Recent blog posts about Professor Genius from music blog aggregator, Elbo.ws http://elbo.ws/artist/professorgenius/ 2013-05-18T18:01:44+01:00 text/html 2012-10-10T08:03:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4557149/italians-do-it-betters-after-dark-remastered/
I will always remember the day when I first heard about Italians Do It Better it was more than 5 years ago AudioPorn Central was only in BETA, I was making it ready for the launch one of our first posts was about the After Dark compilation now the gamechanger album has been remastered relisten it and think about your last five years it's a piece of music history here is what Johhny Jewel has to say about this: [...]]]> text/html 2012-10-09T23:29:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4556282/over-5-years-ago-we-released-a-slow-burning-label-sampler/
Over 5 years ago we released a slow-burning label sampler at midnight on my birthday. The original pressing was a demo CDR that Ida No colored with markers & glued cutouts of my hand spraypainting our names on the world. It was supposed to be a limited edition of 237 copies meant for the merch tables of Texas & California. It exploded overnight. 77 minutes of analog electronic music mutating through Italo Disco, Krautrock, Electro, Giallo Cinema, & Pop. By now, After Dark seems like its in its thousandth pressing(we lost track a long time ago). And as we prepare [...]]]> text/html 2012-10-09T22:18:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4556168/after-dark-remastered/
La prxima semana la gente de Italians Do It Better estar editando de una vez por todas la segunda parte de su serie After Dark, en la cual obviamente estaremos encontrando una serie de canciones inditas de varios de los actos que le dan vida al elegante catlogo de este sello, mismos en los que en su mayora est ms que involucrado Johnny Jewel. Pues bien, para que vayamos calentando motores para darle una buena escuchada a este sumamente esperado lanzamiento, hace unos momentos el mismo Jewel tom su cuenta de soundcloud para compartir con nosotros la versin [...]]]> text/html 2012-05-30T19:25:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4298108/atoms-for-peace-danny-brown-jamie-xx-to-play-moma/
Long Island City art institution MoMA PS1 has revealed the 2012 lineup for its annual outdoor summer concert series Warm Up . Taking place each Saturday from July 7th to September 8th in the museum's courtyard, this year's edition performances by Thom Yorke's Atoms for Peace (DJ set), Jamie xx, Danny Brown, Vampire Weekend's Chris Baio, Lemonade, Matthew Dear (DJ set), Light Asylum, Rustie, Nguzunguzu, Om Unit, Evian Christ, Trust, Sepalcure, Miguel, and Just Blaze. Other acts announced include Toddy Terry, Arca, Professor Genius, Pearson Sound, Micachu & the Shapes (DJ set), Holy Other, Maria Minerva, Nick [...]]]> text/html 2011-11-21T22:10:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3878361/the-visualisator/
Having sond-mined our e-mail archive yesterday, let us now slip into the visualisator, a scanner developed by VizViz, a recently spun out gem from DARPA's venerable portfolio of black swan investments. Visualisator transforms the ebbs and flows of our sickly subconscious into lurid imaginary. We hear that Apple has now acquired VizViz, and the next version of the iPhone 5 will incorporate some of its technologies into its interface, thus enabling users to tele-chat in alternate realities generated on the fly from their biometrics. Talk to your honey in elysium, talk to your boss on a Sunday, in a cenobyte [...]]]> text/html 2011-11-14T15:53:25+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3860786/professor-genius-assassins-steve-moore-time-of-the-assassins-remix/
Professor Genius, known best as part of a small vanguard of artists in the middle '00s who made smart, Ital0 flavored dance music that splashed onto so many turntables in the mid aughties, has taken a turn towards the soundscape, the cinematic,and the epic with his release ofHassan. Though the album and song titles reference historical and mythical accounts of the Hashshashin and their founder Hassan-i Sabbah and some tracks draw heavily on Arabic and Persian influences, the double vinyl LP paints its own science fictional world, full of its own intrigues. As an album, Hassan has [...]]]> text/html 2011-03-02T23:07:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/3252571/moebius-trip/
A hazy black and white television, freed from it's cheap veneer housing sits awkwardly on a fragile brown table, its cathode ray tube naked and blaring. Through a dust caked window, Attack Ships perch on their gigantic scaffolds, cloistered beasts awaiting an electronic impulse that will signal their initial, sluggish roll away from their moorings. The television shows an orchestra from an indeterminate time performing a single note over and over in a breathless loop. A royal guard approaches the most corpulent Attack Ship, their hard worn uniforms offset by the celestial fanfare that blares over the lashed [...]]]> text/html 2010-09-26T22:58:40+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/2849393/a-mist-of-despair-hangs-above-all-of-this/
Assassins is a displacement from the West German brutalism and Cold War bleakness - industrial wastelands and all - that's usually associated with low key synthesisers and half buried hyperactive drum machines (muted by their very energetic nature). Here the aural aesthetic is tied to the story of the Hashshashin, the Nizai Ismailis tarred by [...]]]> text/html 2009-06-19T12:00:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/1805399/mirage-lake-of-dreams/
mirage - "lake of dreams" (download) Another group I don't know a whole lot about, and can't seem to find much info on. They're from Italy, and they had three songs on the Italians Do It Better compilation After Dark (alongside The Chromatics , Glass Candy , Professor Genius and others). This is a nice, 9-minute track (although I wish there were a shorter version out there) to take you into the weekend. Throw some shades on, put the top down, and drive [...]]]> text/html 2009-04-28T00:43:46+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/1688559/fantoms/
Think Joy Division as remade by Chromatics - ah, but its so much more than that! Twisted Wires are a raging storm reflected in the retina of a solemn shoegazing guitarist, coiling a mournful down-tuned motif from his spidery guitar strings. In the 80s. With The Horrors making like the spectral ...]]> text/html 2008-12-31T01:28:53+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/1432487/20jfg-best-of-2008-love/
Epic post! Epic because Love is Disco, and Disco is the one genre that has united all 4 horsemen of 20JFG in agreement that 2008 was an awesome year for said musical style. Disco hit hard this year with Chicago House making a welcome return to the forefront of dance ...]]> text/html 2008-12-16T20:24:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/1411780/all-too-distant-present/
Making the the Top of 2008 lists is not easy; I've been seeing others, and it's safe to say that for the most part, people's tastes even within the same blog scenes are variating. I find this a good thing, hopefully tastes dissipate even further from previous trends, and I hope that music in 2009 sounds a lot more like this, at least for my sake: Le Knight Club - Rhumba ( alt ) Professor Genius - Orange Coco ( alt ) Check out these guys' myspaces [...]]]> text/html 2008-09-25T09:10:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/1267347/instrumental-ds/
Hatchback - White Diamond (2007) Young Monday - Zaire (2008) Soft Cell - ...So (1984) Professor Genius - Pegaso (2007) Giorgio Moroder - The Chase [...]]]> text/html 2008-05-30T22:47:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/1085283/gladio/
Gladio - Fighting In The North ( alt link ) War music. Archeologically-themed electro compositions on Mighty Robot from self-proclaimed 'Slave Of Rome' Gladio, who very possibly takes his ancient history a bit too far by naming the final entry on his five-track opus 'Time Team Track'. Still, nice to hear '80s-style synth pieces making reference to Tony Robinson , however inexplicable it might seem. Sticking with the '80s synth stylings it's good to hear some new [...]]]> text/html 2008-02-24T16:23:03+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/923950/professor-genius-jardin/
Professor Genius creates ambient new wave dance party music. He's part of the dance party collective/label Italians Do It Better along with other greats like the Chromatics, Farah, and Glass Candy. The future is here and it's from New Jersey. You can purchase his work on This Is Not An Exit Records. Take a listen [...]]]> text/html 2007-11-03T18:24:43+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/758099/clap-to-the-electricity-vol5/
Some more electro you say? Here is Clap Your Hands To The Electricity Vol.5 as usual featuring some of the best remixes, bands and DJs from across the globe. We've got a bit of pop on here with a bassy/funky remix of Kylie by Alan Braxe and a dirty Kissy Sell out extravaganza on an All Saints track as well as some old favourites form Primal Scream and The Chemical Brothers blended together. As well as the well known stuff though, The Shoes and Spitzer are going to get big if they carry on putting tunes out this awesome. [...]]]> text/html 2007-10-16T02:59:23+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/730645/if-this-house-was-on-fire/
I got the new Black Ghosts single in the post the other day, and like all the others it's brilliant. I was all excited about posting the Plastician & Skream remix, only to remember just now that I posted it a few months ago. Gah! Well it's still amazing. I've a lot of love for the Ghosts, and based on all the singles so far (all of which i've probably posted here... this skull has certainly]]> text/html 2007-10-10T16:59:01+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/723773/professor-genius/
Professor Genius is the right hand man to King Morpheus, the ruler of Slumberland. His main jobs are to look after the Princess, Little Nemo, and of course make sure the King's things are in order. However, Professor Genius is also the musical moniker of New Jersey producer Jorge Velez. Jorge creates carefully crafted aural dreamscapes reminiscent of Vangelis and Moroder. Professor Genius First caught our ear with his track 'Pegaso' released on the Italians Do It Better compilation 'After Dark'. The comp as a whole was a masterpiece itself with IDIB [...]]]> text/html 2007-09-25T20:02:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/703203/glass-candy-on-tour-with-architecture-in-helsinki/
I still can't get over what a MUST the 'After Dark' compilation by the label Italians Do It Better is. It's probably the most bloggable compilation of 2007. Glass Candy, the label's alpha-dog band, is about to blow up since they are going on tour with Architecture in Helsinki. You better download their songs so you can tell your friends that you "knew about them before every body liked them." MP3: Glass Candy - Etheric Device MP3: Professor Genius - [...]]]> text/html 2007-06-28T10:39:30+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/579998/disco-craft/
In these dark days of massive corporate oppression from record companies that literally think they own the Earth and its Moon, its somewhat sweet and humbling to receive a CDR that has been... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://20jazzfunkgreats.blogsp ot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]]]>