Word: masterminder
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When I met Anthony Gonzalez, the mastermind of M83, his eyes were squinting at the light of his laptop screen. Even in the moments before his sound check at the Paradise Rock club last Tuesday, Gonzalez looked to be on the brink of revelation. He stood only to shake my hand, glancing up from his music only briefly...
...toes to figure out where each tier of M83’s music gave way to the next, the experience consumed me. New songs blended with old, but it was all distinctly Gonzalez. From his crisp touch on a cheap keyboard to his orchestrated distorted bassline, the mastermind held control...
...action sequences. The former is what garnered the film’s fame in the East, and such acclaim is deserved. The characters are easily recognizable archetypes—from the tough-as-nails Landlady (Qiu Yuen) and her drunken, bumbling husband (Wah Yuen) to the sadistic, moustache-twirling mastermind (Kwok Kuen Chan)—and every actor milks them for all they’re worth...
...Montreal has always looked to the past, but the bygone era that mastermind Kevin Barnes daydreams of here is considerably more recent than usual. These two minutes hearkens more than anything—more, even, than the “Age of Aquarius”—to the period in the late ’90s when the Athens, Ga.-based Elephant 6 collective produced some of the more trippy retro-psych this side of “Hair.” When, for a moment, it seemed as if the Beatles and the Beach Boys had never...
...prime minister Ariel Sharon putting a hellfire missile through Mahmoud Abbas’s window, celebrating the defeat of Palestinian terrorism, and ignoring Hamas. While the moderate, democratically elected Chechen leader Maskhadov lies dead, other, more radical Islamic fundamentalist fighters are still at large. In particular, Shamil Basayef, the mastermind of the horrific Moscow theater and Beslan hostage takings, runs free. In fact, Basayef may well feel that his unrestrained tactics have been vindicated with the evident failure of Maskhadov’s moderate approach; whereas Maskhadov’s conventional guerrilla tactics—even the occasional call...