Tag Archives: Giorgio Moroder

Went Solo On That Ass, But It’s Still the Same (Kinda)

Yesterday I mentioned in passing how André Herman Düne, formerly of the Anti-Folk band Herman Dune, has changed his name to Stanley Brinks and embarked on a solo career. His solo output as Brinks doesn’t represent too big a departure from that of his old group. His songs, like Herman Dune’s, are weird […]

Fresh From the Frialator

As I noted in yesterday’s blog entry, UK Indie-Dance outfit Hot Chip holds the top spot for most listens out of all the music on my hard drives and hand-held digital listening devices according to the calculations of Last.fm and their Audioscrobbler software. I make no bones about it either; I love the shit […]

Break Hearts, Not Banks

If you live in the United States and were watching television last night chances are good you caught the address outgoing President George W. Bush gave on the state of the US economy. And if you saw his fumbling, uneasily delivered speech you’re now fully aware of the financial Armageddon that’s apparently lurking on […]

Latin Lingo, Baby!

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 […]

Alex Ain’t Tom’s Son and Boris Ain’t From the “Yay Area”

No more than a couple weeks ago, in a post about mythologically-monikered LA-based producer Daedelus, I mentioned my life-long love of myth, fantasy and comic books. As an extension of my appreciation of those three things (coupled with the fact that I grew up in a house full of wanna-be artists) I developed a […]