These are all reviews and articles tagged with "music".
Category: Downbeat
Crackling Vinyl and Some Breaks | Do you like Vinyl? Do you enjoy those smokin’ breakbeats? Do you like some scratches and cuts? What about “All’s Fair in Love of Wax”? Jonah Dempcy enjoys all these things to and produces electronic music with live improvisation, resulting in a style of music described sometimes as nu-jazz, [...]
Subbass and Breakbeats | In “I love you” an 808-like bassdrum kicks relaxed in slow-motion. Some drive give the shuffled Dubstep-inspired beats around it.
Category: Experimental | Rock
RU-ral Psychedelic Rock | If you are a keen follower of Phlow Magazine, you know that I regularly write about Russian and East European musicians. Up next we have got V.O.M., rather an idea than a band, acting simultaneously from (at least) three different cities, all in the name of hypnotic Krautrock. V.O.M. IV – [...]
Category: Experimental | Pop
Leftfield Pop that has seen it all | This record has been sleeping on my HD for quite a while- well, sleeping is not the accurate description. It has been running on heavy rotation actually. But I never made it for a proper review. But now! Lovers of leftfield Pop, ca. Beta Band and Books, [...]
Category: Pop
German High Gloss Pop | One might argue how much sense it makes to talk about a record that features German vocals and explicitly relies on reviewing the entanglements of music and lyrics in a magazine that is written for a mainly English-speaking readership. I am aware of this problem. Still, Cologne Pop outfit Clipper [...]
Category: Compilation | Techno
Eclectic Techno Compilation | 200 Megabytes of brilliant music from various artists found its way to the 40th release of the German netlabel “Zimmer Records”. To get an idea of the decent quality, just imagine, that only the first two tracks almost fill up half an hour of distant electronic meditating sound. Other tracks are [...]
