While hip-hop continued to get mo’ live in ’05 and indie rock further honed post-punk/emo’s affectations into something more genuinely affecting, the arch-paradigms from the past 12 months of electronic composition seemed more concerned with looking in than locking in. For the most part, top producers haven’t seemed as worried…
As part of Factory Records’ biggest act of the ’80s, New Order bassist Peter Hook helped fund the Hacienda club in Manchester, the birthplace of Britain’s acid-house movement. Since then, he’s absorbed firsthand some of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll/indie pop tunes of the past few decades. These days, he’s…
Named after the act of two lesbians sitting with legs interlocked, rubbing their genitals together, New York’s Scissor Sisters are exactly what the post-election “red states” fear most about the bicoastal “blue states.” After all, as keyboardist/bassist/group epicenter Scott “Babydaddy” Hoffman remarks, “It would only take a little white to…
Since forming in Munich in 1997, Chicks on Speed has evolved from a proto-electroclash pastiche to a boutique busker of buzzing electro. The multinational assembly of German Kiki Moorse, New Yorker Melissa Logan, and Australian Alex Murray-Leslie originated as art academy feminists, designing clothing that doubled as collages. Following suit,…
There’s an immediate urge to say something snarky such as, “Oh, look, it’s the second coming” when first introduced to Liquid Chris H., the Scottish electrocoustic composer known singularly as Christ. But clichés can’t describe Metamorphic Reproduction Miracle, Christ’s debut full-length (following the 2002 Pylonesque EP), which is a murky,…
