Word: electronica
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...band Mofro, a Florida-based favorite, plays tracks from both Blackwater, their newly re-released CD, and a new CD to be released next year. Originally from Amherst, MA, Hi8us features a unique mix of funk, rock, pop, Latin, reggae, and electronica. 8 p.m. $12 ($5 off with String Cheese Incident stub). The Middle East Downstairs, 472 Mass...
Features Del tha Funkee Homosapien, one of hip-hop’s most interesting musical innovators, who has pulled his posse, the Hieroglyphics, out of relative obscurity with a strong electronica-influenced MC style. With a strong sense of flow and solid rhymes indisputable to anyone who wants to see why underground hip-hop has a strong fan base, they bring the beats back into service for black culture and blatantly demonstrate the ridiculousness of the bling-bling culture. 8 p.m. $20 advance, $23 door; 18+. The Middle East Downstairs, 472 Massachusetts...
...Roth, he turns unvarnished neurosis into art. The French sounds much as Hefner did on their last album, Dead Media: sparse organ arrangements that almost qualify as melodies, with occasional blips and bleeps added. Hayman says he had to create a new band to accommodate his increasing push toward electronica: "I don't think of eclectic as a good thing in a band, and to record the songs the way I want them to sound as a Hefner record would be misleading people...
...French songs are about something like commitment. In The Stars, the Moon, the Sun and the Clouds, the singer chastises his girlfriend's scholarly squalor: "It's all very well/ Learning poetry by heart/ But it doesn't mean/ We have to live like poets." As with so much electronica, there's a soulless quality to this record, not helped by Hayman's insistence on recording with a drum machine. His DIY aesthetic has its own appeal, but without guitars to ground it, his plaintive voice risks floating off into nasal helium. But he can still make me laugh...
...place that people who don’t enjoy really cheesy, awful, mainstream techno music can go, and enjoy really unique takes on old-school 80s music and really unique genres of electronica,” said Julia C. Davidson ’05, who said ManRay is closer to the Harvard community than other dance clubs, almost all of which are in Boston. “There’s really interesting people—a whole different subculture really—that you don’t normally find in Boston...