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In the midst of all the experimental methodical techniques found in contemporary electronic music, there is one ideology that tends to occasionally go overlooked: the importance of melody. Atmospheric perception is a vital quality of all music that musicians value for all the right reasons, but I have found too many artists who overvalue the [...]
by Ezra Natalia When they're not listening to bands like Phew, Googoosh, Yellow Magic Orchestra and Las Grecas, fashion designer Solomon Chase and visual artist David Toro are at work on their new avant-jewelry project Face. Starting the project about six months ago, their first Face product is their Bindi that comes in a variety of incarnations including plaid, plaited hair and a reflective smiley...
Back in July, singer-songwriter Ben Folds leaked “fake” versions of six tracks from his upcoming album Way to Normal that he recorded during a late-night session in Ireland. Bundled with them were three real deal tracks, including the first single, You Don’t Know Me, a duet featuring indie-pop starlet Regina Spektor. The plucky tune has [...]
The Boing Boing tv crew is taking this end-of-summer week off from production, so we're revisiting some of our favorite episodes from the last couple of months -- fun stuff you may have missed. Today, one of my personal all-time favorites: takenoko (竹の子), young bamboo shoots, with Joi Ito and original music by Ryuichi Sakamoto. -- XJ You may know Joi as a serial entrepreneur, a twittering globetrotter...
Interview by Katie Spain Laurence Pike is a likeable guy. From the moment he enters the Old Blue Last pub in East London, I know I'm going to like this one. Talk soon turns to Pivot; the band that Pike,...
Japanese circuit bender Kaseo has built an orchestra of modified Pikachus. Above, a Y.M.O. (Yellow Mouse Orchestra) made up MIDI-controlled circuit-bent Pikachus, performs "Rydeen" by the actual...
Some years after Star Wars, but 24 years before a very similar looking robot from Pixar came along, a pair of Japanese robots named Apogee & Perigee released an album of songs that tell their story. Entitled "Chojiku Korodasutan...
The heroes of the late 70s/early 80s futu-pop: Kraftwerk, Ultravox, John Foxx, The Human League, Cabaret Voltaire, Gary Numan, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Soft Cell, Visage, Depeche Mode... and Neil Young ? Yes, so it seemed when Young released in 1982 Trans , a synth and vocoder-laden (Moog 16-Channel MBVO Vocoder, to be exact) album featuring futuristic paeans to electronic age in general. This happened...
We feel like sharing. Here's Pivot, an Australian act that name-checks Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, and Talking Heads; the tip sheet from the publicist refers to "apocalyptic joy". Still there? OK. They recently opened for Massive Attack, Yellow Magic Orchestra, and Sigur Ros. And, oh yeah, they're on glitch-pop imprint Warp. Stop scratching your head, and just shake your artsy fartsy booty
We've been getting out and about this week and enjoying some of the amazing events that have been going on this week. We caught Yellow Magic Orchestra and Pivot and also Stiff Little Fingers at Meltdown, on Tuesday we caught Radiohead in Victoria Park . On Friday we spent a day in Hyde Park for Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday , whilst this weekend Hyde Park will be taken over for Hard Rock Calling...
"What is house? Technotronic, KLF or something you live in. To me house is Phuture, Pierre, Fingers, Adonis The Pioneers of the Hypnotic Groove Brian Eno, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode and The Yellow Magic Orchestra" - LFO, "What Is House?" (Warp Records, 1991) Given their famous name check in LFO's classic track "What Is House?" from Warp Records' early days, it seemed appropriate to have...
Now that's magic: YMO on stage at the Royal Festival Hall. Photograph: Mark Mawston Armed with everything from a pedal steel guitar and looped euphoniums to a glass juice bottle and a toy piano, electronic pioneers Yellow Magic Orchestra...
T.I.’s 1000 hours of community service — a precursor to his one-year prison sentence on weapons charges — will be captured in a documentary series for MTV. [AOL.com] It’s Cookmania! Brand new American Idol David Cook takes over the charts, with 11 of his songs debuting in the Hot 100 and 14 songs on the Hot [...]
D00d, my heroes in my baby stages. The fathers, back then the sons, of computer electro pop are reuniting for Massive Attack's Meltdown at London's Royal Festival Hall on Sunday June 15th. Anyone who loves music with watts and joules in the organic, must check this out! Deet's below! Bristol's Massive Attack has invited the likes of The Cool Kids, Flying Lotus, Tunng, Aloe Blacc, Elbow and tons more....
