Posts tagged with “Styles Upon Styles”
March 4, 2015
Umor Rex, 2.24.2015
Phil “PT” Tortoroli co-curates NYC’s burgeoning Styles Upon Styles imprint, which is focused on dropping adventurous slabs of wax in a primarily electronic vein. Alongside the mother imprint, which features arresting music from the likes of Archie Pelago and White Visitation,…
January 10, 2015
Happy New Year and all that; welcome to our first Week in Review in 2015. Coming off our longest break of the year, it’s also sure to be our least comprehensive… for every day we missed while staring raptly at our respective present piles, there was surely an incredible new tape or record…
January 8, 2015
In a sea of fledgling artists peddling their take on “eccentric” and “soulful” electronic R&B – and trust me, not a day goes by that my inbox isn’t flooded with a dozen new messages of the like – Gabriel Garzón-Montano’s 2014 EP Bishouné: Alma del Huila…
October 18, 2014
This week I’m excited to share information on the newly-minted Eastern Daze festival, a celebration of the intersection of ancient and modern that gives the world “trance music” (broadly speaking). According to the organizers, Eastern Daze is “…a collaborative effort between…
October 4, 2014
#1 – 9/28/2014 – Soft Corridor released a cassette of Abigail Rosa Ghimp’s (a.k.a. Gail Ghimp) Fire / Failure Soundtrack, a haunted set of dark and largely unheard home recordings. As the solemn story goes, Ghimp recorded the “pure weirdo dadaistic sampling creation,…
September 27, 2014
#1 – 9/20/2014 – Ron Morelli of L.I.E.S. sat down for a tongue wagging with Eric Copeland over at FACT Magazine about the latter’s new album for the label, Logo My Ego, their respective pasts, and the exigencies of an album release (something L.I.E.S. does well I’d hazard)….
August 23, 2014
The big news this week came from SoundCloud, who emailed users mid-week to let them know that the upload limit for free accounts had been raised by an hour’s worth of material, and that the site would begin expanding its architecture to accommodate advertising and royalty schemes. Though some…
October 24, 2013
When we last heard from White Visitation, Mexico City’s most minimal dub-techno producer, details of the project’s background were scarce and projections of its future even scarcer. With a string of four tapes (the sequentially numerical 1, 2, and 3 and bizarrely out-of-sync Dubs),…
October 15, 2013
With its latest offering, Brooklyn mutant techno aficionado Styles Upon Styles continues the supposed “dance floor scorcher b/w iced-out afterburner” M.O. of its Bangers & Ash series with a double dose of affected subversion. The BASH series’ most recent outing (last month’s…
August 1, 2013
As Best Available Technology, Portland, OR producer Kevin Palmer creates a woozy brand of bleak beats and heaving house music that touches on dropped out Detroit House and mid-90′s Warp-techno peculiarities. Palmer, whose varied sounds have already been issued by the likes of Opal Tapes, Further…
