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Rhyece O’Neill is an intense young man. A polemical folk singer, a producer of bass-heavy dance music, a protester, and a digital media worker for a major record label. He’s unlike anyone else in Australia’s dubstep landscape."
Cyclic Defrost interviews O'Neill, aka
electronic/dub/dubstep producer Westernsynthetics, and head of the
Sub Continental Dub label. You can skip the rest and hear
two streaming mixes from Westernsynthetics,
19 tracks from the Sub Continental Dub label, plus
the label's first three singles, or continue inside for background, context, and even more music.
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posted by filthy light thief
on Feb 27, 2012 -
9 comments
Fluid Radio stream experimental frequencies into the ether.
Channel 2 is especially worth a listen, flowing forth a fairly constant warm wash of haunting melancholy and mellow fruitiness in post folk and post rock form.
The reviews on the site appear to be written by an offspring of Monty Cantsin and Rrose Sélavy: I don't know what they're saying, but the reading of them brings zen-like quietude.
posted by titus-g
on Jul 24, 2011 -
13 comments
The Jónsi and Alex (Recipe) Show: join
Jónsi Birgisson (frontman of
Sigur Rós),
Alex Somers and their very loud blender to make
raw food recipes. They made three videos from their
Good Heart recipe book, for
Macadamia Monster Mash,
Raw Strawberry Pie, and
Nammi Nammi. If coconut, almonds, dates and agave (heavily featured in their three recipes) aren't your thing, enjoy a couple dreamy videos from the couple's album
Riceboy Sleeps:
All the Big Trees and
Daníell in the Sea. See also:
Sometimes I Get Scared (a distortion-heavy non-album track), and
Jónsi and Alex talk about their album, with parts of the tracks in the background.
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posted by filthy light thief
on Apr 12, 2010 -
7 comments
Connecticut's
Have a Nice Life is responsible for one of the year's most
acclaimed, highly conceptual albums this year, Deathconsciousness.
The two discs (entitled The Plow That Broke The Plains and The Future, respectively) feature music spanning over five years of collaboration between the two artists, and are accompanied by a 75-page booklet on medieval Italian heretics in lieu of liner notes. Combining elements of
shoegaze,
new wave,
ambient drone,
post-rock,
experimental industrial,
avant-garde dark metal, and
electronic music, and citing references such as
My Bloody Valentine and
Joy Division to their credit, the original and only pressings sold out
within hours. Full stream of all 85 minutes available
here. Direct mp3 samples
here and
here.
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posted by Christ, what an asshole
on Jun 28, 2008 -
34 comments
Godspeed You! Black Emperor officially calls it quits, citing the Iraq war as a primary catalyst.
"The last American tour that Godspeed did was in the run up to the current war in Iraq. For what Godspeed did, it was very difficult for us to work out a way for us to communicate directly with the audience about what was going on." Umm...yeah. So who's to fill their giant
post-rock shoes? Well, most of the members have moved on to other projects, most notably
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band (among
others). That's not to mention the slew of next generation bands that have culled GY!BE as a primary influence to get your fix:
Sparrows Swarm and Sing,
Sweek,
The Seven Mile Journey, or
johnnytwentythree, just to name a few.
posted by Christ, what an asshole
on Feb 12, 2008 -
77 comments
Postrock. A relatively new
genre which continues to evolve in scope and definition, postrock is a treat to the ears. With bands like
Godspeed You! Black Emperor,
Explosions in the Sky,
Sigur Rós,
Do Make Say Think, and
Mogwai at the helm, it has slowly grown in recognition through
movie soundtracks. Yes, there's quite a
plethora of postrock bands, but is anything necessarily revolutionary, or just a rehash of past ideas brought into contemporary context?
posted by Mach3avelli
on Mar 7, 2005 -
116 comments
