This music is atmospheric even on thier more abstract tracks. I find them engrossing but not intrusive. Recently when writing, cleaning, driving I have opted to music without words most of the time. Head too crowded right now I guess for more words. That’s not all I listen to, just a trend that has been happen lately. A funny story about Neubauten is a woman I know went to a concert and screamed “I love you!” And one of the members of the band yelled at her to shut up because “we are making art here!” I love the texture of their music and some of its relaxing and other songs more aggressive but it’s always interesting.
Feb 9, 2024
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This is a great intro to modern/neo-classical with an electronic twist. Try to find live recordings of his songs "Says" and "Said and Done" - the first one is basically a study in build-build-build-build and the second unfolds around the repetition of one single note. They both give me goosebumps every single time.
Recommend headphones (or big speakers) and giving it your full attention.
Feb 3, 2025
Kaffe Matthews / Andrea Neumann / Sachiko M – In Case Of Fire Take The Stairs (2002) - essential eai
as I am wont to do in the spring - a time of great change, tension, and atmosphere - and to accompany my ever-evolving practice of laptop noise and found-object/code-breaking music-making, discovering high quality EAI records from time past has become something of a ritual. This key record - by three women powerhouses, and released by IMJ in 2002 - features a frighteningly alien, totally synthetic, and blistering take on quiet sound-object dismantling. The notable piece is the bisected opening "I.", where the former part's twenty-minute excursion into extremes of volume and extreme space, littered with unknowable sine blirps and kaffe's sample-tronics giving way to the latter's vicious post-post-jazz, with a particular extreme stretch of Sachiko's sine wave generator finding a truly head-splitting tone while andrea and kaffe building the scaffolding
May 5, 2025
Apple Music tells me that this was one of my most-listened to albums of 2023, and it's still in regular rotation. Ten perfectly crafted electronic tone poems, or maybe short stories told in beeps and boops, by turns menacing, nostalgic, and sweet. Especially recommended to listen to on headphones after nibbling half an edible before drifting off to sleep. (See also NWBC co-collaborators' solo projects: DJ Python's hypnotic percussive tapestry Mas Amable, and Ana Roxanne's trippy ambient daydream Because of a Flower.)
Apr 7, 2024
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This book was really scary but not in a cheap way. It’s kind of a thriller and a mystery book, I don’t want to say too much, just read it now if you are looking for something intense.
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This show and comic aren’t talked about enough. Weird, sad, scary and sweet all at once. Sam Keith has a phenomenal art style. definitely push past the beginning it gets so good.
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