The second Echologist album, Subterranean, explores the possibilities of forgoing most of the kicks and snares often associated with dub techno.
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Furesshu, Downstate
July 19, 2011 – 12:01 AM
Downstate feels like the start of a promising new phase for Steadfast, and the fact that it’s being triggered by a producer like Furesshu says a lot for the English producer’s range, dexterity, and bright future.
Manaboo, Delinquent/SB Massive
December 3, 2010 – 10:01 AM
Immerse ends 2010 in typically unpredictable style with a techno single by Manaboo, better known as Brendon Moeller and Shigeru Tanabu.
Brendon Moeller, Close Up EP
November 2, 2010 – 10:01 AM
With the Close Up EP, Brendon Moeller’s dub strains help bring Ann Aimee a littler closer to the label’s roots.
The Echologist, Slow Burn EP
May 20, 2010 – 10:01 PM
“Slow Burn” is naturally ebullient; its rounded chords and breathing, spatial atmospherics chart the hopeful beauty you’d expect to find on an Intrusion release.
Manaboo, Unhuh
February 22, 2010 – 11:01 PM
It’s getting to be full-time work keeping tabs on Brendon Moeller these days. Spread over his assorted monikers, he issued at least eight records of new material in 2009. Cohort Shigeru Tanabu has conducted himself a bit more discretely, though he did notch a soaring, string-laden peak time record with Wave Music early last year, and followed it with the loose “Jazzin’” for Apt. International. Originally a guitarist, he’s also made numerous contributions to Moeller’s Beat Pharmacy records, but Manaboo presumably brings the duo’s collaboration to full interactive fruition, the label press release emphasizing an engagement of their shared enthusiasm for jazz. Don’t let track titles like “Blutrane” mislead you, though; techno and house are the crucial touchstones here.
Brendon Moeller, The Big Thrill
April 20, 2009 – 10:00 PM
Moeller’s latest takes the echoey atmospheres from last year’s “Electricity” EP and injects them with some big-room steroidal girth, resulting in muscular late-night dub techno. Besides flushed and sweeping filters, the means to providing the “Big Thrill” in question seems to be a very prominently mixed low end, particularly the bass, a face-slapper rough with grizzly saturation. It’s thunderous bass that yearns to be free, a brown-note floor-rattler so forceful that home listeners (who will doubtlessly enjoy “The Big Thrill” there, as well) will have to acknowledge they’re missing the full experience imparted in a club.
Little White Earbuds August Charts
September 9, 2008 – 8:53 PM
Chart courtesy of The Economist. 01. Matthew Styles, “We Said Nothing” [Diamonds & Pearls] (buy) So far I’ve managed to look past Matthew Styles despite the sheen of buzz around him, but “We Said Nothing,” the lead cut from an EP of the same name, is utterly impossible to ignore. The dense and flashy percussion [...]
A Degenerate Round Up
September 3, 2008 – 6:54 PM
Photo by Dave Surgan (ObsceneNYC) This past weekend Made Events served up Sunday School for Degenerates, a 26-hour clubbing marathon which left many with sore limbs, ringing ears and fewer brain cells, yet ultimately quite happy. While I can’t say I was in attendance the entire time (this Chicagoan rarely gets to club for five [...]
Win tickets to Fabric’s Deep Space night
June 2, 2008 – 10:14 PM
This Saturday, June 7th, Francois K and Brendon Moeller are packing their gear into the spaceship to bring NYC’s Deep Space night to London club extraordinaire, Fabric. Moeller (as Beat Pharmacy) will be performing with MC Spaceape in anticipation of his forthcoming dub protest album. And if that wasn’t enough, Prosumer, Murat Tepeli and their [...]
LWE Interviews Brendon Moeller
March 21, 2008 – 9:25 AM
Many musicians end up moving to New York City to boost their career and get closer the signature sounds which prodded them to play music in the first place. But it’s a bit rarer to find an artist whose love for the feedback-laden outlook of the No Wave scene leads them to switch continents and [...]
Brendon Moeller, One Man’s Junk
February 21, 2008 – 12:14 AM
[Third Ear Recordings] A lot of modern dub techno practitioners, especially during this recent popularity boom, tend to rely too heavily on the play books written by the Basic Channel/Chain Reaction family and not enough on their own ingenuity. South African ex-pat and long-time NYC resident has never seemed too bound to that template as [...]