Tag Archives: Electronica

Although rap and electronica are not my usual beat, I think I manage to explain why I like the selections below. In between, you’ll find a self-described “bunch of average middle-aged people” who call themselves Key Lime Pie. Next to strawberry-rhubarb, that’s my favorite kind of pie, so they have …

With all due respect to this impressionistic painting of Antequera, what I’d like to tell you about is a bit more contemporary. Thanks to a blog i found today, Agenda Personal, I found out about the awesome Rocket Festival (Festival site in English & Español) taking place in a beautiful …

This week’s crop of indie releases proves that the slightly amateurish can be more satisfying than the slickly professional(ish) – it’s all about inspiration and having something original to say. – JS INDIE ROUND-UP for April 7 2005 === CD: Tim Young, Red If you pine for the time when …

The Ella Blame duo combines Michael D. Temple’s hypnotic electronica with Ella Blame’s snaky vocals. Blame’s voice is a startlingly versatile instrument prone to a metallic nasality. Some of Temple’s music is quite pretty, while Blame’s voice most of the time isn’t, and that makes for interesting contrasts. The duo …

I didn't know what to expect when I put the CD in the stereo....

We’re only a week away from the opening of Pixar’s latest animated extravaganza, The Incredibles [trailers: WM, Real, QuickTime]. Writer-director Brad Bird (The Iron Giant) and the Academy Award winning team behind Toy Story, Monsters, Inc. and Finding Nemo bring the story of an unusual family: Once one of the …

Film Nosferatu with live music in Cleveland tomorrow

Super idea well-executed: DJ Sets offers audio streams of extended DJ sets by a host of well-known (primarily)house and techno DJs – currently 74 sets are available. Some of the most recent sets submitted for your listening and palpitating pleasure include Kelly Sylvia (Soulful, Funky, Deep, Vocal House, Dirty, Sleazy …

Time flies when you’re madly dancing: DJ/producer Josh Wink’s house, techno and electronica label, Ovum, is now ten years old and to celebrate the label has put out a retrospective collection coyly labeled The Fall Collection, curated and imperceptibly mixed by Wink himself. Covering the label’s range from the chilled …

Fischerspooner are at the forefront of the “electroclash” movement, if in fact it is a movement. You can experience some of their musical retro-futuro synth-pop for yourself here. I am burbling down the frothy analog stream that is “The 15th” as we speak. Now “Emerge” is blurping and scurrying around …