Electronica

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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.

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 [...]

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. [...]

RJD2 - Since We Last Spoke — music review

by Kris   ⋅   November 30, 2005   ⋅   Comment now

Although I liked his more concise hip-hoppy debut Dead Ringer a lot more, Since We Last Spoke is still tops. Challenging the art of digital compositions, painting it on pudding-thick once again, I can best describe RJD2’s latest as: “throes of denomination, not domination”. Each layer, each instrument meshes and merry-go-rounds another. [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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