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- John Kelly Takes Time UT to Speak to WBTH?
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Malaysia Star – Oct 26, 2007
we were more into rock music then but they opened our eyes to the possibilities of electronic music. ” Things will come a full circle when SMD supports the Chemical Brothers’ sold out British tour in December. That said the hidden story behind SMD is that these lads are essentially indie music fans with a keen appreciation of dance and electronic music. During his Simian years Shaw would have listed psychedelia twisted jazz skronk rock and sonic insanity as key reference points with experimental 1960s artistes like Silver Apples and the United States of America among the favourites. “It’s stupid to shut yourself out to certain genres you have to get into the wider world of music. ” As for SMD having a strong vocal presence on its debut and also across the deejay sets Shaw maintained that the best music is validated by vocals and as always he wants to make punters dance to weirder records. “Voices are important I come from a background of listening to music where voices are the main focus.
View topic – JEAN MICHEL JARRE -> xygene – Live in your living…
Synthtopia – Oct 26, 2007
1 sound or PCM Stereo. The live performance includes 20 minutes of brand new music. ‘XYGÈNE – LIVE IN YUR LIVING RM’ is what Jean Michel Jarre has created to celebrate the 30th anniversary of his super-hit album: the stereoscopic 3D video and surround sound give the unique impression of being right there next to Jean Michel and his instruments while seated on your living room couch. Jean Michel was accompanied by three musicians for this live performance as the 8 track original masterpiece requires eight hands for a live performance. It was played totally live in one take without tape or hard-disk playback by himself and Francis Rimbert Claude Samard and Dominique Perrier. ‘XYGÈNE – LIVE IN YUR LIVING RM’ is the first concert to be filmed in stereoscopy which is the next giant step in audiovisual entertainment: Philips have developed a new plasma screen that delivers a 3D stereoscopy image visible without glasses and the film director James Cameron (Titanic) has patented a new stereoscopic movie camera and is to release his next movie in stereoscopic 3D.
News – Kyd scores Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
Gameplanet – Oct 26, 2007
To achieve the right kind of musical tonality for Kane & Lynch: Dead Men Kyd’s score is as relentlessly intense and unforgiving in its attitude as the violent rage of Kane and Lynch on their destructive path of redemption and revenge. Delivering a mix of melodic and sublime atmospherics explosive electronic beats intoxicated with musical distortion and strewn with hardcore industrial guitar sounds Kyd pushes the immersion factor and displays the main characters’ flaws anger and pain in his echoing themes embedded with haunting vocals heavily processed synth ambience ethnic instrumentation and other multi-layered sounds. His other collaborations with I Interactive include Hitman: Codename 47 Hitman 2: Silent Assassin and Freedom Fighters which received GameSpot’s Special Achievement Award for Best riginal Music. For more information visit.
John Kelly Takes Time UT to Speak to WBTH?
Skiddle.com – Oct 26, 2007
what are you thoughts on coming to play in lancaster?!it’s the people who make the club so i’m sure it will be a great nightwhich country would you say has the best crowd? and for what reasons?you cant beat the crowds in the uk when they are up for it but i also think if the music’s right any where can be greatas you progress as a dj your taste matures what were your early influences and how would you describe your style now?even though i didn’t realise it at the time my early dance music influences came from my six sisters who played soul motown and disco and at the time i was into rock and punk. i was also into big audio dynamite who to me was the first time i heard samplers being used. the new romantic sound was also a favourite of mine too very electronic. do you remember the first record you ever bought?yeah i was about 8 or 9 in woolworths and the record was "popcorn" which was the first electronic instrumental to hit the pop charts… what are you thoughts on coming to play in lancaster?!it’s the people who make the club so i’m sure it will be a great nightwhich country would you say has the best crowd? and for what reasons?you cant beat the crowds in the uk when they are up for it but i also think if the music’s right any where can be greatas you progress as a dj your taste matures what were your early influences and how would you describe your style now?even though i didn’t realise it at the time my early dance music influences came from my six sisters who played soul motown and disco and at the time i was into rock and punk. i was also into big audio dynamite who to me was the first time i heard samplers being used. the new romantic sound was also a favourite of mine too very electronic. do you remember the first record you ever bought?yeah i was about 8 or 9 in woolworths and the record was "popcorn" which was the first electronic instrumental to hit the pop charts. i think the reason i picked that one out of the top 20 chart on the wall behind the counter was that i liked popcorn!what djs and producers are doing it for you right now?there is a young guy in liverpool called danny jay who is pushing all the right buttonsthere’s no doubt about it you are a club legend but what has been the recipe to your success and what advice would you give the next generation of djs?get excited if you do it is infectious it will spread too the floor. believe in yourself and work hardyou are currently running the biggest old skool night in the country with quadrant park reunions for those of us that are too young to know what was quadrant park about? it was all about the music music music.
Detatched [techno] Tickets | Rios LEEDS | What’s on guide &…
Skiddle.com – Oct 26, 2007
Loktibrada released several EP’s since 1998 mostnotably for lga+Jozef Numb PVC and Antidandruff labels. In 2000Rumenige started his own productions also for Numb and Antidandruff. Together they have collaborated with many diverse artists in theelectronic music industry including: Regis Female Hardcell MarkBroom Christian Wunsch Takaaki Itoh HU Boss Function Makaton andscar Mulero. In 2003 the team released the 12″ “Petrzalka” on Tresor(Tresor. 204) and in 2004 a mixed CD “Evergreens & Everblacks” wasreleased on Antidandruff.
Herbie Hancock explores the words behind the music | Chron.com -…
Houston Chronicle – Oct 26, 2007
html NEW YRK — Herbie Hancock admits he would get so wrapped up in the music itself that he never paid any attention to the lyrics when interpreting songs even on his Grammy-winning album Gershwin’s World. But the jazz pianist’s outlook changed when he recorded an album of songs by Joni Mitchell his old friend who shares his penchant for genre-bending musical adventures. Hancock spent months working with co-producer Larry Klein Mitchell’s ex-husband and longtime musical partner analyzing the lyrics and choosing the songs for his new album River: The Joni Letters. He even typed out the texts and discussed them with his fellow musicians before recording each track — something he had never done before in the studio. “It’s a territory that I never really explored in the past… Hancock and Mitchell have appeared on each other’s records since 1979 when the singer-songwriter invited him and Shorter to record the album Mingus on which she wrote lyrics to tunes composed for her by legendary jazz bassist Charles Mingus shortly before his death from Lou Gehrig’s disease. At the time both were exploring new musical territory. Hancock had angered jazz purists by venturing into electronic jazz-funk with his Headhunters band while Mitchell had upset her fans by moving beyond her pop-folk-rock blend into jazz and world music starting with her 1975 album The Hissing of Summer Lawns. “We have the same problem from two different approaches” said Mitchell who joined the black-clad Hancock at a luncheon with several writers at a Manhattan hotel in late September a day after her new album Shine and Hancock’s River were both released. “He was going too far into pop and I was going too far into jazz. They accused him of commercialism and me like if you do that we’re going to lose sales. “I guess Herbie found this challenging to do my music.