Showing posts with label electronic music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label electronic music. Show all posts

Friday, January 30, 2015

This Wondercast celebrates the death of the geocentric model, our departure from anthropocentrism. It celebrates all forms of life, humility, and respect. It rejects of nationalism and borders, and discourages misunderstanding of others. It celebrates our ability to travel around, and meet different folks. Last but not least, it is celebration of the freedom we have to listen to music from nearly every corner of the inhabitable Earth, and to feel it it as if it was coming from a neighbor’s window. We are all neighbors, and brothers and sisters, and this mix celebrates that wonderful fact.
Ikue and Olive sprinkled with mbira gives way to some fruits of Laswell down in Cuba, bolstered with a trojan guitar skank loop. Every click matters. Defragmentation, /Rupture’ed., Jelinektronic forest funk, stopped by Billy, Ikue, and Olive. Brown Bag, Lunchbox! A minimal techno sandwich from Perth, Córdoba, and Zurich. Mutate, Mutek…then right back to Brooklyn. ‘Back to Cuba?’ Dave Aju asks. It’s A Story With A Touch, for sure. Midnight poppies lead to more Defragmentation. Arto’s Complicity, remixed, and plopped on Skull Disco mixed with John Lurie’s haunting horn. Back for a World Trance. Across the pond again to Switzerland via Storlon, and Germany via Berk. Where Do You Run To? Sub Dub! Nico Dubliners, Thoughts Like Rain. NY, Zorn.

Friday, January 08, 2010

Unshow

Tomorrow (saturday) night from 11-12midnight I’ll be DJ’ing on Brown University Radio, playing a set of unique, quirky-woozy-thumpy-funky-fresh electronic music from mainly the unfoundsound/Foundsound crew , via Berlin, Philly, Argentina, The Canary Islands, Japan, and Baltimore. Streaming at www.bsrlive.com, or listenable in the Providence area on 88.1 FM.

Aesthetically, it sounds like music that steelyard/scrap metal sculpture-people would dance to, if they could dance.

Monday, May 25, 2009

It's Spring Again!


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The winter chill is gone for good, with (it better be) our last frost behind us. This springtime mix is just like a New England spring----lots of variability. With that in mind, here are some songs that have about as much in common as snow and baseball.

  • John Zorn - Opening Credits/Hawaiian Postcard
  • Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years
  • Pamelia Kurstin - Copingheaven
  • Frivolous - The Long Way
  • Tito Puente - Tito on Timbale
  • Miskate - Hear the Ahhh
  • So Inagawa - Batai
  • Los Mirios - La Danza de Los Mirios
  • Secret Chiefs 3 - Sheburiel
  • Nettle - Duende (version 2)
  • Sabu Martinez and Sahib Shihab - Nus
  • Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou - Se We Non Nan
  • Santos Resiak - Timba
  • HAR-YOU Percussion Group - Barrett's Bag

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Unfoundsound: An Unmix

Somewhat vaguely similar to my appreciation of art welded from junk, I am fascinated by the capture, tweaking, and collaging of raw sounds in order to make music. Beauty can come from lots of things- even discarded metal, or random noise waves propogating through the air.

That's why I've got lots of love for Unfoundsound! A netlabel out of Philly, they release quirky, dj friendly dance music that is made with (among other things) found sounds and field recordings from natural or unnatural environments. Besides releasing great music under creative commons licensing, they also have a series of field recordings which make for great fun in making your own music.

From their site:

through monthly releases, unfoundsound offers worldwide exposure to promising new artists as well as established artists from around the globe. in addition, unfoundsound provides a series of free downloadable field recordings (the unfields) available to everyone for creative sampling, musical composition and whatever your fuzzy, little heart desires. enjoy!


Damn Skippy! Thanks to Unfoundsound for their really solid, interesting releases. I hope everyone enjoys this little collection of songs which I put together rather roughly. Also check out their sister label Foundsound for more great music.

* Ditch - Yack
* David Last - Halitosis Rockers
* Kriss - Undersun
* Mike Uzzi and Ben Recht - Slack Talk Space Dub
* So Inagawa - Kada
* Ben Parris - Desktop Willage
* Theilaxu - Highlite (Marc Ashken remix)
* Roberto Clementi - Real Fun
*Ben Parris - Breakfast with Thorialanus (Seth Troxler rmx)
*Alex Medina - Too Much Botox
*Roberto Clementi - Exigent

Sunday, February 01, 2009

The Commute, Part 2: To Work


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In the third installment of The Commute Series, here are some more tunes deemed appropriate for the pre-dawn commute to work. Keep your eyes out for soft purple skys coming, as well an occasional morning star. But, most importantly, when you finally get to work, don't sweat the smalls.

  • Sawako - Purple Sky Coming
  • Klimek - For Jim Hall & Kurt Kirkwood
  • Andrew Thomas - A Dream of a Spider
  • Bill Frisell - Outlaw
  • Ekekiel Honig & Morgan Packard - Balm
  • Bobby Previte - Morning Star
  • Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet - A Remembrance...An Afterthought...
  • Ezekiel Honig - Material Instrument 2
  • Mint - Hindemith
  • Marc Ribot - Noise #2
  • John Zorn - Yellow
  • Ches Smith - Don't Sweat the Smalls

Friday, August 08, 2008

Frivolous

Frivolous! I first heard his music a few years ago on Andy Vaz's Background Records label. He's a former math teacher (I think) from Canada who left that vocation for a career in homegrown electronic music, aka DIY electronic music. He's special, as he is one of the handful of artists that both my wife and I love.

Given the extremely homemade instruments he uses (for images check out his cool site ) , his music is extremely polished, funky, and fun. He’s released a lot of music over the years…. You can check some of it out at:
Background Records
Minibar Music

This post brought to you by the letter F, an electromagnetic knife, and Canada.

Sunday, January 27, 2008

whatwhat?


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unfoundsound presents a six-track masterpiece courtesy of brooklyn's david last -- featuring three original numbers, plus three remixes by so inagawa (of the suffragettes), ditch and suz. on the whatwhat? ep, david last demonstrates his diverse music-making dexterity and crystal-clean production skills. the ep commences with "animal hybrids" -- a quirky, snippy dancefloor killer fueled by snarling found sounds and snappy percussion that all minimal techno djs can appreciate. then on "where it falls", david last slows the bpm down to a chugging crawl -- yielding a groovy, slow-paced dub tune meticulously doused with blips, bleeps and heady reverbs (somewhat reminiscent of monolake). this is followed by "sporty ankles" -- a minimal masterwork that moves gently with broken beats, pretty vocal stabs, snippy percussion, drenching reverbs and a dubby undertone. then so inagawa reworks "where it falls" into a deep, sample-heavy minimal ass-shaker soaked with goofy found sounds and reverb-drenched timbres. then ditch offers an upbeat remix of "sporty ankles" -- a driving crowd-pleaser with a hard-hitting beat, gritty melodies and funny sound-sculpting. and last but not least, suz offers another version of "where it falls" -- a sexy and heady minimal house ditty doused with chopped up vocal snippets, a rumbling bassline, grainy textures and shuffly percussion. oh yeah! another whoppin' ep!