Firstly, thanks to cubikmusik and guinnessdj for the offer to put together this mix. Being a fan of what Colin has been doing with the show over the past few months, the offer was a little bit daunting at first to be honest. I was unsure if anyone would be interested in my tastes but I guess everyone here just shares my passion for good music, regardless of genres, styles and boundaries. I think this...
I just bought this beautiful new Ice Castle from Aisuru's shop Beloved Custom Designs. Is absolutely gorgeous, and I was immediately reminded of the movie Ice Castles with Robbie Benson. Anyone remember him? It was a movie about a blind figure skater. I grew up skating and even skated in a competitive synchronized skating team when I was in college. So, I had to build an ice rink for my ice castle...
La la la. I can't hear you. La la. I've got my hands over my ears. La la. Still can't hear you. Okay, I'm not the first to pull that particular stunt. In fact I got the idea from Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary. As you probably know, he invited his advisor on drugs policy to sod off, because he didn't like the advice he was getting. You may also think that's fair enough. But what exactly did Professor...
They are not everyone's cup of tea, but I have always liked them, even though half the time I was scared of them but fascinated at the same time. I'm talking about the blokes in the photo, the German super electronic geniuses known collectively as Kraftwerk. I first discovered them in the early 80s, by that time they had been going for a number of years, but there was something fresh and interesting...
by christ it’s been a noisy old month what with lightning bolt, entombed, little claw, shit and shine, factums, pelican, isis, gary war, billy bao, drunkdriver all cavorting around my damaged lugholes. therefore it’s time for a break from all this distortion, this ugly racket, this howling and hollering, this mad spastic din. it’s time [...]
How often am I going to have my mind blown by Ohio’s Emeralds? I’d barely put it back together again following this year’s What Happened (and the reissued Allegory of Allergies) before they’d launched another hypagogic exocet at my skull in the shape of this vinyl-only release on member Steve Hauschildt’s Gneiss Things label. Guitarist [...]
At times it’s difficult to classify the sound created by Richard D. James – better known as Aphex Twin – on his sophomore release, Selected Ambient Works Volume II, as music. Yes, there are moments of melody and occasionally a slight rhythm, but what are lacking are any familiar song structures — or titles, for [...]
Efforts by a new generation of artists like Marc McGuire and his Emeralds trio, Oneohtrix Point Never, High Wolf, Steve Hauschildt, Ducktails, Sam Goldberg, James Ferraro, Sun Araw sparked a newfound interest in new age / synth music as well as cassette players, bringing back the glory days of kosmiche music and krautrock
LIFE ON MARS/ TANGERINE DREAM these are only preview snaps, but i kind of like the bad quality. will post in HQ when i get my hands on them source: the fashionspot
When somewhat forgotten Ian Holloway took Blackpool over this summer, few people believed that this charismatic motivator will do anything more than traditional and boring survival fight. The team from English popular summer resort on Lancashire coast have been in financial problems for a long time now and in the last few seasons they struggled [...]
Bear In Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth Brooklyn's Bear In Heaven was one of the bands that I saw earlier this month at Next Big Nashville and made a mental note that I needed to check them out. Turns out if I had done a better job of checking my inbox, I could have checked them out before NBN... I'd already been sent a link to their sophomore album. Beast Rest Forth Mouth is full of moody, sequencer...
Watching the Beeb Krautrock thing it occured to me that I was missing out on some great music in the form of Schlager. I had to listen to things like Neu, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, & Tomita from a very early age since I was born of leftist communist hippie parents in 1969. Is there any Schlager...
via this auction "The PE-2000 was a professional synthesizer when it came out in the 70's and was widely used by the pioneers of 70's electronic music. For a sample of the sounds of this amazing synth listen to late 70's Vangelis or Tangerine Dream especially on the "Thief" soundtrack. This is Korg's second production synthesizer and truely prehistoric when it comes to synthesizers....
On this album three modern jazz musicians, Irish guitarist Mark O'Leary and Americans Kenny Wollesen on drums and Jamie Saft on synthesizer, try to fuse the music of those musicians who first explored electronic possibilities in music with more current musical ideas and jazz. Mark O'Leary mentions his admiration for musicians such as Jean-Michel Jarre, Rick Wakeman and Tangerine Dream. But don't let...
The Synth Show with Mark O'Leary on guitar/sound, Jamie Saft on Synths and Kenny Wollesen on drums has just been released on Leo Records. Recorded in Brooklyn New York, it features synth based improv/synthscapes/synthpop. Harking back to the 70's Synth glory days of Zawinul, Jarre, Wakeman, Tangerine Dream, early Kraftwerk and Hamer. It has all of that and a little vaudeville meets BBC radiophonic...
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