Recent blog posts tagged with "stevekerr" from music blog aggregator, Elbo.ws http://elbo.ws/tag/stevekerr/ 2013-05-26T04:17:26+01:00 text/html 2013-05-22T15:01:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4964547/little-white-earbuds-interviews-joey-anderson/


The last decade or so has seen the emergence of a pack of house artists from New York and its environs, namely Levon Vincent, Jus-Ed, Fred P, and DJ Qu (Anthony Parasole also deserves mention, if mostly as a DJ and personality). These artists came up in the city's club scene and really honed their respective takes on dance music after the fact. All are now ubiquitous in discerning DJ sets the world over. New Jersey's Joey Anderson is very much a part of this group, but his break has only arrived in the last year or so. In that [...]]]> text/html 2013-05-15T05:01:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4951040/rp-boo-legacy/


[Planet Mu] When footwork was blowing up in 2009 and 2010, there was an ongoing debate about what constituted the "real" end of the scene. Certain older heads - predominantly affiliated with the Teklife crew - were perturbed by the attention Planet Mu was heaping upon oddball youths like DJ Nate, who did not necessarily tool their tracks for the scene's dancers. Their opponents [...]]]> text/html 2013-05-01T15:01:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4925940/lwes-guide-to-mutek-2013/


Although new, well-curated festivals appear every year, those of us in North America tend to rely first and foremost on a few old standbys: DEMF, Unsound, Decibel, and Montral's MUTEK, the flagship festival of an enterprise with wings in Spain, Mexico, and Chile. Since its founding in 2000, MUTEK has focused on a wide range of electronic performance (predominantly live, though the eminent likes of Theo Parrish and James Holden have been afforded DJ sets in the past), from hushed, experimental evenings to all-night club events. This strategy has a number of advantages, firstly allowing artists a chance to perform [...]]]> text/html 2013-04-23T05:01:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4908847/mgun-if-youre-reading-this/


[Don't Be Afraid] Following an abstract beginning collaborating with Kyle Hall as NSNT PRJCT in 2010, Detroit's Manuel Gonzales has done well to showcase his own unique signature on a series of recent EPs. Like Hall, Gonzales works in a range of styles but generally comes across as a gritty, modern exponent of his city's rich dance-music lineage. If You're Reading This is his second effort for London imprint Don't Be Afraid, and like its predecessor, The [...]]]> text/html 2013-04-09T05:01:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4879900/terrence-dixon-giant-robot/


[Monique Musique] Darren Cunningham has long acknowledged Detroit minimalist Terrence Dixon as an influence on his work as Actress, but it has taken years for the two to actually appear on a record together (excluding a Rush Hour sampler featuring a pair of their remixes, for different artists). Giant Robot , then, is chiefly notable for its Actress remix, but its originals are even more impressive, furthering the case that Dixon is in the midst of a serious career [...]]]> text/html 2013-04-02T05:01:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4864501/kmfh-the-boat-party/


[Wild Oats] From his earliest efforts, composed while still a teenager, Kyle Hall has been widely hailed as a next-generation savior of Detroit dance music. In the years since "Plastik-Ambash," the crusty 2007 debut single he made with tapes and a Casio keyboard, Hall has by and large lived up to this hype. Still, there have been a few detours between then and now. His records, alternatively lush and rugged, have been marked by drastic shifts [...]]]> text/html 2013-03-08T06:01:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4820956/daywalker-cf-you-only-live-once/


[ Long Island Electrical Systems ] Members of the L.I.E.S. extended family seem to be pairing off lately. Bookworms and Steve Summers have just minted the Confused House label with a stellar three-tracker, and here, on You Only Live Once , Willie Burns (aka William Burnett) and Entro Senestre (aka Jon Beall) converge as Daywalker + CF. Burnett has enjoyed a career resurgence in the last few years thanks to some newly leftfield tactics, while Beall has racked up [...]]]> text/html 2013-02-27T06:01:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4802725/tazz-science-friction/


[New Kanada] Montreal producer Tazz's take on dance music is both powerful and quirky, characteristics that have endeared him to a wide range of fans. Pinning him down much further is a harder task. Tazz tends to lay down straight-laced, tech-house rhythms, but his growing arsenal of synth sounds lend his tracks a more experimental edge. Science Friction is his second effort for Adam Marshall's New Kanada, and it finds him in typical form. [...]]]> text/html 2013-02-20T06:01:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4789313/area-bourbon-skies/


Illustration by Sam Weber [ Arma ] Un-Googleable Chicago producer Area has a take on deep house that's svelte, dynamic, and frequently redolent of 2000s European minimal techno in its twitchy, crisp palette. Many of his tracks have a confident, forward motion (there's a YouTube video of his "Ajumas," remixed by Anton Zap, that entirely consists of a shot from an "L" train - although it's a remix, it does nice job [...]]]> text/html 2013-02-17T19:41:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4784981/respect-the-shooter-steve-kerr/
Today's you-know-who's birthday, and for that we all wish you-know-who a happy big 5-0. However, while the leader of those Chicago Bulls teams remains unquestioned, it's the role players who [...] The post Respect The Shooter: Steve Kerr appeared first on The Smoking Section .]]> text/html 2013-02-13T06:02:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4776076/flori-foldings/


[Aim] Flori (born Jamie Taylor) is well known for his collaborations with Ethyl, but he's been out on his own lately, and Foldings marks his third solo release. It's also his first for the Aim label, which seems like a natural match for his sound - his take on deep house is usually subtle and prizes sound design over giant hooks. The EP certainly delivers in this respect. The downtempo "Dusty Socks" [...]]]> text/html 2013-02-08T06:01:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4766853/various-artists-into-the-light-a-journey-into-greek-electronic/


[ Into The Light Records ] For this writer's money, the best excavations take a broad view. There are a lot of "lost scene" compilations out there, and many of them rely too heavily on the cache of a particular era or locale and slack on quality control. Take Italo disco, for example. For every "I.C. Love Affair" there must be a dozen nameless, mindlessly cheesy tracks that should have been left [...]]]> text/html 2013-01-22T06:01:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4733467/anom-vitruv-untitled/


Artwork by Kate Steciew [ Offseason ] Swiss producer Anom Vitruv emerged last year with a grainy, self-titled 123 for Tabernacle Records. Unlike many recent so-called experimental house records, its severely dusted tracks seemed to be coming from a genuinely ascetic, mysterious place - not simply hiding normal, hooky dance music behind some cassette fuzz. The artist's untitled follow-up for 73 label Offseason improves on that formula, and furthers his reputation for crookedness. Because it's [...]]]> text/html 2013-01-10T06:01:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4711570/anthony-naples-untitled/


[white] New York's Anthony Naples debuted last year with Mad Disrespect , a record praised by everyone from Four Tet to this site. Naples now faces the pressure of the follow-up, both in matching that record's appeal and avoiding typecasting himself. This untitled, self-released white label is an unassuming means of response. Nothing here is as exuberant as "Mad Disrespect," but its three tracks are clearly the work of the same producer. This mostly comes down to how his fingers are [...]]]> text/html 2012-12-05T06:01:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4654271/the-zzzzz-abdulla-rashim-radioactive-orchestra-remixed/


[ Studio Barnhus ] Swedish label Studio Barnhus are no strangers to a novel idea. The original Radioactive Orchestra tracks, by The ZZZZZ and Abdulla Rashim, are the fruits of a "scientific musical translator," with which one can, "create melodies and rhythmic patterns...based on the nuclear energy levels and gamma radiation observed in experiments at accelerator laboratories around the world." The two producers won an online competition orchestrated by the label and [...]]]> text/html 2012-11-27T16:01:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4640496/holly-herndon-movement/


Image by Panta Rhei [ RVNG Intl. ] Bay Area producer Holly Herndon's name often appears next to a list of her conservatory work. It's easy to put too much stock in academia, but the illustrious Mills College, from which Herndon earned her masters degree, is no ordinary alma mater. A quick scan of its alumni [...]]]> text/html 2012-11-19T15:59:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4627472/bad-breaks/


We're back! Thanks for sticking with us through this insanely hectic month. We're slowly but surely rounding back into form. Bad Breaks is the project of San Antonio drummer, Steve Kerr, who arranges all songs on piano then approaches his band with the material and makes it roll. "Won't Come Home," off Bad Breaks' s/t album released earlier this year, is a special brand of indie-rock, with an understated catchiness and an overall comforting sound. "Won't Come Home" puts me at ease and I need a little bit of that in my life. Bad [...]]]> text/html 2012-11-14T16:01:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4618908/christopher-rau-two/


[ Smallville Records ] In 2010, Hamburg producer Christopher Rau delivered a confident, charmingly slight debut album in the form of Asper Clouds . Like many of the releases on Smallville, its label, Asper Clouds conveyed a homey, intimate take on house, drawing the listener in on the virtue of what it wasn't . Rau has put his name to [...]]]> text/html 2012-10-23T15:01:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4582116/vessel-order-of-noise/


Photo by Henning Mella [ Tri Angle ] Emerging last year on beats labels like Astro:Dynamics and left_blank, Bristol's Seb Gainsborough instantly established himself as an artist to watch. Superficially, his sound cuts between his home city's post-everything bass scene (his "Nylon Sunset" was remixed by Peverelist) and the underwater funk of Newworldaquarium [...]]]> text/html 2012-10-19T05:01:00+01:00 http://elbo.ws/post/4574909/download-of-the-week-anaxander-donna/


French producer Anaxander is set to make his second appearance on Love What You Feel (following a quirky track on the Love What You Feel 3 EP) on the 23rd of the month, with From the Dirty South (of France) . Its a good thing they added that cheeky parenthetical. The EP's four tracks fall in line with the label's rugged, homespun aesthetic, but do so with a lightness that's far more Azure Coast than the blight typically associated with "the Dirty South." As with the other music championed by the label, Anaxander operates with a real [...]]]>