Monthly Archives: August 2008

Records Reissues at Random Vol. 64 - Bruce Haack Haackula

August 29, 2008 – 11:22 am

I can think of no better way to cap off our week spent in analysis of the synthesis between humanity and technology in music than to profile Bruce Haack, one of the fathers of electronic music as we know it. In addition to being a “synthesizer music” pioneer Haack was something of a Nikola Tesla-like visionary. […]

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Latin Lingo, Baby!

August 28, 2008 – 11:08 am

All this talk of electro-acoustic hybrids, the fusing of analog and digital instrumentation and the fusion of human emotions & mechanical rhythms has been fine and dandy. But sometimes beats just need to be beats! Even when those beats masquerade as “songs.” And yes, even when the composer of those “songs” calls […]

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Ur Filthy Cute & Baby U Know It

August 27, 2008 – 11:32 am

After two posts in a row discussing the merger of acoustic instrumentation, electronically-generated sounds, heartfelt human emotions and mechanical bio-rhythms I wondered whether I was developing some sort of unintentional theme for the week. So after clicking “post” on yesterday’s entry I made a conscious decision to approach today’s post from a different […]

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Three the Hard Soft Way

August 26, 2008 – 10:51 am

I’m sure the merger of aggressively-paced, barb-riffed Post-Punk with the gently undulating sinews and mechanical pulses of Electronica by British rockers Bloc Party on their new record, as discussed in yesterday’s post, is libel to catch some of their fans off guard. But fans of today’s featured artist — a Canadian composer of soulful […]

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Bloc Rockin’ Beats

August 25, 2008 – 10:05 am

Late last week British Post-Punk revivalists Bloc Party pulled a Gnarls Barkley-meets-Radiohead, releasing their latest LP ahead of any sort of industry-approved schedule and with little fanfare via their website. You could pre-order a physical copy, which will ship at the end of October, plus a digital download that would be available immediately, for […]

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