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February 2012

2 posts

January 2012

4 posts

Shapeshifting Detroit techno of...

Detroit techno is an evergreen genre; maybe it’s not the most popular subculture within electronic underground, but shows impressively stable following and steady delivery of not-much-different music. Lack of evolution, or better, constancy of its sound and aesthetic is one its appeals which help it to stay within its rigidly austere and aggressively beat-driven environment without...

December 2011

4 posts

altAddicted: The most impressive alternative...

(10) Okkyung Lee - Noisy Love Songs Just very few people can express more emotions through a single instrument than Okkyung Lee does with her cello. Equipped with few field recordings and loops of her playing, Noisy Love Songs finds her tempting the limits of the cello and testing the openness of her listener. These uneasy provocative, but at the same time elegant compositions are a must for a...

November 2011

4 posts

“Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.”

– Shirley Hazzard: Greene on Capri

October 2011

9 posts

It was a great decision to publish Vessel as the lead single of Zola Jesus’ third album Conatus and, similarly, to create its video earlier than any other song gets its own. Even though this song is probably the least representative piece out of the entire album – somehow stuck in the era of her previous album Stridulum II – it’s the most pleasurable and emotive composition here. Zola...

“The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful...”

– Adam Gopnik: Decline, Fall, Rinse, Repeat

September 2011

9 posts

August 2011

14 posts

July 2011

16 posts