Styles: film score, nostalgia, club, hymnal
Others: Slugabed, Joe Hisaishi, STAYCORE, Air Max ‘97
The practice of reimagining film scores poses a slippery hermeneutic problem for artists and critics alike. Adding modern scores to silent films can feel like an insertion of the subject into the object, while rescoring films that already have original scores can feel like a removal of something essential from the object.
More about: Sega Bodega
Apparently, writing an Oscar-nominated movie score just isn’t enough for some people nowadays. And playing an instrument as huge as two enormous pianos isn’t enough either.
More about: Alva Noto, Ryuichi Sakamoto
Following last week’s OFFICIAL announcement of Pop2, our Number 1 Angel Charli XCX has shared another new song. This twinkly cosmic kiss, titled “Unlock It,” features Kim Petras and Jay Park, with production by PC Music artists A. G. Cook and Life Sim.
“Beautiful.” ;)
More about: Charli XCX
I’m not a very superstitious person, but I do believe in karma, based on the principle that every time I lose a lighter I seem to serendipitously steal someone else’s soon after. Ergo: given the crumbling hellscape of a world that we endured for the duration of 2017, I desperately believe that this coming year will be equally abundant in blessings. This is (presumably) why Hyperdub has announced that their first release of 2018 will be Still Trippin, the debut LP of Teklife’s DJ Taye; because we fucking deserve it, goddammit.
More about: DJ Manny, DJ PayPal, DJ Rashad, DJ Taye, UNiiQU3
Styles: ambient, assemblage, neologism
Others: Visible Cloaks, Tomoko Sauvage, shintaro matsuo, woopheadclrms
I want to write this review in simple sentences. I want the review to make sense when translated by Google Translate. How will the sentences render? Will they fall apart? Will they become poetry or gibberish? Will the translation machine scramble their sense? Senseless spaces can welcome sensory moments. Moments of sensation. Sensational moments. Wondrous spaces. UkabazUmorezU explores wonder. Precise, imagistic moments suspend in a suspenseful balance. It is an eerie balance and a peculiar balance and sometimes a nonsensical balance.
More about: Sugai Ken
Tabs Out is an all-cassette podcast that’s been documenting the prolific tape underground with obsession, humor, and expertise since 2012. Tiny Mix Tapes has teamed with Tabs Out for a show called Laser Focus, in which tape aficionados/fetishists Mike Haley, Dave Doyen, and Joe B hone in on a specific label or artist. Check out the archive here.
More about: Angel Marcloid, Copkiller, Fire-Toolz, JML, Justin Marc Lloyd, Pregnant Spore, Sensible Nectar
According to Ayler Records, pioneering free jazz drummer Sunny Murray has died at the age of 81. Murray performed alongside such artists as Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Arthur Doyle, and Albert Ayler, the latter with whom he worked extensively on records like Spiritual Unity and Spirits Rejoice. Murray was also a leader on a host of albums, such as Sonny’s Time Now and Homage to Africa.
More about: Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, Arthur Doyle, Cecil Taylor, Sunny Murray
Okay now, this right here… this is news. After tweet-teasing us into reporting that there were reports that she reportedly had a new mixtape reportedly on the way, Charli XCX has now officially announced that her new mixtape is official. It’s called Pop2, and it’s out December 15 via Atlantic. Okay bye…
Wait… there’s more!?
More about: A. G. Cook, Alma, Brooke Candy, Carly Rae Jepsen, Caroline Polachek, Charli XCX, CupcakKe, Dorian Electra, Jay Park, Kim Petras, Mykki Blanco, MØ, Pabllo Vittar, SOPHIE, Tommy Cash, Tove Lo
I’ve already said a little something about Sounds of Sisso, but it’s worth repeating: I love this tape! How much? Let’s say, third on my year-end list for this here website (which will certainly also include it on its own year-end list). That much.
Baltimore experimental artist JPEGMAFIA (also known as Peggy or The Black Ben Carson) is as much a political critic as he is a rapper. Out of his tremendous output as rapper/producer over the past few years, a majority finds the guy taking radical stances that he said earn him a constant stream of death threats.
More about: JPEGMAFIA
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