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Max Tundra | Parallax Error Beheads You

Domino (2008)
It begins with a MIDI organ and Tundra singing like Little Orphan Annie: “I landed in somebody’s lap, between the iPod and yellow trucker cap.”
By DEVIN KING | November 11, 2008

Luomo | Convivial

Huume (2008)
Known also for his more ambient work as Vladislav Delay, Luomo is the house-music moniker of Finnish producer Sasu Ripatti.
By DEVIN KING | November 11, 2008

Death rattles

Headhunter and Kid Blue so dope it’s scary

By SUSANNA BOLLE | October 29, 2008

School of Seven Bells | Alpinisms

Ghostly International (2008)
School of Seven Bells piece together two points of reference: the electronic music made popular by the Postal Service, Volvo ads, etc.; and the tightly controlled feedback of shoegaze.
By DEVIN KING | October 27, 2008

Tricky | Knowle West Boy

Domino (2008)
Who is not glad to have Tricky around?
By RICHARD BECK | October 08, 2008

Double duty DJ

That landmark new work the Portland Symphony's playing? The composer's DJ-ing at SPACE.
Electronica DJ Masonic, who will be performing October 5 at SPACE Gallery, has an alter ego. He is also classical music composer Mason Bates.
By EMILY PARKHURST | September 24, 2008

Nervous energy

The unlikely rise of Does It Offend You, Yeah?
“If I actually stopped to think about what’s going on, I’d probably shit myself,” says James Rushent, singer/bassist for UK electro-rock quartet Does It Offend You, Yeah?
By MICHAEL ALAN GOLDBERG | August 26, 2008

Chance and dance

Tim Feeney + Eats Tapes
For the past three years, one of the prime centers for experimental, improvised, and new music and jazz in Boston has been the Open Sound series in Somerville.
By SUSANNA BOLLE | August 14, 2008

Accidents happen

Pole revisits a golden error
It all began by accident, when Stefan Betke’s Waldorf 4-Pole filter fell to the floor and began to malfunction, its broken circuitry producing strange, intricate patterns of snaps, crackles, pops, and hisses.
By SUSANNA BOLLE | July 22, 2008

Playing the body electric

James Coleman brings his Theremin to the Piano Factory
Chances are, even if you’ve never seen one played, you know what a theremin sounds like.
By SUSANNA BOLLE | July 02, 2008

Text messages

CTS Dance Company’s reverent movements
Cross-pollination in the arts shows up in many media, but it is perhaps most evident in dance.
By JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ | June 04, 2008

Gas

Nah Und Fern | Kompakt
Kompakt label head Wolfgang Voigt re-releases the four discs of his Gas project — long hailed as some of the best albums in ambient techno — along with a double LP of extended material.
By DEVIN KING | June 03, 2008

Minimalicious

The Field and friends
Sweden's Axel Willner, better known as The Field, is one of minimal techno’s rising stars.
By SUSANNA BOLLE | June 02, 2008

Ellen Allien

Sool | bpitchcontrol
When Ellen Allien ponders listlessly on Sool’s Web site, “What does minimal mean for me? Minimal is just there,” the red flags go a-flying.
By DANIEL DeNORCH | May 27, 2008

In with a bang

An interview with incoming Portland Symphony director Robert Moody
It’s only in classical music that we shy away from the new. In theater and popular music something more than seven years old is too old.
By EMILY PARKHURST | April 30, 2008

Benga

Diary of an Afro Warrior | Tempa
Although producer Beni Adejumo (a/k/a Benga) may be a mere 21, he’s already a grizzled vet of the UK dubstep and grime scenes.
By SUSANNA BOLLE | April 22, 2008

Coachella it ain’t

The INC cometh and Cage's Variations VII
The International Noise Conference started as an acid-tongued spit take on the club-oriented Miami Winter Music Conference.
By SUSANNA BOLLE | April 15, 2008

Versioning

Autechre loosen up
It’s been three years since Autechre’s Untilted , and it feels longer.
By SUSANNA BOLLE | April 08, 2008

Real to reel

The exquisite artifice and lasting weirdoid-ness of Roxy Music
Even now, after Greil Marcus’s Lipstick Traces and Simon Reynolds’s Rip It Up and Start Again , the rock-star-as-vector-of-ideas is still something of a challenge for us.
By JAMES PARKER | April 01, 2008

Fripp + Eno

Beyond Even (1992-2006) | Opal
This collection of odds and sods isn’t exactly your father’s ambient music, though guitarist Robert Fripp and keyboardist/sonic sculptor Brian Eno are certainly the genre’s papas.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | March 25, 2008

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