In a personal sense, 2012 was the best year of my life so far. So many great things happened to me that I actually struggle to remember them all. In April, thanks to my wife and family, I was lucky enough to visit Japan, where my scientist friend lives and works. I was there...
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I’ve been listening to chiptune maestro Disasterpeace’s soundtrack for the XBox Live game FEZ. It’s certainly one of my favorite ambient releases this year; its straightforward bleeps and bloops and skittering machine beats marry the romantic electronic visions of, say, Steve Hauschildt with the unobtrusive yet memorable melodies of some of my all-time favorite...
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Yeah, okay, so Crawford Philleo writes for Foxy Digitalis. What of it? If you can’t help a buddy out, what can you do? And even if he wasn’t curating Denver, CO’s most awesome experimental music festival we’d be writing about it anyway. (If we could afford to get there). (Or Brad coughed up the...
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VCO Recordings actually got its start almost a decade ago as a vehicle for Zombi’s Steve Moore and Anthony Paterra to release a CD of theirs before heading out on tour back in 2003. And then it faded into the ether for another eight years or so, resurrecting itself in 2011 to put out...
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Here’s one of Panabrite’s (Norm Chambers) firsts, getting a proper reissue on Aguirre.
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2011 was overflowing with amazing sounds. Here’s a snapshot of some things that entered into and stood out in my own little musical universe. Best Album Lee Noble “Horrorism” (Bathetic) I’ve been quite fond of everything I’ve heard from Lee Noble over the past few years. His previous releases tended to compartmentalize specific aspects...
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