December 13, 2010Considering the epic ascension of film maker, Spike Jonze’s career over the last 25 years, it’s somewhat surprising that he managed to sneak out his latest short film practically unnoticed. The film titled I’m Here was released quietly through iTunes and is still available online for free through Absolute’s home page. And although corporate sponsorship can be sucky, I think…
November 29, 2010I’ve been rinsing the above Derrick May repress over the last 24 hours – Relics: A Transmat Compilation. The A-side, ‘MS-6’ was originally done under May’s Rhythim is Rhythim alias, circa 1987, and if possible stands out even more today than it did back then. It’s only been the last 12 months that I’ve become a massive ‘Shake’ Shakir fan…
November 16, 2010It may be 3 hours long but this is undoubtedly one of the top documentaries I’ve seen in a while. Although titled for and aiming at a review of the career of Kraftwerk, I was pleasantly surprised to find it more about a German generation hell-bent on creating their own sound. From this angle, Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution is…
November 9, 2010Damn! It’s been over four years since I’ve last seen Capelle and now he’s heading to the states. Back when he was Sydney’s music / technical / radio guru of the underground, I first met Nic Capelle, and within minutes we’d found common ground on music and he was offering to lend me his MPC and his valuable time to…
October 23, 2010These have no doubt been rinsed on blogs this week – so ever so slightly jumping on the bandwagon here – but two new clips have been dropped courtesy of LA’s poster-boy Flying Lotus and London based Mosca of the Night Slugs label / crew. Starting with Mosca, I don’t know why exactly but he’s one of the last artists…
September 13, 2010Like most, I struggle to define Matthew Herbert, as he constantly reinvents himself and his music, seemingly enjoying what he’s doing the whole time. His creative output ranging from minimal house through musique concrete to polemical, protest pop and is probably the only underground artist to have had his music presented at such venues as the Royal Court Theatre, on…
August 28, 2010Just left the iPad store. Music Radar did a brilliant article when the Korg application was announced on the top ten music production tools that were set to come with it. At the same time a new Tenori-on had gone on sale for cheaper price, but it was still saving money to buy an iPad then upload the Tenori-on similar…