Archive for the 'Artist Spotlight' Category

Artist Spotlight - Tonight

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

Photo and Art Direction by: Philistine DSGN
MGT ASKS:
Your hometown:
Ann Arbor / Ypsi, MI
Instruments used in your music making:
We use a whole bunch of analog/digital synthesizers and drum machines, our favorites being the Juno 106, the Roland D50, and the monomachine.
What albums inspired you to start making music?
The Beach Boys Greatest Hits
Bee Gees Greatest Hits
The Monkees […]

Artist Spotlight - Mux Mool

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

photo credit: Shandra O’Connell
MGT ASKS:
Your hometown:
Minneapolis, MN
Instruments used in your music making:
Midi Keyboard, G4 mac laptop, Reason, Ableton Live, Traktor (for remixes), Coffee, Rock Star energy drinks, and of course, Marlboro cigarettes
What albums inspired you to start making music?
Early on it was Daft Punk, Chemical Brothers, and Fatboy Slim. Now it’s all about J Dilla.
What […]

Artist Spotlight - Brael

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

MGT ASKS:
Your hometown:
Ann Arbor
Instruments used in your music making:
Fender Stratocaster, Fender Precision Bass, Austin Acoustic-Electric, Guild Classical Acoustic, Prophet 600, Musser M 55-G Vibraphone, Glockenspiel, Djembe, Casio SK1, Found Noise, Reason
What albums inspired you to start making music?
Smashing Pumpkins’ “Siamese Dream”
Autechre’s “Amber”
Cevin Key’s “Music for Cats”
Download’s “III”
Metallica’s “Master of Puppets”
What have you been working on […]

Artist Spotlight - Benoît Pioulard

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

MGT ASKS

What’s your hometown?
East Lansing, Michigan.
What Instruments do you use in your music making?
[see photo below] + bass, tape decks, harmonium, etc.

What albums inspired you to start making music?
Downward is heavenward by Hum
I care because you do by Aphex Twin
White light/white heat by the Velvet Underground
What have you been working on recently?
A new record for […]

Artist Spotlight - Warez

Friday, October 12th, 2007

Upbeat Glitch R&B? Soulful Experimental House? Call it what you like, but the music of Warez defies easy description. Raised on a steady diet of Jazz and R&B as a child, Warez quickly developed a fascination for the sonic mechanics and structure of pop music in all its various forms. He has since […]

Artist Spotlight - Tstewart

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

MGT ASKS
What’s your hometown
Hickory, North Carolina.
What instruments do you use in your music making?
Guitar, Piano, Violin, Drums, Vibraphone, Marimba, Trumpet, Vocals, Moog Prodigy, Impulse Tracker, Various Soft Synths, LoveLoveLove.
What albums inspired you to start making music?
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream , Skinny Puppy - Last Rites, Metallica - ..and Justice for All , Aphex […]

Tokyo Bloodworm & Brael to collaborate on UK Label

Monday, October 8th, 2007

Bandmates Andrew Sanchez (pictured on the left, aka Metakinetic) and Ryan Keane (pictured on the right) have teamed up with labelmates Brael
to release a collaborative record. The record will be coming out in Dec/Jan on Moteer Records (The Boats, Manyfingers, Remote Viewer) which will combine the beautiful sounds these two groups output.

Isomer Transition Receives Rave Review, Readies New EPs

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Isomer Transition got some love from the wonderful music site Lost At Sea, who also gave The Rorschach Suite much praise earlier this year.
“The beat construction on this painfully short joint is most easily likened to that of Matthew Dear’s Audion … and the only disappointments with Mission to Mars is it’s …brevity” - Josh […]

Moodgadget to Release JDSY’s Understander EP

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

You maybe familiar with JDSY from the slew of singles he’s released on compilations and remixes over the past few years. His remix of Solvent’s “For You” on Ghostly International garnered the following praise from Pitchfork Media, “…and then JDSY come along to beat all with the most arresting thing here– raw non-robot vocals over […]