Electronic Music NewsForget MTV – Apple’s iPod ads are the new music-star makers
The News Review:
- Forget MTV – Apple’s iPod ads are the new music-star makers
- MUSIC REVIEWS: Producers Help Spears Find Sanctuary in the Studio
- STEVE PRTER BIGRAPHY:
Forget MTV – Apple’s iPod ads are the new music-star makers
San Francisco Chronicle – Nov 24, 2007
And the record is over a year old. CSS’s year-old record now stands at No. 19 on Billboard’s Top Electronic Album chart and “Music is My Hot Hot Sex” has since broke onto the all-important Pop 100 chart. “America’s response to our music has been crazy” said guitarist and drummer Luiza S?y phone from the band’s hometown recording studio in Sao Paulo Brazil. “The whole story the way that this ad happened for us is amazing. We plan to do everything we can to keep the buzz going and also to remain pure and true to our fans. Apple commercials have featured music giants Bob Dylan Paul McCartney U2 and Wynton Marsalis.
MUSIC REVIEWS: Producers Help Spears Find Sanctuary in the Studio
HNN Huntingtonnews.net – Nov 24, 2007
From concepts behind the original “Bionic Woman” to prototypes of those monstrous first computers old impressions of what tomorrow might be like have charm from an historical perspective. Much of electronic music sounds similarly quaint these days especially older subgenres such as drum ‘n’ bass and jungle music both of which were mastered in the 1990s by Photek aka Los Angeles-based producer Rupert Parkes. In the 1990s music like that on “Form & Function Vol. 2″ — Photek’s new not-quite follow-up to 1998′s “Form & Function” — had a mystical atmosphere wherein machinery produced some kind of murky organic-feeling life as if the future pushed all the way into some primitive new world that might be akin to prehistoric earth. Now it sounds more kitschy than anything as Parkes and his collaborators roll out mixes and remixes on waves of synthetic swells rustled by manic jazz-influenced drum programming. Still it’s easy enough to embrace the atmosphere as Chiara’s mildly melodramatic vocals sail over the rippling electronic seas of “Love & War” and as the swampy foundation of “Ni Ten Ichi Ryu (Teebee Remix)” holds up to the maelstrom of banging beats and disjointed nuance.
STEVE PRTER BIGRAPHY:
SFStation.com – Nov 24, 2007
2" CD out in stores now!withBaLi(Ruby Skye djbali. His prolific productions have garnered international attention and are propelling him into America’s future DJ-cumproducerstar. nce in a blue moon there comes along a prodigy that is noticed by the big guns and whose talent catapults them onto the world stage. Something of a child prodigy from a famous scientist father Steve’s first love was discovering electronic sounds at 16 years old. From Boston to New York Steve Porter has evolved from record store clerk mobile DJ to New England rave DJ to landing on the roster at one of the most prestigious booking agencies in the world.