Word: electronica
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...This is the first time we tried [to put together] everything we wanted to do—the electronica, the string arrangements,” the curly-haired Acher, who speaks with a vague European accent, says of the album. “Something that has always been important to the Notwist is the song,” which they say they assemble like “a puzzle...
With Think Tank, Blur manage to summarize their entire career on a single genre-bending album. While they are still far from masters of electronica, they succeed with flying colors on most counts...
...Tongues? When you can’t categorize a sound, you can’t limit its possibilities—something Common apparently understands and capitalizes upon in Electric Circus. Last year’s amazing albums from The Roots, Talib Kweli and Cody Chesnutt proved the place of electronica and the electric guitar in the music of this new hip-hop movement. But Common’s new album delivers the exclamation point on an already strong declaration. In “New Wave,” Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab delivers a stunning vocal hook as Common declares...
...bother with a menu, sit back and let your waiter make the choices. Camlik Sokak, No. 15/3, tel. +212 270 24 33 BEST MUSIC Toward the Galata Tower is an area known as Tunel, a center for nightlife. Babylon is a favorite, and features everything from German electronica to Cuban rapsters to Turkish jazz. Check out what's on at www.babylon-ist.com. Seyhbender Sokak, 3, tel. +212 292 73 68 BEST CLUBS Istanbul's jet set kick up their well-shod heels at Leila and Reina, exclusive night-clubs with both summer and winter venues. Their summer spots on the Bosporus...
...Myself Arrested” was released in 1996, and got a fair amount of attention, but they are not and never have been a single-driven group. Their albums are dense, complex affairs that sound almost schizophrenic as the band shifts vocalists and styles, toying with everything from goofy electronica to raging blues. The first four tracks off their first album Bring It On sound like the work of four different bands. Their latest album, In Our Gun, was no less chameleonic, though the individual songs were less mercurial, favoring instead a more concise approach to song-writing. Or maybe...