Electronic Musicians

As part of its hosting of the 2008 Democratic National Convention, Denver will also host 10 major digital artists from around the world.
The artists will present work which enables citizens to discuss democracy in innovative ways. DJ Spooky of New York joined the mayor at the announcement of Dialog:City Monday, May 5, 2008. The event […]

Nine Inch Nails is riding high on the publicity of its heavily hyped Ghosts I-IV release and is capitalizing on that buzz with a new free album release, The Slip. It’s available exclusively as a free download, but physical releases are in the works.
There’s a 2008 Nine Inch Nails Tour coming up this fall, and […]

 

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Nine Inch Nails has announced that it is giving away its latest album, The Slip, for free:
as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free, exclusively via nin.com.
the music is available in a variety of formats including high-quality MP3, […]

Nine Inch Nails is touring the US and Canada this summer, and has announced dates.
Premium tickets for all NIN headline dates will be made available to registered nin.com members in advance of public on sales. Pre sale tickets are personalized with the members legal name printed on the face of the ticket and ID will […]

In this cool video, Wire to the Ear’s Oliver Chesler goes to Jomox in Berlin, Germany, to purchase a Mbase 01 analog kick drum module. There, the owner Jürgen Michaelis shows Oliver his workshop and toys.
Michaelis is responsible for some of the craziest electronic music gear being created.

Ambient house group The Orb has announced dates for its 2008 tour:
1 May 2008
Scala - The Orb London, London and South East
2 May 2008
Concorde 2 - The Orb Brighton, London and South East
4 May 2008
Wedgewood Rooms - The Orb Portsmouth, South
6 May 2008
The […]

A lot of people commented on the recent post Minneapolis Hates Kraftwerk, which featured an excerpt from the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s review of Kraftwerk’s 100-minute show at the Myth nightclub.
The Star Tribune said that the show had “all the flair of a power-point presentation at a mortgage-foreclosure seminar”, and that “the identically clad-in-black musicmakers […]

NIN shows it’s got a sense of humor with the YMCA-inspired video for Discipline.
This track calls out for some remixes, doesn’t it?

Tristram Cary, composer, electroacoustic pioneer and synth designer, died April 24.
His contribution to concert and entertainment musical repertoire in every genre from pure electronic music to instrumental solos and orchestral and choral works covers the entire second half of the 20th century.
Bio
Cary was born in Oxford on 14th May 1925. He served in the Royal […]

Clash Music has an interesting interview with synth music pioneer Jean Michel Jarre.
It touches on some very timely subjects, including the role of the Internet in music:
The Internet isn’t the only answer
I think that the Internet might become the ultimate marketing machine, but I also think that in maybe five years’ time, what will be […]

Jean Michel Jarre, who’s on tour with truckloads of rare vintage keyboards performing his classic Oxygène, says that the old gear posed some unique challenges at his most recent concert:
The MemoryMoog went out of tune, the same for the ARP; we had very little time to set up everything. I tried quickly the Moog Liberation […]

Remember Eboman’s car crash music?
Eboman specialises in the production of audiovisual sample compositions (which he calls Sample madnesS), the development of audiovisual sampling software and hardware and performances as a DVJ or with his SenSorSuit.
This is a compilation of clips of an Eboman performance in Utrecht in April 2008:
Guillermo uses the video drumkit to trigger […]

Moby just published an interesting post at his blog, suggesting that none of today’s music compares to George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue:
this won’t make sense to some of the people who are reading this, but i just finished listening to ‘rhapsody in blue’ from start to finish and i’m convinced it’s the best thing ever […]

Ambient electronic musician Robert Rich has penned a great response to a piece by Wired’s Kevin Kelly that suggested that musicians should strive for 1000 true fans:
I agree strongly with your basic thesis, that artists can survive on the cusp of the long tail by nurturing the help of dedicated fans; but perhaps I can […]

The Minneapolis Star Tribune has a review of the influential German group Kraftwerk’s 100-minute show at the Myth nightclub. The performance was a warm-up for a headlining gig at Coachella next week.
It’s not clear if the show was terrible or if the review doesn’t like their music - but it seems that they hate Kraftwerk:
With […]