Never let it be said that I don’t throw in the odd surprise here on my tiny corner of the net. I bought this album (I know I know) purely based on the Dusted review by Brad LaBonte and my subsequent listen around. It’s a very ‘not Lisa’ kind of album – I mean Bad Things […]
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Board’s of Canada – Geogaddi: Music as manipulation.
posted by lisathatcher
The thing that must be said initially about Board’s of Canada’s uber album Geogaddi is a hearty congratulations on all the love its solicited. It is certainly an adored album. I read in the album’s Wiki that it has mixed reviews, but I have to confess on all the guru music sites I frequent, the album is […]
Creel Pone #6: Roots of Electronic Sounds
posted by lisathatcher
Today’s collection of the Creel Pone series is as brilliant as it usually is. If you’re into the electronic music – especially the early days of its awakening, then this little series today will curl your lashes big time! The post war surge of electronic music was a craze that hit composers across the globe, a kind […]
Lard Free: I’m Around About Midnight – Freakout French prog-post-jazz
posted by lisathatcher
This is a lovely little piece of 1973 French ahead-of-its-time-ism for your listening pleasure. This is a bit of a staple for me; one I return to time and time again, which in a world filled with music means a lot. ok – yes it’s true, I’m un unrepentant Francophile (well inner-city-left-wing-Praiseanphile to be more […]
The Complete Keynote recordings – Lennie Tristano: Start your Easter in style.
posted by lisathatcher
What can I say? Tonight is the start of a four-day (not so) break for me and I have designated this delicious night, FREE! Which usually means Jazz for me and then some crap movies that I would never dare tell you about (I’m catching up on Harry Potters… shhhhh – don’t tell anyone) because […]
La Monte Young: The Black Record – Layer upon layer of sound.
posted by lisathatcher
The father of drone, the man himself. Someting very very special for my lucky readers today. La Monte Thornton Young is an American avant-garde composer, musician, and artist. Young is generally recognized as the first minimalist composer. His works have been included among the most important and radical post-World War II avant-garde, experimental, and contemporary […]
Wire’s 100 Records that set the world on fire while no one was listening.56-60
posted by lisathatcher
Today’s selection of albums that The Wire list have chosen are eclectic to say the least (WAIT till you get to the Fred Lane) but each and every one heralds the entrance the 80’s. Music, more than ever before was becoming a parody of itself and its own influences. The anxieties of post-modernism we well in […]
Conrad Schnitzler: Endtime – A final farewell
posted by lisathatcher
On the fourth of August 2011 the world lost a little piece of greatness. Conrad Schnitzler died and those of us with a passion for electronic music – among whom I happily count myself – lost one of the great masters of cybernetic sound. Of course the wonderful man died while working on another project, […]
Ernstalbrecht Stiebler – Minimalism Maximised
posted by lisathatcher
Ernstalbrecht Stiebler is the first German composer that based his compositions on minimal techniques. This record is the first part of an edition of his works on the label m=minimal. Due for release April 9, this is first vinyl edition of works of this minimal music pioneer. According to the m=minimal notes, Stiebler, whose first reductionist work […]
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