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SOME RANDOM THOUGHTS - FROM THE MP3 PLAYER OF ACID TED

Sun, April 28 2013 5:04pm - Source: THE VINYL VILLAIN

Today's first post was courtesy of Dirk (aka Sexy Loser), one of this blog's oldest and most loyal readers/contributors.

Daft Punk: What Da Fu*k?

Mon, April 22 2013 7:44am - Source: ClashMusic.com

Why is the world breaking into a sweat over the release of a new Daft Punk album?

13 Of The Best Mind-Bending Movies

Thu, April 04 2013 7:51pm - Source: The Playlist

The 2013 Sundance Film Festival will likely go down in history as one of its finer years, with a nearly unparalleled programming slate of movies that got festival goers excited not just about the festival, but cinema in general.

Brazil's Digitaria continue to bubble up on Hot Creations and Jeudi

Fri, March 29 2013 8:31pm - Source: Beatportal

Last year, when we spoke with Jamie Jones , the Hot Creations label head had a couple names on his lips—Funky Fat and Brazil duo Digitaria.

Friday Fun: Can Comic Books Save the Music Industry?

Fri, March 22 2013 2:23pm - Source: Drowned In Sound

For many years, peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, Rapidshare, MP3 blogs, MySpace, and now streaming services like Spotify and Soundcloud, have made is rather easy to listen to a band without giving them anything - not even a penny - for their creativity.

The Strange & Frightening World Of: Scanner

Tue, March 12 2013 1:38pm - Source: The Quietus

This is the first commercially available release I had.

RxGibbs drops lush new single ‘Macro’

Fri, March 08 2013 11:20pm - Source: Death + Taxes

RxGibbs, aka Ron Gibbs, dropped his latest single "Macro" and it's worthy of some serious attention.

LWE Podcast 154: Steve Bicknell

Mon, February 18 2013 6:02am - Source: LITTLE WHITE EARBUDS

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Ladies und Gentlemen, the future has arrived

Sun, January 27 2013 12:23am - Source: The Independent - Music

To the uninitiated, Kraftwerk are a latter-day space oddity – elderly men crammed into shiny jet-black onesies, arranged on stage over keyboards-come-lecterns like the senior admirals of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Manchester honours the woman behind the pioneering music of Doctor Who

Thu, January 10 2013 12:32pm - Source: The Guardian Music Blog

The godmother of British electronic music who helped to create one of the most recognisable TV theme tunes of all time and pioneered the genre through her work in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop is to be commemorated in an inaugural one-day celebration of her work in Manchester.

Albums of the Year 2012 - #2 Grimes - Visions

Wed, December 19 2012 8:46am - Source: Breaking More Waves

Visions is one of those albums that it's very easy to approach with a hefty degree of cynicism.

Orbital - Live At O2 Academy, Brixton

Mon, December 17 2012 3:27pm - Source: ClashMusic.com

Emerging from behind a tower of smoke and nostalgic expectations, Paul and Phil Hartnoll returned to Brixtons O2 Academy with an undiminished standard of live improvisation and luminous headgear.

Live Video: Orbital

Wed, December 12 2012 10:12pm - Source: KEXP 90.3 Blog

It's hard to believe that it's been 20 years since brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll first topped the UK charts as Orbital.

The best albums of 2012

Wed, December 12 2012 9:22pm - Source: Death + Taxes

We laughed, we cried, we listened to a shit-ton of music this year.

Ghostly International's Michna talks about keeping up with new music, the larger value behind $1 record bins and more

Mon, December 10 2012 10:33pm - Source: Beatportal

You could say Adrian Michna is a jack of all trades.

CMU Planner – w/c 3 Dec 2012

Mon, December 03 2012 11:24am - Source: CMU - Complete Music Update

Amy Winehouse's former home in Camden, where the singer was found dead in July last year, is to be auctioned by McHugh & Co today.

Little Deaths & Anxieties: An Interview With Fairhorns

Thu, November 29 2012 11:14am - Source: The Quietus

"'Doki-doki' is a Japanese onomatopoeic word for when your heart beats quickly when you get nervous," Matt Loveridge, aka Fairhorns, mumbles down the phone.

Best albums of 2012: 40-21

Mon, November 26 2012 1:41pm - Source: The Guardian Music Blog

What we said about Killer Mike: "Earlier this year, Killer Mike made quite a splash with his latest album, R.A.P. Music. Critics couldn't help but marvel at the unlikely pairing of Mike, with his distinctly southern credentials (and drawl to match), and New York producer EL-P, an underground figure known for his aggressive, frenetic sound. But it was one track in particular, Reagan, that really raised eyebrows."

It Came From ReverbNation #24 - Featuring Teak, Stolen Rose, Virgil and the Accelerators, Prateek Kuhad, and Silent Motif

Thu, November 22 2012 4:38pm - Source: The Ripple Effect

From April 4 th to June 4 th The Ripple Effect ran a campaign on the excellent online music website ReverbNation ( www.reverbnation.com ).

Pink Sky Thinking: An Interview With Nathan Fake

Thu, November 22 2012 1:30pm - Source: The Quietus

Norfolk has had a raw deal in the past, regarded by those who have probably never been there as convenient linguistic shorthand for rural backwardness.

Album Review: How to destroy angels_ – An omen_ EP

Wed, November 14 2012 1:09pm - Source: Consequence of Sound

"I take the thought of you and burn it to the ground / Sometimes I'm waiting for this ice age to arrive / Sometimes the hate in me is keeping me alive," serenades Mariqueen Maandig over the the bleak Skinny Puppy-meets-Sheryl Crow soundscapes of "Ice age".

Beatport Ranks The Top 10 US Sound Systems

Tue, November 13 2012 5:48pm - Source: Stoney Roads

Beatport is always up to something, and now they seem to be blogging it on their news section tied into the music sales platform.

Review: Walls’ Sam Willis’s debut solo LP ‘Winterval’ (full stream)

Mon, November 12 2012 5:31pm - Source: Death + Taxes

Walls is one of those groups that appeal to the not-so-casual electronic music fan.

Interview: Rone talks inspiration (Berlin, Nietzsche and abandoned airports)

Sat, November 03 2012 5:27pm - Source: Death + Taxes

French-born artist Rone (Erwin Castex) makes his home in Berlin, crafting a beautiful and complex brand of electronic music with a lineage more in line with '90s heavy-hitters Orbital , Chemical Brothers and Underworld than the famous though tired French Touch genre of his homeland.

D&B trio Cause4Concern talk production methods, collaboration, and so much gear

Thu, November 01 2012 7:22pm - Source: Beatportal

The trio of Edward Holmes (aka Optiv), Mark Clements (aka CZA), and Stuart Perkins has been a steady presence in the drum & bass game for quite some time now.

Review: Uninventive U.K. ‘Pusher’ Remake Offers Typically Stylized Drug Psychosis & Nothing More

Fri, October 26 2012 1:10pm - Source: The Playlist

Nicolas Winding Refn 's " Pusher " trilogy was never meant to be a triptych, let alone a multi-language spawning remake series (there has already been a U.K. produced, Hindi language version ).

Various Artists, The Smugglers Inn Voyage 1

Tue, October 23 2012 5:16am - Source: LITTLE WHITE EARBUDS

Danny Berman, known for his DJ and production work as Red Rack'em and Hot Coins, is due all the adulation he receives from those who are aware of him.

BACK ONCE AGAIN

Sat, October 13 2012 8:23am - Source: Mixmag

Tickets for his 2022 come-back tour are now on sale.

Orbital premier exclusive live footage from Decibel Festival 2012

Wed, October 10 2012 6:24pm - Source: Beatportal

Decibel Festival offers one of the more forward-thinking line-ups on the American electronic music calendar.

Listen: Orbital's Soundtrack To Nicolas Winding Refn Produced Remake Of 'Pusher' + Release Details

Fri, October 05 2012 6:35pm - Source: The Playlist

While filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn has done much in the way of leaving his mark on American cinema with 2011's Ryan Gosling -starring " Drive ," and has the highly anticipated " Only God Forgives " on the horizon, it's a remake of his first feature that's receiving a lot of attention at the moment – and hailing from an entirely different filmmaker.

Premiere: Orbital's Nocturnal Mix

Fri, October 05 2012 12:30pm - Source: Rolling Stone

Back in April, Paul and Phil Hartnoll dusted off their decks to release Wonky , Orbital's first album in eight years, and the duo recently played their first two U.S. festivals to launch a run of West Coast dates.

Rone drops ecstatically beautiful techno track ‘Parade’

Mon, October 01 2012 10:06pm - Source: Death + Taxes

As a fan of '90s electronic music, I am very often prone to bemoaning the state of electronic music today.

Decibel Festival 2012: Halcyonic, featuring Orbital and Paul Chambers @ Paramount Theatre

Mon, October 01 2012 4:54pm - Source: KEXP 90.3 Blog

Thursday night, history visited Decibel Festival.

Decibel Festival: Things We Loved, Things We Liked, and Things That Needed Work

Mon, October 01 2012 2:36pm - Source: XLR8R

Last week, XLR8R hopped on a plane to Seattle to check out the city's annual Decibel Festival.

Decibel Festival founder Sean Horton prepares for a weekend of sleeplessness in Seattle

Tue, September 25 2012 4:43pm - Source: Beatportal

Over the past nine years, Decibel Festival has made the Pacific Northwest an unlikely destination for lovers of underground electronic music.

John Tejada - The Predicting Machine

Tue, September 25 2012 12:10pm - Source: The Quietus

Some people think they're mere conduits for the music; some think they're on their way out in this age of flatlining industry; some ('sup, Quietus eds) don't think they need to be included in the reviews… but we can still talk about record labels, can't we?

Van She – Idea of Happiness

Fri, September 21 2012 10:56am - Source: The Line Of Best Fit

Back in 2008, Van She made a name for themselves as being Australia's second biggest electro-pop export after Cut Copy with their debut album V. Not that their standing mattered really; this was a time when jolty melodic synths were coming from almost every corner of the globe.

Berlin Festival 2012

Wed, September 19 2012 4:43pm - Source: ClashMusic.com

Celebrated worldwide as one of the most creative, unique and (not to mention) sleepless cities in the land, Berlin Festival recently saw thousands of music lovers converge to celebrate all that is good in a 1930s airport.

Lady Leshurr announces intimate London show

Wed, September 19 2012 1:28am - Source: Music-News.com

The UK's most in demand female MC, Lady Leshurr has just announced that she will be performing a headline show on 1st October at Camden Roundhouse Studio Theatre.

Quietus Mix 70: Lying Face Down On The Kitchen Floor Thinking About God

Thu, September 13 2012 12:38pm - Source: The Quietus

Essential moral and technical help provided by John Tatlock.

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