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Estradasphere

Dubway (all vocal)

Estradasphere is a band of multi-instrumentalists from an unlikely variety of musical backgrounds. Timb Harris (violin/trumpet), Jason Schimmel (guitar/banjo/keyboards/vocals), Tim Smolens (upright and electric bass/vocals), Kevin Kmetz (Tsugaru Shamisen/guitar/keyboards), Adam Stacey accordion/keyboards/clavinet), and Lee Smith (drums/percussion) were trained in disciplines ranging from classical and jazz to metal. This diverse instrumental and [...]

2 February 2010 at 03:39 - Comments

Chaos Royale

Chaos Royale sounds like “a truck carrying a dancehall soundsystem crashing into a death metal gig, in a nitroglycerine factory”. Luke Chaos, UK born and Tokyo based music producer, remixer and vocalist, combine Hardcore Hip-Hop, Dubstep, Death metal, Avant-Garde classical, Reggae, Noise and all kinds of heavy sounds into a new style of music. Anna SuperNova: Like [...]

31 January 2010 at 15:44 - Comments

Klaus Nomi – Wasting my time

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9 January 2010 at 18:12 - Comments

The Real Tuesday Weld – One of THOSE bands that gets stuck on repeat

Sometimes you feel like you know this music from somewhere and you listen to it on and on, trying to figure out where you know it from until it becomes so familiar like it’s been with you from the beginning. The real tuesday weld is one of those bands that, if you were in highschool again, [...]

8 May 2009 at 05:10 - Comments

Vladimir Ussachevsky

I love how it sound the Prelude to Wagner’s ‘Parcifal’ on Vladimir Ussachevsky’s electroacoustique composition: Wireless Fantasy (1960)

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11 February 2009 at 18:07 - Comments

Michel Colombier

L’Alpagueur

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10 February 2009 at 19:56 - Comments

White Space

White Space was created as a variation on the theme of Creation. The work uses the Creation story of Adam as a guide (“formed man from the dust of the ground”). A human head appears as animated ‘dust’ as it emerges from and descends into a chalky white pool. While the non-narrative short film can [...]

8 August 2008 at 13:08 - Comments

Philip Glass

Philip Glass (born 1937) is a four-time Academy Award-nominated American classical music composer. He is considered one of the most influential composers of the late-20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public. Aphex Twin — Icct Hedral (Philip Glass Orchestration)

Icct Hedral is the Aphex Twin / Philip [...]

8 August 2008 at 10:42 - Comments

George Antheil/ Fernand Léger – Ballet Mécanique

Ballet Mécanique (1924) was a project by the American composer George Antheil and the filmmaker/artist Fernand Léger. Although the film was intended to use Antheil’s score as a soundtrack, the two parts were not brought together until the 1990s. In this film apear Kiki of Montparnasse as the woman with the weird lipstick smile. Kiki [...]

6 August 2008 at 10:08 - Comments

Pierre Schaeffer

Etudes Schaefferiennes

Pierre Schaeffer (1910–1995) was a French composer, noted as the inventor of musique concrète. He is generally acknowledged as being the first composer to make music using magnetic tape. Accordind to Wikipedia, musique concrète (concrete music), is a style of avant-garde music that relies on recorded sounds, including natural environmental sounds and other non-inherently-musical [...]

5 August 2008 at 13:56 - Comments