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Heath Bunting – How to Build a New Legal Identity
Ο Βρετανός καλλιτέχνης Heath Bunting έρχεται προσκεκλημένος μας στην Αθήνα για την παρουσίαση του εργαστηρίου How to Build a New Legal Identity. Το εργαστήριο πραγματεύεται το θέμα της κοινωνικής κατασκευής της ταυτότητας και πώς αυτή διαμορφώνεται στη σύγχρονη δικτυωμένη πραγματικότητα. Λόγω των οικονομικών και κοινωνικών ανατροπών στο διεθνές προσκήνιο, η ταυτότητα υπόκειται σε συνεχείς αλλαγές. … Read More…
Ο Γιάννης Πετρίδης τη Δευτέρα 2 Απριλίου στις 22:00 στο intersonik.net
Ο Γιάννης Πετρίδης τη Δευτέρα 2 Απριλίου στις 22:00 συζητάει με τον Σπύρο Ζουπάνο στο www.intersonik.net. Περιμένουμε να ακούσουμε την άποψή του για το διαδικτυακό ραδιόφωνο, τη σημασία των νέων μέσων στη μουσική, τα σημερινά του ακούσματα, τις μελλοντικές μουσικές τάσεις όπως τις βλέπει να προδιαγράφονται και όσα άλλα αυθορμήτως ανακύπτουν σε ένα απολαυστικό όσο και … Read More…
Liquid Vega – LV (Free E.P.)
Vincent and Genevieve of Nu Disco duo Liquid Vega present their EP LV for free 1.Strange Magic 2.My Love 3.Heartbreak Dancer 4.Colours E.p. available for free downloading Here
Radio Free Europe – Μανώλης Κιλισμανής
Είμαι ιδιαίτερα χαρούμενος που ο νέος κύκλος της στήλης μας Radio Free Europe ξεκινάει με κουβεντούλα με τον Μανώλη Κιλισμανή. Κι αυτό γιατί γυρνώντας πίσω, πάνω από είκοσι χρόνια, κάποια στιγμή στο τέλος της δεκαετίας του ’80, θυμάμαι τον εαυτό μου να ακούει τα μεσημέρια, όταν βέβαια ήμουν απόγευμα στο σχολείο, την Γλυκιά Συμμορία 12-1 … Read More…
Download : GuruFX – Exile on Mainstreet 52 [1bit 002]
GuruFX’ introduction to 1bit wonder starts with a jazzy downbeat-trip going over to 4/4-beats between grooving house and atmospheric deep techno. The second half features another downbeat excursion and closes with a cooperation with Dan Drastic that will make your feet tap the rhythm. Here
Download : Feuerbach – Ask Us No Questions And We’ll Tell You No Lies [SiS-06]
Feuerbach come both from Genk, Belgium. This is their first release after a song on a Rarefish compilation Tree we fell in love with. But sadly after this beginning the band went on hiatus. That made us so sad that we started to ask them constantly for more songs. During last spring, they finally accepted … Read More…
Download : ST – I’ll Meet You There EP [mtk140]
Following the first Monotonik release from artist Stefan Ternemar, aka ST, in 2003, we waited around a little, and suddenly, another EP popped up. Interestingly, although the first ‘Emotions In A Box’ release was very much epic electronic, almost Chris Huelsbeck-ian synthwork, everyone evolves, and thanks to guest spots from a fellow Swedish Monotonik artist … Read More…
Download : N.U.T.E. – Tender Vibes E.P.
N.U.T.E. formed in 1991 by Nikos and Kostas Istavrioglou. They have numerous releases since 1992 in physical formats, and they’ve played so far over eighty shows. During the last years N.U.T.E. have supported acts such as Prodigy, Altern8, NRG, Shamen and Adamski. Etched Traumas is proud to release ‘Tender Vibes’. Dig the killer electro breakbeat … Read More…
Dirty Beaches
Alex Zhang Hungtai, known by his stage name Dirty Beaches, is a Taiwanese-born Canadian lo-fi musician based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Dirty Beaches released a number of EPs and instrumental-focused albums on cassette-only labels, before releasing the full-length Badlands in March 2011.Badlands was subsequently named as a longlisted nominee for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize.Dirty … Read More…
Anika
Anika is a British and German singer-songwriter and political journalist. Before she began her singing career, Anika was a political journalist who spent her time between Berlin and Bristol, England. She met producer Geoff Barrow (of Portishead), who was looking for a female vocalist to work with his band Beak. Anika joined the band in … Read More…
Gonjasufi
Gonjasufi (born Sumach Ecks, aka Sumach Valentine, ca. 1978)is a rapper, singer, disc jockey and yoga teacher from San Diego, California and currently living in Las Vegas, Nevada.Ecks was born to a Mexican mother and an American-Ethiopian father.He has been releasing music since the early 1990s among the San Diego Hip Hop scene, notably with … Read More…
Com Truise
De-thawing in the Jersey sunshine, I compute mid-fi synth-wave, slower-motion funk. Com Truise is one of the many personas of producer and designer Seth Haley, born and raised in upstate New York and operating out of a 12’-overrun apartment in Princeton, New Jersey. An admitted synth obsessive, Com Truise is the maker of an experimental … Read More…
Washed Out
Within and Without is the debut album by 28 year-old Atlanta-based songwriter and producer Ernest Greene, AKA Washed Out. Long adored and critically lauded in the blog world, Greene first came to prominence in the summer of 2009 after unassumingly posting a handful of bedroom-recorded tracks to his Myspace page from his family home in … Read More…
Neon Indian
Neon Indian is an indie electronic band from Denton, Texas.The music is composed by Mexican-born Alan Palomo (born July 24, 1988), also known for his work with the band Ghosthustler and as the artist VEGA. The band’s debut, Psychic Chasms, has received many favorable reviews, including the designation of Best New Music and 14th best … Read More…
Crystal Stilts
Crystal Stilts is an American post punk band from Brooklyn, New York City. Crystal Stilts was formed in 2003 by Brad Hargett and JB Townsend.After releasing one single and an EP, the pair expanded to five members before signing to Slumberland Records in the US and Angular Recording Corporation in Europe and releasing their debut, … Read More…
Burial
Burial is the stage name of William Bevan,an electronic recording artist from London. His music contains elements of dubstep, 2-step garage, ambient and house music. His eponymous debut album was released in 2006 to critical acclaim.The Wire magazine named it their album of the year,along with achieving fifth place in the Mixmag 2006 Album of … Read More…
Dan Deacon
Dan Deacon (born August 28, 1981) is an American composer and electronic musician based out of Baltimore, Maryland. Since 2003, Deacon has released eight albums under several different labels. Deacon also has a renowned reputation for his live shows, where large scale audience participation and interaction is often a major element of the performance. On … Read More…
Animal Collective
Animal Collective is an experimental psychedelic band originally from Baltimore, Maryland, currently based in New York City. Animal Collective consists of Avey Tare (David Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox), Deakin (Josh Dibb), and Geologist (Brian Weitz). Records released under the name Animal Collective may include contributions from any or all of these members; the lineup … Read More…
Aphex Twin
Richard David James (born 18 August 1971), best known under the pseudonym Aphex Twin, is an Irish-born British electronic musician and composer. He founded the record label Rephlex Records in 1991 with Grant Wilson-Claridge. He was described by The Guardian as “the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music”. Aphex Twin has also … Read More…
Pixies
The Pixies are an American alternative rock band formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1986. The group consists of Black Francis (vocals, rhythm guitar), Joey Santiago (lead guitar), Kim Deal (bass, vocals), and David Lovering (drums). While the Pixies found only modest commercial success in their home country, they were significantly more successful in the United … Read More…
The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips are an American alternative rock band, formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1983. Melodically, their sound contains lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements, but lyrically their compositions show elements of space rock, including unusual song and album titles such as “What Is the Light? (An Untested Hypothesis Suggesting That the Chemical [In Our … Read More…
Juan Atkins
Born: 12 September 1962. A major electronic music pioneer from Detroit, Juan appeared behind aliases such as Cybotron, Model 500, and Infiniti releasing many classics of Detroit techno. The 1982 electro track “Clear“, recorded by Atkins and Rick Davis as Cybotron, is often considered the first proto-techno track. Continuing to the experimentation by fusing the … Read More…
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth were an American experimental, punk rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. Their final lineup consisted of Thurston Moore (guitar and vocals), Kim Gordon (bass, vocals, and guitar), Lee Ranaldo (guitar and vocals), Steve Shelley (drums), and Mark Ibold (guitar and bass). In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with … Read More…
Klaus Nomi
Klaus Sperber (January 24, 1944 – August 6, 1983), better known as Klaus Nomi, was a German countertenor noted for his wide vocal range and an unusual, otherworldly stage persona. Nomi was known for his bizarrely visionary theatrical live performances, heavy make-up, unusual costumes, and a highly stylized signature hairdo which flaunted a receding hairline. … Read More…
Fad Gadget
Real Name: Francis John (Frank) Tovey Fad Gadget was the first signing on Mute Records with the release of his debut single, the ground breaking ‘Back To Nature’ in October 1979. His liveshows in the early 80´s were quite wild and unique, often ending with the man injuring himself… Following the album Gag in 1984, … Read More…
Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys are an American hip hop trio from Brooklyn, New York City. The group consists of Mike D (Michael Diamond) (vocals, drums), MCA (Adam Yauch) (vocals, bass), and Ad-Rock (Adam Horovitz) (vocals, guitar). The Beastie Boys began as hardcore punk band in 1979, first appearing on the compilation cassette New York Thrash before releasing … Read More…
Peter John Murphy
Peter John Murphy (born 11 July 1957) is an English rock vocalist. He was the vocalist of the rock group Bauhaus, and later went on to release a number of solo albums, such as Deep and Love Hysteria. Thin, with prominent cheekbones, a baritone voice, and a penchant for gloomy poetics, Murphy is often called … Read More…
Gary Numan
Real Name: Gary Anthony James Webb Born 8th of March 1958 in Hammersmith, London. Started his musical career in 1977 as a punkrocker in the band MEANSTREET, before being sacked for being “too creative”.Responded to an advert in Melody Maker where he was accepted into the band THE LASERS alongside Paul Gardiner before he and … Read More…
Grace Jones
Grace Jones (born May 19, 1948) is a Jamaican-American singer, model and actress. Jones started out as a model and became a muse to Andy Warhol, who photographed her extensively.During that era she regularly went to the New York City nightclub Studio 54. Grace secured a record deal with Island Records in 1977, which resulted … Read More…
Ian Kevin Curtis
Ian Kevin Curtis (15 July 1956 – 18 May 1980) was an English musician from Manchester, singer and lyricist, best known as the lead singer of the post-punk band Joy Division. Joy Division released their debut album, Unknown Pleasures, in 1979 and recorded their follow-up, Closer, in 1980. Curtis, who suffered from epilepsy and depression, … Read More…
Patrick Cowley and Jorge Socarras
Patrick Joseph Cowley (October 19, 1950 – November 12, 1982) was an American disco and Hi-NRG dance music composer and recording artist. He recorded in a style that has drawn comparisons to that of Giorgio Moroder and is often credited with pioneering electronic dance music. Patrick Cowley was born in Buffalo, New York to Ellen … Read More…
Siouxsie Sioux
Real Name : Susan Janet Ballion (born 27 May 1957) is an English singer-songwriter. She is best known as the lead singer of the critically acclaimed rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees (1976–1996) and of its splinter group The Creatures (1981–2005). The Banshees produced eleven studio albums and a string of hit singles including “Hong … Read More…
John Joseph Lydon
John Joseph Lydon (born 31 January 1956), also known by the former stage name Johnny Rotten, is a singer-songwriter and television presenter, best known as the lead singer of punk rock band the Sex Pistols from 1975 until 1978, and again for various revivals during the 1990s and 2000s. He is the lead singer of … Read More…
The Clash
The Clash were an English punk rock band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk. Along with punk, their music incorporated elements of reggae, ska, dub, funk, rap, dance, and rockabilly. For most of their recording career, the Clash consisted of Joe Strummer (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Mick Jones … Read More…
Deborah Harry
Deborah Ann “Debbie” Harry (born July 1, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter and actress, best known for being the lead singer of the punk rock and new wave band Blondie. She has also had success as a solo artist, and in the mid-1990s she performed and recorded as part of The Jazz Passengers. Her acting … Read More…
Talking Heads
Talking Heads were an American New Wave and avant-garde band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991. The band comprised David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison. Auxiliary musicians also regularly made appearances in concert and on the group’s albums. The New Wave style of Talking Heads combined elements … Read More…
Ramones
The Ramones were an American rock band that formed in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens, in 1974. They are often cited as the first punk rock group.Despite achieving only limited commercial success, the band was a major influence on the punk rock movement both in the United States and the United … Read More…
Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt was a founding member of the Soft Machine, who along with Pink Floyd Helped to transform the late sixties psychedelic scene in the UK into something more lasting. Through successive albums, Soft Machine soon moved toward a more jazz-based fusion with rock music, punctuated by Wyatt’s distinctive drumming and vocals, attracting a massive … Read More…
Fela Kuti
Real Name:Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti Born: 15 October 1938, in Abeokuta, Nigeria. Died: 2 August 1997, of AIDS and heart failure in Lagos, Nigeria. He formed his first group Koola Lobitos in 1963. The large jazz, funk, and afrobeat collective underwent many changes in the following decades but the style remained the same thanks to … Read More…
Roxy Music
Roxy Music are an English art rock band formed in 1971 by Bryan Ferry, who became the group’s lead vocalist and chief songwriter, and bassist Graham Simpson. The other members are Phil Manzanera (guitar), Andy Mackay (saxophone and oboe) and Paul Thompson (drums and percussion). Former members include Brian Eno (synthesizer and “treatments”), and Eddie … Read More…
Suicide
Suicide is an American electronic protopunk musical duo, intermittently active since 1970 and composed of vocalist Alan Vega and Martin Rev on synthesizers and drum machines. They are an early synthesizer/vocal musical duo. Never widely popular amongst the general public, Suicide are highly influential: critic Wilson Neate writes that Suicide “would prove as influential as … Read More…
Giorgio Moroder
Giorgio Moroder was born on April 26, 1940, in Ortisei, Italy, but later moved to Munich in Germany where he recorded most of his ‘computer disco’ music during the 70s at his ‘Musicland Studios’ (please see my short Giorgio Moroder biography page for more biographical information). His most famous works are his productions for Donna … Read More…
Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk (meaning power plant or power station) is an influential electronic music band from Düsseldorf, Germany. The group was formed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider in 1970, and was fronted by them until Schneider’s departure in 2008. The signature Kraftwerk sound combines driving, repetitive rhythms with catchy melodies, mainly following a Western Classical style … Read More…
CAN
Can was an experimental rock band formed in Cologne, West Germany in 1968. Later labeled as one of the first “krautrock” groups, they transcended mainstream influences and incorporated strong minimalist and world music elements into their often psychedelic music. Can constructed their music largely through collective spontaneous composition which the band differentiated from improvisation in … Read More…
Silver Apples
Silver Apples are an American psychedelic electronic music duo from New York, composed of Simeon Coxe III, who performs as Simeon, on a primitive synthesizer of his own devising (also named The Simeon), and until his death in 2005, drummer Danny Taylor. The group was active between 1967 and 1969, before reforming in the mid … Read More…