Electronic Musicians

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 […]

The big beat sound is still great - but Prodigy’s Firestarter video hasn’t aged so well.
I remember it as being more dark, twisted and David Lynch. Watching it now, though, Keith Flint looks a lot like an emo version of Dilbert’s pointy-haired boss.
And lyrics like “I’m a firestarter, twisted firestarter,” don’t sound so dark and […]

David Byrne and Brian Eno are working together again, planning an album and possibly a tour:
The dream art-rock team of David Byrne and Brian Eno will return with new, strange fruit soon, the former Talking Heads man told NME.com recently.
Speaking at an event in New York, Byrne revealed that the duo had rekindled the relationship […]

Classical minimalist composer Philip Glass, who wrote music for both the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and the 2004 Athens Games, isn’t looking forward to the competitions in Beijing.
“I think that we should pull out,” says Glass. “The Chinese are supposed to be taking care of human rights; they haven’t done it. The only reason we […]

Here’s the official blurb on Moby’s latest, Last Night:
After the meditative electronica of 2002’s 18 and the singer-songwriter moves of 2005’s Hotel, moby returns to the dance floor with a vengeance on his new album Last Night, released on 31st March 2008. Spanning hands-in-the-air, Smiley-faced rave anthems, cosmic Giorgio Moroder-styled Euro-disco, hip-hop both old school […]

Moby talks about his new album, Last Night, and talks about MobyGratis, his free music project for filmmakers.

We normally don’t get into celebrity gossip - but this rumor is too juicy to let pass by.
FoxNews reports that not only does Moby have a crush on Britney Spears, but he wants to marry her:
Moby has developed an unlikely crush on Britney Spears.
The hip electronica artist said he’d marry the former megastar and tabloid […]