Electronic Music NewsSeeMe with a trance-dancing state of mind
The News Review:
- SeeMe with a trance-dancing state of mind
- Lessons in music for the masses
- DJ Moby Says Love Parade Made Germany Cool in the US
- Big music from a small town
SeeMe with a trance-dancing state of mind
Sofia Echo – Jun 4, 2008
The South-East European Music Event (SeeMe) which attracts an international mix of DJs club promoters label managers and producers is scheduled to take place on June 5-7 2008. The event features artists with creative impulse in the sphere of hip-hop house drum & bass and techno music. An interrupted round-the-clock party is what the organisers from United Partners are promising with the event being “bigger and better” this year.
Lessons in music for the masses
Toronto Star – Jun 4, 2008
Conservatory managers took advantage of the completed rehearsal hall in the Telus Centre to pull the wraps off a number of new academic initiatives. Most of them will end up putting even more community into what the Royal Conservatory calls its Community School. Once the doors open in September anyone passing by with a laptop will be able to walk into the Telus Centre to visit a learning space dedicated to electronic music creation. "It will be like a museum admission" explains composer Shaun Elder who is the mastermind behind another new venture: Virtual Music. This is a purpose-designed computer application that gives students instant tools with which to compose music. A brief session at a laptop confirmed that the software allows the user to create music instantly ? and intuitively. "We were surprised how students want to start making their own music right away" Elder explained.
DJ Moby Says Love Parade Made Germany Cool in the US
Deutsche Welle – Jun 4, 2008
Surprise surprise: Grooving bare-breasted women at the festival are appealing he said. “We saw photos of bare-breasted women bouncing around to techno music” American electronic music star Moby said in an interview with the Leben magazine supplement of Die Zeit weekly. He was talking about Americans seeing images of Germany’s wild Love Parade known the world over. Moby said the techno bash has helped Germany polish its image. “It was a bit disorienting” Moby said. “We had to reconcile the image of the dancing women with the image of screaming men in SS uniforms.
Big music from a small town
Prague Post – Jun 4, 2008
“I like to think that my songs have something unique to them thanks to my Slavic roots being subconsciously injected into the melodies and temperament of the music” says the singer-songwriter from his home in Tren?ín. Sometimes compared to the Smiths or Morrisey Mikloš’s music reflects the detail of David Sylvian and the dynamics of Bryan Ferry yet with mellower roots in the Slovak earth. Rather than working from an international music capital where overproduction can dilute such efforts Mikloš demonstrates the beneficial limits of a small Central European city on his 2008 release The Past of the Future (on Prague’s Starcastic Records). Speaking of the local collaborators who help sharpen his distinct and elegant sound Mikloš says “All these people belong to a community of musicians that I was lucky to become a part of after moving from Bratislava to Tren?ín five years ago. It is a small web of progressive electronic and guitar bands. ” With Mikloš and his crew closely tuned to the electronics and progressive guitar sound of England’s northern cities the major shock for most first-time listeners is in finding out he is not British.