wander 'til you reach the ocean. If you go on a Sunday afternoon and you didn't already come across it, proceed to turn your phone back on and track back to the 6th Avenue Skate Park to check out the roller disco party 🛼🔊😎
Mar 3, 2024