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- Attack Decay Sustain Release
- The sleazy sound of New York City
- Free Music From Microscopics
Attack Decay Sustain Release
Pitchforkmedia.com – Jun 21, 2007
And forget rock except for maybe the martial tempos because there’s nothing aggressive (read: “overly masculine”) about SMD’s mix and nothing purposefully ugly either. “I Believe” and “Love” both shamelessly borrow the classic big-fey-voice-over-booming-synth dynamics of Depeche Mode at their most pop and Erasure at their most soulful. For SMD electronic music begins and ends with the radio from Soft Cell to Crystal Waters and so its over-the-top friendliness immediacy and excitement has a cramped amped-up hysteria like all great bubblegum. (It’s also short like a bubblegum album– 10 tracks in under 40 minutes most songs being perfect A-side lengths for seven-inch singles. ) And even as prototypical indie kid pop-cultural curators– who else is so into old bubblegum sounds?– SMD’s knock-out craft just might win them a wide American audience. After all another indie pop duo (who used to record for Stereolab’s label!) went on to become one of the top-shelf post-rave pastiche pop acts and to sell out arena crowds. And if SMD aren’t quite Daft Punk Attack Decay Sustain Release is a good sign that their Discovery might be right around the corner.
The sleazy sound of New York City
æ°åç’ – Jun 21, 2007
Just how dirty is Astro & Glyde’s dirty dirty house? Kiss FM allstar John Digweed labeled their music “the sleazy sound of New York City. ” And Astro & Glyde couldn’t be prouder of such a description. Through their legendary weekly Le Souk Sunday Sessions now in its fifth year and recent Crobar residency Astro & Glyde have become prominent in America’s electronic music movement and are representative of all things dirty funky and exciting in NYC. Le Souk Sunday Sessions has become a New York dance music institution. There’s simply no rest for the wicked in the city that never sleeps. Incorporating the spiciest elements of house electro chunk punk and rock blended with wild mixing abilities gives these DJs the distinction of all-round artists entertainers and performers. Seven years down the line Astro & Glyde continue to put out productions full length mixes and remixes.
Free Music From Microscopics
synthtopia.com – Jun 21, 2007
Microscopics is the label of Mat Jarvis aka “Gas” who had a cult electronic music hit with his CD Gas 0095 on the EM:T label. The album prompted one reviewer to predict ? It will be at the forefront of labels offering slot-in brain cards as accessories to the listening experience? and another to exclaim ??will surely go down in history for being as important as the albums of Eno were in the 70s?. Gas generates shapeshifting melodic soundtracks suggesting a near future of soft technology and extremes of miniaturisation: an imaginary detailed world of molecular machines where cybersurgeons crawl inside arteries to effect repairs. Here the flipside of miniaturization is revealed: technology you inhale the ultimate interface [and the high of the future?].