Showing posts with label electronica. Show all posts
Showing posts with label electronica. Show all posts

Saturday, 19 March 2011

Ego/Mirror - Burial + Four Tet + Thom Yorke

what's going on with Radiohead? They released their new album just a month ago and yet they've been suspiciously tight-lipped about it. More than the meets the eye there? Who knows, but in the mean time Thom Yorke has been working on a couple of tracks with laptop electronica kings Burial and Four Tet, and they are good. So here they are, Ego and Mirror


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Gershwin - Actress

All aboard the hype train. Choo choo. Last year London DJ/producer Actress came out with an LP called Splazsh, and lo, it was great. Minimal, cerebral post-dubstep if such a thing even exists. Dance music you can't really dance to, Actress' music has an otherworldly quality that is swirling, hypnotic and easy to get lost in. Crisp, measured beats underpin dreamy tracks that seem to slowly spin round and round, unravelling as they go. This track, called "Gershwin", is from his first single since Splazsh, and it is absolutely killer. Close your eyes and let it wash over you


Friday, 18 March 2011

Today Is Our Life - Memory Tapes

People keep saying chillwave is over. "Chillwave is over!", that's what they sound like. It was pronounced all but dead by pitchfork when they slapped a 3.8 rating on MillionYoung's new album, proclaiming dramatically that there may be no future in the genre. Step in Dayve Hawk, a man named after a bird who in 2009 released 'Seek Magic' under the moniker Memory Tapes - probably my favourite chillwave album and also one of my favourites of 2009. If there's anyone who can save chillwave's poor little chillaxing soul then it's him, and judging from his excellent new song "Today Is Our Life", Memory Tapes' upcoming album may well be just as good as the first. This one's got sick synth hooks all over the place, and much like the best stuff on Seek Magic the song culminates in a euphoric climax. Listen to it and chill