Tuesday, November 18, 2008
she - Chiptek (2008) [EP] [FREE MUSIC]
Bitpop / Electronica / Retro
Fans of the Gameboy-fueled sounds of she’s debut Pioneer will eat up the similarly constructed Chiptek, “layered with filters and mixed with sounds from sega, nintendo and msx and the familiar sweeping sounds of she.”
she - Coloris (2008) [FREE MUSIC]
Electronica / Dance / Funk
Swedish electronic artist and bitpop revivalist Pjat Lain emerges from a slew of slower output and plants a foot into the modern dance club scene with the funkified Coloris.
Monday, November 10, 2008
God Is An Astronaut - God Is An Astronaut (2008)
Electronic Rock / Instrumental
Of interest to craftsmen and headbangers alike, God Is An Astronaut’s all instrumental music is electronic rock of the utterly enjoyable sort.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Enter Shikari - “We Can Breathe In Space, They Just Don’t Want Us To Escape” [SINGLE]
Metal / Hardcore / Trance Electronica
Fun one-off single from British “Nintendocore” rockers Enter Shikari is pure, off-your-ADHD-medication energetic fun, with lyrics scraping at the place of humanity in the cosmos. End result: you, dancing in your chair like Gary Brolsma.
Friday, October 10, 2008
What Bird - Good Night, Good Riddance (2008)
Folk Rock / Electronic / Indie
Graveyard shift commuter-poets with a soft spot for acoustic/electronic pop will find their car stereos have found a new best friend in Good Night, Good Riddance.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Genghis Tron - Board Up The House (2008)
Grindcore / Metal / Electronica
Those who do not abide the eardrum-rupturing squall of grindcore under normal conditions shall fall on worshipping knees before the aptly-named Genghis Tron as they molest guitar and sampler alike.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Bob Mould - District Line (2008)
Pop / Alternative Rock / Electronica
The former Hüsker Dü guitarist’s solo career has been marked by blatant pendulum swings between two polar opposites—indie rock and heavily-vocoded dance electronica. Lately Mould has struck a cozy balance between the two.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
she - Pioneer (2006) [FREE MUSIC]
Hard Reset
Nebula
Yeah2 Beats
Pioneer
Dusk
Session
Streets
Twilight
There’s something about modern electronica… or rather, there’s just nothing to it. It’s always that same damn tired 808 pounding like a robot’s heartbeat as it bores its way inside the ear canal. Emphasis on bore. If you aren’t strung out on heavy drugs, it’s unlistenable.
As it is with video gaming, “modern” music [...]
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
The American Dollar - A Memory Stream (2008)
Explosions At the Postal Service
- The Slow Wait Pt. 1
- The Slow Wait Pt. 2
- Call
- Bump
- Intermission
- Lights Dim
- Transcendence
- Our Hearts Are Read
- Anything You Synthesize
- We’re Hitting Everything
- Starscapes
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth (2006)
The warlord’s ghost in the machine
The Folding Road
Chapels
From The Aisle
Dead Mountain Mouth
White Walls
Badlands
Greek Beds
Asleep On The Forest Floor
Warm Woods
Lake Of Virgins
This is basically the sound of tuning an FM radio from inside a 1980s mainframe. A soundtrack to uploading Genghis Khan’s consciousness to digital memory. [...]
