Tag Archives: Electronica

Today Brian Eno is best known as a visionary, founding theorist of ambient music, and the wildly successful producer of David Bowie, Devo, Talking Heads, and U2. But first as a founding member of Roxy Music, and then on four pioneering albums in the ’70s, Eno directly shaped the direction …

“If you come in peace, then drink from the bass within.” Raz Mesinai While in the real world the clash of cultures can lead to violence and heartache, it can also lead to brilliant art, as sparks fly from the nexus of conflicting, competing or just plain different worldviews. I …

I vividly recall when Deep Forest’s first hit, “Sweet Lullaby,” first poured into my ears, a beguiling hybrid of spacious ambient house and verdant pygmy chants and throat singing, an oddly intimate and organic music tickling something familiar in an atavistic corner of my brain. The entire ’92 Deep Forest …

Late last year Genesis Breyer P- Orridge announced the reactivation of the legendary Psychic TV. More good news: they have regained their master recordings and are reissuing same, and are playing live dates in just over a week: Sat. 6/26 – Washington, DC 9:30 Club Sun. 6/27 – Pittsburgh, PA …

Speaking of self-lasceration, this guy has been writing about it for 15 years, and it couldn’t have been much more explicit than in “Hurt”: I wear my crown of shit On my liar’s chair Full of broken thoughts I cannot repair Beneath the stain of time The feeling disappears You …

Beautiful dubby weirdness plumbing the subterranean depths and playing laser tag among the stars. ROIR Dub Sessions is a sampler of one song each from Laswell’s four dub CDs for the NYC indie punk and reggae label ROIR: “Dread Iternal” from Sacred System Chapter One: Book of Entrance, “Thunupa” from …

This one really takes me back: I was DJing four night a week in SoCal through most of the ’80s and this collection is an astonishingly accurate representation of the best of club and party dance music from “the decade of excess.” I played every single one of the 17 …

Madonna is touring North America and Europe this summer with a stop in Israel: The trek will kick off May 24 in Los Angeles. It will consist primarily of North American arena dates, as well as 12 European shows. A handful of North American dates were confirmed through early-August, along …

I have been aware of the famous experimental instrumental rock ensemble Tortoise for years, but had never actually heard them until I received an advance (April 6 release) of their fifth studio album, the exquisitely packaged It’s All Around You. Due to guitarist Jeff Parker’s participation in the avant jazz …

My St. Patty’s Day contribution: Ireland is a country of intense contradictions: religious, political, cultural and artistic. With a deep mystical and poetic tradition that predates Christianity, the Irish feel intensely the staggering natural beauty of their homeland, but also see beyond it to powers invisible and even unknowable. Bill …