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Death Cab for Cutie will also release their new project on June 5th. Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
Amid the dreary wasteland of modern technology, Black nerdom might save us yet. Southside Chicago producer Angel Day was raised on bionic cartoons and anime like Cyborg 009 and Mega Man, and beamed into new worlds at the Galloping Ghost arcade; the gameplay jingles and sprinting anisong they heard would later feed into their passion for Black diasporic techno. Spinning and producing under the name Yesterdayneverhappened, their second album, search bar, is a 22-minute electronic suite of breakcore, footwork, and jungle that sounds as if composed on a cyberdeck. Thrashing and transcendent, each track on search bar scores personal memory…
“Biokinetics”: behind a title that seems to suggest biological references, a world of scientific references applied to music, lies one of the most intriguing albums of European electronic music of the nineties, and even before that one of the most singular creative collaborations of the time. Behind such an impactful choice we can appreciate a project that combines mother Jamaica with the United States and a finally unified Germany, marine flows with human mechanics, the rigor of rhythm with atmospheric escape. Above all, thirty years after its first publication, one can find one of the fundamental moments of all dub-techno,…
Ecca Vandal’s route to punk was riddled with detours into sounds, cultures, and identities the genre rarely represents. Raised under her Sri Lankan family’s strict cultural and religious expectations, she moved from South Africa to Australia at a young age, where she was immediately thrust into the very white cultural pressures of her new neighborhood. Though she trained as a jazz vocalist at the Victorian College of the Arts, the kids at school got her hooked on the sounds of ’80s and ’90s alternative icons: Radiohead, Fugazi, Pixies, and Björk. There, she had the revelation that, as she put it,…
In 1996, a 19-year-old Israeli music student witnessed the Indian classical music heavyweights Hariprasad Chaurasia and Zakir Hussain performing in Jerusalem. He didn’t understand a word, but his response was physical. He decided to travel to India to arrive closer to its source, fell in love with and married the daughter of a Sufi sheikh in Ajmer, and made the country his home for more than a decade. Shye Ben Tzur’s journey since has aligned with the tenets of Sufism. Often at odds with orthodoxy, this branch of Islam looks at the relationship between the divine and the self through…
The high-tech was once handmade. From the 1950s through the 1970s, computers stored data in ceramic rings called cores. These cores were strung with wire by a single worker and formed a neat grid of power and memory. Electricity being sent to one core would induct the adjacent wires, the activation of one bit empowering its neighbors. As a data storage solution, it was effective: each core could retain its data even if it lost power. As a craft object, it was elegant, a loom of information partway woven. This interdependent system of lines intersecting tiny nodes of history was…
One, in Istanbul with Travis Scott with a record audience. The other in Philadelphia Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
Two days ago, Boards of Canada released Inferno, their long-awaited LP and first album in 13 years. While most everybody had to wait until Friday to listen, horror movie fans got to hear one of its unreleased songs a little early: “The World Becomes Flesh” plays in Backrooms, the new A24 film directed by Kane Parsons, during its end credits. You can listen to the song and watch the movie trailer below.If all of these names mean nothing to you, then the quick summary is that the Scottish duo Boards of Canada have been making esoteric, ambient, and downtempo electronic…
Non stavo cercando di seguire una moda. Volevo solo creare il suono che avevo in testa (Tom Scholz) La musica dei Boston è fatta per farti sentire meglio, per farti evadere, anche solo per qualche minuto (Brad Delp) Il successo dei Boston dimostra che il rock melodico può essere allo stesso tempo potente, estremamente curato e commercialmente travolgente (Rolling Stone) L’inventore Toledo, Ohio. Nel sobborgo di Ottawa Hills cresce un ragazzino dai folti capelli scuri di nome Donald Thomas Scholz, nato il 10 marzo del 1947. Suo padre, Don Scholz, è un importante architetto della zona, diventato presto ricco…
Less than a month after Kid Cudi booted M.I.A. as an opener from his North American Rebel Ragers tour for making “offensive remarks” onstage, she is suing the Insano rapper for allegedly breaching the contract, according to court documents viewed by Pitchfork. She filed the complaint in the United States District Court of California Western Division on May 29. Pitchfork has reached out to representatives for M.I.A. and Kid Cudi for comment.In the civil lawsuit, M.I.A., born Mathangi Arulpragasam, accuses Cudi, whose full name is Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi, of knowing her beliefs and reputation as a politically outspoken artist…
