Love the new James Blake tracks - "Love What Happened Here" & "At Birth"

I'm so happy about this recent news, and my recent listening pleasure!

According to R&S records (See the tweet below announcing it) -- there is a new James Blake record dropping in December 2011. Two tracks from the EP: "Love What Happened Here" and "At Birth" have been streamed on Youtube  in ADVANCE. Love this up! 

James Blake is so talented and he's a wonderful performer to watch. He sings flawlessly live too, with great stage presence. 

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"We're New Here" -- Well, not really...

A new collaboration by Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx of the band The xx has resulted in this fusion of two sounds, with Jamie xx remixing Scott-Heron's first album in thirteen years. Here's one single from the new album, We're New Here:

Although the album name sort of suggests that the musicians are inexperienced, at 61 years of age, Gil Scott-Heron is no newbie. He's a veteran spoken word artist whose albums of the early 1970's (Pieces of a Man and Winter in America) influenced hip hop and soul then, and continues to influence artists today. 

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Björk Voltaic Movie

While this movie is a few years old, and I saw it a couple years ago, it is truly inspiring. Check out the trailer here: 

As you can see, the energy captured in the video is electric, as in its subject, Björk. For music technology fans out there, you've got to watch, as she has used a lemur and other then state-of-the-art equipment on stage with her to trigger musical and visual effects. 

Photos from the Voltaic tour can be seen here.

 

Went to Wrongbar to hear Eskmo play last night.

Check out this hot new music video directed by Cyriak Harris by Eskmo that prompted me to check them out at Wrongbar last night:

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The Knife's audio visual experience

Recently PitchFork.tv posted a video of The Knife's live performance. It reminds me of the Blue Man Group meets psychedelic images meets techno. This video seems to be from 2006.

 

Montreal: The place to be for Mutek

Each year in early June throngs of electronic music fans descend upon Montreal for the Mutek festival - a unique program of experimental music and visual art installations. This year the festival delivered a high quality program that techno aficionados have come to expect. Many excellent genre-crossing acts performed and, despite relentless rain, attendees revelled in danceable music and learned about exciting new musical groups from North America and Europe.

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Plastikman Live transforms Detroit

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For one weekend at the end of May Detroit is transformed into the place to be for all techno music fans and globe-trotting industry workers who come from as far as Europe to party, celebrate the global techno subculture and make business connections. This year marked the 10th anniversary of Movement Festival, Detroit's annual electronic music festival and to celebrate, they hosted a special live headliner - a Canadian – the techno icon Plastikman, a.k.a. Windsor born Richie Hawtin.

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Speaking in Code

Here's my interview with the director of a new film called Speaking in Code: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x92cKU-oLB4&hl=en_US&fs=1&]

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The art of VJing

Exploring the art of veejaying, a new trend in the live concert experience

Excerpt of my article from the CBC Arts website:

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Synth-pop ladies

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Remember the tunes of Britain's Goldfrapp or Norway's Annie (who releasedthe Anniemal album in 2004)? I remember rocking out to Robyn's singles 'Show me love' and 'Do you know (What it takes)'  in 1997 when I was 14.  Well the women of this diverse brand we call synth-pop have evolved and grown up since that time too.

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