A wise person once asked, "What's in a name?" To which some arrogant ass replied, "Everything." The less presumptuous among us aren't so quick to accept that answer, but one could hardly contest the fact that Electric Lights Flashing Very Fast is big enough to contain five words, nine syllables and one obscure Syd Barrett reference. But if their name is big, this New York City-based power trio's sound is downright gargantuan. Conjuring the camp ferocity of the Louis XIV (T. Rex), the epic scale of The Arca...   [ read more ]

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Octant's core is Tassy Zimmerman and Matt Steinke with some occasional guests, Summer Mastos (piano/synthesizer) and Pierre Crutchfield (bass clarinet/turntables). Matt constructs most of their instruments himself; light sensitive samplers, an electrified stringboard, frequency modulators, a random tone generator made from an old plastic bowling ball and the robotic drum set programmed to play itself. Car Alarms and Crickets explores both electronic and acoustic soundscapes, landing at destinations bot...   [ read more ]

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Most people shunt disco into a category either well-stuffed with white suits, mirror balls and Tony Manero wannabes from the movement's American heyday, or packed with the Euro stylings of Giorgio Moroder and synthesized grooves. As a result, the era has been distilled into a standardized set list of mixes, club staples and ho-hum rip offs. However, what disco actually set out to be, and its shape and nature before it was corrupted by the mainstream dreamers, proves a fascinating, stunning and ...   [ read more ]

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