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Eliane Radigue | January 28, 2010
An Appreciation on the Occasion of Her 78th Birthday
Composer Eliane Radigue will be 78 on January 24th, 2010. Radigue’s music is extraordinarily moving, at times harrowing, endlessly yielding new layers of sound, and, yes, drone fans, indeed blissful.
December 10, 2009 1:44 pm The fourth annual Fun Fun Fun Fest went down last weekend at Waterloo Park in Austin, Texas, and the two-day, 90-band extravaganza brought something out of the underground for everyone. Experimental metal, indie rock, blog-hype rap, classic punk rock, indie stand-up comedy, and bleeding-edge dance music all made an appearance alongside the FFF’s mechanical bull and skateboard ramp mainstays. Though Day 1's heavenly weather gave way to Day 2's miserable drizzle and muddy mosh pits, a few poncho-covered mohawks were a small price to pay for some of the world's most forward-thinking music. A suggestion? Give the poor merch table people a tent so…
Fun Fun Fun Fest, Waterloo Park, Austin, Texas
Eliane Radigue
Vice Versa, etc...
Layering possibilities are countless and I think the joy of mixing and revealing mutually influencing systems will infect many listeners.
Quantec
Cauldron Subsidence
If these tracks could work perfectly as singles, they can hardly convince as an album, unless you just need something to put on shuffle while you're working or relaxing.
Jim Black’s AlasNoAxis
Houseplant
Houseplant is frustrating because many tracks here beg to be considered outrageous or transgressive in some way, but the band consistently comes off as too professional to risk an unadministered moment.
Maher Shalal Hash Baz
C'est La Dernière Chanson
After listening to the album for enough time a new type of “metarhythm” emerges in the way these tiny little songs float by our ears where the miniatures eventually seem unified and part of a musical whole that could continue infinitely.
January 28, 2010
Various
5
5 stands as an awe-inspiring monument to both Hyperdub and the dubstep movement as a whole.
The Opposite Sex
"Frozen Heart, Frozen Mind"
[ Self-Released ]
Jarvis Cocker
"Angela"
[ Rough Trade ]
Push-Pull
"Wright, Right?"
[ Joyful Noise ]
M for Montrea...