allmusic.com: "Famed for his trailblazing work as the singer and guitarist for the seminal New York punk band Television, Tom Verlaine also carved out an acclaimed and eclectic solo career. [...]
Beginning with their landmark 1975 debut single "Little Johhny Jewel," Television became one of the most renowned groups on the burgeoning New York underground scene; though lumped together with the punk phenomenon, the band's complex songcraft -- powered by Verlaine's strangled vocals, oblique lyrics and finely-honed guitar work -- clearly set them apart from their peers. However, after only two albums, 1977's classic Marquee Moon and the disappointing 1978 follow-up Adventure, Television disbanded, and Verlaine started a solo career." More info at allmusic.com
Die österreichische Gruppe "gelitin" hat, als sie noch "gelatin" hieß, Salzburg verärgert, bei den Festspielen 2003 war sie aus Versehen mit einer Skulptur beauftragt worden, heraus kam die Figur eines Mannes, der sich sportlich selbst in den Mund strullt, woraufhin das unsalzburgische Werk mit Brettern den Blicken der Öffentlichkeit entzogen wurde. Die war damals gespalten: Mancher fand die Idee lustig, andere waren empört. Jetzt ist im Kunsthaus in Bregenz eine Schau von "gelitin" zu sehen. Weiter
dradio.de: "Der ehemalige Musikchef von Universal Music Deutschland, Tim Renner, sieht im Internet eine Chance für Musiker, sich selbst zu profilieren. Der Erfolg von Bands wie den Arctic Monkeys oder auch Grup Tekkan habe gezeigt, dass man auch ohne eine Plattenfirma im Rücken einen großen Bekanntheitsgrad erreichen kann. Andererseits zeige der Charterfolg von Gnarls Barkley in England, dass auch die Plattenlabels Geld sparen können, da sie nicht mehr in CDs investieren müssen." Weiter
Kann der eigentlich kein Englisch, oder bin ich zu doof? Renner spricht das Mouse in "Danger Mouse" wie Mousse in "Mousse au Chocolat" aus. Ich würde den Namen des Produzenten aus NY als "gefährliche Maus" und nicht als "gefährliche Creme" übersetzen, oder?
earlabs.org: "Around 1970 Philips had its own recordlabel (as well as its own electronic studio, btw) and it released a series of records with state of the art electronic and electro-acoustic music which were all encased in a shiny silver sleeve. The series was called: Prospective 21e Siecle.
Currently these releases are well sought by collectors of ancient electronic music.
One of these release was a box with 4 records, each presenting the latest or the best of 4 electronic music studios: Utrecht, Warsaw, Paris and Tokyo.
Because this box is very hard to find - it is for sale on the web for $ 1,000!! - and I think it really presents the best of the electronic music from that time I present it here. This is the first release: Utrecht." Download here
die-schachtel.com "In 1977 an obscure Italian private label issued a record that sounded like it came from outer space. A long and dense trance-inducing drone of sustained notes, rich with overtones and harmonic embellishments, coming from a space so vast and unexplored that seemed almost of non-human, even electronic nature. Paradoxically, each and any molecule of that sound was produced using only the most original and archaic instrument, the human voice. " More
die-schachtel.com "Established in early 2003, Die Schachtel is a record label/publishing house specialising in electronic/concrete/avant-garde music, sound poetry and artists' records. The two founders, Bruno Stucchi and Fabio Carboni, joined their skills to give life to an independent and no-profit cultural enterprise: in fact, all the revenues from sales are re-invested in future projects. The name (from the title of a 1969 piece by Franco Evangelisti) is a metaphor of the conceptual and creative space occupied by both the composer and the publisher. It also refers to the production of sound artefacts and art multiples as "sonic boxes", full of surprising and unexpected musical discoveries." More
faz.net: " Der deutschsprachige Pop war einmal ein großes Versprechen. Das ist keine zehn Jahre her. Es war Mitte der Neunziger, als schlagwortartige Songs wie etwa „Die Welt kann mich nicht mehr verstehen” von „Tocotronic” oder „Was hat dich bloß so ruiniert” von den „Sternen” zu schillernden Leitsätzen einer Generation werden konnten, die deutschen Pop bis dahin nur in schlechter Kinderzimmererinnerung aus Neue-Deutsche-Welle-Zeiten hatte, als Oldie-Disco-Brüller a la „Völlig losgelöst” oder Grönemeyer-Kuschelrock." Weiter
musicforone.com: "Stark but beautiful guitar motifs emerge as skeletons of songs. They are dressed in the skin of abstract sounds that are wrestled from a guitar, effects, and bits from the hardware store. This process is never laboured; it has the freedom of the moment to let the possibility of wonderful mistakes unfold" More
staartje.com: "Apestaartje co-founders Brendon Anderegg and Koen Holtkamp follow up their critically acclaimed self titled debut as 'Mountains' with this second offering of slowly evolving sound. Recorded over several lengthy excursions outside the confines of the city in upstate New York and Connecticut, 'Sewn' invokes a sense of ease and delicate precision. A beautiful combination of clean crisp texture and warm pulsating harmony that shows a group developing and expanding their sound with an extreme attention to detail that reflects new layers in each melody and texture." More
forcedexposure.com "Berlin-based Jahcoozi is comprised of Sasha Perera (London), Oren Gerlitz (Tel Aviv), and Robot Koch (Berlin), and this is their debut album for Kitty-Yo. Despite singer Perera's background as a London-born Sri Lankan, the M.I.A. references stop here. A sometimes-gritty, sometimes slick mash up of blip-hop, ragga-tech, R'n'B-fused punk and click-pop illectronica, this is much more than what misinformed people might call grime." More
nexsound.org: "HANDMADE BIO BEATS this is a collaboration between ukrainian musician, producer and graphic designer ZAVOLOKA aka KATERYNA ZAVOLOKA and german vocalist, poet, musician and producer AGF aka ANTYE GREIE AGF contacted ZAVOLOKA in 2003 after hearing her tracks on the internet and they soon realized a passion for each others music and decided to work together.
during several live collaborations, for instance in belgium and france, and some sound material exchanges they developed the concept of creating TECHNO LIKE TREES.
nature beats. the idea was to extract sounds from existing and form a variation of beats and vocal snippets to make powerful techno of nature which can be seen as identical and not similar as structure of plants and nature. repeating of otherness and repeating of difference." <a href="More
asphodel.com: "Loping, wine-soaked electrical r+b, AGF's third album (her first for Asphodel) finds her dropping neu beat poetry over cookie crumb beats and snaking across sly bass and piano. Antye Greie's tales of friendship, longing, and wandering through anonymous city streets permeate the airwaves. 19 tracks of lopsided pop and soundtrack interludes, sparse and torch lit, Mini Movies is the complete sound of disastrous freedom" More
warprecords: "After two eclectic electroid EPs for Warp, Edgar comes forward with Colorstrip, his debut long player. Still marked by insane programming skills and ultra-melodic synthesizer touches, the scalpel-sharp tunes on “Colorstrip” are pure hip shakers. Like Timbaland producing Metro Area under the watchful eye of Carl Craig, these are dance tunes that you can hum as you gyrate.
What may strike those who thought that had Jimmy and his music pegged is that Colorstrip is a deadly pop album. The tracks here are a sinister and mysterious set of dark R&B with Juan Atkins like vocals added in perfect places, mammouth synth hooks and plenty of sub bass."
Degenerate Art Ensemble: "Think punk, classical, think jazz, think beautiful haunting melodies, think thashing passions, think horn sections, strings, wild drums, vocals that are sometimes soft and dark and sometimes terrifying, lots of gentle songs... a unified szitzopheric world... its just best to just listen. Allow some time to listen to the different albums and songs, as they walk very different territories." More info
wnyc.org: "Gabriel Weimann examines the ways in which terrorists are using the Internet to organize and carry out attacks. His new book is Terror on the Internet." Listen here
From the Warp Records newsletter: "Boards of Canada return on 06/06/06 with a brand new EP. Trans Canada Highway features the original and Odd Nosdam remix of Dayvan Cowboy, as well as four brand new tracks.
The first ever official music video for Boards of Canada has also been completed. Directed by Melissa Olson, it truly is a thing of beauty…"
dradio.de "Am 26. April 1986 explodierte Block vier des Kernkraftwerkes von Tschernobyl. Es war die größte Katastrophe bei der zivilen Nutzung der Kernenergie. Radioaktive Elemente wie Jod-131 verdampften, und der Wind trieb sie über halb Europa. Die beiden anderen wichtigen Nuklide der Tschernobyl-Havarie bleiben länger erhalten: Cäsium-137 und Strontium-90 haben Halbwertzeiten von rund 30 Jahren. Das Strontium haftete an Partikeln aus Nuklearbrennstoff, die beim Brand aus dem Reaktor geschleudert wurden und sich als radioaktiver Staub verteilten." Weiter
dradio.de: "John Heartfield wurde als Helmut Herzfeld 1891 in Berlin geboren. Aus Protest gegen die nationalistische Hetze anglisierte er seinen Namen 1916. Der Mitbegründer des Berliner Dada machte die klassische Kommunisten-Karriere der ersten Jahrhunderthälfte: Sowjetische Freundschaft, Exil wegen der Nazis, DDR-Kulturbund. Dem 1968 verstorbenen politischen Künstler widmet jetzt das Kunstmuseum Straßburg eine Ausstellung." Mehr
wikipedia.org: "Analord is a series of 12" vinyl recordings by UK-based electronic music artist Richard D. James. The first installment, Analord 10, went on sale through the Rephlex Records website on December 15, 2004, and was packaged in a leather binder with sleeves for housing the rest of the series. The record was marketed under James' primary alias "Aphex Twin", although subsequent Analord recordings have so far been released under the "AFX" pseudonym.
There is a condensed, album-sized version of the series titled Chosen Lords." More info
southern.com: "Analogue Shantytown" is an epic feral disco jam, starting off with harmonica and chanting, before falling into a click-n-cut afrobeat extrapolation, complete with hollers, delayed vocal crescendos and processed geetar, it's one of the most skewed and intriguing songs we've heard all year.
Beginning in summer 2003 as a one-off commission for audio weblog Muted Tones, Glissandro 70 is the result of two years of intermittent collaboration between Toronto's Sandro Perri (Polmo Polpo , Continuous Dick) and Craig Dunsmuir (Guitarkestra). More info + one sound file
dradio.de: "Der ehemalige Musikchef von Universal Music Deutschland, Tim Renner, sieht im Internet eine Chance für Musiker, sich selbst zu profilieren. Der Erfolg von Bands wie den Arctic Monkeys oder auch Grup Tekkan habe gezeigt, dass man auch ohne eine Plattenfirma im Rücken einen großen Bekanntheitsgrad erreichen kann. Andererseits zeige der Charterfolg von 
Degenerate Art Ensemble: "Think punk, classical, think jazz, think beautiful haunting melodies, think thashing passions, think horn sections, strings, wild drums, vocals that are sometimes soft and dark and sometimes terrifying, lots of gentle songs... a unified szitzopheric world... its just best to just listen. Allow some time to listen to the different albums and songs, as they walk very different territories." 
