Headaches
“Headaches,” one might think, would certainly rank low on a list of potential monikers for a musician, lest possible audiences be scared off – nomen est omen – but in New York there is
The Sunday Soundcloud – Dash?
As regards this and the other Musicuratum website, the last week has largely been absorbed by the work after the work, which proved to be somewhat less protracted than the former but
The Sunday Round-Up on Soundcloud
This Sunday, for a change, the Soundcloud round-up is occurring early, very early in the morning; I have a lot on at the moment and may as well send it forth now. First up, thanks to a kind
Tracks to Travel by: A Playlist for the Road
While I am traveling, what could be better, in lieu of a more regular schedule of posts on this site, than an international playlist of twenty-five tracks meant to fill those empty
For an Evening Like This: “Heavy Metal Lover” (Lady Gaga)
Tonight bring all your friends because a group does it better … Yes, this evening it will be that time of the year once again. Now, apart from the intrinsic interest of much of what
The Give ’em Hell Boys
While compiling yesterday’s playlist, I came across a quite distinctive version of “Bizarre Love Triangle” – turned into a country tune! Naturally then I was curious to know
“Bizarre Love Triangle” Again: A Second Playlist
Some months ago I compiled a Youtube playlist of a number of covers done of the song “Bizarre Love Triangle,” perhaps the most memorable – certainly one of the most moving – of the numbers recorded
Dan Tramte
Currently pursuing a doctorate in the music department of the University of North Texas, Dan Tramte is a composer with a great interest in computer technology and its musical usages
Nicolas Jaar and His Friends: An Update
While carrying out some routine maintenance here, I noticed that the audio tracks I had included in the post on “Nicolas Jaar and his friends” had gone dead, as a consequence of a
A Sunday Evening Interlude: “Bizarre Love Triangle”
To chance upon an allusion to “Love Will Tear Us Apart” today was unexpected, and the encounter threw me back forcibly to the time when that number was new; it struck me, but not for
College
Those who, having missed it the first time around or paid insufficient attention back then, require instruction in electronica of a sort of which more than a few scores for Hollywood films
Pursuit Grooves
Pursuit Grooves, as the multitalented New Yorker Vanese Smith is known in her work as a DJ (in this capacity she performs frequently on both sides of the Atlantic) and music producer
North American Nihilists in London
In many ears it must sound like a strange phrase, most likely, but it actually refers to something: London as an American city (for many hundreds of thousands of Americans live
Valentin Stip
Signed last year to the Clown and Sunset label for an EP, Anytime Will Do, Valentin Stip is a Parisian transplant in Montréal who, as could be expected of one of Nicolas Jaar’s associates
Milosh
The singer and electronic musician known as Milosh (a.k.a. Michael Milosh) hails from Toronto, Canada, but moves about frequently, as he states on his Facebook page
