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David Newman says:
http://www.u-cover.com/cdr/ucdr040/
michael santos "soft cover" out now on u-cover
lovely pretty, bubbling, fuzzed up ambience > perfect to snooze off to on these warmer nights
he's got a good sense of keeping it organic but controlled - on a par with tim hecker
posted Apr 16
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Calika says:
i've got matters which is very nice haven't picked up micheals new one yet. talking of tim hecker, i only just got 'harmony in ultraviolet'. holy shit batman, that is a record.
posted Aug 16
docbrown says:
two words: STEVE . REICH .
posted Apr 15
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docbrown says:
I figured more people would be familiar with him since he's a fairly well-known composer. He virtually defined minimalism with a few other composers.
anyway, his official sitehttp://www.stevereich.com has a little bit of the start of his piece "Music for 18 Musicians".
his myspace page has a few audio clips as well:http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=76783777
There is a part of "Music for 18 Musicians" on his Myspace page, but it is further into the piece.
posted Apr 17
Matan Rubinstein says:
It's not that I wasn't familiar with him- it's just that he's been so main stream for so long, I didn't really think he counted... I mean, I like some of his music, but he is certainly not "exploring" much, is he?
On a different note, a friend of mine does very quirky electronica that I think is worth noticing:
http://www.myspace.com/scattershot1
Some other good stuff, not so easy to listen to:http://www.scattershot.org/music.htm
pardon the lack of live links; can't html to save my life.
[ edit: huh. they do it for you: web 2.0, baby!]
posted Apr 17
David Newman says:
i must admit - i have'nt listened to much Steve Reich > but i checked out his myspace page on your recommendation and it is certainly a beautiful and accomplished sound
i guess the term "exploring" can be quite a broad one and quite a relative or subjective one
> does it mean non mainstream?
> moving apart and away from traditional popular musical structures, sounds and techniques?
With those questions in mind Steve seems to have something to add to the second point.... but there will always be the subjective ingrediant of what is exploratory to the listener - a deeply personal standpoint
posted Apr 18
Matan Rubinstein says:
In a way, Steve Reich is one of the forerunners of electronic dance music; his works with tape phsing in the 60's and "minimalist" patterns in the early 70's have contributed quite a bit to the grammar we use making electronic music today. In that sense, at least, I don't think of Reich as untraditional. It's like calling Mozart an untraditional classical musician; we define theterm by his music. Same for Reich, I think.
posted Apr 18
docbrown says:
yeah. i suppose it would be more correct to define Reich as someone who isn't pushing things forward very much right now, but who was ahead of his time in the 60s and 70s. I had been unfamiliar with his music until last year, and I completely binged on it. It was liking hearing music for the first time again.
posted Apr 19
craque says:
I would describe Reich as a more down-to-earth version of Philip Glass. Both were seminal composers for minimal music in the 60's and 70's US, though I would not call either forerunners of electronic dance music.
Granted "Minimalism" as a whole has had a huge impact on the style of electronic music, but neither Reich nor Glass did much with electronic music themselves.
Reich's music for percussion is some of the most sublime textural art! Definitely check out his work from the mid-20th century, back when minimalism was raw and unfocussed. :)
Reich's "In C" is a beautiful work. The Reich Remixed stuff that probably introduced a lot of people to his work is OK in my opinion, but the original constructions work much better.
posted Apr 19
Matan Rubinstein says:
Also, Reich did a lot with tape: Check out "It's Gonna Rain" and "Come out" This are all about manipulating loops; definitely precursors of electronic music.
posted Apr 20
straight says:
calling reich a more down to earth version of glass is a poor description. it is less structurally complex but personally ive always had much more time for reich. i'd say accessable is a better term but even then it makes it sound like his work is a cop out, its not. he returned melody and emotion to modern composition, something very missing at the end of the reign of the serialists. i cant really think of a piece thats had a similar impact on myself in recent years to 'music for 18 musicians', the pointillism of the piece is such that you can listen to it as a slowly moving field of sound or look closer at the pulsing rhythmic detail. thee arent many other pieces of music that last 45/50 minutes and be transfixed throughout. he has explored similar ground throughout his career, i'd recomend his recent piece 'my name is daniel pearl', really emotional stuff with inteersting vocal work on it
posted Apr 25
Matan Rubinstein says:
Yeah, he's done some pretty stuff since he rediscovered his roots (he's an observant Jew now.) I rather liked his Cave "Video Opera."
Tehilim was also very good. As to "emotional"- I don't know. Just simpler pitch-wise than the post-serialists. Straight: I would reccomend you listen to some Arvo Part, if you're not aware of him. let me see...here's the (ough) myspace link:http://www.myspace.com/arvopaumlrt
posted Apr 26
ocp says:
After "A to J" comes "K to T".
Full length previews @ http://www.virb.com/ocp and availability through the iTunes Music Store.
Enjoy ; )
posted Apr 1
straight says:
this was just posted on the hippo board, it'll be ace
Hive is pleased to host an unmissable pairing of two of The Leaf Label's most esoteric acts Colleen and Triosk on a rare UK tour.
Triosk formed in Sydney, Australia in 2001 performing improvised- based music in which electronics play an active and equal role. Their live gigs update jazz for the post-digital age, invigorating the sound with explosive post-rock action and glistening, cracked electronics.
Colleen aka C?le Schott is a Paris based artist compiling a beguiling body of work. Her beautiful and haunting songcycles lurk in hidden chambers beneath the fields of modern composition, micro- electroacoustica, arthouse folk, and invisible soundtrack psychedelia. Simple but effortlessly charming, Colleen's music is one of magical details - na? instrumentals filled with warmth, melody and soul. On this tour she will be exploring a sound world normally associated with early music, playing rare instruments like viola de gamba and spinet (a kind of harpsichord).
Plus DJ Alextronic & VJs Bob Wass & Sam Burn
http://www.colleenplays.org
http://www.triosk.com
April 29
Venue: Cinema 3, FACT, Liverpool L1 4DQ
Time: 8.30pm
Tel: 08707 583217
Cost: ?7 (?5.50 conc/members)
posted Mar 27
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Jet Jaguar says:
Triosk are great. If you haven't heard the Necks I'd also recommend them for another Sydney-based, kinda-jazz-but-liked-by-those-who-don't-like-jazz band. :)
Currently listening to Bowie's Low. :)
posted Mar 27
Calika says:
i'm a big fani of triosk, also love that record they did with jans jelinek. loved colleens first album, but since that i've kind of lost the connection with her. not sure why but i just get a little pissed off with the meandering, sparse nature of the new tracks. i'm not sure what i'm missing but the live instrumentation feels very empty of experience, like she still needs 20 years to understand the multitude of instruments she is trying to use all at once.
that's just my opinion though.
posted Aug 16
SIGHUP says:
The thing I've been digging most recently is Cecile Schott's Colleen records on the Leaf Label. It's fairly delicate music, especially Les Boites a Musique, but it somehow avoids being too fey, and there's always a sort of underlying darkness to the music.
You can hear excerpts at her site:
http://www.colleenplays.org
posted Mar 24
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Audiobulb says:
yes sounds very delicate and intimate > more great quality from leaf
thanks for directing us to this
posted Mar 30
David Newman says:
To start the ball rolling ..ooOO
I've been really enjoying the Moskitoo remixes on the 12k label http://www.12k.com/
This little EP remixes the beautiful glitch pop of Sanae Yamasaki (Moskitoo) who hails from Sappporo, Japan.
Think beautifully fragmented sounds, with a whimiscal Japanease vocal and fluttering beats.
You can hear a track here from the original album >http://www.12k.com/1041skie.mp3
Remixes by Frank Bretschneider, Mark Fell, and Taylor Deupree. Its captivating stuff.
posted Mar 22
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He Can Jog says:
Nice, this is really pretty - I haven't been keeping up with the new 12k releases since blueprints, this is on Happy then?
posted Mar 24
David Newman says:
Hi He Can Jog - no its a full 12k release - even though it's got a happy (sub-label) ethos!
posted Mar 25
straight says:
at the moment i'm really feeling william basinskis work especially 'disintegration loops III' and 'shortwave music'. its brutally simple, fading tape loops and shortwave over considerable timescales but the way in which everything seems so vague, almost half remembered just seems to relly affect me emotionally . or maybe im just a big mary. theres some discussion herehttp://www.hauntedink.com/25/basinski-disintegration.html and you can pick them up fromhttp://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=18417 or downlaod at bleep
posted Apr 25
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Travis Morgan says:
Sounds cool. I'll be checking it out.
posted Apr 25