Reworking the classics with synthesizers has a long tradition, extending from Wendy Carlos’ Switched-On Bach to the Ferry Corsten/William Orbit take on Barber’s Adagio for Strings. Reinterpreting the classics is tough, though, and few electronic reinterpretations have proven to have much lasting interest. Classics Regrooved is new compilation that features electronica arrangements of 15 themes… Read More Various – Classics Regrooved
KOCH Records is releasing a compilation album, Classic Regrooved, that will feature 15 classical music themes, re-mixed and re-imagined by some of the top names in the emerging world of electronic music: Electric Skychurch, Skylab 2000, Holmes Ives, EROS and more. The songs on Classics Regrooved use familiar melodies of some of the best-known classic… Read More Electronica Artists Take On The Classics
Alan Parson, best known for his concept albums I, Robot and Eye in the Sky, is leaving his long-time bandmates to explore electronica on his latest CD, A Valid Path. Guest artists on the CD include Nortec Collective, The Crystal Method, Shpongle, PJ Olsson, and Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour. The CD, scheduled for release in… Read More I, Robot Composer Alan Parsons Explores Electronica on New CD
Underground remixes are suddenly getting attention all over the Internet. Nothing is hotter than Jay-Z and the Grey Album remix. Some may think this is just another example of people trying to get something for free. Others, however, see this as a type of civil disobedience, and ask why three or four companies should get… Read More Illegal Remixes Rage Through the Internet
Nonesuch, a label well known for edgy music from the sixties through today, asked nine electronica artists to remix some of the best work of composer Steve Reich.… Read More Steve Reich – Reich Remixed
Instant Music is here. The rise of desktop music production has completely changed the way music is created and distributed. The dozens of remixes of Howard Dean’s infamous “yeaaaaaah” speech show that anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can now quickly and easily publish music to the world. The problems of creation, recording,… Read More Dean Mixes Signal New Era for Electronic Music
Amazon has released their customer picks for the Top 10 Dance & DJ releases of 2003: 100th Window – Massive Attack The Richest Man in Babylon – Thievery Corporation Beautiful Tomorrow – Blue 6 Simple Things – Zero 7 Love Box – Groove Armada Hotel Costes 5 – Various Artists Mirror Conspiracy – Thievery Corporation… Read More Amazon Picks the Top Electronica of 2003
Arista has announced that on Dec 16th, they will be releasing Remixed – a collection of Sarah McLachan’s hits sliced and diced by some of the electronica world’s hottest artists. This means that Dec. 16th, the women of Lilith will be on the dancefloor. This should be an interesting CD. McLachlan’s vocals and songwriting are… Read More Sarah McLachlan Gets Remixed
