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SICKFLIP - Chainsaw Wreckage (Original Mix) StudentFunder - Realise the Potential. Dubstep - A Beginner's Guide. 65daysofstatic // BeatCast Coach Road Session. I agree with Skream... BPitch Control - Ellen Allien - On The Road Mix 07/11. Mary Anne Hobbs - Four Tet - Xfm mix 17/09/2011. Caribou - Sun (live, Palace, St.Gallen) RA Poll: Top 20 live acts of 2011. Dntel: Life Is Full of Possibilities. Ten years ago, this sounded like the future.

Dntel: Life Is Full of Possibilities

The combination of pop songcraft and electronic texture that Jimmy Tamborello conjured on Dntel's Life Is Full of Possibilities seemed to achieve one of the implicit cardinal goals of independent music: to strike a seamless balance between "catchy" and "experimental. " It was a coup for those of us who had both Squarepusher and Promise Ring discs in our CD changers, a promise that the exhilarating high-budget sonics of Radiohead's Kid A could be brought down to the more human scale of bedroom indie pop. In a certain, ineffable way it just sounded right for its time, much in the way that Dirty Projectors' Bitte Orca and tUnE-yArDs' w h o k i l l have in recent years.

In the decade since Life Is Full of Possibilities was first released on the Plug Research label, we've realigned our perceptions of both "catchy" and "experimental. " NHK yx - Kouhei Matsunaga Koyxeи. Jacaszek presents Glimmer - Ghostly International. For the past decade or so, Polish musician Michal Jacaszek has been exploring a new, resolutely modern chapter in Eastern Europe’s long, storied love affair with classical music.

Jacaszek presents Glimmer - Ghostly International

His creations are painstakingly crafted collages of electronic textures and baroque instrumentation, harpsichords being swarmed by woolly static one minute and pulled apart by billowing wind the next. Ambient music—if we can generalize unnecessarily for a second—is rarely so sonically challenging. Jacaszek’s latest album, Glimmer, is marked by a noticeable tug between melancholy and beauty, like it’s hovering in some gaseous grey area between both, at once both insular and extroverted. “I tried again to create some fragile beauty glimmering behind the veil of reality,” he says.

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