In the last two days nearly four hours of Aphex Twin tracks have been anonymously posted to Soundcloud. Critic Philip Sherburne puts on his Nancy Drew hat and gets to the bottom of the mystery.
The musical interpretation of I “DM”, orIntelligent Dance Music,emerged in the 1990s. Artists such as Aphex Twin and Autechre popularized this genre, which sought to elevate dance music through complexity and experimentation. While “IDM” as a music genre has its niche audience, the slang me...
Or the whole genre of grindcore, predicated on the principle of compressing what could conceivably be a six-minute song if it were performed by, say, Suffocation, into a denser-than-Iridium thirty seconds? OK, these are valid points, but not the right points. Metal over-the-topness is ...
IsGTAa genre? It might as well be at this point. One of the largest video game franchises of all time always throws up some choice musical cuts across its varied and genuinely excellent selection of in-game radio stations, from the grungy delights ofSan Andreas' Radio X (not that one)...
currently available to stream on Netflix, has achieved a growing cult status since its release, it hasn't yet received the widespread acclaim bestowed upon some of Bigelow's other films, including awards-season darlings The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, and genre favorites Near Dark and Po...
It would take a fool to attempt confining Rina Sawayama to any particular genre, but suffice to say she proves on SAWAYAMA –the roots of which are in pop music, R&B, hip-hop and metal – that she is a master of many. This is an album heavy with experimentation, toying with the in...
This implied that there was an assumed musical sophistication with the music, giving a somewhat pretentious impression of the genre. Artists have also criticised the term for suggesting that the music they produce is not easy to dance to. Aphex Twin, 1997, made the following comment on the ...
Hebden is keen to avoid pigeonholing, and his status as figurehead of a new musical genre sits uncomfortably on self-deprecating shoulders."A lot of people have picked up on my use of a computer with traditional instruments, thinking it's some sort of comment on old folk music, but that'...
Davis knew he had to remodel or be sidelined by fast changing events and his new electric band, who’d recently played the hippie shrines, San Francisco’s Fillmore Auditorium and New York’s Fillmore East, could stand tall both musically and visually among the forward-looking, cr...
It would take a fool to attempt confining Rina Sawayama to any particular genre, but suffice to say she proves on SAWAYAMA –the roots of which are in pop music, R&B, hip-hop and metal – that she is a master of many. This is an album heavy with experimentation, toying with the in...