BBC: "In first half of Rob da Bank show we have special guest Flying Lotus aka Steven Ellison. He will be talking about and playing tracks from his new album Los Angeles, plus looking ahead to his forthcoming performances at the Meltdown and Sonar Festivals. And speaking of festivals, we will also have some of your choices for your ultimate Fantasy Festival plus we have the Early Morning Dub Appreciation Society and tunes from CSS, The Shortwave Set and Broadcaster. In second half of the show Rob da Bank and Friends introduce us Shoegazing Special - a 2 hour extravaganza with Nat from the Sonic Cathedral label and club night. He will be playing you everything from the likes of Chapterhouse to Spiritualized, Ride to Boards of Canada and everything in-between." Download here
- WIRE review of "Los Angeles", the latest CD from Flying Lotus
raster-noton.de: "COH PLAYS COSEY CD is the first part of an ongoing collaborative project between Ivan Pavlov/COH and Cosey Fanni Tutti known for her solo performances and work with Chris Carter/CTI as well as for being a part of the radical cultural phenomena COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle."
wikipedia: "Generally regarded as one of the most important and influential UK electronic acts of the 1990s, their sound is usually categorized as techno, ambient techno, and IDM. Recurring themes of science fiction and futurism can be found in nearly all B12 releases and track names." Read on
The WIRE 292: "This is the second CD release as part of Ikeda's ongoing Datamatics project - the first was Dataplex, also released on Raster-Noton in 2005, Contemporary digital life is buoyed along on a vast, invisible wash and flow of data, in the form of texts, music, photos, films and so on. The idea of Test Patterns is to take extracts of this data and convert it into binary patterns, as demonstrated in the album's barcode cover artwork, and then into digital audio files. To listen to Test Patterns is to listen to the very stuff, the hitherto unheard chatter of the modern world."
wnyc.org: "As Arborea, Buck and Shanti Curran often make music in an old cabin on the shore of a lake in Maine. But this time they bring their string instruments, voices, and delicate, pine needle songs to WNYC for this in-studio performance on Spinning On Air." Listen here
vhfrecords.com: "Highly-anticipated second album from the trio of Vincent De Roguin (Shora), Stephen O'Malley (Sunn0))), KTL) and Daniel O'Sullivan (Guapo). Like their genre and audience-confounding debut “Deep In Ocean Sunk the Lamp of Light,” “Betimes” is an atmospheric, constantly changing piece that encompasses a mind-boggling array of different performance and processing techniques." Read on
wikipedia.org: "Yoshi Wada is a sound installation artist and musician living in the United States. Wada received an arts degree, then joined the Fluxus movement in 1968 after meeting George Maciunas. He also studied with the great North Indian vocalist Pandit Pran Nath. Wada's works often incorporate the use of drone and are usually performed at very high volume, allowing for the music's overtones to be heard very clearly." Read on
Off the Wall (1985)
"On this album you can listen to the sounds of a five-octave range homemade organ pipe, connected with a central machine, spreading the sound all over the room, where the music is played, this is a loud and nearly metaphysical minimalist experience." Download here
Hear The RZA in conversation with Derek Walmsley for this month's Invisible Jukebox.
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