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Just as I was introduced to this distinctive blend of electronic and IDM (intelligent dance music) music, so will it be presented to you, a unique album. Orchestra of Bubbles the result of two of the largest German IDM producers Ellen Allien and Apparat was named 48th best album of the decade by Resident Advisor.
Ellen Allien's unique voice and production ability paired with Apparat's experience in minimal techno and glitch combine to produce a vibrant album that explores an unrealized potential within electronic music and introduces you to each of the producer's abilities on and off stage. After trying this album, I invite you to follow my next two posts which will be on Ellen Allien and Apparat separately.
"Spotting trains, at home Shrinking world, dry lakes Storm is blowing, dark Way out, is hard"
"Let me just say that Orchestra of Bubbles captures the feeling of being isolated in a changing world as accurately as you can, electronically speaking. It's smart, melodic and is one of the lone examples of fusion as a genre chalking up an imaginative and inspired triumph."
port-royal is an Italian electronic, ambient, post rock band formed in 2000. There is a constant sense of idealism and purpose in their songs, many of which are layered, often long and dense, and are arranged in something of a classical style. Though a traditional post-rock guitar shimmer permeates the majority of their songs, a lot of their music is focused around ambient keyboard soundscapes, spoken voice recordings and glitch/dance electronica. The music videos mostly directed by Sieva Diamantakos are brilliant and illuminating while being at their simplest subtle interpretations of the music itself.
The band is made up of Attilio Bruzzone (Guitar, Keyboards, Programming, Bass and sometimes Vocals), Ettore Di Roberto (Piano, Keyboards, Programming and sometimes Vocals), Emilio Pozzolini (Samplers, Programming), Michele Di Roberto (Drums), Sieva Diamantakos (Visuals, Videos) and Giulio Corona (Programming).
Brief Background In the year 2000, childhood friends Attilio and Ettore from Genoa, Italy, decided to form a band during a party. Their first practice session was at Ettore's bedroom which had a piano and an acoustic guitar with a TASCAM 4 Track cassette recorder. Months later, Ettore's brother and fellow drum player Michele joins the band and finds a name for the project. More sessions take place in the so called "Saletta" nothing but a basement in the old Genovese city-center.
Songs are written and some will be the melodic basis of future tracks, others will be forgotten. Throughout the years the band would experience a shift in band members, but the music would always be the same, it would always lift you off your feet.
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This is the one folks, the big one. The band you listen to, and you wish you heard them before just so you had more time to experience it all. We missed the shows, the intimate concerts surrounded by shoegaze fans lucky enough to know about Slowdive when it mattered. But we'll never forget what they gave us, a form of beauty in music that is yet unparalleled in my imgaination. Slowdive was a dream pop / shoegaze band formed in 1989, lasting until 1995.
The band consisted of Rachel Goswell (vocals/guitar), Neil Halstead (vocals/guitar), Nick Chaplin (bass), Christian Savill (guitar), Simon Scott (drums, 1990 until early 1994) and Ian McCutcheon (drums, 1994 onwards).
Brief Background
For a brief moment, consider the following:
"And then, there was Slowdive. From day one, you could tell that these guys were inspired, and to an extent it's fair to call them soundchasers. There's evidence littered throughout their career that shows them to be playing around with the proposed conventions of shoegaze and dreampop; most of their early EPs and singles show them experimenting with ambient soundscapes (perhaps inspired by Victorialand era Cocteau Twins) and psychedelic dream-pop. Their debut 'Just for a Day' illustrates this - it's a record that was made with a certain memory in mind, as it sets out to pursue this memory, this sense of longing and capture its essence with their own impressionistic aesthetic".
"Slowdive would soon grow up and move on. They would reach for the clouds in their quest for creating and mastering the dream-pop sound on Souvlaki, and they would hurtle toward outer space in sparse, delicate and almost alien-like fashion on Pygmalion; both records serving as milestones of pioneering, consistent achievement for a band that boasted of steady sonic evolution and maturity on every release. But it was on Just for a Day that they had their feet firmly rooted on the ground, and that they unabashedly wore their hearts on their sleeves and dared to dream. And where people find flaws with this album is where I find peace within it; it reminds me of what it is like to fall in love and be imperfect, in the best way possible.
Following 2004's Catch the Breeze compilation, all of Slowdive's albums were reissued in 2005. Just for a Day included a bonus disc with all tracks from the first three EPs, and the three songs recorded for a John Peel session on 26 March 1991. Souvlaki included a bonus disc with all the remaining EP tracks, and "Some Velvet Morning." Pygmalion, which had become a collector's item in the years since its release, never having been issued in the U.S., contained no extra material. Italian dream-pop-based magazine Losing Today was named after an early Slowdive b-side. An electronica-themed tribute album to Slowdive was released in 2002 on Morr Music (now home of ex drummer Simon Scott's new band Seavault), entitled Blue Skied an' Clear. "Dagger" was covered in 1998 by Mojave 3 labelmates The Hope Blister. "When the Sun Hits" was covered in 1997 by Dutch band The Gathering. Director Gregg Araki is a huge Slowdive fan, using their music in many of his films. Splendor includes the song "Shine". "Alison" is played in The Doom Generation and "Blue Skied an' Clear" is played during the closing credits. "Golden Hair" is played during the opening credits of Mysterious Skin and "Dagger" and "Catch the Breeze" are also played in the film. In the same movie, the character of Avalyn Freisen, played by Mary-Lynn Rajskub, is named after the song "Avalyn I". "Avalyn II" is played during the opening credits of the film Nowhere.
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And thats the word for today... Mogwai, the scottish post-rock band out of Glasgow, formed in 1995 and proceeded to shake up what little the world knew about the new genre.
The band consists of Stuart Braithwaite (electric guitar, vocals), John Cummings (electric guitar, vocals), Barry Burns (electric guitar, piano, synth, vocals), Dominic Aitchison (bass guitar), and Martin Bulloch (drums).
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Brief Background
With a distinct clarity and lengthy guitar instrumental pieces, Mogwai still holds their own special place in the hearts of all who love experimental music.
Their style has been influenced by bands including MC5, My Bloody Valentine, Fugazi, and post-rock pioneers Slint. Mogwai's musical style has easily identifiable connections to genres like shoegazing, math rock, art rock and occasionally instrumental metal.
Douglas Wolk, writing for SPIN in 1999 said of the band "Their compositions have gotten increasingly drawn-out and austere over time, sometimes barely more than a single arpeggiated chord or two evolving for ten minutes or more, whisperingly brutal in a way that recalls Slint more than any other band".
Braithwaite, the bands lead vocals often wonders why people focus on and has commented on the absence of lyrics in most of Mogwai's music, as saying,
I think most people are not used to having no lyrics to focus on. Lyrics are a real comfort to some people. I guess they like to sing along and when they can't do that with us they can get a bit upset.
-Stuart Braithwaite, The Express
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This week's Artist of the Week turns out to be -
Mono are a Japanese instrumental rock band formed in 1999, in Tokyo.
The band consists of Takaakira Goto (electric guitar), Yoda (electric guitar), Tamaki Kunishi (bass guitar, electric guitar, piano, glockenspiel), and Yasunori Takada (drum kit, glockenspiel, synthesizer).
Brief background: Although Mono's musical style has developed throughout their career, it has primarily been characterised by dynamic, guitar-based instrumental soundscapes, the majority of which are composed by lead guitarist Takaakira Goto, in an attempt to channel and express the emotions of joy and sorrow.The band's style of music originally featured elements of minimalism and noise, and later developed to integrate more complex, orchestral arrangements and instrumentation. Mono's music has sometimes been categorised as "post-rock", although the band has expressed discomfort with the term, identifying more with contemporary classical music.
Mono are primarily a live band, and have toured worldwide several times. Their live show tends to feature intense and emotional playing by the band members, as well as using extreme dynamics (in crescendos as well as diminuendos) in their attempt to create an "unforgettable" live performance. When recording their music, the band has always played live in the studio and, since 2004's Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined, worked with Chicagoan recording engineer Steve Albini, who they feel accurately captures a live band's "raw emotion to [magnetic] tape."
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