Schneider Tm Moist Mute/City Slang By: Eric Greenwood Schneider Tm is Dirk Dresselhaus, a German electronic noisemaker with a proclivity for hypnotic grooves and dense aural landscapes. He underscores layers of sounds with simple, repetitive beats, and the effect is less chilling than Kraftwerk but more accessible than Can or Faust. The blips and bleeps […]

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Science Park Futurama Obscure-disk By: Kerry Mitchell Futurama, Science Park’s second album mixes Barlow vocals with Merritt-esque rhythms and New Order hooks and melodies. The band is made up of one Mr. Myke Weiskopf, a talented singer/songwriter with great pop sensibilities and an equally impressive ear for composition. Songs such as “Lay You Out in […]

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The Sensualists s/t Adr By: Eric Greenwood The Sensualists hail from Portland, Oregon and have concocted an unusual collage of pop, electronic experimentation, and sampling along with some pitch-bended, Luscious Jackson-esque vocals. The band’s sound is based on the noises found in a wide range of vintage keyboards, most notably the Farfisa and the Univox. […]

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Si-{cut}.db Rate Of Living Sprawl Imprint By: Eric Greenwood This is Britain’s Douglas Benford’s third release under the Si-{Cut}.db moniker, and it is stylish, high caliber headphone music. Disparate beats shake the foundation of simple, congruent melodies throughout this record. “Stop London Sinking” fits this scenario perfectly with steel-drum sounding keyboards twinkling happy little melodies […]

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Sleater-Kinney The Hot Rock Kill Rock Stars By: Eric Greenwood The Hot Rock is an abrupt departure from the angular assault of Sleater-Kinney’s last offering, Dig Me Out. The guitars are quieter and more intricate yet they retain a sense of urgency that is the common denominator in all of Sleater-Kinney’s music. Lead vocalist Corin […]

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Slick Sixty Nibs And Nabs Mute By: Eric Greenwood This debut album from South London’s Slick Sixty combines the band’s early singles and b-sides for an electro-jazz, bigbeat, breakbeat, old school extravaganza. Think Screamadelica-era Primal Scream mixed with lazy, laid-back hip-hop beats and smooth seventies funk on top of early nineties psychedelia and you’ll be […]

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South Park: Bigger, Longer And Uncut Directed By Trey Parker Paramount Pictures By: Eric Greenwood Jokes about ‘uncle fuckers’ and Canadians are always funny. Being offended by South Park is just sad. Sure, there will be tons of lame organizations claiming that South Park will lead to another Columbine with its gratuitous violence, blind intolerance, […]

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