Hello, Following on from my last post – Kompakt Total 16 CD1 – here are some notes on the artistes that make up CD2 of this fantastic collection! 01. Alex Under – Lolog Genre : Deep House He’s a Spanish fellow, working out of Madrid – apparently the most sought Read more…
Hello again, I’ve just been looking about the place for new dance/edm/my-sort-of-thing and came up with this rather juicy playlist from the Guardian “Harangue the DJ” articles, and here is my selector/selection. You’ll see what I like, and go look at the Guardian’s page, what I don’t! Gecko | Just Read more…
Not been here much, been hard at work not blogging or making music much. Dang. But I have been listening to the amazing Axel Willner, Swedish electronic music producer aka The Field – proper rhythmic ground-breaking stuff – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Field – will probably buy all his albums, having listened to his first two official Read more…
Hello again – I’ve looked at some of the influences on my taste for this exciting genre of ‘music’ – and I was surprised! I mostly heard this stuff first on the Venerable John Peel Programmes on the good ol’ BBC many years ago – he was the greatest influence Read more…
MP3 .vs. CD in the car One of wonders of the modern music scene is the sudden decrease in quality of the listening experience … from tinny ear-buds to mobile phone speakers – yuck! Dance, electronic(a), well any, music needs to be felt, doesn’t it? Not just heard, or as Read more…
Watch the maestro talk about his history using synthesisers, with some old favourites in his studio, plus how he’s using NI plugins, and how fab they are – its on the NI website 🙂 https://www.native-instruments.com/en/specials/the-journey-of-jean-michel-jarre He has a new album called “Electronica” – that’s ambitious. Miserable looking chap these days Read more…