Kevin Press
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The sense of calamity that has historically come with turns of the century began, when it came our turn, in the form of an overhyped computer bug. Y2K was a fitting emergency for our time. It was of course digital, it was the result of short-sightedness and it reminded us how small the world we…
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Warm congratulations to Seattle’s Hush Hush Records on the release of its 100th title. HH100 pulls together 14 tracks featuring the work of big talents like Shelf Nunny, Lowhitey and more. It’s been just half a dozen years since KEXP’s Alex Ruder decided to “collaborate with a friend to help share their music with the…
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Electronic music producer Nick Sutton has partnered with Matthew Faulkner and Scott Darby on an ambitious project that occupies the extremes of both electronic and new classical music. Preludes/Renders offers seven preludes by Sutton and six renders – which is to say compositions featuring samples from Sutton’s preludes – by Faulkner. Darby’s video work accompanies…
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Jesse Woolston tends to let his music speak for itself. Variations Vol. 1, the New Zealander’s fifth release, lands today with little in the way of fanfare or description. He did offer this in an email: “This collection explores sound design, moods and soundtrack equivalent music. I work with a range of techniques from organ,…
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This will sound a bit funny coming from a music blogger, but I long ago gave up on the idea that I can turn people onto alternative styles of music. The best I can hope for is to draw listeners’ attention to great examples of musical forms they already appreciate. It’s a bit of a…
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Maybe it’s because as a teenager you’re trying so hard to put distance between your circle and the generation just ahead of you and you’re caught up in your own bubble that you don’t appreciate that things you think are radical departures are actually baby steps in a different direction – sometimes even merely cosmetic.…
