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- Stateless: Electronic music night attracts a varied crowd
- Hispanic! at the Disco
- Fuck the DNA – Music – LA Weeklypage 1 – LA Weekly
- SoundSquare standoff: Monome vs. Tenori-n
Stateless: Electronic music night attracts a varied crowd
San Francisco Chronicle – Aug 23, 2007
tmpl –>If there’s one person in the world who can’t fully enjoy Stateless the club night of Six Degrees Records dedicated to international electronic beat music it’s got to be the dude whose job it is to check IDs – because typically the 2-year-old Stateless club night can include three to four acts from different countries performing in front of a crowd carrying passports of varying colors. tmpl –> Images.
Hispanic! at the Disco
C Weekly – Aug 23, 2007
It was the sound of the moment and it had legs. Electro in its pure form of course was pretty exclusive to the streets and clubs. Its roots in the pioneering electronic music of the German group Kraftwerk combined with a fascination for roboticizing the still-burgeoning musical form of hip-hop limited its chances for a wider audience. But when its squawking keyboards and stop-start percussion met the sweet melodies romantic notions and strobe-lit nightclub tales of the freestyle vocalists the result was music that not only reveled in new forms of technology and production that were sweeping the music industry but also pulsed with the energy of America’s urban neighborhoods. Word spread fast and the hits kept coming. Laser-beam keyboards whip-cracking percussion and yards of silky reverb mark Shannon’s 1983 single “Let the Music Play” as an enduring freestyle classic while Brooklyn’s Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam found stardom with such dance-floor and radio hits as “I Wonder If I Take You Home” “Head to Toe” and “Lost in Emotion. ” When a pre-Fly Girl J-Lo was still just Jenny from the block she undoubtedly had a Lisa Lisa poster on her wall… It needs to stay classic in order to stay classy. Freestyle was a perfect product of its era ready to meet the rush of new and exciting technology head-on with a cross-section of dancers singers DJs and rappers who were suddenly empowered at street level to make jams that could transcend neighborhood boundaries. But in the years since electronic music has transformed almost by the year and hip-hop has exploded to become one of the most significant cultural forces of the past 20 years. Freestyle itself has evolved too incorporating elements of house music and new forms of technology for a sound that’s part throwback and part niche movement. While many of the Freestyle Experience artists are still recording today they all feature their signature freestyle singles on their MySpace pages. They know which butter tracks earn their bread. THE FREESTYLE EXPERIENCE WITH LISA LISA & CULT JAM SHANNN DEBBIE DEB NEWCLEUS EGYPTIAN LVER TWILIGHT 22 AND L.
Fuck the DNA – Music – LA Weeklypage 1 – LA Weekly
LA Weekly – Aug 23, 2007
Punk had begun to fade and there was a palpable hunger for something new and equally dangerous. The memories now seem like a cheap Italian horror film: girls in party dresses a hunchback fetus in a laboratory jar bloody syringes my friend Dee in bikini briefs and a bone necklace selling drugs to bewildered Van Halen types. And for that entire crazy summer the ominous electronic music of Throbbing Gristle played on cheap stereos and portable tape players so frightening new and seductive it sounded like well the future.
SoundSquare standoff: Monome vs. Tenori-n
CNET News – Aug 23, 2007
Both are slated for a new release in the next few months and while they have a lot in common conceptually there are a few key differences between the two that I’ll explore here. Even if you couldn’t care less about electronic music these products demonstrate stunning interface design (not to mention eye candy). Remember it was an obscure music interface company named.