Articles tagged "electronic music"

"Too future for y'all."

_*Welcome back to Motherboard Vault, our weekly digging up of videos from Motherboard's ever-growing library.*_ Just about everybody considers "electronic music" a tired phrase in this era of a million genres and subgenres. It's not that it's a ba…

Not done with the thing itself, of course. Just the "electronic" qualification. It has become not so much incorrect, but redundant and awkward. And has been for some time. Dan Deacon made this point yesterday afternoon "on NPR":http://www.npr.org…

M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel, the duo / couple behind the experimental electronic group Matmos, moved from San Francisco to Baltimore a few years back, where they've assembled an army of vintage synths and soundmaking ephemera into a psychedelic cast…

What kind of music would robots make? Blips and bloops, most likely, with a whole lot of abstract tones and soundwave manipulation. You know, droning stuff that sounds like auditory binary. I mean, come on. How musical could a robot be? Such were

After a day of phrases like “music ecosystems” and “brand building,” I needed to escape.

Ralph Lundsten started recording music in the roaring 60s. Unlike many of his equally-psychedelic contemporaries, he's gone on to have an epically prolific career with somewhere north of 100 albums under his belt, ranging from electronica to opera. B…

Looping and the sublime, subtle joys of repetition in electronic music will never go away but, in the meantime, we'll have to deal with a lot more electrocore/wobblecore bullshit from producers like you-know-who-ex. The Field's Axel Willner, however,…

When post-shoegaze magician - the peerless electronic wunderkind - Ulrich Schnauss invited us to his apartment in London, he specified it would have to be at night due to his predilection for 'nocturnal' activities. What a way to set the scene.

The Motherboard music show Electric Independence checks in with Morton Subotnick. Subotnick has been synthesizing sound since the early 60s. He has made some of the most important contributions to electronic music including, but not limited to, d…