Electronic Music NewsHot Chip over and over and live
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- Hot Chip over and over and live
- Dance music: Detroit’s influence remains strong in Europe
- Tigercity revs up for performance at Cornell
Hot Chip over and over and live
GW Hatchet – GW Hatchet (subscription) – Apr 26, 2007
driven by radio-ready singles like “ver and ver” and “And I Was a Boy From School. “Having been a fan of the sharp clever songwriting on “The Warning” I couldn’t help but be mildly disappointed by their live show. Live electronic music can often be a sterile medium and the band seemed to suffer from it hunched over keyboards and sequencers rather than attempting to put on a visual energetic performance. ccasionally the addition of a live bongo or a guitar helped liven up the mood but they always seemed to return to their stations casually nodding their heads in rhythm. Particularly compared to Ratatat a similarly electronic-based band the show seemed monotonous if not boring at times. The sound too was lackluster – a rarity for 9:30 Club. Instead of the band’s warm vocal harmonies reigning supreme the muffled and distorted low end of drum samples crushed everything in its path.
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Dance music: Detroit’s influence remains strong in Europe
Independent – Apr 26, 2007
Yet none achieved lasting mainstream success – hip-hop eclipsed black dance music in America while here in the UK after the brief Acid House explosion of the early-Nineties Detroit techno became just another subgenre alongside electronica ambient and the rest. It’s in Europe that Detroit still gets most respect whether from the idiotic refrain of Dutch DJ Fedde Le Grand’s summer hit “Put Your Hands Up For Detroit” (itself sampled from a 1999 track by Detroit artist Matthew Dear) to the high seriousness of Berlin label Tresor who have acted as unofficial curators of the Detroit underground since 1991. ne of Tresor’s success stories was the resurrection of Eddie Fowlkes a first-generation Detroit producer and friend of Juan Atkins whose career was going nowhere until he released his Technosoul album on the label in 1993. Since then he’s become a prolific remixer and DJ as well as offering outspoken reminders of techno’s roots in black culture and his new album Welcome To My World (Submerge) clearly aspires to “classic” Detroit status exemplified by the subtle and hypnotic funk of lead track “Aug 13″.
Tigercity revs up for performance at Cornell
Ithaca College The Ithacan – Apr 26, 2007
I didn’t really stick to that. Early on I started playing guitar because …. I listened to ’90s grunge stuff but nothing like intense or very much different from mainstream media channels and then as I got older I got into more improvisational music I listened to a lot of jazz. I got into electronic music sort of in the mid to late ’90s … I went to college listening to a lot of post-drama also a lot of hip-hop. I was pretty much solely listening to hip-hop for a couple years until I went to London and found rock again and came back. … Then Tigercity happened. ST: What bands have influenced Tigercity? JF: Well we like to list the influences older influences like David Bowie Talking Heads Prince certainly Steeley Dan Hall & ates Chic for sure.