Electronic
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Vienna’s Indafinsta Rec./ label has a new cassette release from Montreal envelope-pusher fxbip this month. François-Xavier Vigneault-Marcil’s latest is a six-track primarily electronic work that looks back fondly on the genre’s earliest days. That’s not a dig. At a time when so much electronic music is written to make you dance, it’s a treat to…
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Radical is not a word you’ve read a great deal on this blog. The term has been so often applied – and misapplied – to music that it’s been rendered virtually meaningless. But if there is a music genre that can still fairly be described with the r-word, it is minimalism. Put another way, the…
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Historians will write about hip hop music with a primary focus on its lyrical content and social influence. Rightly so. The impact of the genre runs deep and worldwide. It continues to inform pop music styles and youth culture to an extent few imagined back in the 1970s. But as penetrating as that influence has…
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The thing that will strike you first about this marvelous disc from That Faint Light is the seamless combination of electronics and more conventional instruments on each of the 12 tracks. Together, Guido Lusetti and Adrian Lane have produced a brilliant, gentle album of advanced new classical works. Except that the two aren’t together. Physically…
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It is unlikely that ambient music producer Lee Yi set out to record the soundtrack of the winter that is about to set in. Given that the prodigious artist calls Málaga, Spain home, snow drifts and ice storms probably aren’t a big concern. That being said, Yi does have the great outdoors on his mind.…
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In the late 1980s, a Canadian journalist asked Cabaret Voltaire’s Richard H. Kirk if he felt his band had sold out to disco. As you can imagine, that hit a bit of a nerve. “No,” he shot back. “Disco sold out to us.” The question did not come out of the blue. The Cabs’ 12-inch…
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