29 December 2012

OfflagaDiscoPax - Parlo da solo [I speak alone] 2012



"Ti ho risparmiato tutte queste parole: le parlo adesso da solo mentre mi guardo passare"




14 December 2012

HISTORY Vangelis - Blade Runner Blues (1982)



Vangelis, compositore greco nato a Volos nel 1943, può essere considerato il più importante precursore del genere.
Artista visionario la cui notorietà risale al 1973, anno di pubblicazione di "Apocalypse Des Animaux", nel 1982 compose l'album colonna sonora del film Blade Runner.

La grandezza di quest'opera si può cogliere apprezzando la riuscitissima fusione tra il synth-blues e la rarefatta atmosfera post-atomica della Los Angeles anno 2019.

Vangelis e Ridley Scott furono in grado di imprimere nell'immaginario collettivo un nuovo modo di pensare e immaginare il futuro,distante e affrancato dai lasciti di Kubrick e dalle sue innumerevoli rivisitazioni.

La piega commerciale intrapresa dalla carriera di Vangelis non può scalfire l'importanza di un album che ha fatto scuola.Electricfeed(Lova)

                                                 
   

13 December 2012

port-royal - deca-dance/album afraid to dance/2008

Attilio Bruzzone Ettore Di Roberto Emilio Pozzolini Sieva Diamantakos

port-royal is an italian band from Genova, formed in 1999




                                             

4 December 2012

Daniele Sciolla - Oldroom - Album SINTHESI (2012)



Italian artist from Cuneo, he began experimenting with electronic music in 2010 during his time as a student at the Tourin University,  Mathematics Department, where he learned about computers languages, algorithms and physical sound concept.
He released his first album -Sinthesi- on independent record label Quantum Bit(2012)

19 November 2012

Fritz Kalkbrenner | King in Exile

Growing up in the shadow of real socialist prefab buildings in the Lichtenberg district of Berlin, Fritz Kalkbrenner was a couple of years shy of being able to participate directly in the anarchic techno mayhem that followed right after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when new possibilities and freedoms opened up in East Berlin within a short period of time.
At the beginning of the 1990s his older brother Paul and his best friend Sascha Funke went crazy for techno beats, while hip hop artists such as Eric B. & Rakim, KRS One and Wu-Tang Clan were Fritz’s heroes who could do no wrong. He studied their flow, memorised hundreds of lyrics and learned how to tell stories – all basic research that would later benefit him.

24 October 2012

Do It Yourself- DOUSK


Dousk is Greek producer Yiannis Douskos, who has released well-received EPs for Bedrock and Vapour – good references indeed, but even those don’t prepare you for the sheer quality of this album.
D.I.Y. is a treat, from its origami packaging to the obvious care and attention given to the music. The fourteen tracks are segued together in a loose sense, not like a DJ set but like a continuous work in progress. The whole effect is like an hour long head massage, as synthesized sounds drift in and out of focus, and subtle riffs rise from the depths.
The music ranges from easy going downtempo, as in the very opening, to solid, deep house. This is where Dousk really excels, with all the breakdowns placed perfectly and some real power in the chord progressions, particularly the anthemic ‘Espero Sun’, just about the pick of the album and a potential Balearic smash if ever there was one. The brooding ‘Chrysalis’ is already well known in the clubs and features a strong bass line, while ‘Sidewalk Lovin’’ is a strangely touching track with reminders of Jam & Spoon in the Japanese vocal.
While the uptempo tracks tend to fare better the balance is just right, the mood set for 
nocturnal, widescreen listening. The plush sound effects may sound quite early 90s, but they are so incredibly well produced it’s impossible not to warm to them.
An ambitious debut album, then, at well over an hour, but this is clearly a man who’s learnt well from ‘ambient’ acts such as the Orb, as well as more uptempo material such as early Paul Van Dyk. As a smoky chillout album, D.I.Y. is well nigh perfect.  (RA)

22 October 2012

Severed Heads - Dead eyes opened



Severed Heads were one of the pioneering acts on Australia's alternative music scene, a group whose work embraced elements of industrial, synth pop, electronic, and experimental music, with tape loops, samples, and full-on noise playing as large a role in their music as any conventional instruments. Eclectic and stubbornly refusing to confine themselves to any single genre, Severed Heads evolved constantly from their debut in 1979 to their final retirement in 2008

16 September 2012

Moderat - Rusty Nails


Moderat is an electronic music project that originated in Berlin, Germany. It started as a collaboration between Sascha Ring, also known as Apparat, and Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary, also known as Modeselektor. Their first full length album was released seven years after their first EP, due to some creative disagreements and different opinions on how they should work.
                                                                 

19 August 2012

Worm is green - Automagic





"We take our work seriously, but the humor is what keeps us together"



"We deliver electronic music in a new way, with a live drummer, vocals, bass player and two synth maniacs. It's very chilled out and laid back, but everything is possible. We've played shows more reminiscent of Nine Inch Nails than Worm Is Green"

17 August 2012

Paul Kalkbrenner - Dockyard (album Berlin Calling)

Paul Kalkbrenner  is a DJ  from Berlin, Germany, he is signed to the famous Bpitch Control label, founded by Ellen Allien
began as a trumpeter and studying music theory Kalkbrenner later switched to electronic music in 1999 he released his first track in name Paul dB + as a live act he performs with Ableton Live in conjunction with MIDI controllers and synthesizers Hardware
In 2008 he composed the sountrack for the German film Berlin Calling, where he also is the leading theme song Sky and Sand with her brother Fritz Kalkbrenner ended up in various European charts

  • ALBUMS:
  • Zeit (BPitch Control, 2001)
  • Superimpose (BPitch Control, 2001)
  • Self (BPitch Control, 2004)
  • Reworks (BPitch Control, 2006)
  • Keule (BPitch Control, 2006)
  • Berlin Calling - The Soundtrack by Paul Kalkbrenner (BPitch Control, 2008)
  • Icke Wieder (Paul Kalkbrenner Musik, 2011)

15 August 2012

CLASSICS: Autechre - Autriche



Autechre's masterpiece  / 1993 /


Il nome del gruppo ,stando a quanto detto dai membri del gruppo, non ha una pronuncia definita, sarebbe infatti nato dal premere casualmente dei tasti su una tastiera, e scelto poi dal gruppo in quanto "gradevole al suono"

14 August 2012

PRETTY LIGHTS - Drift Away

 1:50 /Everyone needs to know about Pretty Lights!
Derek Vincent Smith (Pretty Lights) is an American electronic music artist and also the owner of the label Pretty Lights Music which has under it artists of similar genre.Smith's music relies heavily on digital sampling and crosses many genres, forming a combination of "glitchy hip-hop beats, buzzing synth lines, and vintage funk and soul samples."Pretty Lights' sound is generated by synthesizing samples and organic beats using the Novation X-Station, monomer and the Akai MPD32. Smith uses these digital controllers to program the music production software Ableton Live 8. When performing live, Smith uses two Macbook Pros running Ableton Live 8 and two Akai MPD32s.. Smith usually considers his music as "Electro Hip-Hop Soul", a mix between elements of electronic based music, and beats from hip-hop and soul music.(WIKI)