Buzzin Electronic Music

In 2000 the German music label Mille Plateaux released the first compilation in the Clicks & Cuts Series. Always looking for new sounds and innovative ideas in music it introduced me to a new movement in electronic music known by various names including clip hop, blip hop and most commonly as glitch.
The original Clicks & [...]

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Applescal ‘A Mishmash of Changing Moods’ on Traum Recordings
There seems to be a secret world where to get entry it’s necessary to have a portal opened via listening to a number of musicians releases in 2010; Pantha du Prince and Four Tet spring to mind.
Once you listen to the music you enter a world [...]

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Through his work as DJ, producer, dancefloor experimentalist, remixer, collaborator and record label owner (Intimacy), Paul Woolford has succeeded in bringing a rare level of artistry to the world of modern dance music and in doing so, made an enduring global impact.
Paul Woolford has made his name working with artists as diverse as Depeche Mode, [...]

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In two separate hour long mixes for the Balance Series, Agoria (French Techno Producer Sebastien Devaud) blends atmospheric, oblique at times electronica that sends you on such a journey you can’t help but wonder at the end of it just where it is you have gone and come back to.
The first CD is full of [...]

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Javelin – Javelin – album review
Cousins Tom Van Buskirk and George Langford are Javelin. They make their music using numerous samples from barely traceable records, and perform live by transmitting their music to FM, a signal then picked up by various boomboxes at their shows.
Sound like a gimmick? Well it’s not. The home-made approach is [...]

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