Technoid posted this on
March 11th, 2010
My first post is a short one, however here is what I have been listening to this week, in no particular order:
1) Autechre – Oversteps (Warp)
IDM overlords new record, made as usual with generative patches and edited together post facto. Superb.
Listen to Autechre – Ilanders
2) James Blake – The Bells Sketch EP (Hessle Audio)
Precocious producer from Leeds. The title track to this EP is chopped & screwed melancholy Dubstep with an early 90′s G-funk Moog line (a la Death Row Records). If you like it, download Rob Booth’s ‘Electronic Explorations’ podcasts, as he is always getting new material from James.
Listen to James Blake – The Bell Sketch
3) John Wiese – Circle Snare (No Fun)
I’m late on this one, but went to see him play with Lasse Marhaug in Oakland and was taken aback by how good his rhythmic/ spatialised work is.
Listen toJohn Wiese – Circle Snare
4) Portal – Swarth (Profound Lore)
Surrealist Australian technical death metal anyone?
Listen to Portal – Swarth
5) Imants Kalniņš “Dūdieviņš”
Haunting Latvian psych-pop from the sixties.
Listen to Latvian Psych Pop
Currently reading:
Peter Sloterdijk – Terror From the Air
Fractals posted this on
March 6th, 2010
I have mentioned this very useful extension to iTunes before.
Reposting now around two fronts. New friend, music aficionado and DJ Mat Dryhurst provided me with some sample music around the genres of metal, black metal, doom, modern composition, techno, electronic, dubstep – I mean I didn’t even know the genres – much less the bands.
Anyway – took the samples, dropped them into iTunes and tried using Gracenote to identify the tracks …. FAIL.
BUT – then I switch into TuneUp – and this track listing is identified.
Two were not identified – Mat – if you can help – I will manually enter them – and also would be interested if the rest have been correctly identified.
However – to my mind a pretty amazing identifier – IF the cataloguing is right. More to come – post confirmation.
The one I can confirm is right is ‘Farmer in The City’ by Scott Walker.
Scott – being a personal favorite – I checked out, seemed an odd one in the middle of all this doom, metal and thrash.
The track comes from an early 1990s album called Tilt. It could have been lifted from the Jacques Brel cover album he did 10 years before in terms of voice meets art meets meets dark. This one is even more depressing than the Brel covers – so now I get the inclusion.
BobbyG – point of note – Mat knows Mikael Åkerfeldt.
I am working through the music to see what’s what. So far – interesting.
Fractals posted this on
June 15th, 2009
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We are now six weeks into our new weekly podcast. Each week we’ll be adding our pick of the week from the site.
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