Electronica

12 posts in 'Electronica'

Hadouken! - Music for an Accelerated Culture — music review

by Kris   ⋅   November 10, 2008   ⋅   Comment now

If you love slick speak, thick layered sounds, quick synthesizer bender-ing (think electronic slide whistle), look no further than Leeds’ Hadouken!’s debut, Music for an Accelerated Culture.

CSS - Donkey — music review

by Kris   ⋅   August 22, 2008   ⋅   Comment now

Don’t you hate it when bands you like — and you like them partially because no one’s ever heard of them — are featured on TV commercials? CSS’ ‘Music is my Hot Hot Sex’ serenaded some spinning iPod Touch, making me quite sad for a quite long twenty seconds, but then, who can stay [...]

M.I.A. - Kala — music review

by Kris   ⋅   July 25, 2008   ⋅   Comment now

M.I.A. You might have seen her in the Marc Jacobs ads. You might have heard her on the Vexille soundtrack or the Pineapple Express trailer. You might have heard her and thought she was Lady Sovereign getting funkified as I did when I first heard ‘20 Dollar’ last year, a mish-mash of [...]

We Are the Strange — movie review

by Kris   ⋅   June 5, 2007   ⋅   Comments [3]

This review is so long overdue that a serendipitous run-in with the writer/director prompted a strict reminder. M Dot Strange (aka: Michael Belmont) is so completely casual and San Jose-centric that he frequents a local boba tea place, even today as he types out an article for Wired Magazine (August issue — be [...]

Paprika (aka: Papurika) — he said, she said — movie review — screener!

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   June 2, 2007   ⋅   Comments [7]

Paprika
Note: If you’re already a fan of anime and familiar with Satoshi Kon, skip to the third paragraph.
HE SAID
Truth be told, anime is no different than any other storytelling medium. The rabid otaku would like you to believe otherwise, but really, it’s just like everything else. There’s a vast wasteland of uninspired, tedious dreck, [...]

Perfume Tree - Feeler — music review

by Kris   ⋅   December 1, 2005   ⋅   Comments [2]

Sometimes I buy albums for the trippy cover art or odd titles. Prior to listening stations and ease of .mp3 sampling, that practice resulted in serendipitous yays or yeechs. Perfume Tree’s Feeler turned out to be a major yay with its bounding bass and twitchy treble elements escorting songstress Jane Tilley’s choir-pitch melodies. [...]

Supreme Beings of Leisure - Divine Operating System — music review

by Kris   ⋅   November 15, 2005   ⋅   Comment [1]

Erotic electronica. Voluptuous vocals. Simple-set rhymes with often Yoda-esque messages of empowerment and rich avid description. Brave beats and originality. Oh, Supreme Beings of Leisure, you had it once but came up short this round.
Obviously honoring the classic greats of jazz and soul with an added twist of crisp post-modernistic precision, [...]

Múm - Finally We Are No One — music review

by Kris   ⋅   November 2, 2005   ⋅   Comment now

Every so often, Tinkerbell® smokes out and pays me a visit via accidental melodies. Zippers clinking in the dryer, garbage trucks’ reverse warnings, tunnel vent floe flows. There was a phase in my life where all I wanted to listen to was my laundry machine, Sunday morning birds, the beach, and maybe Autechre. [...]

Zero 7 - Simple Things — music review

by Kris   ⋅   October 31, 2005   ⋅   Comment now

Now Zero 7 is neither a household name nor a new duck. Hide-and-seeking in UK obscurity, they never truly made it to the States yet. Hmm, our loss. They have been featured on a few soundtracks (Blue Crush, Garden State, TV’s Roswell and CSI and UK commercials), so perhaps they’ll be recognized [...]

Lamb - Best Kept Secrets — music review

by Kris   ⋅   October 12, 2005   ⋅   Comments [5]

I am not an advocate for greatest hits albums. When I was in grade school, I figured that sort of thing was for fogies who weren’t true fans. But if being a true fan means you have to suffer through the flops then that’s just wasteful time- and money-wise. So when CD [...]

Frou Frou - Details — music review

by Kris   ⋅   October 7, 2005   ⋅   Comment now

Okay, I’m a little behind on this boat, but now I’m addicted. A bunch of years back (2002? 2003?) a friend (in the way friends want to force– I mean share– music) said “hey, you’d really like Frou Frou“. I immediately quipped about ‘Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires’ by the second love of [...]

Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space — movie review

by Kris   ⋅   December 1, 2003   ⋅   Comments [2]

SPACE KITTY BLASTS THROUGH SOME THICK NOGGINS “Possibly Maybe” –one of my favourite Bjork tunes and the best way to describe the experience of this incredible flick. Subtly referencing (possibly) everything from The Little Prince, Phillip K. Dick and Roman mythology, Masons and mind control, to Itchy and Scratchy, Happy Tree Friends, 50s TV Japanimation [...]

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