Mentioned: The Postal Service, 12-LP albums, Pachanga Boys, Burning Man, $1500 records, Brian de Palma's "Body Double," Philip Glass, Sufjan Stevens, philosophical inquiry, Ship of Theseus.
Marx would surely have loved the club, but would have been aghast at the economic conditions therein.
Hong Kong, pop-up vending, records as journaling, cultural currency, sustainability, retail as cooperative ecosystem.
For New Industrial artists and labels, the refusal to be categorized is the category.
The complete transcript of my 2015 conversation with Autechre, published for the first time—in two parts.
The complete transcript of my 2015 conversation with Autechre, published for the first time—in two parts.
A nearly 10-year old feature on Autechre—with the complete interview transcript to follow.
Or why Dean Blunt might be the truest spiritual successor to Throbbing Gristle.
Collaboration, musical backgrounds, Ableton vs. hardware, alternative percussion instruments, spontaneity, techno-jazz intersections, Munich and the midsize-city advantage.
Meditative jazz textures, filmic soundscapes, sunny vocal-led house music, funky machine music, ambient-ish songwriting with dub sensibility.
Déjà vu, haunted-romance R&B, lysergic downtempo, occult sensibility, "The Wicker Man," Coil.
A defense of human-led music discovery in the digital age—with apologies to Mark Fisher.