Electronic Musicians

A short film, by Martin Shoeneborn, about having an annoying roommate with a lot of synths.
Best line: “Dude! Fucking recording!”

The music video for Stress, by French electronica duo Justice, is creating a furor.
The video, directed by Romain Gavras, depicts gang members “wreaking havoc as they swarm from their neglected homes in the outskirts or banlieues of Paris into the heart of the city, all to a grueling, nightmarish electro beat.”
Followed by a camera crew [...]

In this short video, Vangelis demonstrates his method of improvising in the symphonic electronica style that he pioneered.
via Nusonica

Electro-pop band Hot Chip has announced dates for its Fall tour.
This is the second tour this year in support of their new album Made In The Dark. Made In The Dark was informed by two years of touring, so the album was designed to be performed live
There will be a special pre-sale starting on May [...]

Parallel Worlds (Bakis Sirros) are playing live at Synch Festival 2008 in Athens, Greece on Friday the 13th of June. Parallel Worlds will present tracks from their 4 albums, plus unreleased material.
It should be a great opportunity for Greek synth fans to see some live electronic music action.
Here’s a link to our review [...]

DJ Tiësto has announced a 24-city US & Canadian tour.
The tour focuses on smaller clubs, so it could be a great chance to see Tiesto in action.
Here are the dates:

An interview via BeatPort, of Juan Atkins of Model 500, one of the godfathers of techno.

Germany’s Paul van Dyk is looking for producers to remix his track with Giuseppe Ottaviani, Far Away, on Beatport.
The remix competition is open to producers from all genres, as van Dyk is looking for innovative, cutting-edge and thought-provoking mixes of his track.
You can download two of the track’s parts for remixing for free. To get [...]

Rock and Roll Daily has the scoop on Modern Guilt - the upcoming Beck release, produced by Danger Mouse.
“It was the most intensive work I’ve ever done on anything,” Beck says. “It was like trying to fit two years of songwriting into two and a half months,” Beck says. “I know I did at least [...]

Here’s the latest Portishead video, for The Rip from their latest album, Third.
Neither the video nor the song do much for me, and they seem to have left what was good about their sound behind. Has Portishead jumped the shark?
Let me know what you think in the comments.

BBC NEWS has a story today about how German techno pop group Scooter have caused a shock by knocking Madonna off the top of the UK album chart after just one week, despite little mainstream exposure.
It is the biggest coup yet for Blackburn-based independent record label All Around the World, who say they are catering [...]

Paul Rubenstein (aka Ubertar) is a composer, musician, musical instrument inventor and recording engineer.
He may also be the coolest teacher ever.
He teaches a class called Building Music at Franklin K. Lane and Wingate High Schools in Brooklyn. Students learn to build their own electric guitars, from winding their own electric pickups to designing the guitar [...]

 

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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, [...]