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<title>Girl Talk</title>
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<category>Laptronica</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:57:27 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Pittsburgh native Gregg Gillis is Girl Talk. When he started out in the early '00s, Gillis composed glitchy IDM pieces, standing next to his laptop during performances flanked by costumed dancers to make the show a little more visceral. But he struck hipster gold in 2006 with <i>Night Ripper</i>, an album-length mash-up of approximately 160 different songs.
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<title>M83</title>
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<category>Laptronica</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:42:42 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[M83 began in the southern French town of Antibes around the turn of the millennium as a duo, Anthony Gonzalez and Nicolas Fromageau. Equally indebted to the 4AD/My Bloody Valentine school of blissed-out, psychedelicized noise and to the chilled atmospheric sides of Paris and Berlin's electronic scenes, M83's self-titled debut and its 2003 follow-up, <I>Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts</I>, captured the tragedy and ascension of the post-9/11 moment. Befitting a group named after a universe, it was not small music, it did not back down from feelings and it could rock a dance floor without mocking rockers or dancers. Fromageau exited ahead of '05's <I>Before the Dawn Heals Us</I>, yet as titles like "Teen Angst" and "Don't Save Us from the Flames" may imply, M83 retained the sound and fury of a sonic battleground, youthful vigor and knowing hopelessness exploding and receding. A limited-edition EP of ambient sculptures called <I>Digital Shades [Vol. 1]</I> saw Gonzalez achieve an ambient calm. And when he re-entered the breach, '08's <I>Saturdays = Youth</I> found him embracing an '80s song form, an almost-pop band forming from the big bang of an electronic freak-out.
- Piotr Orlov]]></description>
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<title>The Knife</title>
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<category>Laptronica</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:30:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Since 1999, Swedish siblings Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer have made fractured dance-pop as the Knife. Notoriously mysterious, the duo is never photographed without masks on, and until recently refused to perform live. Greater stateside interest in the pair's music, which followed on the heels of critical praise throughout Europe, lead to increased exposure, as well as the domestic release of its 2006 stunner, <i>Silent Shout</i>.
- Garrett Kamps]]></description>
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<title>Thom Yorke</title>
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<category>Laptronica</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:14:02 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Radiohead head Thom Yorke releases his first solo effort -- a haunting, digitized lament that zeroes in on the nearly mystical tension his other project broke ground with.
- Jonathan Zwickel]]></description>
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<title>Dan Deacon</title>
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<category>Electropop</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:19:45 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Dan Deacon is a nut. A classically trained musician with a Masters degree in electo-acoustic something-or-other, the Baltimore-based Deacon creates ecstatic, highly caffeinated electronic schizo-pop out of knobs and machines and devices. A vaunted member of his hometown's semi-legendary Wham City artist collective, he performs solo, surrounded by contraptions and a homemade lightshow. He's that weird. Listen to his jammers. They'll make you feel weird too, in a special way.
- Garrett Kamps]]></description>
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<title>Four Tet</title>
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<category>Laptronica</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:52:17 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A solo endeavor of Fridge's Kieran Hebden, Four Tet is a twisted form of Downtempo. If you soloed one instrumentalist off of an early '60s Blue Note LP, looped it, and fused it to broken breaks, you would find yourself in Four Tet territory.
- Nicholas Baker]]></description>
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<title>CocoRosie</title>
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<category>Post-Modern Pop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:41:34 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[For many years, the only thing the Cassady sisters -- better known as CocoRosie -- had in common was a shared Bohemian upbringing. Their childhood was spent traipsing from state to state with their teacher/artist mother during the school year and from reservation to reservation with their Cherokee father, a Waldorf teacher and shaman, in the summer. The sisters didn't get along, and after Sierra went to boarding school at 14, they didn't see each other for 10 years. During that estrangement, Bianca quietly began writing songs, while her big sister moved to France to study opera at the Paris Conservatory. One day in 2003, Bianca, who had been living in Brooklyn until she took off to travel the world, showed up at Sierra's Paris apartment. The reunited sisters shut themselves in Sierra's bathroom, which had the best acoustics, and began composing and recording their first album, <i>La Maison de Mon Reve</i>. That recording, which is every bit as delicate and ethereal as its title, established CocoRosie's incandescent electro-folk-hop sound, got them a deal with Tough & Go (which released the album in 2004), and led to gigs with indie luminaries like Devendra Banhart, Ratatat, and Antony and the Johnsons.
- Rachel Devitt]]></description>
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<title>Mum</title>
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<category>Noise Pop</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 3 Oct 2009 10:44:42 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The quirky, child-like melodies of mum (pronounced <I>moom</I>) are difficult to put into any one category. Like fellow Icelandic artist Bjork, mum defy labels by simply creating experimental pop music that they enjoy instead of focusing on mass appeal. Gunnar Orn Tynes and Orvar Smarason formed the Reykjavik-based ensemble in 1997. Through the years, the duo has collaborated with other Icelandic musicians and has taken an experimental approach to creating quirky music. Mum's swooning arrangements are dotted with all types of strange instruments, but they also use piano, harp and other strings to build their musical collages. Along with extensive touring around the globe, the band has taken time to remix for Goldfrapp and recently joined the National Dutch Chamber Orchestra for a live performance. Embracing their ever-changing roster of musicians, mum view themselves as a musical collective rather than a traditional band.
- Jamie Sanchez]]></description>
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<title>Boards of Canada</title>
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<category>Leftfield/IDM</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 6 Dec 2009 09:55:43 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This Scottish duo came to the surface on the influential Skam label in 1996. Their ability to combine loping, Trip-Hop beats with modulated, warm, muted electronics was immediately apparent. This earlier EP showed a heavy debt to Electro while laying down the specifics for the themes that they would pursue on their debut record, <I>Music Has the Right to Children</I>. Released in '98, the record was a bright light in the haze of electronic music that year, marked by stripped-down warm tones, handclaps, random vocal samples and melodies which seemed childlike (but these children were playing on a much colder, enshrouded playground). Their slow motion Funk has also been captured on a recent Peel Sessions release.
- Jon Pruett]]></description>
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<title>Glowworm</title>
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<category>Post-Rock</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 08:27:14 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Autechre</title>
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<category>Bleep</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:27 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Throughout the '90s, Autechre have been instrumental in disrupting the flow of the mix. The Sheffield duo of Sean Booth and Rob Brown produces electronic sounds that shoot off in seemingly random trajectories, but like a fractal, there is an apparent order that stems from the chaos. Autechre are nothing if not rhythmic, but their rhythms are disjointed and angular. Yet each fibrous beat and twisting pulse weaves together to form a textile of texture. The components of their sound are unmistakably Electro, but each beat is so fractured, each note is so out of context, the lyrical flow of an artist like Mantronix is left as a shard of broken glass on the pavement. But the beauty of Autechre's deconstruction is that there is little as enchanting as a glimmering pile of broken glass, however much an abstraction of its former self.
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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<title>The Books</title>
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<category>Electropop</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 10:47:57 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The first volume of the Books' story takes place in 1999 in a New York
apartment building, where Paul de Jong and Nick Zammuto meet when they both
happen to be living there. Cellist de Jong and artist/musician/cook/chemist
Zammuto discover their mutual fascination with sound collection and collage
and begin nosing through each other's extensive sample library. Fast forward
to Volume Two, in which the Books relocate to Hot Springs, North Carolina,
where they finish recording their first album in the basement of the inn
where Zammuto is working. Their heady, hybrid concoction of acoustic
instrumentation (banjo, cello, myriad guitars) and found sounds culled from
sources such as DAT recordings, old films and the tape bin at the Salvation
Army draws the attention of Tomlab Records and the acclaim of critics.
Volume Three takes place in tiny, remote North Adams, Massachusetts, where
the Books record both their second and third albums. The group's first-ever
tour follows the release of <i>Lost and Safe</i>, featuring violist/fiddler
Anne Doerner, a filing cabinet and accompanying video clips drawn from,
among others sources, a tape of Japanese kids sumo wrestling in their living
room.
- Rachel Devitt]]></description>
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<title>Caribou</title>
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<category>Electropop</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:28:46 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Dan Snaith, the Canadian musician behind the name Caribou, had already released two albums under the name Manitoba before he was served with legal papers. Unfortunately, he was faced with scrapping the title of his endeavor after "Handsome" Dick Manitoba (who fronted the Dictators)levied trademark infringement against him for the use of the shared name (despite the more authentic claim of it as the name of a Canadian province). We trust that the applied "formerly Manitoba" tag will cease as the new project unfolds and takes over. Snaith, now living in London, released the stellar <I>The Milk of Human Kindness</I> in 2005 under the freshly christened Caribou moniker. While earlier Manitoba releases were more directly influenced by My Bloody Valentine-type shoegazers, Caribou incorporates much more than a wall of fuzzy guitars, making good use of a playful dissonance that gives birth to new, compelling harmonies heaving with whiffs of experimental jazz, neo-folk and a lot of other noises along the way.
- Michele K-Tel]]></description>
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<title>Psapp</title>
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<category>Experimental Pop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 3 Jul 2009 13:35:43 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[It's commonplace to call eclectic musicians "magpies," but London's Psapp really do recall scavenging birds. Their music bristles with odd ornaments like a nest trimmed with tinfoil and colored string. Members Galia Durant and Carim Clasmann keep their own nest well stuffed with audible baubles like Bontempi organs, water pipes and egg slicers. But while their starry-eyed sound can verge on the twee, Psapp never settle for being merely quirky. The unusual instrumentation and creative studio techniques -- Glasmann, an engineer with Can's Inner Space studio on his resume, knows how to make familiar instruments sound strange, and strange ones uncannily familiar -- serve as integral parts of the whole, not just bells and whistles. Stylistically, Psapp draw take their cues from bossa nova, Stereolab, Tom Waits and Marc Ribot, suggesting a kind of pastel steampunk. Since their debut EP, 2003's <I>Do Something Wrong</I>, Psapp's funhouse has proved a popular destination: the duo has recorded for Melodic, Tomlab, Leaf, Arable, Gronland, Wiaiwya, Rallye and Domino, and its music has been used in a Volkswagen ad and <I>Grey's Anatomy</I>, among other outlets.
- Philip Sherburne]]></description>
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<title>Mouse on Mars</title>
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<category>Laptronica</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 12:39:52 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In the solemnity of the current school of German electronic music, Mouse on Mars attend class as irreverently as an android loudly chewing gum with its mouth open. Electronics squirm and giggle as they spit broken samples and sputter melodic glitches, combining to compose disjointed sounds of pure jubilance. Cute enough to pull a smile from the face of any IDM-ster, Mouse on Mars' tracks piece together trite melodies like ticklish fragments of Musique Concrete (perhaps the discards of dry sound deemed too pop and Twee for Cologne's academic scene) set to scampering rhythms. Too wonky for the disco and too awkward for a hum-along, Mouse on Mars produce party music for French philosophy seminars.
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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<title>Fujiya &amp; Miyagi</title>
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<category>Laptronica</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:06:22 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[No, they're not Japanese, but they don't exactly sound like they're from Fatboy Slim's home town either. Brighton's David Best, Matt Hainsby and Steve Lewis have taken their love of Krautrock (they supported Can's Damo Suzuki three times in 2006), Air and Talking Heads, and combined them all into something resembling a witty Stereolab. Their name comes from the Fujiya record player and Miyagi -- the martial arts master in <i>The Karate Kid</i>. Describing their sound as "whisper electro," they occupy similar territory to Ultra Vivid Scene, Hot Chip and Junior boys, but David Best's unique lyrics definitely separate them from the pack, particularly on "Ankle Injuries," where he sings of "pixellated scraps of jazz mags in your head" and the delights of finding a discarded porn magazine on the way to school. So, not Japanese (and they admit as much on "Photocopier"), but chic and sophisticated none the less.
- Nicholas Baker]]></description>
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<title>Mice Parade</title>
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<category>Laptronica</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:31:23 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Pole</title>
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<category>Minimal/Glitch</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:58:32 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Germany's Pole (aka Stefan Betke) is in love with the sounds between the beats: he focuses on the intricate structures and minute fragments of stretched-out beats and fractured textures, making heavy use of filters, echoes and the gentle crackling hum of white noise. Pole's newer material is a bit more cohesive, though there's still plenty of room for your head and ears to wander. From his beginnings in Basic Channel's reduced minimal techno, he has gradually warped his sound to include elements of hip-hop, Krautrock and dubstep.
- Tim Pratt]]></description>
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<title>Plaid</title>
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<category>Ambient Techno</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:55:44 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[London has bred many great Techno artists (more specifically the artists on Warp); Ed Handley and Andy Turner of Plaid are among the ranks. In the early '90s (during the time they were in the Techno outfit the Black Dog with producer Ken Dowie), the pair recorded a series of EPs that would later be re-released in 2000 as the double disc "Trainer." Plaid's live performances are complete multi-media experiences powered by laptops. Their deep minimalist Electro-driven Techno is sequenced with video of abstract and repetitive urban and natural landscapes, a la Philip Glass.]]></description>
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<title>Deastro</title>
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<category>Electropop</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:56:11 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Apparat</title>
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<category>Electronica/Dance</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 6 Dec 2009 09:55:46 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Matmos</title>
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<category>Leftfield/IDM</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:19:29 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[What separates Matmos from the rest of the rapidly proliferating "electronica" movement is a notorious lack of convention. Each Matmos track is a pristine moment, unpredictable and full of risk. Listening to Matmos is to navigate foreign territory; each turn is a new moment of discovery. Connected to experimental outfits like IAO Core, DISC, Lesser and X/I, Matmos' Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt do not tweak electronic music for its own sake, but rather as a core strategy for creation. Rhythms, loops, and samples of breathing and crayfish neural tissue are coupled with keyboards and acoustic instruments, resulting in lush explorations of the implicit potential of sound found in household objects and consumer products. Matmos' tracks make the "unmusical" musical -- sustained drones and abrupt interference drift without apparent structure, flowing fluidly from the warm and familiar to the uncanny and unlikely.]]></description>
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<title>James Figurine</title>
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<category>Electropop</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 6 Dec 2008 14:05:46 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Venetian Snares</title>
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<category>Digital Hardcore</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:31:01 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>All India Radio</title>
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<category>Ambient</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:56:58 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[It was the KLF that put Australia's Martin Kennedy on the path to founding All India Radio in 1999. After hearing their ambient classic, 1988's <i>Chill Out</i>, he was looking around for inspiration, and found it in a friend's recording of Indian street sounds. Moved by the noise and clamor, he fused it with ambient loops and soundscapes and began his production career as All India Radio. Deliberately lo-fi, his music is mostly instrumental and entirely downtempo, blending melodies, street sounds and cinematic atmospherics to create both an homage to the KLF masterpiece and a whole new musical. It is fitting that he would go on to work on a collaborative album with the Triffids' Graham Lee, since it was he who provided similar slide guitar work for <i>Chill Out</i>. Along with his All India Radio release schedule, Kennedy also writes music for TV, including the series <i>One Tree Hill</i> and <i>Reality Bites</i>.
- Nicholas Baker]]></description>
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<title>Tunng</title>
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<category>Electropop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:09:57 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>September Collective</title>
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<category>Laptronica</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:33:10 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Lindstrom</title>
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<category>Beats &amp; Breaks</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:47:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Perhaps it was being raised on country and western music, or playing the piano for a gospel choir, or possibly manning the Hammond organ for a Deep Purple tribute band. Regardless, by the time Norwegian Hans-Peter Lindstrom reached his twenties, he became disillusioned with music, sold his instruments and went off to study literature at the University of Oslo. Fortunately for us, that malaise was short-lived, for he soon found himself playing again, and gradually began to take an interest in dance music. He brought a fresh perspective to production, seeking to bring his love of '60s and '70s rock and pop to the scene. Remixing work followed, and his well-received re-rubs of LCD Soundsystem, Franz Ferdinand and the Juan Maclean soon had people wanting a release of his own. Taking control, Lindstrom established his Feedelity Recordings label and started to put out more of his original compositions, culminating in his debut long player <I>It's A Feedelity Affair</I> and its massive club-stormer "I Feel Space." 2008 found his cosmic disco tilting toward still more distant regions with <I>Where You Go I Go Too</I>.
- Nicholas Baker]]></description>
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<title>The Prize Fighter Inferno</title>
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<category>Laptronica</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:26:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Prize Fighter Inferno is the side-project of Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez. As fans of that C&C music factory well know, Sanchez' imagination knows no bounds. Like his other band, this project is a vehicle for telling the story of a fictional time and place -- Sanchez' own personal <i>Star Wars</i>. Musically speaking, however, Prize Fighter relies more on computer beats and bleeps than Coheed's mighty rock theatrics. The music is more subdued, but Sanchez' wet, reedy vocals and fantastical lyrics are front and center for both.
- Garrett Kamps]]></description>
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<title>Cepia</title>
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<category>Laptronica</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:05:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Manitoba</title>
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<category>Laptronica</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:46:08 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Skopic</title>
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<category>Laptronica</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:51:03 -0700</pubDate>
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- Nicholas Baker]]></description>
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<title>Fog</title>
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<category>Laptronica</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:56:47 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[You could say Fog epitomizes post-millenial independent music making. The nom de plume of Minneapolis' Andrew Broder, Fog started releasing records in 2002, and since then has wound its way through every conceivable genre invented, as well has plenty that have yet to be. Broder's self-titled debut was released on Ninja Tune, back when most folks thought of him as mainly a turntablist. Its follow up, <i>Ether Teeth</i>, shattered those notions. An abstract collage of gleefully sloppy sounds, it showed Broder to be as interested in songcraft and even singing as he was in scratching records. This move continued over subsequent EPs and the full-length <i>Tenth Avenue Freakout</i>. By the time 2007's <i>Ditherer</i> arrived, Fog was officially a trio, and Broder's compositions had as much in common with a band like Pavement's as they did with his erstwhile Ninja Tune brethren. And with stated influences as disparate as composer Charles Ives and metal experimentalists Xasthur, Broder's journey into the great musical beyond seems like it could be just getting started.
- Garrett Kamps]]></description>
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<title>Kid606</title>
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<category>Laptronica</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:31:46 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Good luck trying to pin down Kid606 (Miguel Depedro). The Venezuelan-born musician was just barely out of adolescence when he began to turn San Diego's experimental music community on its head with a homegrown style fusing the fury and irreverence of punk with the electronic sonics of jungle and techno. After moving to San Francisco in the '90s, he -- along with likeminded mischief-makers such as Kit Clayton, Sutekh, Gold Chains and Matmos -- helped put the Bay Area on the map as a mecca for electronic music's free spirits. Long before Girl Talk, Kid606 was drenching his laptop in the sweat of frenzied crowds, playing a sly, pop-loving strain of high-energy dance music. But Kid606 has never been <I>just</I> a prankster. While he's prone to snarky titles ("Luke Vibert Can Kiss My Indie-Punk Whiteboy Ass") and his music often revels in fluorescent samples and breakneck tempos, he's also capable of the tender, contemplative I.D.M. of <I>P.S. I Love You</I>. His Tigerbeat6 label, meanwhile, is one of America's great electronic indies, encompassing a roster as diverse as Pimmon, Numbers, Knifehandchop, Black Dice and the Bug.
- Philip Sherburne]]></description>
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<title>Ammoncontact</title>
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<category>Minimal/Glitch</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:00:33 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Christopher Willits</title>
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<category>Minimal/Glitch</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:31:44 -0700</pubDate>
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- Nicholas Baker]]></description>
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<title>Minotaur Shock</title>
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<category>Laptronica</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:42 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Savath &amp; Savalas</title>
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<category>Downtempo</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:32:48 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Savath & Savalas is yet another constellation in the ever-expanding universe of laptronica producer Scott Herren. Conceived before Prefuse 73's arrival as the future of avant-garde hip-hop, Savath & Savalas allows Herren to explore his Spanish roots with music that reflects a certain whimsical romanticism. Like Brian Eno's ambient music, Savath & Savalas focus on tonal elements, layering bits of digital glitches over violin swells and flickering lines of notes of Spanish guitars. And while it's too intricate and engaging to be dismissed as background music, the work of Savath & Savalas contains a Buddhist-like calm, content to flutter around your headspace like an erotic mantra. Over the course of four studio albums -- beginning with 2000's <I>Folk Songs for Trains, Trees and Honey</I> -- Heron has continued to refine this aesthetic. You would be wise not to dismiss this as a diversion from the guy behind Prefuse 73.
- Sam Chennault]]></description>
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<title>Excepter</title>
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<category>Bleep</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:42:56 -0800</pubDate>
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- Nicholas Baker]]></description>
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<title>Michaela Melian</title>
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<category>Laptronica</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 13:56:10 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Berlin's Michaela Melian creates dark, dense, fantastical soundworlds with a gothic, fairy-tale feel; her music might be the soundtrack to a film adaptation of a Brothers Grimm tale. Using a mixture of acoustic instruments (piano, acoustic guitar, cello), electronic sounds and extensive digital processing, she sculpts rich, contemplative tone poems that hover between ambiance and song. A former member of the eccentric, avant-pop group F.S.K., Melian released her first solo album in 2004, on Gudrun Gut's Monika Enterprise; <I>Baden-Baden</I> was an unlikely merger of dreamy glockenspiel melodies, sampled acoustic loops and no-fuss drum-machine beats, all converging in a blissful wash. On the 2007 follow-up <I>Los Angeles</I>, Melian mostly put away the drum machine and concentrated on creating intense, liquid atmospheres. The result was an instant ambient classic.
- Philip Sherburne]]></description>
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<title>Clayhill</title>
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<category>Laptronica</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:51:23 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Max Tundra</title>
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<category>Laptronica</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 3 Apr 2009 23:05:03 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[To call Max Tundra an electronic music artist is rather to miss the point. While it's samplers, synths and sequencers that make his self-produced, obsessively pieced music possible, he certainly doesn't aim to belong to any recognizable dance-music subgenre. Instead, he uses his circuitry as a means to assembling a kind of hyperactive, hybrid pop music that takes in everything from Prince to the Beatles to Metallica, via John Cage, Steely Dan and Squarepusher. The hermetic, low-key Londoner began his career in 1998 with the <I>Children at Play</I> EP for Warp, but it was 2005's <I>Mastered by Guy at the Exchange</I> that solidified Tundra's rep as a master craftsman of eccentric, uplifting pop music. In 2008, after three years spent painstakingly programming (and deprogramming, and reprogramming) every step of the music on an antiquated computer, he released <I>Parallax Error Beheads You</I>, his goofiest, most gregarious and soulful record yet.
- Philip Sherburne]]></description>
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<title>Treva Whateva</title>
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<category>Funky House</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:31:35 -0700</pubDate>
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- Nicholas Baker]]></description>
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<title>Caural</title>
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<category>Laptronica</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:58:10 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Telefon Tel Aviv</title>
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<category>Leftfield/IDM</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:01:44 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>The Buddy System</title>
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<category>Laptronica</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 16:49:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>El Guincho</title>
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<category>Laptronica</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:52:28 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Capitol K</title>
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<category>Laptronica</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:14 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Baby Dayliner</title>
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<category>Electropop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:25 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Lumped in with the New York electroclash scene, Baby Dayliner is manna from
hipster heaven, thanks mainly to his karaoke-style live set which sees him
take to the stage armed with little more than a technology-stuffed suitcase.
His resolutely stripped-down approach to fashioning electronic backing
tracks, along with his deadpan delivery, has seen him compared to Joy
Division's Ian Curtis, but maybe a better comparison is a Seed-less Nick
Cave. Dayliner's debut album, <I>High Heart & Low Estate</I>, first appeared
in 2002 and was re-released by Brassland in 2004.
- Jamie Dolling]]></description>
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