Tag Archives: Vangelis

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 […]

Boratatat: Musical Stylings of Electronica for Make Benefit Glorious Neighborhood of Brooklyn?

While composing yesterday’s love-note to decade-strong genre-defining artists I almost forgot a couple of indie musicians that’ve been gracing my headphones of late who are putting out a new record this week too. Not to take anything away from monsieurs Hansen, Burton and Thaws — or their respective projects — but they already have […]

Records at Random Vol. 53 - Björk Guðmundsdóttir Björk

Late last week fibre artist m. Cody (with help from myself, DJ 12XU and a Home Depot rent-a-van) finally moved the remainder of her accoutrements from her old workspace into our shared space. I tweaked my back a little in the process, but it was worth it because that means her eclectic collection of […]

“Gimme Some ‘Head…” © Shawnna

After a decade-plus of waiting I have to admit I was starting to think that pioneering Bristol, UK-based Trip-Hop act Portishead was never going to drop another album. In fact, it was just a few months ago when my man Emeyesi asked me if I knew what was up with another Portishead album as we […]