Despacio Effect at Sónar 2014
TECHNOLOGY DOESN’T HAVE ANY LIMITS. HUMANS DO. Technology has been serving, and destroying humanity doing what they are unable to, or do not want to. This sure is comfortable, but it turned out that while useful as well, communication technology that favors cerebral involvement can be very easily used to manipulate masses, and greed and...
Sónar 2014: in-between the present and the future…
Barcelona is a sunny and pleasant city year-round; yet, around early June it feels almost even more pleasant. It is indeed an ideal time to enjoy the city before the sun and crowds hit hard; and for some, it means three days of day & night festivities by mid-June. It is when the Sónar fever takes...
Primavera Sound – a music geek’s guide for survival
183 concerts, 8 stages, 3 days, 2 tired legs, 1 long wishlist A music geek’s guide for survival, clash & crisis management, and what you should discover Thousands around the world held their breaths on a cold evening late-January, as Line-up the movie finally put an end to end the mystery surrounding that pressing question...
Climbing up the walls, sliding down the rabbit hole…
XTRNGR aims for new heights with his last album Climbing, and discovers a new sonic universe… If the name XTRNGR gives you the impression of a cold stage persona, as cryptic as its spelling, and as distant and “strange” as its pronunciation might suggest, then you’ve never been acquainted with Kenny Pérez and his music. And...
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MUTEK [ES] – Repercussions of a Near-Perfect Festival
The silver lining of a fashionably late festival chronicle is the opportunity it affords to see the calm after the storm. Highlights have already made the headlines, and headlines have defined the highlights. Certain points were emphasized for public attention, and everything else has started to mold into an individual aftertaste. When a forward-thinking, innovative...
The Mile-High Festival: ELECTROSNOW
Among all the music festivals, if one would be awarded for its ability to seduce people only with its name, it should be Electrosnow… Especially because it’s not just a name picked to sound “cool” – it is exactly what the festival offers: electronic music by world-class DJs, snow, skiing / snowboarding, lots of...
Human footprints on digital ground
Open your mind, and prepare to expect a lot more than bright lights and thumping beats… Visuals that are integral parts of the musical narrative, playful mixing and matching of the digital, analog, words, movement, lights, sounds, performances in which audio tracks are deconstructed, ripped into pieces only to be played with and reconstructed live,...
