Just that name “Vaporwave” was enough to turn me off. The aging hipster within making it very clear that I would have nothing to do with this internet creation. “Just a shiny plastic container with nothing inside”, I said defiantly. Without depth or feeling or humanity, this music was nothing I would be interested in …
Happy Birthday, Jason Pierce! Jason Pierce (a.k.a. the Spaceman) is an alchemist of the best sort – summoning sounds disparate yet similar in their scope and intensity, whether blues & gospel, psychedelic or electronic, the focus is on the core, the seed, beneath these layers of music: a cosmic drone which clears the mind and …
When working with certain forms of experimental music, it often seems that the artist is only partially responsible for the sound of the final output. It may still be their vision of the music, I would never dispute that. Nevertheless, so many external factors play a role in the development that is difficult to control …
Released on March 20, 2000, Broadcast’s cinematic debut The Noise Made By People is a song cycle which tiptoes on a delicate balance between the labyrinthine contours of electronic experimentation (this is Warp records, of course) and the crystalline elegance of film scores (especially the swinging basslines and jazzy percussion of the ’60s.) And, most …
As a senior in high school, I skipped a lot of class. If grades were measured on cunning and deceit I would have gotten straight A’s. It didn’t take much motivation for me to duck down a lonely hallway on a mostly unfrequented wing, and find that door that the security guard never monitored. Finding …
