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Movement 07, the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, is steaming up Detroit’s Hart Plaza, despite rain and the admission charge.

“It was a slow start,” says Jason Huvaere, president of Paxahau Promotions Group, which produced this year’s festival. “But after 4 p.m., people never stopped coming in.”
He said he’d grade Saturday a “B+” and by 9 p.m. [...]

Iris Nova is a great new vocal electronica release from Mudville, the duo of producer Ben Rubin and vocalist & songwriter Marilyn Carino. If there’s a bar in the next David Lynch movie, you might find Mudville in it, playing one of their off-center songs.
The first thing you notice with Iris Nova is Carino’s [...]

 

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Thomas Dolby has announced a new March tour, with shows in Northern California and Texas, including SXSW in Austin on March 15. Dolby is pioneering a new blend of instruments: high-tech electronica plus live jazz brass.
His spring touring ensemble will feature real-time looping on a computer laptop, along with a three-piece horn section (the Jazz [...]

The Grammy Awards have been announced, and this year there’s not much respect for the world of electronic & dance music.
Electronica acts Goldfrapp (right) & Depeche Mode lost out to Justin Timberlake for Best Dance Recording. Best Electronic/Dance Album went to Madonna for Confessions on a Dance Floor, over Goldfrapp, Paul Oakenfold, Pet Shop Boys [...]

BT is firing on all cylinders with his latest release, This Binary Universe. BT takes a creative leap, creating a dynamic, glitchy electronic work that also captures the range of acoustic instruments, from delicate to full orchestral power.
This Binary Universe comes as a CD/DVD set. While both are excellent, the DVD offers 5.1 sound, along [...]

Apple has published a profile of BT that looks at his new DVD, Binary Universe.
In the article, BT talks about the relationship of mathematics to his music and how the music relates to the images on his new DVD.
“Music is just applied mathematics,” he says. “And so is visual art — it’s all related. You’re [...]

Janosch Moldau recently sent us his latest CD, Redeemer. It’s a very rare example of Christian electronica. With titles like Bleed On, Baptized, My Father & Redeemer, it’s obvious that the music is going to be Christian music. What’s unexpected is the bitcrushed drum sounds, bizarre synth sounds, and original synth orchestration.
On Reloved, Moldau starts [...]

Paul & Price are back with Sounds Like Sex 2, a sequel to Sounds Like Sex, one of CD Baby’s top CDs to have sex to. We’re not sure what that means, other than that maybe CD Baby customers like to have sex to mid-tempo house tracks.
Guest vocalists include Angela McCluskey on I Adore You, [...]