Kevin Press

  • masaya kato – contact

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    Whether by design or not, Japan’s Masaya Kato has found a way to combine a core feature of house music with ambient noise. His frequent use of Fender Rhodes and piano vignettes is immediately recognizable to club kids young and old. But what he does with those sounds is entirely new. Kato’s latest, contact, goes…

  • The Moderns ep. 15

    Stefana Fratila – Knowing 0.00 Jesse Woolston – What Once Was 3.47 Oleksandr Demianenko – Watercolor 001 9.23 Gideon – Slaves of Society (Pelacha Remix) 15.31 Gideon – Interview 21.55 Gideon – Theory of Sparrow 24.42 Programs & Vectors – Look At Me Through A Magnifying Glass 28.26 Hymns57 – Standing In Cue To Be…

  • Jeff Snyder/Federico Ughi – Duo

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    Jeff Snyder and Federico Ughi have been performing together for the better part of a decade. They’re both members of the Federico Ughi Quartet, Life Station  and the Listening Group. This new recording is their first as a two-piece. The suitably titled Duo showcases both talents in a setting that deserves repeat performances. Snyder plays…

  • Double Take: Celer – Nacreous Clouds (Remastered)

    TJ Norris and I have prepared another pair of reviews together. This time out, it’s a re-release of Celer’s Nacreous Clouds. Norris hosts Toneshift.net blog from Ft. Worth, Texas. We’re posting both reviews on both blogs. TJ’s Take I probably still have my original copy of the original on Dale Lloyd’s amazing Seattle-based and/OAR imprint (circa 2008), but instead…

  • North Atlantic Drift – Departures, Vol. 2

    Before there was a podcast, a book or radio program, before there was really even much of a blog called BADD PRESS, I got an email from Adam Bentley at Auteur Research. “Wanted to send you the new music video from Toronto ambient duo North Atlantic Drift,” he wrote. “The song is off their upcoming…

  • The Moderns ep. 14

    Kenya x Lowhitey – 1000 Miles Away 0.00 Steve Hauschildt – Aroid 5.01 Liai – O 10.23 Quatuor Bozzini – Megh Malhar 17.26 Nick Sutton, Matthew Faulkner – Prelude 3 25.34 Paul Frick – Great Song Title 9 28.38 Signe Dahlgreen – Stannet 36.08 Cecil Taylor – With (Exit) 42.47 Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah –…