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Came across this new net label release: http://www.filtro.com.mx/v2/019/019.htm Bit of the blurb there: Región 4 creates a dialogue between Jamaican dancehall, reggaeton, and the sounds and tendencies of the label’s own artists, who usually group themselves in the realm of minimal dancefloor...

Hi, Sorry, this is completely self-serving, so if any mods think it's inappropriate, feel free to nuke it. I write mellow electronic stuff. A Kiwi reviewer described my last album as equal parts US R&B, Jamaican dub, and German Chain Reaction minimalism. I've released 5 CDs through New...

Hey, I just finished a remix of a sorta emo housey tune from another New Zealand producer, Module. My version is vaguely R&B beats with lots a crackles and scuffed noises. Vox remind me a bit of people like David Sylvian, deep and a bit mopey. If any of that sounds appealing please give it a...

I know he's been discussed before, but I'm still amazed by this guy's shift in taste / territory. I just checked out his new CD, 'At the Controls', and it's got .. well, alongside technerrrds like Plastikman and Stavostrand it has a track by Harmonia (you know, that Cluster + Neu! collab) and...

Does anyone have the DJ Vadim track with Phi-Life Cypher, 'Ghetto Rebels'? If so... I know it's damn fast, but do you have any idea what's being said here, towards the start? I'm vexed and perplexed like Malcolm X Or slaves with chains around their necks From the threat of the government's...

Shi Ra Nui was a sort of avant (and I mean it - really nuts) instrumental hip-hop label from Japan that was active up until the late 90s. The biggest point of cross-over for Western audiences seems to be the Sub Rosa label remix album ('Sub Rosa vs Shi-Ra-Nui'). I like the original tracks on...

Stink. What's up with this? http://www.nationalvanguard.org/printer.php?id=4330

This is probably a few years late, but is there any mystery / story to why Goldfrapp changed sound so much between their first and second albums? First album's got overtones of soundtrack stuff by Morricone (whistling solos, ffs!) and John Barry, up til then all the stuff Alison sang on...

...which doesn't involve actually going to the gig. http://igloomag.com/doc.php?task=view&id=1137&category=features

Not sure if anyone's checked this out, but I keep coming back to Dissensus member (ok, and close friend) Omaar's album he's got online here: http://www.motordisco.com/music.htm It's deliberately referential (reverential?) of things like Italo-disco, The League Unlimited Orchestra album, Moog...

Hey, I think I've seen a few people posting from Japan on here. My wife and I are off to do the whole English teaching malarky in November... if anyone's out there and wants to send me a message or just share some experiences here or whatever, well, that would be just swell. :)

A friend forwarded me a curious article about scientists figuring out the tuning of singing sand dunes. They're releasing a CD of music recorded by setting the sand from the dunes tumbling in mechanical tanks!

OK, various people have made quips about being anti-relativism (Tim F, kpunk are ones I remember off hand). Having not read much in the way of philosophy and so on, I just want to clarify what people are on about. I'm posting here because it's come up in relation to musical judgements, rather...

In 2001 a Swiss institution called MIGROS put a compilation of free MP3s on the web. It included exclusive stuff by Isolee, Fischerspooner, AtomTM, Biosphere, Thomas Brinkmann, Mika Vainio, et al. I downloaded all the tracks and used to listen to them a bit, but somewhere in the intervening...

In that most credible of sources, the popbitch mail out, it mentions David Cronenberg is to start work on a movie of Martin Amis's 'London Fields'. I'm sure the worth of the latter's writing could be debated for hors, but I happen to like that book a lot. Likewise I think Cronenberg can be...

In the latest mail out from Uwe Schmidt (Atom Heart/Atom TM/Senor Coconut/Geez n Gosh/half of Flanger/etc etc etc) it says this: -atom™ remix of towa tei's "sometime samurai" track featuring kylie minogue, to be released soon through V2 worldwide. I don't know the original...

That's probably not a 100% dead on title, but I guess I'm curious about any other music that sounds like some kind of mix of 80s art rock / pop and contemporary not-4-to-floor dance styles? A bit happy / sad, a bit detached and lyrically obscure, but not just lame. :) Could be odd tracks...

His new album 'Multiply' sounds great, I reckon. Pretty trad riffings on different funk flavours, with a touch of the kind of bananas effects and rhythmic stumbling that earlier releases had. I wish it was summer in the Southern Hemisphere.. seems like a great sunny day album. I really...

I find often when I get a haircut I find myself just nodding politely as whoever is chopping away is telling me something fairly surreal. Had a bit of a cracker today. There's been a 7 year drought here. The woman who cut my hair told me that the talk of droughts in Australia was ridiculous...

OK, I feel like this may be the only place where I can get the answer to this. Bundy K Brown did a remix of The Sea and Cake which includes a bunch of samples (and weird, lazy cuts) of tracks off Herbie Hancock's 'Thrust'. In the middle of the mix there's a lengthy spoken sample of an...