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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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Autobahn is a trio that’s been playing publicly for three years, and their first release Filler Migration is a triple-single. What does 333 signify again? If that’s too mystical for you, just listen to the songs. They’re far less sunny than the Kraftwerk record the band shares a name with. It’s textbook no wave totalism; they’ve referred to their sound as “bubblegum Glenn Branca.” Opener “7 Window Still” pulses and sways, with disaffected delivery distracting from a constant high-pitched hum. This almost imperceptively shifts into “C-Side,” where cello is deployed in only a way a band that owns a singing saw could pull off. “Alter Song” has a sweetness that defies its primitive drums and feedback. I would be remiss not to mention the record’s title, which refers to a twisted side effect of attempting to achieve physical perfection via augmented reality. All of those art school papers paid off.
- Madeline Frino
Jul 15, 2025
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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.
Recommend headphones (or big speakers) and giving it your full attention.
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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
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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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