Carl Craig's name is symbolic of everything good about Detroit techno. With deep roots and respect for those who went before him, he brings a soulful approach to his productions that instantly set them on a groundbreaking course.
The first response on listening to Baron Zen, a turn-of-the-'90s jack-of-all-synths who was helped by the young Peanut Butter Wolf, is that it couldn't possibly have been made then. The funky-but-melodic keyboard tones have the hooky electro style of Daft Punk but the taste of James Murphy.
This jangle-pop bunch follows the Beach Boys in sentiment and style, but it has new ends in mind. Put differently, the group wishes they all could be South Carolina girls. Musically, this means plenty of tambourines and twee harmonies, but with orchestration that's more psychedelic than sandy.
It's no secret that Power Downloader's favorite Web browser is Firefox, for both Windows and Mac. Judging from the Mozilla browser's growing market share, it's not just Power's favorite, but the preferred browser of many of his fans, too. So, he's happy to recommend one of the most useful Firefox extensions he's ever come across: MR Tech Local Install.
It's a mouthful of a name, but it's got features for beginners and power users. Basically, it's the extension's extension, giving users added control over add-on behavior as well as … Read more
For most bands, taking a decade off from recording can mean risking the permanent loss of the musical thread. Not so for the inimitable Kate Pierson and Fred Schneider, who will always sound just like themselves. Long-awaited new LP "Funplex" is electric, irreverent, and clever.
The Canadian duo's electronic-pop-meets-Nintendo-core sends '80s babies into a nostalgic hyper state. They've have steadily amassed a cult following over the last several years, and considering that hipsters lean more toward electronica these days, we're sure it will only increase.
Not only isn't the St. Louis artist a garden-variety hip-hopper, he's not even a garden-variety soul-hop/jazz/rocker. Spade mixes the hybrid's familiar moves--glowing basslines; an earthy, organic vibe--with trickier rhythmic forays and unpredictable production.
Those crazy guys behind the LimeWire file-sharing application have set up a DRM-free music store--LimeWire Store--where users can choose from 500,000 MP3s, taken from the catalogs of absolutely no major labels. Alternatively, users can download free, lossless versions of millions of songs from every major label using the usual LimeWire "technique." Which, RIAA lawyers would likely argue, is illegal.
If skepticism were a flavor of ice cream, we'd be sitting here with the world's most excruciating brain freeze. Napster managed to redeem itself by having its name bought by another company, having its … Read more
Apple on Tuesday announced that version 3.1 of its Safari browser is available for both Mac and Windows users.
The Web browser now supports a number of new Web standards: HTML 5's latest audio and video tags, as well as CSS Animations. Apple claims that page load times in Safari 3.1 are 1.9 times faster than Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 and 1.7 times faster than Mozilla's Firefox 2, and that JavaScript runs as much as six times faster in the new Safari than in other browsers.
Apple offers Safari as a free download. … Read more
In the Secretly Canadian group's debut LP, Jeff Mangum's raw folk aesthetic meets, of all things, the sort of distortion fogs now obsessing the Magnetic Fields. Topped with a Vampire Weekend-esque interest in grammar and a Shins-y tragicomic touch, it amounts to sublimely blended indie rock.
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