Electronic Music NewsRock’s Balkanized Route to the Indies
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- Rock’s Balkanized Route to the Indies
- Melodic medication
- CMJ Music Marathon: Lots of winners in crowded field
- Under the Hook Rap and Rhythm Lie the Beats
- Pop: Underworld London NW1 | Music | The bserver
Rock’s Balkanized Route to the Indies
New York Times – Oct 21, 2007
“) But a new wave of bands is using ethnic styles in less pointed ways. ne of last year’s more left-field Internet success stories was the debut by Beirut a project initiated by Zach Condon a 21-year-old singer-songwriter who began a love affair with the Balkan brass-band tradition while exploring electronic music at his parents’ home in Albuquerque. Condon played almost everything on that album “Gulag rkestar” and its arrangements for trumpet accordion ukulele mandolin violin and percussion conjure the image of a street-corner Gypsy band somewhere in postwar Europe. For the new Beirut record “The Flying Club Cup” released this month on the tiny Ba Da Bing label he employs a full band to play his Eurail rock which continues to roam.
Melodic medication
Toronto Star – Oct 21, 2007
"Yet for all of history (and iPod playlists) the science of understanding the link between music and the brain is only in its infancy. Thanks to electronic and magnetic brain-imaging equipment and sophisticated computer data analysis a cutting edge of scientists is accumulating data that show precisely what is going on between the ear buds and the smile on our lips. Last year Montreal cognitive psychologist Daniel Levitin published This Is Your Brain on Music a lively book based on his research at the Laboratory for Music Perception Cognition and Expertise at McGill University. Last week saw the release of prominent American neurologist liver Sacks’s latest opus Musicophilia a riveting compilation of his decades of work with people and music. A former music producer and punk-rocker Levitin indulged in such public scientific spectacles as attaching hundreds of electrodes to symphony orchestra conductor Keith Lockhart five members of the orchestra and a handful of audience members during a live performance last year.
CMJ Music Marathon: Lots of winners in crowded field
USA Today – Oct 21, 2007
•The Marathon celebrated seminal punk band the Clash with a day-long film festival that included Julien Temple’s revealing new documentary Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten. A Clash panel discussion included musician Mike Watt and former Clash manager Tricia Ronane Simonon. •Baltimore-based electronic artist Dan Deacon was a fan favorite. “There’s something about (his music) that’s very childlike and very sophisticated” said Ali Rana a 22-year-old fan from Lubbock Texas. •Jacksonville indie party band the Black Kids were a hot ticket. An evening show at The Annex was disjointed and plagued with sound problems but a jam-packed set the next afternoon went off without a hitch. •Kiss’ Peter Criss spoke at a panel on memorable stage presence.
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Under the Hook Rap and Rhythm Lie the Beats
New York Times – Oct 21, 2007
who followed his breakthrough hit (“Throw Some D’s”) with a tantalizing but not quite satisfying self-titled debut album released by Interscope in March. And despite a couple of singles that sank (the gleaming off-kilter club track “Boy Looka Here” and the thug-love ode “Good Things”) he hasn’t given up yet. His new music video is a riveting black-and-white treatment of “Let’s Get This Paper” one of the album’s best songs. He strolls through a graveyard (pausing to toss away his chains) and a church all the while drawling bitter lyrics atop the somber beat; there’s no chorus just a mournful choir drifting in and out of the mix. ” As it happens this single arrived almost simultaneously with the acquittals in the death of 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson. In that sense if no other Rich Boy’s timing couldn’t be better… (Does this item count as partial amends?) Fans and skeptics who missed it should seek out one track in particular: an astonishing drum-and-bleep production called “Ni Fu Ni Fa. ” (That phrase certainly sounds more appealing than its inexact American English equivalent: “whatever. “) Children clap and shout an raspy electronic bass line infiltrates the party squelchy electronic stabs provide the melody. Calder?pits his rhymes the way he always does seemingly without opening his mouth. By the time a frenetic percussion break arrives fans of M.
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Pop: Underworld London NW1 | Music | The bserver
The bserver – Oct 21, 2007
Daft Punk created an art form from futurist son et lumiere with light shows and projections. Then there was the freakshow route pursued by the Prodigy in their day. Enlisting an entire Rio carnival on stage was a great idea on the part of Basement Jaxx. And Underworld who have just self-released their fifth album proper? They were once the dark lords of the dance the harnessers of the national mood with ‘Born Slippy (Nuxx)’ who now spend time running their graphic design company Tomato.