Electronic Explorations
August 11th, 2008 | by jg3 |Here we go a 3-in-1 post that should get your groove on for at least a week.
#1Â Electronic Explorations podcast
The world of electronic music either stagnated between about 1997 and 2007 or I was busy doing other things. At any rate, that season is over and interesting sounds are beginning to sprout up again. And the best source I can find for the best new music first is Rob Booth’s Electronic Explorations podcast which appears every week for 1.5 hours or more and includes a mix from one of the scene’s best. The other two points I’m about to make are descendents of that point because he had a pretty fantastic show this week.
#2 Amon Tobin bends a new joint monthly
Even people who don’t self identify as electronic music fans seem to really enjoy the sounds of Amon Tobin. I thin it has a lot to do with the way the sound he creates is rooted in the organic world. Heavily processed, sure, but palatable. Currently Mr. Tobin is releasing a series of one “joint” each month via his website. I highly recommend you get yourself some of these. Here’s a quality-reduced version of the June joint called Delpher:
There’s something in this that creates pictures in my head of a machine that only Stanislaw Lem could properly describe. Hard without being dark. Exacting, patient. Optimistic about the result. Willing and able with the effort. Slow. Sloooooooww. Unf. Ungf!
At any rate, you should stop by AmonTobin.com just to experience what a website could be. While you’re there you can download high quality versions of a bunch of his music, including the Delpher track sampled here.
#3 Sick Rebel
I have had a vision of the future. A child conceived this month is 13 years old in the year 2022. A time of life when outer space and video games fascinate young minds. A history lesson requires this student learn what the Apollo missions were all about and solve any one of the Mario series of games produced before the year 2003. For historical perspective, of course. Try to understand why this child finds the Mario portion of the assignment so boring as you imagine what kind of music will be in the background of the games they normally play, in 2022.
Dubstep producer Sick Rebel creates a collage of music that takes you there on this track called Apollo, from a forthcoming EP on Blood Tribe records.
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