Archive For The “Electronica” Category
The Front Line (Redux) by controlk
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As excellent a collaboration as we are likely to hear all year; King Creosote’s ethereal folk, subtly enhanced by Jon Hopkins electronics and threaded with found samples. The songs are taken from various points in a twenty year career, re-recorded and sequenced into a coherent whole that presents in King Creosote’s own words, “a romanticised … Continue reading »
Something of a mystery surrounds this record – it was withdrawn a couple of weeks before its scheduled release date, but not before preview copies had been sent out to the press. it consists of twelve tracks, four of which resurfaced on “Nerve Net” and one on the CD single ‘Ali Click’. Others, if my … Continue reading »
Contrary, Provocative, Gorgeous, Dissonent, Ambient, Electronic, Organic, Percussive, Improvised, Experimental, Wonderful. He’s back and he doesn’t disappoint. This collaboration with Jon Hopkins and Leo Abrahams leans back towards the organic classical of his work with Harold Budd in places, teasing impossibly lovely melodies from the barest of instrmentation. Elsewhere we find dense and propulsive percussive 
“The road to the Western Lands is by definition the most dangerous road in the world for it is a journey beyond death…” William Burroughs Starting life as an avant-dance collective, by 1987 Bill Laswell’s Material epitomised a culture in fast forward, popular music eating itself. Fusion has never been so thoroughly realised as on 
“The godlike genius of Johnny Halliday” is not a phrase that is likely to be heard too often in these parts. Putting to one side the noodlings of Gong, whilst savouring the Breton phrasings of Alan Stivell, it has to be said that with the exception of the occasional chanteuse, France’s contribution to alternative music 
Not many albums are recorded in a single day, and on the evidence of this one, perhaps the practice should be embraced more enthusiastically. Based on a piece of music commissioned in 2008 by the Royal Ballet, inspired by T.S Eliot’s The Wasteland, the album presents variations on two themes, rendered with the aid of 
A sprawling behemoth of an album, taking chillout into wild and uncharted territories decorated by surf guitars, live drums, pulsing techno and cinematically immense production. Influence spotting, as ever is the game to play and the likes of Sergio Leone, Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch, Bill Laswell, and Cheb i Sabbah jostle for attention in Track 
Angular and edgy, this music is inescapably urban. Dubstep is the unromanticised sound of the inner cities. Apparently drawing on the complete history of electronic music, Scuba produces a harder, cleaner sound than say, Burial. Fractured, kaleidoscopic and twitchy, this is the sound of the internet after everyone has gone to sleep
First let me say, you’ll have noticed a certain fondness for eighties music creeping into these pages in recent months? Well this is close to perfection. Take a great drum sound, add megabass and lots of synthesisers. Marvel at the Bowie imitations, gasp as the sound of Sparks bubbles up through the mix. Devo career 
