Télépathie in Coda Magazine
Pour produire la musique globalement ambient et sereine, bien que continuellement parcourue de craquements minimalistes et d’impressionnants bruissements qui zèbrent l’espace sonore du bien nommé
Pour produire la musique globalement ambient et sereine, bien que continuellement parcourue de craquements minimalistes et d’impressionnants bruissements qui zèbrent l’espace sonore du bien nommé
En matière de musiques expérimentales, la scène canadienne est aujourd’hui une des plus actives qui soient. Qu’il s’agisse de post-rock (la nébuleuse gravitant autour de Godspeed You
It’s groovy, deep and funky, yet there is nothing happening. A few clicks here and there, the same keys relooped over and over again, an almost inaudible bass and the straight drumbeats lost even further down in the mix. It is cool, relaxed and will make you bang your head nevertheless. The invisible disco. Minimal is the word. Four tracks for the modern lounge right before the night breaks loose. And no one will care if that lounge is in some urban hotspot or your own livingroom. Or if you make your living room into a hotspot. If you have style, style is where you have it.
This is one of those records, where you think that listening really closely will reveal that there is a lot happening that you don’t hear if it just plays in the background. This time it is not true. There is not a lot happening. It is the mix and the relations between these few ingredients that make the magic of these tracks. This is where the space between sounds becomes as important as the spaces filled with sound. Minimalist. Another vinyl brick in an ongoing musical revolution
Books on Tape is
What’s important to say about Todd’s musical influences is that he’s a huge fan of Pavement, Sonic Youth, The Pixies, Art Ensemble Of Chicago (and lots more) and calls his electronic music style “beatpunk”. It’s music with lots of energy, noisy beats and often unconventional rhythms — loud, beat-oriented and uncompromising songs. Not being a personal interpretation of a well known musical expression, Books on Tape goes in another direction — fresh, new, funny and yet very serious and adventurous.
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Da rockt die Playstation, da bebt der Atari und dazu spasten die Teletubbies, Schweißperlen am Popo. Oh oh. In etwa so arbeitet sich der Humor des Kanadiers