Feb
16

Beat Traps: Shigeto’s “Lineage”

Chris Daly was high when he wrote this, so forgive him if it goes astray. Eight samurai and three people in suits with bicycles, one of which is a small child, interact on the porch of a pagoda. While you could be forgiven for thinking the previous sentence was either the set up for a… Continue reading »

Oct
19

Gold Pandas and Peaking Lights

The most striking cut on Ghostly-signed Gold Panda’s DJ Kicks is its its severe opener, “An Iceberg Hurled Northwards Through Clouds.” Ignoring the Eggers-ready title, the track delivers on it’s arctic intentions. It is snow blinding minimal techno, except with steel drums and odd bell ringing. Peaking Lights dope it, dragging things out to an… Continue reading »

Aug
30

Whiling the Hours with Tycho

You can do a lot in a half decade. Raise a child to school age. Learn a Berlitz’s worth of foreign languages. Graduate college at a state school. Or wage roughly half of a billion dollar foreign war of little domestic or strategic importance. Tycho opted for more pastoral and pacifistic means, recording Dive, the… Continue reading »