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Monday 09 January 2012
Alva Noto...
Surfing on the data flow...
Carsten Nicolai: an artist who grapples uncompromisingly with the aesthetics of digital information? Perhaps. Alva Noto is typically an alias for some of his more accessible work. Even so, albums such as 2001's “Transform” sound like music captured and algorithmically stripped to a minimum, reformatted as pure tones and the atomic units of computer audio. The sounds could almost be pictured as machine code, serial moments of transition between binary values. “Unitxt”, from 2008, even pirates data from office software on some...
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Monday 14 November 2011
Still Corners
Dreams directed by Lynch
A friend recently admitted to sitting on buses, listening to music, staring pensively out...
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Wednesday 02 November 2011
Plaid
Prepare to be thrilled
Plaid. A checked material usually taking the form of tartan or gingham. Commonly used ...
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Best Of 2011
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Thursday 13 October 2011
Jeffrey Lewis
“A Turn In The...
Jeffrey Lewis says he is not too amused to leave his beloved New York right now. People are taking to the streets demanding equality and justice, and asking the government not to trample...
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Monday 05 September 2011
Arkives. 1993-2010
Plastikman and the box of...
By Javier BlánquezThe announcement halfway through 2010 of “Arkives. 1993-2010” ended up a test of faith, as the year went on. Richie Hawtin said words to the effect of “now...
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Monday 29 August 2011
MTV Video Music Awards
Those shows aren't what...
By Sergio del AmoThere was a time when MTV was synonymous to spectacle, scandal for the puritan minds and surprises that had a big impact on pop history. But last night we saw none of...
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Friday 05 August 2011
The best songs of 2011 so...
Selection of notable...
After the albums, EPs and videos – today we look at the songs from the first half of 2011. Our selection is in alphabetical order; keep in mind that at the end of the year, the lists are...
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Thursday 04 August 2011
The best videos of 2011...
An overview of the...
Like we have already done with albums and EPs, today we try to bring some order to the chaos of video releases from the first six months of 2011. The video is a powerful promotional tool...
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Wednesday 03 August 2011
The best EPs of 2011 (so...
A guide to the best EPs...
We continue with our overview of the most relevant records of 2011 so far. After yesterday's list of Best Albums, today we focus on the EPs and 12”s. As we said yesterday, we do not...
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Tuesday 02 August 2011
The best albums (so far)...
A guide to the...
It's August: a good time to take a breath - now that everything is slowing down (fewer announcements, fewer releases, all ready for the most important part of the year – September,...
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Tuesday 26 July 2011
I’ll Be Your Mirror
ATP’s summer outing to...
By Sian HaestierAll Tomorrow’s Parties founder Barry Hogan grew up locally, so the choice of Alexandra Palace - that grand Victorian structure high up on the North London skyline - was...
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Columns
Monday 19 September 2011
Vs. The (Pop) World
By Juan Manuel Freire
Steve Jobs' retirement is truly bad news. Some people might say enough already with the Mother Theresa - or even God-like - treatment of the man. But Jobs has done a better job than God;...
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Friday 26 August 2011
Down with hipsters
An anti-hipster...
By Ă“scar BrocNow that the 'tache crowd has stopped sending bomb letters to PlayGround HQ and are no longer hiring gypsy ladies to put spells on yours truly, it's time to rock the boat...
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Thursday 28 July 2011
Down with the hipsters
An anti-hipster...
By Ă“scar BrocI smell hipsters. Sssssh. Don't make a sound. Can you hear their unpleasant whispers, there, where the light of the oil-lamp doesn't shine? Of course you can. Half-close...
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Friday 22 July 2011
Vs. The (Pop) World
By Juan Manuel Freire
When on holiday, do you prefer sea or mountains? Mine’s city, please, thank you. Maybe I’m a victim of these times of attention deficit problems, but holidays in remote places only...
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Friday 24 June 2011
Vs. (The Pop World)
By Juan Manuel Freire
Among music lovers of my generation (i.e., those who were born when “Star Wars” came out), there are two classic musical pasts. There is the metal past, which has often evolved into a...
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Monday 16 May 2011
Vs. the (Pop) World
By Juan Manuel Freire
When did we stop valuing music? When did we stop considering it as a precious good and started taking it for granted? There probably wasn’t one precise moment (maybe the first click on...
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Wednesday 11 May 2011
Odd Future
Quick overview of a...
By Franc SayolIn the first part of this article, we spoke about Odd Future as a collective united by a common strategy of noise-making. Now we focus on the individual members, starting...
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Tuesday 10 May 2011
Odd Future
Violence, drugs and...
By Franc Sayol“We've always been an outcast, and that's kinda cool cause it's what's gonna make us big in the future”.This quote from Tyler, The Creator, leader and ideologist of...
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