Archive for February, 2010

• Friday, February 26, 2010  12:49 am 

  Hearts of Glass

  Popul Vuh need the barest of introductions on these pages that have held so many electronic love letters to a certain period of Germanic Rock.  Their euphoric, transcendent soundtracks for the incomparable Werner Herzog have in many ways overshadowed their own independent musical output.  The melding of Herzogs desperate, often primal imagery to Popol Vuh’s [...]

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• Wednesday, February 24, 2010  12:05 am 

  Virtues of the Tweenage

  Long gone are the shocking days of the unauthorized remix. Z-Trip’s work is done as mashups have gone from underground to the driving force of mainstream radio (at least here in Los Angeles). Even the video game DJ Hero only makes sense in a post-mash up world. Cultures no longer clash, but rather swirl together [...]

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• Tuesday, February 23, 2010  12:05 am 

  Heavenly Zork

  Pional’s Another Room is minimal techno for a world with an alternative history where instead of adopting its proverbial reactionary stance, the Catholic Church had embraced all that’s cool and all-encompassing and nature loving about the old time relijuns, leading us down a totally different evolutionary path where hedonism became not the last refuge of [...]

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• Monday, February 22, 2010  12:05 am 

  The Virgin Homicides

  Agape’s Autocathe has been bidding its time, scratching with 8inch curved claws the walls of the corridor where the greasy detritus of last year piles up, growing, breathing through its shiny nostrils so that oxygen can be transformed into energy infecting blood  pumped from a vicious heart and through a fractal spiderweb of capillaries into [...]

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• Wednesday, February 17, 2010  12:05 am 

  Hide Wit Me

  Balam Acab, like Salem and oOoOO (who included a Balam Acab song in their XXJFG mix below), traverse the same shadowy territories that seem at once sensual and unnerving. While Salem continue to burrow further and further into their crunk cave, saturating themselves in the sounds of an increasingly nightmarish parallel universe Hot 97, and [...]

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