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There was a time, just a couple of years ago, when most of the music that was released came from
conventional record labels on CDs. But that’s completely changed […]
Brian Eno has recorded and collaborated on dozens of albums over the years. They aren’t all touched by unbridled genius, but no doubt, Eno has made some nearly perfect albums, all of which remain influential. While he’s continued to write potent songs and engaging atmospheres recently, notably “And So Clear” […]
Stars of the Lid have raised the ambient chamber music ante with an exquisite live show. Stars of the Lid are yet another band originally from Texas exploring a slowed down chamber music edged with electronics. In this case, the guitar/keyboard duo of Brian McBride and Adam Wiltzie augments their ambient drone music […]
Brian Eno has spent the last year or so producing the new Coldplay album, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends.
As a teaser, the band has released a free download of a single from the disc, “Violet Hill.” It’s available for a limited time off the Coldplay website. The full album is set […]
One of the original pioneers of the electronic frontier has passed. Bebe Barron’s work goes back to the Conestoga days of electronic music when everything was DIY. She and her then husband and partner, Louis Barron, worked with John Cage on one of his earliest tapes pieces, “Williams Mix.” Their best know work […]
An electro-pop classic from Air inches towards the timeless on the 10th anniversary of Moon Safari.
You can hear a three and half minute audio version of this with music.
When you’re making retro music for the future, time becomes nebulous. So we shouldn’t be surprised that it’s been 10 years since the French duo […]
You couldn’t get two drummers more different than Stu Nevitt, the drummer with Shadowfax and Klaus Dinger, who percussed for Kraftwerk and Neu
A cult icon who influenced Pulbic Image Limited, Brian Eno and The Orb enters his 8th decade.
Before samplers and computers; before rap and electronica; before ambient and new exotica, Holger Czukay was doing it all. A student of Karlheinz Stockhausen and a founding member of Can, the German avant-progressive rock group, the sound […]
Like a lot of the more philosophical science fiction writers, the themes expressed by Arthur C. Clarke in novels like Childhoods End, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Rendezvous with Rama have found their way into music.
Coyote Oldman returns and Gerry O’Beirne creates a career defining album with new CDS.