pitchforkmedia.com: "Dylan Carlson started Earth in Seattle in 1990, releasing four albums of heavy drone-metal before taking a break 1996. While he was away, bands such as Sunn0))) and Boris picked up his torch, spreading the sound so far that when Carlson reignited Earth in 2002, the audience awaiting him had grown." Read the whole interview
Chicago Flame: "Chicago Producer John Hughes III and Japanese singer/producer Shin Tasaki collaborated together in "All My Friends Have to go" to produce an album that is both engaging and extremely entertaining. Their music is influenced by a plethora of different genres of music. IDM, break beats, R&B, down tempo: everything finds a place in their music. As such, the album is full of surprises." More
Softand is Christof Steinmann, multimedia artist and student of audio visual arts. His music can be filed under the wide field of electronica. The record label Spezialmaterial is kind enough, to offer some of his tracks as mp3 downloads.
"„...And several acts belie the claim that electronic music lacks stage precence - chief amongst them Cobra Killer, who look like refugees from Faster Pussycat! Kill ! Kill! and perform their set of charged, mutant disco like a pair of deranged go-go girls....”
(The Wire on Cobra Killer Live at markeB 2003)"
If the "Einstürzende Neubauten" are ever in need for a trumpeter, they shoulg give this guy a call.
kerbaj.com: "Mazen Kerbaj was born in 1975 in Beirut and lived there since. His main activities are comics, painting and music. After a lot of works for different publishers and magazines, it is in March 2000 that he releases some of his more personal works in his Journal 1999 (a dairy in comics' format). He self-published eight other books and many short stories since."
warprecords.com: ‘Smash’ is Jackson Fourgeaud’s precocious Autumn debut. Magnificent and messy, daring and original, delicious and uninhibited, Smash is the record electronic music fans have been calling out for. Four years to perfect, the long-awaited album by this fresh young French talent is already being heralded by those who’ve heard it as one of the finest debuts in years.
Like a kiss on the lips from a beautiful stranger, ‘Smash’ leaves you reeling, intoxicated. A 50-minute trans-genre audio fantasy rippling with Martian funk and melody-spangled symphonies, ‘Smash’, in the words of its 26-year-old Parisian composer, is "a style orgy, a psychedelic celebration of conflict.” It's a record on which opposites don't just attract, they hurtle, crunch, crash and ooze into one another at exquisite velocity, forging a wild romantic pop hybrid that sounds unlike anything else.
allmusic.com: Much though he may dislike the term, and however irrelevant it may be to his more recent music, Steve Reich will forever be identified with the musical style known as Minimalism. Over the years, Reich has embraced a wide variety of musical styles and interests, forging from them a unique synthesis.
Reich took piano lessons as a youngster, but his first big musical revelations came at 14, when he first encountered the music of Bach and Stravinsky. He also had his first exposure to bebop, and immediately started learning the drums and playing in a jazz band with friends. He continued to play jazz on weekends while studying at Cornell University, which he entered at age 16 and where he received a degree in philosophy, specializing in the work of Wittgenstein. More
Q:What music helped shape the Earth sound? A:"My musical origins come from growing up listening to Black Sabbath records, seeing the Melvins perform and reading about musicians like La Monte Young and Terry Riley."
