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Brandy & Coke. Brainwashed - Home. Electronic – Other Music. Listen: Sub Jam label compilation. DJ Screw: from cough syrup to full-blown fever. Sometime around 1990, a young hip-hop DJ named Robert Earl Davis, Jr decided music was just too fast for his liking. Using the pitch controls on his turntables, he began slowing records to preternaturally slow speeds, augmenting his mixes with smooth cuts and slurred commentary that sounded as if delivered from beyond the grave. Davis, better known as DJ Screw, wasn't the first DJ or producer to purposely pitch down music for effect, but he preserved the glacial pace throughout his 100-minute mixtapes, developing a uniquely psychedelic, ethereal sound that would come to be known as chopped and screwed, or, simply, Screw music.
Screw's emergence in his native Houston, Texas coincided with a surge there in the popularity of drank (otherwise known as "lean," "syrup" or "barre"), a mixture of prescription-strength cough syrup and soda that can create a feeling of sedated euphoria when taken in large quantities. Record labels soon came calling. Drake is an unlikely champion for that sound. Artist Tips - Objekt Offers Five Ways to Preserve Your Sanity and Make Your Tracks Sound Better in the Process.
Filed under: Gear 11/14/2013 Though he's only released a handful of 12"s, Objekt (a.k.a. TJ Hertz) is an artist who's garnered an impressive level of respect over the past few years, particularly amongst his peers. On the one hand, this is due to the fact that the Berlin-based techno producer makes great tunes; his self-titled, white-label releases caused quite a stir when they dropped in 2011, and 2012's "Cactus" b/w "Porcupine" record for the venerable Hessle Audio admirably flipped dubstep on its head while offering something truly unique. Still, the strength of Objekt's music goes beyond his ability to innovate; his tracks also sound impeccable.
Some of this engineering prowess can undoubtedly be linked to his time working at Native Instuments as a developer/programmer, but it's also clear that Hertz employs an intense level of attention to detail. Next week, he'll be releasing Objekt #3, a two-track outing that marks the reignition of his white-label series. Treat your room. No Fear Of Pop. House Cult - Community focused on club culture and electronic musicHouse Cult | Re-Engineering: Art and Tech in the Bay Area Part One. November 5, 2013 The Op-Ed column is a space for readers and contributors to sound off about Art Practical's content and to contribute to the larger conversation about Bay Area art which Art Practical supports.
Periodically, we will publish a series of Op-Eds that address art, gentrification and the new tech economy. This is the first installment. I've been attempting to create dialogue to combat pessimism in the arts in San Francisco for some time, both within and outside of my capacity as director of programs for Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (GAFFTA), and it seemed most constructive to have this Op-Ed be another chapter in that conversation. To that end, I invited my friend, artist Brian Rogers, to have a discussion over Google Docs, organized around six parameters for how to improve the dialogue around art, tech, and gentrification—a dialogue that has certainly fueled its share of pessimism. —Mat Dryhurst Like art, tech is a diverse community. 1990s rave flier, San Francisco. Sounds of the Dutch underground.
If at some point this summer you danced in a field surrounded by people in UV paint pointing ecstatically at screensaver visuals, chances are the DJ on stage was Dutch. Tiësto, Afrojack, Hardwell, Armin van Buuren – these DJs and producers are the backbone of the global EDM industry, commanding crowds of thousands by blending the twinkling trance they pioneered a decade ago with the thrilling asymmetry of dubstep.
Away from this fluorescent kitsch, however, lurks an underground Dutch scene that is even stronger than ever, with as many as eight dance music festivals in a single weekend in Amsterdam. The one I visit is Dekmantel, held in a giant woodland clearing on the city's border, and there's a bold shaft of daylight between the music being played here (subtle shifts of mood, a strong narrative thread pumping through it) and Tiësto's blandly utopian oeuvre of predictable builds and drops. Tom Trago. Photograph: Merlijn Hoek The Dekmantel soundsystem.
Photograph: Merlijn Hoek.
The Wire's "100 Records That Set The World On Fire (While No One Was Listening) + extra 30 Records" Self-titled | your new favorite music magazine. Grime 2013. Last month, grime went to war. "Wearing My Rolex" producer Bless Beats lit the touch paper by sending out a track titled "Wardub" to an assortment of his peers via Twitter. They took the bait, posting their own hastily assembled responses, and before long producers of all creeds and generations were trading their own "War Dubs" in a chaotic online melee. While plenty of established figures got involved early on—legends like Wiley and more recent successes like Preditah and Faze Miyake—within a few days a secondary war appeared to be in progress.
Bristolians Kahn & Neek were quick off the mark with the ragga-tinged "Soundboy Obliterator," while Keysound's Wen offered up the noxious "Bombarded. " Young Glaswegian producer Inkke weighed in, too. Inkke's attitude is typical of a new generation of grime producers. The above artists are just a handful of those involved, alongside nascent labels including Glacial Sound, Mr. This renaissance has, in a sense, been due for some time. Visionist. The 11 best jungle tracks from the 90s, according to Lee Gamble | Dummy.
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AS220. An interview with: Unicorn Hard-On. Val Martino is the one-woman noise/beats/electronic/psychedelic act UNICORN HARD-ON. She has also toured as a member of the Laundry Room Squelchers, Gang Wizard, and done collaborative recordings and performances with Leslie Keffer. Though for the most part she's been operating under the radar (so far!) , Unicorn Hard-On has had a significant influence on the underground weirdo/noise/experimental scene. If you connect the dots, you start to find that an awfully large number of movers and shakers have seen or played with, and fallen in love with, Unicorn Hard-On. Val was kind enough to answer a few of my questions about her music and share some tracks with all of you. When you first started making music as Unicorn Hard-On, what was the intention and what gear did you start out with?
Originally, I was supposed to start a band with a friend, but we had no gear, only ideas. Has that changed any between that time and now? I do consider myself a musician. You often play in the "noise" scene. Bill Kouligas's favourite tracks. The track I'll be opening my next DJ set with Toru Takemitsu: Seasons Textural metal percussion works, in that you can pitch and manipulate it in interesting ways.
I've been mixing it with some new Valerio Tricoli concrete/tape music. The track I always play to rescue a dancefloor Marcellus Pittman: There's Somebody Out There His music always has this mood and feel that makes you want to move, but not in a stereotypical flat house way. The bassline worms itself around the beat and sets the tone. The track that currently gets the most rewinds Lee Gamble: Steelhouse Chaconne A real monster: a long edit of jacking, constant drum patterns combined with some far-out electronics à la Population One. The track I think has been unfairly slept on this year Afrikan Sciences Everything he's done!
The track I'd play to show off my eclectic tastes Gesloten Cirkel: Hole Nasty electro from this obscure Russian producer. The track that got me out of bed this morning Niney The Observer: Tenement Yard Version. Top Ten Dancefloor Favourites at Manhattans (Southampton's 'Alternative Disco' 1981-84).
Top Ten Dancefloor-fillers at Manhattans (Southamptons ‘Alternative Disco’ 1981-84). Dedicated to Cliff Ebrey. RIP. Compiling this collection of songs was prompted by the death of my friend Cliif Ebrey, bass-player, loverman, dancer, wit and raconteur. RIP. (Scroll to the bottom for a longer obituary). These songs are a rough guide as to what some of us were dancing to After Punk and Before Indie; The Smiths, Mary Chain, Wedding Present etc. I imagine that every city, back in the early 1980s had a place like Manhattans.
A late-night watering-hole where at least once a week the post-punk tribes could gather, drink and dance, without fear of a kicking from Trendies, townies or straights. Southampton had Manhattans (which had closed by the time I moved here from the sticks in ’85). Manhattans had various DJs including Hammy (who still DJs to this day, including his Supersonic nights at the Shooting Star), the late, legendary Jon Weafer (blond, tattoo-ed arm in photo) and Lucien De-Lalio. Dreamcatching: the remarkable story of Robert Rich and the Sleep Concerts. If you’ve even a fleeting interest in music’s capacity to induce psychedelic and mystical states, you need to know about Robert Rich’s ‘sleep concerts’. Anyone familiar with Ambient music will, more than once, have chanced upon Robert Rich.
The California native has released a string of highly-regarded releases, from 1989′s Rainforest through 1991′s meticulous Geometry to 1998′s East-facing Seven Veils. Similarly, collaborations with the likes of Lustmord (on 1995′s dark ambient touchstone Stalker) and Steve Roach (on 1990′s Strata and 1992′s Soma) have become set texts for listeners dipping a toe into Ambient cool blue waters. If there’s one thing he’ll forever be remembered for, though, it’s his legendary early 1980s ‘sleep concerts’ – immersive all-night shows, performed to sleeping audiences, that stretched the definition of a ‘concert’ beyond all familiar limits. “My music is a little bit edgy for massage.” Extra-musical influences were crucial, too.
Blackest Ever Black — BARNETT + COLOCCIA - <i>RETRIEVAL</i> (BLACKEST024 LP) NB: This item is still in the manufacturing stages and is available for pre-order only. We plan to ship pre-ordered copies in mid-November 2013; but please be aware that shipping dates are liable to change at any time at the manufacturer's discretion - we will post the new shipping date if any such changes come into effect. Customers ordering two or more different items from the store simultaneously will have their package shipped to them only once all items are ready. In the flow of traffic / The family cars, in the dim / Sound of the living / The noise of increase to which we owe / What we possess. We cannot reconcile ourselves. / No one is reconciled, though we spring / From the ground together—" Retrieval is the debut collaborative album from Faith Coloccia and Alex Barnett. Alex Barnett played in Oakeater but since 2009 has been active primarily as a solo artist, with releases on Catholic Tapes, DRAFT, Nihilist and others.
Additional production by A. Tracklist: A1. The History of Avantgarde Music. Spotlight 02.10.13 - Bleep — Your Source for Independent Music — Download MP3, WAV, FLAC and Buy Vinyl, CDs. The 15 greatest techno albums you’ve never heard. A good techno album, much like a good man or woman, is hard to find. That it’s difficult to translate dance music into the realm of the full-length is undeniable, but the truth is that techno isn’t like most dance music. To paraphrase Derrick May, the beats are an afterthought. Techno is head music as much as body music, and for the right producer, the space and time afforded by an LP’s runtime provide an opportunity to go deeper, further and perhaps even harder with their sound.
So of course good techno albums do exist – indeed, some of them are very well-known. What follows is a list of great techno albums that are a little less well-known: a handful of them are genuinely obscure; some of them were once widely celebrated but have since fallen out of fashion and into charity shop neglect; others feel more relevant now than they did upon first release. The list isn’t intended to be definitive – on the contrary, a part two is already being planned. BANDULU Guidance (Infonet, 1993) ++ Remörk Inc. ++ Satanicpornocultshop. S guide to sci-fi soundtracks - Bleep — Your Source for Independent Music — Download MP3, WAV, FLAC and Buy Vinyl, CDs. We are Darkfloor.
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