Electronic Music NewsAt Deer Lake Park on Wednesday May 23
The News Review:
- At Deer Lake Park on Wednesday May 23
- Club scene for 5/31/07
- Liberated Furtado hits the beach
- Pop sensation Mika out to prove he is no one-hit wonder
- The indie-pop hero has turned ace DJ writes CYCLNE WEHNER
At Deer Lake Park on Wednesday May 23
Georgia Straight – May 31, 2007
Invented and designed by a weird-science collective in Spain this touch-sensitive tabletop device allowed Bell and Taylor to create laptop and synth sounds by moving and rotating digital objects on a screen surface. At the touch of a finger fluorescent-green sonarlike rings blipped to the beat. The streaming television images on-stage were part Minority Report part Atari and left the electronic-music buffs and Björk nuts wide-eyed and wondering how it all worked and who they could scam a ride from to get to the Gorge in Washington for Björk’s show that was scheduled for Saturday night.
Club scene for 5/31/07
phillyBurbs.com – May 31, 2007
CHELTENHAM ART CENTER 439 Ashbourne Road Cheltenham Pa. Tomorrow-Sunday: The country’s largest Electro-Music Festival with 40 electronic music concerts plus seminars and demonstrations noon-11:45 p. DEMPSTER’S SPRTS PUB & RESTAURANT 437 Pine St. Mount Holly (609) 261-0500.
Liberated Furtado hits the beach
Denver Post – May 31, 2007
” Not surprisingly some of Furtado’s more serious-minded fans have bristled at the pop grooves of “Loose. ” The performer defends her taste: “We don’t value dance music in the same way because it’s so basic: ‘h this music makes me dance. ‘ I think that’s why some really good electronic music is not taken seriously. ” She also says “Loose’s” success has freed her creatively. “It’s going to get really exciting for me in the future in terms of exploring other stuff. Under the pop umbrella I think I’ve proven a lot with the third CD and now I feel even more liberated as an artist. I can truly satisfy my whims.
Pop sensation Mika out to prove he is no one-hit wonder
Channel News Asia – May 31, 2007
This is my debut album but it is me 100 per cent me and I didn’t compromise on one thing” says Mika. Many have compared Mika’s sound to Queen Freddie Mercury Elton John and George Michael. “My influences were everythingfrom Arabic music to flamenco music to electronic music to reggae. To Queen to bits of the Beatles because of course anyone my age can’t live a day without being subjected to at least three Beatles referencesand hence I’m kinda numb to it. I am a sum of all my influences I won’t deny that but did I calculate to sound like anyone? Absolutely not” says Mika. At the age of 11 Mika got his first job which was singing in the chorus of a Strauss opera in London in the London pera House. From there he went on to do solo recordings with the pera House and contemporary music all over Europe as well as even singing on chewing gum commercials.
The indie-pop hero has turned ace DJ writes CYCLNE WEHNER
NEWS.com.au – May 31, 2007
article-tools –> The indie-pop hero has turned ace DJ writes CYCLNE WEHNER May 31 2007 12:00am MANY surviving 1980s artists trade on nostalgia but Ben Watt looks forward. When Everything But the Girl experienced a glorious comeback with Todd Terry’s remixed Missing Watt discovered the spectrum of electronic music. For five years the Londoner ran the neo-Latin club Lazy Dog with Jay Hannan. He also developed the cult label Buzzin’ Fly. Watt insisted he wasn’t staging a calculated self-reinvention — and ultimately nobody in the scene doubted him.