The argument of whether or not to offer free mp3s on my blog is one that’s raged on inside me ever since I began to take this blog more seriously last year. With how effortless it is to host files online for free with sites like Yousendit, and the newness of treating mp3s as legitimate […]
Monthly Archives: August 2007
Among friends
August 27, 2007 – 2:07 AM
My Ripperton feature is now up on RA. This piece was — for one reason or another — months in the making, so I’m glad it’s finally available for all to read. It’s Ripperton’s first English interview/feature and I’m proud to say I was on the other end of the phone. Danton Eeprom, “Ableton & […]
SuperMayer capers
August 22, 2007 – 4:51 PM
I’ll skip the brief history of Superpitcher and Michael Mayer (Teleosteopathy beat me to the punch) and get right down to it: If these singles are any indication, SuperMayer’s album, Save the World, is not going to be for everyone despite the wide swath of sound it attempts to cover. Enthusiasts of loopy, trance-informed techno […]
Tuck it in
August 21, 2007 – 2:41 AM
M. Rahn, “Stryx 08” [SIXONESIX] Sometimes it’s best to play it simply and to the point, as M. Rahn does here on his Stryx Sessions release for net label, SIXONESIX. Gaseous synthy plumes are chipped away at by the binary counter-melody below, like a toothier Maurizio track with handclaps; or perhaps B12 stuck in Earth’s […]
Chain of command
August 14, 2007 – 3:40 PM
Ed Davenport, “Eye Speak” [liebe*detail] (buy) The sheer rattle of this track is what instantly draws you in. Its handclaps clatter so hard they might have been done by a line of deep house robots and provide added texture to the single-minded synth ripple. And while I love the porous melody which occasionally floats into […]
Michael Fakesch, Dos
August 10, 2007 – 3:38 AM
Michael Fakesch was one half of the German IDM duo, Funkstörung, until their demise in 2006. While my exposure to them was admittedly limited, I had enough of an impression in my mind that Dos, Fakesch’s first output since the split, took me completely by surprise. Like the intertwined cover graphics, Fakesch’s second album is […]
Little White Earbuds July Charts
August 7, 2007 – 5:14 AM
Artwork by Heiko Kiendl-Müller Hits 01. Andy Stott, “Massacre” [Modern Love] (buy) File Stott in the “Can Do No Wrong” folder, as each of his releases continues to push the envelope and the punters onto the dance floor. This is like two dubby sides of a coin duking it out and the winner is everyone […]
Icicles for breakfast
August 3, 2007 – 4:33 AM
Simian Mobile Disco, “I Believe” [Wichita] (buy) I’m not sure why, but it doesn’t seem like SMD has nearly the profile in the States as they do abroad, especially in comparison to their French counterparts Justice. Their debut, Attack Decay Sustain Release, is certainly better written and more sensibly recorded; it’s also able to do […]
