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In 1959, Ornette Coleman released The Shape of Jazz To Come, a record with content almost as audacious as its title. Forty-seven years later, Coleman at least partially fulfilled his own challenge…   Read Story »
Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin, better known as Oneohtrix Point Never, are both experimental electronic music titans in their own respective rights, and now they've teamed up for an improvised…   Read Story »
Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin (aka Oneohtrix Point Never) have produced no shortage of brilliant work on their own, so while a collaboration between the two electronic composers is an intriguing…   Read Story »
If the world of experimental synth-drone music can be said to have any stars, then two of the brightest are Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin, the latter of whom records as Oneohtrix Point Never. And now…   Read Story »
Friday's first day of Pitchfork Festival wasted no time getting into it, where many festival entrants walked in to the fully-wrought hypnotic swirl of Lower Dens, a set that eventually gave way to…   Read Story »
After a holiday break and an inclemently weathered January, our Monthly Mix series returns with a two-month/one-mix compilation that sets a defiant tone. If not for the year, then for the…   Read Story »
Canadian electronic composer Tim Hecker's 2006 blizzard symphony Harmony In Ultraviolet is one of my favorite albums of its kind, its escalating mix of submerged synths, radio static,…   Read Story »
I admire Destroyer's vastness. Dan Bejar writes distinct, ambitious, ridiculously rich, self- and otherwise referential music you can compare to the work of Roberto BolaƱo without feeling entirely…   Read Story »