Four years in electronic music festival Signal recalibrates
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- Four years in electronic music festival Signal recalibrates
- Electronic ‘outernational’ music to move you
- ne Man’s Musical Piñata of Mexican Folk and Spicy Global Sounds
- Coachella enters 10th year with global reputation among music …
- Local music and venues wide appeal
- Experimental electronic music festival goes west to celebrate …
- Ann Powers’ picks
Four years in electronic music festival Signal recalibrates
The Independent Weekly
The at-large interest is lighter. The sponsorship opportunities are tighter. Signal Chapel Hill’s electronic music festival bolted out of the gate with ambition in its first year. Now in its fourth one of its chief architects Uzoma Nwosu says the organizers continue to shape the festival from experience and this year carve a bit of it away due to the dwindling economy’s effects on the music industry. “We’re doing a few less events compared to last year monitoring our expenses and enforcing cost ceilings” says Nwosu. “We’re not a huge festival as is so we were already watching our finances before the economic troubles. We’ve done everything to cut corners and keep door prices reasonable.
Electronic ‘outernational’ music to move you
Aspen Times
Andy LeguzASPEN When Rob Garza performs with his electronica group Thievery Corporation Wednesday at Belly Up Aspen he’ll be one of 14 musicians on the stage. It’s not a sure bet that Garza could have round ed up 14 people who had even heard of the electronica genre when he got his start in the music. At Windsor High in Windsor Conn. the 16-year-old Garza enrolled in Electronic Music Level I a subject virtually unheard of in American public high schools. He followed with Level II and supplemented the classwork with lab sessions at night. The year was 1983 and the digital era was a good decade away. “It was old analog synthesizers drum machines tape decks” said the 39-year-old Garza from his home in Washington D.
ne Man’s Musical Piñata of Mexican Folk and Spicy Global Sounds
New York Times
Lara said that one of the first records he remembers buying was the soundtrack to a Mexican children’s television show written by the Mexican composer and arranger Juan García Esquivel famous for his use of exotic instruments manipulation of stereo effects and lush orchestrations. Lara to a fascination with pioneers of electronic music like Perrey-Kingsley Bruce Haack and Pierre Henry and orchestrators of exotica like Les Baxter and Raymond Scott. Another huge influence on Mr. Lara’s anything-goes approach is cumbia “good and greasy smelling like a taco stand” he said. Elites in Latin American tend to look down on that genre as tacky.
Coachella enters 10th year with global reputation among music …
The Desert Sun
They’ve really done a remarkable job. ”(3 of 3)The audience has changed too. The first year Tollett said recently festivalgoers only watched the artists that played the kind of music they liked. Now just about everybody likes anything” Tollett said. “Ask anyone you know ‘What kind of music do you like?’ Fifteen years ago they would tell you punk rock or they would tell you alternative.
Local music and venues wide appeal
Kansas City Star
n April 3 Flee the Seen put on its last show headlining a bill at the Uptown Theater that included the Architects. After that show I got a message from a Flee the Seen fan who had seen the Architects for the first time. She called them “the best live band in Kansas City. ” Fair enough.
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Experimental electronic music festival goes west to celebrate …
VUE Weekly
comNot since former mayor Bill Smith was photographed with the chief of police checking out what all the fuss was about at a local rave has electronic music been so popular in this city and across the country. Though Canada has always been more receptive to rock music than it has dance music for a year or two when rave was at its peak it seemed that dance music might give rock a run for its money in youth culture. Dedicated rave clubs opened up the colourful fashions typical of the movement permeated the street and genre-splicing conversations ran to drum-and-bass and happy hardcore rather than grunge and oi. Everyone had a backpack full of Chupa Chups. Soon however parental and police panic over drug use at raves and dance clubs all but shut the scene down.
Ann Powers’ picks
Los Angeles Times
Then there are the most hopeful Coachella-goers who seek something extremely elusive: the unparalleled musical set. Perhaps you are one of them: a true believer hoping for a weekend or at least a set or two that will change your life on whatever small level. FridayThe Bug featuring Warrior Queen: Electronic music isn’t all about a dance party; the most powerful artists are masters of dark fantasy carrying forth messages from deep within the collective psyche. As the Bug London-based DJ Kevin Martin blends dancehall’s aggressiveness with the expansive experiments of dubstep to make music that’s alluring and scary. Teaming with Jamaica’s Warrior Queen the Bug has crafted a sound that’s somewhere between heavy artillery and spiritual ecstasy. header-sect { background:#FFFFFF none repeat scroll 0%; text-align:center; position:relative; top:-12px; left:52px; width:108px; }#sponsored1.
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