Jim O’Rourke is a guitarist/producer/composer/all-around virtuoso who is continually upping the standards for greatness in music. He’s pulled off a stint in Sonic Youth and done an album with Merzbow; he’s produced albums for artists as diverse as Joanna Newsom, Wilco and Tony Conrad, while genre-hopping all over the place on his own, from pop […]
This October for me has been a month where I have just wanted to crawl into a hole and listen to Jóhann Jóhannsson all day everyday. Actually in reality, rather than crawling into holes, I’ve been setting his music to the obsessive writing of Max patches. I only just found out about this brilliant Icelandic […]
Right now I’m obsessed with the label Raster-Noton out of Chemnitz, Germany. Earlier on this year I was thoroughly addicted to Atom TM’s brilliant Liedgut record, but really there are dozens of great R-N releases from well-known electronic music maestros like William Basinski, Alva Noto (who is one of the label’s founding partners), Ryoji Ikeda […]
Okay, maybe this theme is a bit easy, but hey – in honor of Warp‘s 20-year anniversary, why not showcase some of my all-time favorites from the Sheffield label? To raise the bar, it seemed like a good idea to select some of the more obscure favorites, therefore all of these tracks come from singles […]
After my last, dubstep-focused post, I contemplated different angles from which I could approach my guest-blogger status here on Blog.H34. Should I be the ‘dubstep guy,’ bringing the hottest new dubstep tracks? Should I be a dubstep-slash-ambient specialist, since I focus my creative energy on those musics? Should I do ‘genre’ posts, showcasing different styles […]
Pinch – Punisher DJ Pinch aka Rob Ellis is the founder of Tectonic Recordings, one of the premier dubstep labels out of the UK, as well as being a pioneer of the genre itself. His style is not always the wobbly and dark stuff one expects from labels such as DMZ or even Tempa, as […]
Ulver – Eos Ever since my exposure to their 2007 masterpiece Shadows of the Sun, Ulver has become something of an obsession for me. Rising from their roots as a pioneering force of the Norwegian black metal scene in the early 90s, the band has since shapeshifted almost completely, taking cues along the way from […]
