Electronic
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The secularization of Christmas music produced some of the best, most evocative popular music of the last century. The genre’s longevity is not simply the result of radio and television programming, the songs we hear all around us at this time of year deserve their place in the mainstream. Those remarkable pop songs had a…
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Greece’s Vasilis Angelopoulos has a rich, dark ambient five-track cassette release for us called My Body, Your Temple. Recording under the name Conjecture, this tape will resonate well beyond the genre he’s best known for. Works like this tend toward the dramatic, which is fine provided the composer steers clear of melodrama. Angelopoulos has things…
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Artists have long sought to break down the barriers between themselves and those who enjoy their music. While some view that separation as fundamental to their method (or simply their ego), for others the desire to bridge that gap is always there. This summer, the team at Naviar Records presented an event dedicated to “exploring…
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The noise genre is sometimes criticized for its lack of subtlety, as if it were the death metal of electronic music. It is an unfair generalization of course, but you have to invest a good chunk of time in between a pair of headphones to hear it for yourself. Yavor Grancharov’s new 10-track cassette, recorded…
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When we listen to finely crafted electronic music, like this release from Acef Stripe, it’s easy to forget that there are people in the world who dislike the genre. The notes are so warm, the composition so fascinating, it’s hard to imagine anyone not sharing our enthusiasm. One, released over the summer by David Svrjcek…
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This new album from Leaaves feels eccentric at first. Its multifaceted title aside, these 11 songs seem to offer up one curious moment after another. Stick with it though. By the time you’ve made it through the cassette three or four times, its quirks will have begun to make sense. As is often the case…
The Moderns 