PopWreckoning (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hailing from Pittsburgh, Girl Talk (nee Gregg Gillis) is a man on a mission to make you shake your ass on the dance floor like it ain’t no thang. This former biomedical engineer quit his day job last year to pursue his real art and craft: mash-up style DJ-ing. Specializing in the creation [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Cherry-picked singles collection from the Belgian techno label's Nineties heyday. Run by Renaat and Sabine Vandepapeliere, they took their prancing horse logo from Ferrari and youthful stable of aspiring techno producers from across the globe – including Cornish prodigy Aphex Twin, represented here by the radiant "Analogue Bubblebath".
Aural States (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Check out Baby Venom along with the Vivian Girls (already shouted-out) October 1 @ the Ottobar. We here at Aural States receive a surprising amount of music to review, or at least I find it surprising given that our blog hasn’t existed for more than a year, and our original goal was to possibly get into [...]
haha.nu (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
No video here, just pure, simple stop motion. It took approximately 1,200 pictures. Taken in Osaka, Japan. Stripping down to my underwear to change multiple times garnered a lot of strange looks — but it was well worth it in the end, I suppose. Music by Aphex Twin. Cool fan-made clip for the tune “Cock-ver10″ by Aphex Twin. @ [...]
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
If that headline catches some of you Roulees off guard, do not think the former Beatle has decided on a change of career. For one thing I'd imagine there's an age restriction, whether a member of The Beatles or not....
3hive (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
On her myspace page Leila lists her influences as "life...noise...stuff." I'd just add "beats" to that list for a quick summation of her sound. These tracks her label has generously offered for your downloading pleasure demonstrate Leila's controlled cacophony as she gathers audio odds and ends, samples of this horn and that vocal clip, and masterfully stitches the sounds together into something you...
Backstage Pass (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
The Big Pink Too Young To Love / Crystal Visions The Victoria Pub, Mile End, 26th September 2008. Review by Holly Groom The Big Pink are Londoners Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell; what with the former being Lily Allen's current...
Hecklerspray (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
We're continuing our first-week recap of Saturday's Strictly Come Dancing with the man emerging in some quarters as a potential favourite - John Sergeant. But before we do that, we've got just enough time to look forward to the upcoming Strictly Come Dancing, which is an all-female special. We don't know what's more exciting - the thought of using up three hours of our weekend watching Strictly Come...
Shanghaiist (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Yeah, that long holiday week is almost here, isn't it? Well if you want to tack on an extra two days, this might be your ticket. On Thursday night, Free the Wax is bringing Daedelus to The Shelter with his brand of hip-hop/synthpop/electronica. What's it sound like? "Brilliant fusion of Aphex Twin and Aaliyah. Like Beck at his very best..." WORD "Both playful and impassioned, sweet and creatively...
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
I know it's lazy, but you know sumfin? I'm prone to laziness. Anyway, Joe Meek is the Aphex Twin of his day. It's lazy cuz it's true. Well, he hasn't risen from the dead to release a new LP or...
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
DJ's often act as robotic mannequins, rocking or bobbing back and forth, plain clothed, and mostly looking as if a nightclub is the last place you'd find them. DJ Mehdi, however, has as much fun dancing and singing up on the decks as much as the crowd below him does. He tore into the dance floor Thursday night at New York's Santos Party House
Mr. Excitement News (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
Isaac tagged me last week with a Spencer Ackerman meme, which I'm just getting around to now. Here's the drill: (1) Turn your iPOD (or whatever thing houses your music collection) on shuffle (2) See how long it takes you to get to a song that'll disqualify you from the Presidency.Drifting Away by Faithless. So far so good. Daniel's Theme from Freaks and Geeks. Move along, nothing to see here.
LinkMachineGo (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
[mp3] Get Better Genius Recommendations in iTunes … ‘Don’t customize genres. You may think Aphex Twin’s Come to Daddy belongs in a genre like “Avant Garde” or “Techno,” but the iTunes Store database (which Genius queries) insists it’s “Dance/Electronica.” Change your genres to conflict with iTunes and your recommendations will suffer.’
fork handles (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
I'm sure this is all over the intertubes, but it's very cool (and just the sort of thing I'd like to try with Freyja, if I ever get any free time whatsoever again :)
Pandora (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
Fans of electronic music, here's a show for you: BlipVert (left) comes into the studio to show how he cuts up samples to make fractured, adventurous compositions in the style of Aphex Twin, Autechre or Squarepusher. We talk about ambient music, vocal effects, tape splicing, and some of the crazy electronic toys that help scramble and twist sounds on stage. Here's that show. On our video page this...
