- Filed under: feature
- 03/11/2010
Features
Oneohtrix Point Never: Making Contact With A Brooklyn-Based Sci-Fi Novelist-Turned-Ambient Astronaut
Come with Daniel Lopatin to a time when this world's musical seers were mad proto-hackers splicing synthesizers together to create a sonic depiction of a strange, ineffable future, where ordinary man could plumb the depths of his own mind or the endless vistas of space, aided by little more than analog tone generators. As Oneohtrix Point Never, Lopatin stitches the barest essentials—synthetic drones and arpeggiators—into compositions both eerie and beautiful. Read more »
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- 03/12/2010
- Filed under: feature
- 03/03/2010
Guest Reviews: One Be Lo
A product of Pontiac, Michigan, One Be Lo (a.k.a. Nahshid Sulaiman) grew up amongst the despair and urban decay of a region devastated by the rapidly disappearing auto industry. Rapping and producing since his high-school days under the name One Man Army, he first made waves as one half of Binary Star before breaking out as a solo artist, founding the Subterraneous label/collective and changing his name to One Be Lo in the mid-'00s. Sulaiman converted to Islam as a young man, which inspired trips to the Middle East and his eventual move to Egypt in 2007; he now splits time between metro Detroit and Cairo. Currently putting the finishing touches on his new album, Baby, which should see the light of day this spring, One Be Lo took the time to let us know about a few joints he's been feeling. Read more »
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- online reviews
- 03/01/2010
Audiofile: Bot'Ox—Cosmo Vitelli Returns With Sinister, Synthed-Out Sounds Inspired by Car Culture.
Neither Benjamin Boguet nor Julien Briffaz owns a car. But it hasn't stopped them—the duo herein known as Bot'Ox—from creating moody electronic soundscapes perfect for moonlit drives down dark stretches of highway. Read more »
- Filed under: feature
- 02/26/2010
