Cammies: Indie/Experimental Hip-hop Electronic
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- Cammies: Indie/Experimental Hip-hop Electronic
- Maurice Jarre dies at 84; composer for ‘Lawrence of Arabia’
- French tickler
- Miami to rock the world music scene
Cammies: Indie/Experimental Hip-hop Electronic
Chico News & Review
“The bottom line is that the difference between shit music and good music lies with the person creating the music” explains wen Bettis who makes up one half of 2008 CAMMIE-award-winner Anamnesis. The duo have been creating dance-driven soundscapes since 2005 that are heavy on electro and breakbeat a music that uses heavy syncopated beats. Like hip-hop electronic music has been steadily growing into a living breathing community in Chico—championed by places like Velour Lounge and the now-defunct CRUX and newly risen TiN. MANIC NE is a regular at Velour Lounge (on the back patio of Panama Bar & Grill every Saturday) and has been making music for almost two decades getting his start with the Ninja Bass Squad in the mid-’90s. Despite the name the music is more moody—especially “Shutta” which turns a camera shutter into a beat. Going back even further to the days of the Brick Works Ayrian has been a constant in keeping electronic music alive in Chico. And while touchy-feely rave parties are a thing of the past Ayrian lives on blending trance and breakbeat.
Maurice Jarre dies at 84; composer for ‘Lawrence of Arabia’
Los Angeles Times
It’s not the technology is it? It’s about the music and the performance. Burlingame said Jarre’s scores for the films for Lean and other directors “demonstrated his ability to work on a large canvas. ” But he said “he also was a pioneer in using electronic music in films which is now commonplace. He was using electronic instruments as far back as the 1950s. Jarre Burlingame said also was known for his astute use of ethnic instruments to evoke exotic locales — “whether it was Indian lutes in ‘The Man Who Would Be King’ or balalaikas in ‘Dr. Zhivago’ or Middle Eastern instruments in ‘Jesus of Nazareth. ‘ “The music Jarre told The Times in 1966 “must give the film an added dimension.
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French tickler
The Phoenix
He first came to prominence in 2001 with L’incroyable vérité (”The Unbelievable Truth”) a record of breezy and melancholy chamber pop that found him holding court with both Air (who produced the album and took him on tour with them) and Daft Punk (who used the album’s slowcore masterpiece “Universe” in their Electroma film) the twin titans of France’s campaign of electro-dominance. But Tellier was a horse of a different couleur: whereas his compatriots were zapping brain cells with disco apocalyptica he was using the tools of electronica to fashion himself into a modern-day Serge Gainsbourg with an emphasis on song and composition. “The term ‘electronic music’ now means nothing to me because all music is really electronic right? What with computers and synthesizers ? and even with rock music you need computers. The thing I like is that electronic music is not the slave to a genre but rather a link between composition and technology. For me my art and real spirit is in my composition and these tools this robot technology allows me to make music with form and with artistic spirit. “His 2005 follow-up to his debut was Politics a bold record that fused African rhythms (courtesy of Tony Allen drummer of Fela Kuti’s Africa ‘70 band) with emotional balladeering. That produced the worldwide smash “La ritournelle.
Miami to rock the world music scene
MiamiHerald.com
It kicks off Thursday at the News Lounge with a typically ear- and culture-bending TransAtlantic offering: Zizek an Argentine DJ collective from a Buenos Aires club of the same name specializes in electronic versions of rustic South American cumbia a blend that’s become hot in the city’s club scene. ”It’s really funny in Argentina with this grand history of cultural music the kids have gone crazy for cumbia” Quinlan says. “Electro cumbia has crossed over and it’s the cool music now. ”n April 17 is Aterciopelados the perpetually experimental Colombian fusion band with Curumin a half-Japanese half-Spanish Brazilian musician who plays an updated version of tropicalia the ’60s Brazilian fusion created by stars like Caetano Veloso. ”It’s the sound of early Caetano with a little more funk in it.
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