See ya January. Off to fuck with you now. February sees me taking on some work in Dublin and facing into a daily commute totalling 5 hours to and from my job. I'm trying to be as zen as possible about this and want to maximise my use of the down time afforded by the bus trip. If I turn off my phone, I can completely tune in and turn on to a good book, a podcast, or an album. I can give my attention fully over to these things without [...]
From the blurred, skittering brilliance of his 1997 collaboration with Jim O'Rourke & Nicholas Collins to his enlightening, radical remixes of both the relatively obvious ( Ryuichi Sakamoto , Squarepusher , Takako Minekawa ) & somewhat less so ( Jimanica , Pizzicato 5 ) & on to current live-only workouts, these ears are once again revelling in the fecund hinterland & endless textural trickery of Markus Popp's Oval - triggered this time by his 11-track 'countdown' of web-only bonuses ahead of last Friday's release of retrospective flush-out (& multi-media extravaganza) [...]
DOWNLOAD: Oneohtrix Point Never - "Sleep Replica" (MP3) Oval Glitch pioneer Markus Popp revived the Oval moniker in 2010 and released the album O via Thrill Jockey , the first Oval album in nine years. He's following that with OvalDNA , an album that was originally meant to come before O . The album includes a mix of previously released and unreleased tracks and comes [...]
На прошлой неделе в гостевом посте для Follow Me Radio я удивлялся тому, как на просторах нашей необъятной может появиться такой необычный музыкант, как « Nylon Journey ». Тогда я ещё не представлял, насколько я ошибался. Во-первых, Nylon Journey было всего лишь названием Soundcloud аккаунта, а сам проект называется Piper Spray. Во-вторых, я, конечно, ожидал от гостевого микса хорошей работы, но то, что упало в инбокс сегодня превзошло все ожидания – на фоне общего музыкального потока, которым подхватывают блоги, Piper Spray выглядит самым настоящим музыкантом, со своим, не навязанным модой вкусом, со своим взглядом на ретрофутуризм [...]
Footnotes coming out of our ears, or something like that...anyway, a batch of compelling new material that usefully augments some of LMYE's posts this week . Firstly, two more of Tim Hecker 's diverting piano 'sketches' for the immense Ravedeath, 1972 - more muted & reflective than Sketch 5 (covered here ), but still highly affecting. [...]
Talking of Oval , a s andblast from the past - a woozily abrasive track of the day from his monumental Ovalprocess album (Zomba, 2000 - stream in full below, along with the following year's Ovalcommers ). Ovalprocess - Untitled 05 by [...]
Let's party like it's 1998*. The soundtrack? A sudden, notable eruption of new music from the near-holy trinity of Jan Jelinek , Oval and Pole , three pioneering titans of experimental electronica. Jelinek has just launched only his second release as Farben since 2004 - a self-released 12" of deviant disco, like [...]
The Empty Bottle 's yearly collaboration with The Wire magazine dubbed "Adventures in Modern Music: A Five Day Celebration of Outsider Sounds" will return next week, the venue announced via its Tumblr . The series kicks off at the Empty Bottle on Wednesday, Sept. 28, featuring Synthpop composer and Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti keyboard player John Maus , Brooklyn black metal outfit Liturgy , retro-poppers Dirty Beaches , and Chicago's own experimental electronic outfit Chandeliers. The event will [...]
Si tarrà da domani, 21 luglio a sabato 23, Presso la Mole Vanvitelliana di Ancona si terrà la sesta edizione del festival di musica ed arte elettronica Acusmatiq , organizzato dall'Arci di Ancona con la Provincia ed il Comune di Ancona. La sesta edizione di Acusmatiq, attraverso una serie di performances di livello internazionale, prosegue l'esplorazione dei rapporti tra la produzione musicale e la tecnologia, analogica e digitale e con uno sguardo sempre attento al rapporto tra la pratica strumentale e performativa e l'elettronica nelle diverse forme dettate dalla sensibilità contemporanea. Di particolare rilievo la [...]
Si terrà presso la Mole Vanvitelliana di Ancona la sesta edizione del festival di musica ed arte elettronica Acusmatiq , organizzato dall'Arci di Ancona con la Provincia ed il Comune di Ancona. Acusmatiq è un evento unico nel suo genere, ed in questi anni ha saputo affascinare un pubblico sempre più vasto e composito attraverso un cartellone che vuole essere un punto di vista privilegiato dal quale poter esplorare molteplici linguaggi in maniera libera e trasversale. Fra gli artisti attesi Yann Tiersen E lektronische Staubband, Alva Noto [...]
![[mp3] The Ovals – Refugees](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3297344_lg.jpg)
Melbourne, Australia act The Ovals have caught my attention with their excellent psych-rock jam "Refugees". If you're a fan of the heavy hitting dream psych that bands like Tame Impala revisited last year, then you will love The Ovals. "Refugees" aims for the southern part of the sky, and they're truly cruising. It's a drugged out jam that features some of the dreamiest vocals that you will hear all year. Put them over some 70s influenced psych rock, and you got quite the song. It's taken from the bands new EP, Into The [...]
*Nancy - Doesn't this photo remind you of that line from The Bedroom Philospher "gonna go down to Pony, pretend I'm in Kings of Leon"? No, just me? Ok then, continue. My name is: David, Tadhg's, Duane & Danny I play in: The Ovals We sound like: PINK FLOYD meets CAN and TOOL and a touch of the ol' forest beaming with stone age minds and space age music. Inspired by: An [...]
"Natural events such as the collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field...these sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated sounds; this multitude of sounds, seen as a totality, is a new sonic event. This mass event is articulated and forms a plastic mold of time". That quote from Xenakis was used by support act Rogers and Jones to illustrate the ambitions of their piece, a musing on the relationship between our perceptions of time and sound; however it seems more apt in the context of Oval's recent work. [...]
OVAL aka Markus Popp will be touring Europe next year, which includes a London show at Cafe Otto on January 16th (which will be Oval's first UK show in many years). 2010 saw the release of... **Summary** Go to website for downloads, videos & more.
Labels' rol e as visible exercisers of taste, as rallying points, as cultural lenses, was at least as crucial this year as last . Following our label of the year ( Low Point ), LMYE highlights five other curatorial efforts that helped define 2010. Besides our picks - below, alphabetically [...]
To translate Apparat 's sonic universe into a DJ mix, conveying his unique approach through the work of other artists, is therefore not an easy task, but one that Sascha Ring manages with aplomb on his edition of !K7's DJ-KiCKS series. His own exclusive track 'Circles' starts out the selection, setting the tone with looped guitars, melancholic lyrics and drifting tones. What follows is an impeccably narrated one-hour journey through contemporary electronic music, contrasting favourites like Joy Orbison's 'The Shrew Would Have Cushioned The Blow' and Thom Yorke's [...]
Ποτέ δεν ξέρεις τι να φορέσεις το φθινόπωρο... Κάποιος με είπε εστέτ ποπ στο ραδιόφωνο και ο κιτς εαυτός μου επαναστάτησε. Ακολουθεί λοιπόν φθινοπωρινή λίστα mp3 με εξώφυλλο το πιο κιτς περουκίνι -γνωστό και ως τουπέ- της οθόνης. Foals : Wear and Tear Banjo Or Freakout : Over There [...]
So, it's time for another listen to what gets posted at our supplemental blog, GIMME Tumblr . If you want to follow GIMME Tumblr , here is the rss feed , or you could just join Tumblr . Listen. Downloadables: Communication (Part II) (mp3) by Invisible Elephant (order a CD-R of The Lights Go Out @ Sonic Reverie ) (D/L The Lights Go Out @ Bandcamp [...]
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Sempre a animar o Barreiro... O Auditório Municipal Augusto Cabrita vai receber de 24 a 26 de Setembro a quarta edição do festival Barreiro Outras Músicas 2010. "(...) O espírito ecléctico é a sua marca de referência, pelo cartaz do BOM passaram artistas em ascensão e outros de reconhecimento incontornável, de Tiago Guillul a American Music Club, de Dead Combo a Carminho, a ênfase é dada na música com personalidade desafiando o publico a abraçar as suas diferentes expressões. (...)" (Nota de Imprensa) Agora o cartaz: 24 Setembro - 21h30 [...]
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