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Trying to get a clear picture of every project that Sebastian
Meissner is behind could be a difficult road and perhaps
the best way to approach his music would be to look at
each moniker or alias as a separate set of work. |
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Many of us will never forget the
first time we discovered the Mo’Wax label. Personally,
it came at a crucial time and provided a link between
the many genres of music I was listening to at that time... |
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This month we spoke with Ghostly
International founder, Sam Valenti IV in an effort to
get a stronger sense of why the label was created and
what they have instore... |
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Layo & Bushwacka aren't your
average Djs. They play five-hour sets with decks, sound
effects and samplers that emit convulsive collages of
breakbeats, intertwined with sterilizing basslines and
massive infectious synth rhythms... |
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The SoHo Grand is noisy, a mess with dissonance. I write
this because sound, and its manipulation, are key to understanding
Jazzanova's latest work In Between and its role
as a harbinger in the coming musical episodes of eletronica. |
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It’s been quite some time since anyone has heard
from the Black Dog and rather then try and explain the
chaotic history, shadowy figures, and influence over the
course of their career, perhaps it’s best if we just
let them do the talking. |
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Precocious DJ Vincenzo, has already
torn the roof off of the deep house scene in Hamburg.
And, with his newest compilation, Strip Joint Grooves
II, your living room is clearly next. Derrell Bradford
finds out why all the dopest music is coming out of Hamburg. |
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His current album Put Your
Phazers On Stun, Throw Your Health Food Skyward, is
a collection of all the styles Earl Zinger has mastered
over his long career and some dashing tales he lived along
his long and distinguished musical career. |
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Lee Norris is busy constructing
atmospheric and abstract music that marks clear pathways
to his synth-pop. Though his primary focus is the Metamatics
project, he's worked under names like Nacht Plank, Norken,
and Tone Language. He's had a prolific output for labels
like Hydrogen Dukebox, Skam, Clear, and District Six as
well as launching his own label Neo Ouija... |
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With 1 Giant Leap, Jamie Catto,
a founding member and art director for Faithless, and
Duncan Bridgeman, a producer and remixer have translated
their primary theme of "unity in diversity" into a DVD/CD/Cinema
project that brings together musicians, artists, filmmakers,
and writers from around the globe for a project that merges
the music, stories, and images from 20 different countries
into one common artistic expression... |
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Dan “The Automator” Nakamura is hip-hop’s Prodigal Son.
Part eclectic revolutionary, part laid-back visionary,
his latest project, Gorillaz, which also features Blur’s
Damon Albarn, Miho Hatori of Cibo Matto, Tina Weymouth
of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club fame, Del The Funkee
Homosapien, and the artwork of Jamie Hewlett (Tank
Girl) is smashing up the charts, even if band member
Murdoc doesn’t want it to. |
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Berlin's Uwe Zahn has been making some of the loveliest
electronic music under the Arovane moniker for the last
several years. In an ever-growing sea of Autechre and
Kid 606 IDM copyists, Arovane has remained noteworthy
with gentle, restrained atmospherics and an incredibly
keen sense of melody. |
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The Sofa Surfers first hooked up in 1996 in their native
Austria and brought together live instrumentation with
studio technology for their own heavy brand of downtempo,
dub and breaks held together by an underlining tension.
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Paul's resume of success comprises ten years of DJing,
producing, and remixing, along with the creation of his
own imprint, Vandit. He can be credited with some of the
most danceable tracks of the last 10 years and the sickest
DJing of the times. |
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Rjyan Kidwell, AKA Cex, has just
released his new album, Oops I Did It Again on Tigerbeat6.
It's a collection of sporadic programming, guitar lines,
glitched out atmospherics and a couple of funny ass skits
between the tracks. But despite his refreshing contribution
to the IDM/Laptop scene, the album is only half of what
Cex is all about... |
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From Grand Central's odd hip-hop
inspired chop shop comes Riton (aka 23 year-old Henry
Smithson) and his debut album of sweltering digital funk,
house, breaks and crazily diverse instrument choices that
range from the traditional to the digital cut-up editing
and Mr. Scruff style synth-lines. |
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From the influential French label
F Communications, comes Bienvenida, the
debut album from Alexis Mauri (AKA Alexkid). Mauri is
an incredibly talented and accomplished artist/DJ/programmer
whose work as a solo artist and collaborator offers a
multi-genre electronic style. |
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DJ Krush the day after a mesmerizing
performance at the release party for his sixth studio
album entitled Zen. Like a minimalist, he is able to express
so much with a small amount of sound, only the essential
gear and a close attention to detail. |
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Karsh Kale (pronounced Kursh Kah-lay)
is a long time tabla and electronic musician that along
with the rest of the Asian Massive scene, finds much of
the same rhythm components of traditional folk music in
today’s drum & bass and techno and fuses the two together
with incredible results. |
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With the use of a digital recorder
and mic, this classically trained musician recorded sounds
such as a mouse trying to get out of a wastebasket, the
contents of a handbag, the noises of laser eye surgery,
and used body sounds donated from listeners on his mailing
list. |
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It is safe to say that without
Graham, the progressive scene in Canada would not be as
huge as it is today. Graham recently spoke about the state
of the scene with Justin Hardison. |
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After releasing a memorable and
emotional debut album, creating a follow-up can prove
difficult for any artist. Andy Jenks recently told Justin
Hardison how Alpha surivived second album syndrome. |
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Justin Hardison recently sat down
with one of Germany's Down-tempo pioneers over dinner
while he was in New York promoting his sophisticated new
offering "Great Delay." He had a lot of interesting
things to say about working on his new album, the winter
music conference and shepherds with cell phones. |
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Dave Tarrida's legendary club
Scotland club, Sativa, gave artists such as Cristian Vogel,
Claude Young, and DJ Hell their first British debuts and
his Sativae label was responsible for incredible Techno
material from Tobias Schmidt, Cristian Vogel, Subhead
and others. |
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In the midst of running two record
labels , extensive globe-trotting, sculpting his beard,
various promotional duties, and his Kiss 100 radio slot,
Tim "Love" Lee is a busy guy. Justin Hardison
recently spoke with Lee while he was in the shower, hung
over, and attempting to get a taxi to the airport.
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