The almost old-school hard rock riff of Isosceles just comes flashing out of my speaker like holy fury. The intensity of the music forces me to my knees- I swear, this move looks cool in my head, despite the pain shooting through the back of my leg and my general awkwardness with such a “Rock Star” move. …
The civilization of the modern West appears in history as a veritable anomaly: among all those which are known to us more or less completely, this civilization is the only one that has developed along purely material lines, and this monstrous development, whose beginning coincedes with the so-called Renaissance, has been accompanied, as indeed it …
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 …
Listening to trumpet player and multi-instrumentalist Jaimie Branch’s newest release, Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise is like making an investment in the visionaries, believers and dreamers of tomorrow. It’s the discovery of music this inspiring and important which makes all this music collecting a worthwhile endeavour. Fly or Die II functions …
In 1966, Luna 9 and Luna 10 (Soviet Union spacecraft) were the first human made satellites to land on and orbit Earth’s moon. In December 1968 and May 1969, Apollo 8 and Apollo 10 (American spacecraft) were the first missions with astronauts to orbit Earth’s moon. On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 landed. Neil Armstrong …
As a Hawkwind fan, I’ll admit that I neglected to give their debut my full attention for awhile, simply because the period between 1972 up through Warrior on the Edge of Time is so monolithic. But I shouldn’t have waited so long, because although it’s very different in tone and style, it is an interesting …
