While work of British musician Xqui may sound nothing like MIA, listening to his new single "Epiphany" one can't help but notice some parallels (whether intentional or not) to "Paper Planes", the sound FX heavy/Clash-sampling hit from 2000s. The focal point, in case of Xqui's piece, is what sounds like a tiny looped sample of…
One of the more curious things on the first volume of Sub Rosa's Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music is a piece by Sonic Youth entitled Audience. Its a heavily modified recording of the crowd that was made at the band's 1983 show in Berlin. As sonicyouth.com explains: The overall effect produced by Audience is a rather…
Futuristic and forward-thinking to the t, Barbara Morgenstern's music simply cries out for an equally forward-thinking visual backdrop and Petridisch delivers the goods. "Am Rand", one of her earliest recordings, still sounds very fresh in spite of being more than 20 years old and its only fitting that the video for the song is pure…
Cherchez la femme they say in France and that certainly applies to both Burn My Letters, first solo album by William Carlos Whitten/Bill Whitten and a trilogy of videos he produced for the said album. Poor Thing picks up from where the videos for title track off of BML and In My Borsalino, Pointing a…
