Electronic Music NewsBooka Shade: The Sun & The Neon Light
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- Booka Shade: The Sun & The Neon Light
- Tiesto flies in for Planetlove anniversary
- Music Review – Thrones and Ocrilim Showing What Happens When One-Man…
- Tony Naylor digs Berlin where women rule the electronic scene | The…
Booka Shade: The Sun & The Neon Light
InTheNews.co.uk – May 24, 2008
German dance master get serious and quite a lot worseWhat’s it all about?A while ago Germany was literally the trendiest place in the world if you were making sparse electronic music for other DJs and diehard fans in graphic print T-shirts. After knocking out singles Mandarine Girl and Body Language in 2006 Booka Shade became the kings of the Frankfurt scene making music that was minimal but didn’t really take itself as seriously as the stuff Hawtin and Villalobos were putting out. An album followed called Movements but as this was dance music so no one other than reviewers bothered to listen to it all the way through. This was a bit of a shame as it was alright. Two years down the line the German sound is a little less cool and Booka Shade are back with their rather po-faced record The Sun & The Neon Light.
Tiesto flies in for Planetlove anniversary
Belfast Telegraph – May 24, 2008
To mark the massive dance event’s 10th birthday the organisers of Planetlove decided to extend the party to festival status with a star-studded line-up and camping. Thousands of dance music fans are expected to descend upon Shane’s Castle in Co Antrim for the two-day event on Friday September 5 and Saturday September 6. Dutch DJ Tiesto — a world leader in trance and electronic music — will bring his In Search of Sunrise Tour to Shane’s Castle on September 5. The last time he appeare?n Northern Ireland in March 2007 for a King’s Hall show tickets sold out within a fortnight of going on sale. His concert shows have seen him transformed from famous DJ to international superstar. The line-up for September 6 will be unveiled on Plantlove’s official website on June 6 at.
Music Review – Thrones and Ocrilim Showing What Happens When One-Man…
New York Times – May 24, 2008
He’s not particularly limited by typical subgenre ideas about metal and he’s certainly not limited by aloneness; he seems broadened by it. His set began with long echoed bass notes with some electronic treatment that made them sound bowed; he played over a recorded track of droning bass notes which gave him a tempo. It was radically slow music loud but peaceful. Then he engaged some electronic looping effects and crackly wind-through-dead-leaves sounds and played deep consonant bass chords. Then he punched in some blasting irregular-rhythm drum tracks and began to sing. Preston has an average roar which he sometimes used plain — just amplification no echo — but at the best of times ran through a vocoder.
Tony Naylor digs Berlin where women rule the electronic scene | The…
Guardian – May 24, 2008
This city – with its cheap rents sensational club spaces and ever-growing international creative community – is a hub of talent and ideas which has spawned the two most significant upheavals in recent dance music history: electroclash and minimal techno. But it’s not just the beats that are progressive it’s Berlin’s sexual politics too. In stark contrast to Britain where women remain fringe players on underground music scenes Berlin’s female DJs and label owners are highly visible and influential. This month Ellen Allien and Anja Schneider both release hotly anticipated artist albums while running labels – BPitch Control and Mobilee respectively – that are nowadays as cool and internationally significant as Mo’ Wax or Warp once were.