Music

All By Myself

December 22, 2011
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I don’t often get to write about people younger than myself. When someone noteworthy pops up, however, it becomes all the more enjoyable. Right now, that somebody happens to be Gerry Read. The 19-year old has released a bunch of EPs on Fourth Wave, yet I somehow managed to miss that until All By Myself [...]

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Modern Love

November 27, 2011

It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Rather than trying to catch up on every single release that I missed (I imagine that would take another while), I decided to share the releases that have spent the most time in my headphones over the past months. There is no rhyme or reason to my choices here, [...]

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Everyday Alone

September 21, 2011
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Solomun – See You Everyday Alone

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We need to take things less seriously. I’m serious. It’s no use getting so wound up in whether Crosstown Rebels are the new Wolf + Lamb that you forget how fun everything was supposed to be. There is nothing exciting about Internet rants, press releases, or yet another [...]

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Tusk

August 14, 2011
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Klaus – Tusk

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You can’t accuse R&S for squandering the words on their latest release. Klaus is releasing Tusk, an EP containing Fens, Cypher, Pim, and, yes, Tusk. Brevity is bliss. Once past those four words, however, Tusk shows more depth. I find it increasingly difficult to immerse myself in the ambient branch of [...]

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We’re Three!

July 24, 2011

“So, this is my first post ever, and I wanted to start with something special.” Exactly three years ago I embarked on my first blog post ever with those words. I don’t know where all that time went or how those more than 600 posts came into being. It’s been a fun ride, though. I [...]

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L.O.V.E.

July 21, 2011
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Motor City Drum Ensemble – L.O.V.E.

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For a while, things have been quiet in Stuttgart. 2010 saw Danilo Plessow reworking already proven jams, most notably for Caribou and NUfrequency, but original material never surfaced. Now, however, we no longer have to wait for warm and sample-heavy deep house, since Plessow is supporting the recent [...]

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Roskilde 2011 Recap

July 7, 2011
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So, how was it? With all the disclaimers from my guide in mind, you might already have guessed that Roskilde didn’t exactly blow me away in terms of music. Their decision to (practically) ban all major electronic music camps in the camping area – camps, mind you, who cared enough about Roskilde to invest thousands [...]

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Panorama Bar 03

May 14, 2011
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”In many ways, I miss the good old days.” I have always liked this Strokes bit. But then again, from a band consisting of twenty-something New Yorkers, how profound could this longing ever be? I am not arguing that you have to earn the right to nostalgia. After all, where would that leave a 19 [...]

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The Drawing Board

May 5, 2011
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By now, you have had over a week to pick up Art Department’s debut album, The Drawing Board. If you have not done so yet, what are you still doing here? I fell in love with this album early on, and, in my humble opinion, it is easily one of the best house releases this [...]

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Awareness

April 20, 2011
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Re.You & Rampa – Awareness

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I love piano house. The apparent cheesiness almost always makes you think that the artist is somehow cheating by using ‘get those hands up’-cues in such an obvious way, yet we eat it up. That is not to say, however, that this particular breed is a lesser species of [...]

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