DIRTY BEACHES – (2011) BADLANDS This is the album by Alex (aka Dirty Beaches) Hungtai Zhang, a Taiwanese living in Canada that offered in 2011 an artful mixture of hazy rockabilly and psychedelic lo-fi with a unique “distant-crushed” humid tropical flavor in a sense of a low-energy/drifting vibe of a day spent. In this DIY [...]

We all have shadows and this is a band not shy of showing theirs as the name of the band suggests (NEW order, Joy DIVISION) but there is not carbon copy of their influence. Sure, additive synth keys brings those shadows from’78-’81 – 1st wave of post-punk. But the unique feature of the CD is [...]

Why today’s culture lives hooked to his past? Recycling and nostalgia have taken over everything. Ironically, our grandparents who, at this stage of the XXI century, thought we will be eating pills that taste like real food; wear monochromatic ware-droves and have flying cars. Instead, the spirit of nostalgic makes believe that in music and [...]

As this is Breast Cancer Awareness month, I would like to acknowledge Lhasa de Sela. Lhasa de Sela was an amazing and unique artist who died of breast cancer on January 1 of last year at the age of 37. Lhasa was a multi-language artist with her own philosophy. She used her poetic gifts in [...]

ISAM is the culmination of a trilogy by Amon Tobin in the past decade and his take on the purest form of electronic: Concrete Music, the fundamental pillar of electronic music. Pierre Schaeffer, French radio engineer of the 1940s, created the first electronic music studio in Paris and began experimenting with what he called “musique [...]