xlr8r.com: "Steve Goodman (a.k.a. Kode9) talks city cross-pollination, U.K. Funky, five years of Hyperdub, and bureaucratic nightmares. He also lets you know what he'll do with your dubstep demo." Watch/Download
"...The record I love most right now is Ombrophilia by Tomoko Sauvage, due from Seattle label and/OAR later this year. Tomoko uses wooden cooking spoons to strike and stir Chinese rice bowls filled with water. The sound is captured by subaquatic mic probes, processed and amplified slightly.
This is super-quiet music. When Tomoko plays it live, water dripping from a pierced polythene bag hung from the ceiling not only adds a kind of random percussion, but scatters reflections off the lit water surface across the walls and ceiling. The wobbly, chiming bowls turn tuned water into a natural synthesiser. The result is soothing, seductive, sensual. I could listen to it forever.
Ombrophilia means 'an abnormal love of rain'. I find it sweeter and sexier than rock's morbid, normative love of pain." By Momus in The WIRE April 2009
"Five favourite inspirational tunes and five tracks from Ghost Box artists including one from the new Focus Group album We Are All Pans People and a track from the forthcoming album by Mount Vernon Arts Lab, Séance at Hobs Lane." Listen/Download here
