Photo by Austin Grisham If you’re in Chicago this weekend you’re in luck. There’s a proverbial buffet of great acts to see all around the city. Here are a few which are especially worth mentioning: Thursday: Ulrich Schnauss @ the Empty Bottle Friday: Samuel L Session, Sasha @ Vision Thomas Fehlmann @ Kinetic Playground Afrika […]
Monthly Archives: September 2007
5 Years of Get Physical
September 25, 2007 – 1:06 PM
Five years is an awful long time in dance music culture. Trends come and go within a few months; labels and artists do, too. But thanks to Booka Shade’s generous work ethic (i.e. writing songs for the labels’ figureheads) and pop tech-house aesthetic, as well as M.A.N.D.Y.’s relentless A&R scouting (the artists played a role, […]
Goo-gaws for a new century
September 21, 2007 – 5:35 PM
My apologies for the lack of posts as of late. Team LWE has been hard at work on a new site design and lining up some engrossing new content for the near future, which hasn’t left much time for day to day stuff. So here are a couple of thoughts about some recent releases in […]
Arto Mwambe, Mudhutma!
September 17, 2007 – 4:08 AM
[Brontosaurus] As much as I love Beatport, I rarely find myself trusting the playlists they hype or the people who binge on them. But sometimes you’re really bored at work and Beatport slips you an email of staff recommendations; you just have to look. Among other things, label manager Dave suggested “Ombala Mbembo” by Arto […]
Chicago welcomes Jesse Rose
September 14, 2007 – 3:30 PM
I swear, we will not have pillows to greet you, Jesse. Excuse the outsider’s perspective from which this preview reports. It was written for a local paper, but they arbitrarily decided to recruit someone else for the task at the last moment. Rising talent Jesse Rose is not exactly easy to categorize, a fact which […]
Family ties
September 13, 2007 – 5:32 AM
The other day I drove my grandma from my parents’ house to her assisted living center. I figured a little music would make the 45 minute drive go by a little quicker and she told me she didn’t mind. Nearly blind, Grandma still stared eagerly out the window while Âme’s self-titled debut filled the car […]
Pan-Pot, Charly
September 11, 2007 – 6:18 AM
[Mobilee] As the year wanes on, I’ve briskly approached my limit for tracks with pitched-down, sinister sounding vocals. “Where We At”: Epic, poignant and hugely enjoyable all at once. “R U OK?” Musically not my bag, but I guess the scene needed something to put a little pause in the debauchery. “The Grass is Always […]
Paul Ritch, Back To the Time
September 10, 2007 – 4:34 AM
[Fumakilla] I was first introduced to the music of Paul Ritch during Luciano’s consciousness-expanding set at DEMF. But because his track was woven so tightly into Lucien’s performance, I had only a rough picture of what Ritch was all aurally all about. Luckily he’s provided many chances to clear things up with seven releases so […]
LWE Interviews Mark August
September 7, 2007 – 4:55 AM
Download: Mark August’s exclusive LWE mix What was your first techno/house record? Mark August: That was Leftism by Leftfield. I was a typical grunge-kid at the time: Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Helmet, NIN, Pearl Jam; I had also long hair in a ponytail and was wearing yellow Doc Martens. Somehow Underworld made it in our friends’ […]
New Ron Hardy tracks finally released
September 6, 2007 – 5:10 PM
Ron Hardy didn’t have the high profile of Larry Levan or Frankie Knuckles, but his contribution to dance music is immeasurable. Hardy first tried to produce live continuous mixes as early at 1974 on a reel-to-reel player (imagine what he would have thought of Ableton), influenced many of the most important players of Chicago house […]
Little White Earbuds August Charts
September 5, 2007 – 3:04 AM
Shortened list for more writing and more listenable tracks. No order, as usual. But because WordPress doesn’t allow Javascript to be embedded in its html (*shakes fist menacingly*) you will have to go here to listen to all of these tunes for free. Sorry for the hassle; this is the last time I’ll be using […]
Recipient
September 4, 2007 – 4:43 PM
I want to thank you all for your outpouring of support and well thought-out comments in response to my last post. To see readers responding so enthusiastically is heart-warming and confidence-building. Your thoughts have also helped to guide my future plans. Over the next month or so I’m going to be transitioning to Little White […]
