SUBSCRIBE: iTUNES , RSS , SOUNDCLOUD , MIXCLOUD , TUMBLR | image by Rick Guidice The term "ambient music" was coined by Brian Eno in the mid-1970s, and he is largely credited as the genre's founder. However, academics, studio engineers, and a few well-off counterculturalists were using electronics to aid in making music that could functionally be identified as "ambient" decades before the word was thrown around. This playlist highlights such efforts. I chose to use the [...]
TesseracT Altered State Century Media 27 May 2013 By Ruth Booth When doom-mongers spoke of the world's end in 2012, TesseracT may have felt a tiny bit paranoid. Their lauded debut One had seen them branded standard-bearers of UK Djent, but a cancelled major tour, and the departure of their second vocalist in 12 months left TesseracT struggling to tread water. That they reached the end of the year with both new album [...]
Un-fucking-real. I thought I had Lewis Roberts pegged once, the Koreless who wreathed his beats and blips in chopped-up vocals, layers of static, the splicer of sounds for beneath streetlights, the Koreless of 4D , of MTI , of Lost In Tokyo . I should've known. That How To Dress Well remix smashed up the template a treat, pitching Tom Krell low like Nina Simone and stripping Cold Nites of all its beats and drama. Only power left behind. Sun , lead track from forthcoming EP [...]
On avait quitté Thom Yorke sur un concert avec Radiohead qui marquera à vie la mémoire de ceux ayant pu y participer. On le retrouve seul ou plutôt avec ses acolytes de la tournée Atoms For Peace , nom du groupe réunissant notre chanteur britannique, l'emblématique producteur de Radiohead Nigel Godrich , le bassiste fou-fou des Red Hot Chili Peppers Flea , le batteur Joey Waronker (Beck, R.E.M, Elliott Smith) et enfin Mauro Refosco aux percussions. En bref, une belle équipe pour former le dernier supergroupe (rassemblement de talents confirmés [...]
A más de 30 años del estreno de la película de culto Blade Runner , el compositor de su soundtrack -el griego Vangelis - está preparando un relanzamiento en vinilo de esta obra, con fecha para el 16 de abril. La banda sonora estará presentada en un disco de vinilo color rojo traslúcido de 180 gramos, y estará contenida en un paquete desplegable. El listado de canciones no se corresponderá con el original de 1982, compuesta de 8 temas interpretados por la New American Orchestra, sino [...]
Do androids dream of electric sheep? That's a question vinyl enthusiasts will ask next month. Some 30 years later, Vangelis' brilliant score to Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi masterpiece, Blade Runner , is finally resurfacing on vinyl via Audio Fidelity. Due out April 16th, the soundtrack will be available on translucent red 180-gram vinyl and will include Vangelis' original 12-track score as opposed to New American Orchestra's eight-track release that surfaced in the early '80s, as Exclaim. ca points out. Consult the full tracklist and revisit the score via Rdio below. [...]
(Following up our recent post on Blade Runner and its mooted sequel, here are some thoughts about that soundtrack's contemporaries, in particular Midnight Express.) Giorgio Moroder’s Midnight Express won the Academy Award for best Original Score of 1978. An Oscar. It’s one of those things that seems vaguely absurd in retrospect, like O Superman getting to number 2, or The Jesus Lizard having a Top 40 hit . Not because it didn’t deserve to win (although it did well against Ennio Morricone’s Days of Heaven), but because we’re so [...]
(Following up our recent thoughts on Blade Runner and its mooted sequel, here are some thoughts about that soundtrack's contemporaries, in particular Midnight Express.) Giorgio Moroder’s Midnight Express won the Academy Award for best Original Score of 1978. An Oscar. It’s one of those things that seems vaguely absurd in retrospect, like O Superman getting to number 2, or The Jesus Lizard having a Top 40 hit. Not because it didn’t deserve to win (although it did well against Ennio Morricone’s Days of Heaven), but because we’re so used to ‘our guys’ [...]
It is a well-established fact that the most commonly used words on 20JFG are 'runner', 'blade', and 'Vangelis' - I just counted, and they feature even more than 'and' and 'the'. And so why your brain might be telling you that you're sick of hearing about this stuff already, we should qualify it by pointing that, actually, we've never posted a track from Vangelis' Blade Runner soundtrack ever! Well, apart from Memories of Green back in 2008 , but that doesn't count because it was already on a Vangelis solo LP pre-BR anyway. And while [...]
Swedish quartet The Mary Onettes has released two critically acclaimed albums, toured around the world and placed songs in TV series such as Grey's Anatomy. Their dark and epic sound has been compared to Joy Division, early U2 and The Cure. "Evil Coast" is a first taste of their third album, Hit The Waves (due March 2013) and shows the band heading in new directions (and we most definitely like where they're going). Vangelis, Confusion and Whitney Houston The Mary Onettes went into the [...]
Though they've since relocated to Portland, Moon Duo's Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamada recorded the bulk of their pummeling new Circles LP in Blue River, Colorado, a tiny mountain town where they holed up last ... read more
Greek duo .message do a cover of a track from Vangelis' soundtrack to Blade Runner. D will be pleased to know this isn't the usual 80s synths but a deeper, darker cover. Free download. There's nothing cheery about this cover. It's dark, dank and frankly a bit goth. But as an antidote to all those upbeat big haired Vangelis covers, it's rather good. And, for some of .message's own work, try Murky Pash . A free download on new label, Bad Panda. This is also dark electronics, a little industrial grind and a bit of [...]
He's back. Hurrah. After a load of recent remixes, Theatre of Delays produces a cover version. Of Vangelis. This is cosmic synth disco. This is optimistic with its ascending chords. This is lovely. Free download. You'd be mad not to. Originally released in 1976, Alpha comes from Vangelis' second album Albedo 0.39 . It's a track that has been used regularly on TV, including, perhaps inevitably, Carl Sagan's Cosmos series. Theatre of Delays slightly extends the original and leaves us with a tune that can't help but leave you euphoric. As [...]
Siempre presentando increíbles pistas, el berlinés Tommi Theatralo, aka Theatre Of Delays , reaparece a lo grande tras su genial remix de " What You Want " de Boys Noize con un impresionante cover para " Alpha ", clásico de 1976 creado por Vangelis . El gran productor alemán nos sumerge en una nueva banda sonora potenciando el sonido del tema [...]
Back in January, we named Dimitri Vangelis & Wyman our number 3 top emerging rookie for 2012 , and so far they have lived up to that tag. This year they have released a string of productions including "Roll The Dice" and "Russia" that have shown off a harder style and seen them pick up huge support from Swanky Tunes, Hard Rock Sofa and others. Vangelis & Wyman have given EDX & Nadia Ali's "This Is Your Life" the full remix treatment with their hard progressive sound and turned it into a true [...]
Goin’ Old School isn’t a trip down music memory lane, it’s a mugging in the dark alleyway of nostalgia: Some TOTP to start with, Thompson Twins with ‘Love On Your Side’ from 1983. Pamala Stanley ’s Italo fuelled DiscoPop from 1983, ’Coming Out Of Hiding’. OK, so it’s not a music video, but it is the first two minutes of the greatest movie ever made with the [...]
New Jersey is known for a few things... mostly that it's New York's not-as-cool neighbor. But more recently, New Jersey synth pop artists have been emerging from their home studios and slowly changing the perception that it's only filled with ridiculous guidos and Cake Bosses . One of these more notable artists is Crozet with their exceptional programming, slick keyboards/synths and an uncanny talent for writing some pretty memorable and singable melodies. After listening to We'll Be Gone By Then for the first time and admiring the brilliant way [...]
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