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Talking Shop With Oslo
September 11, 2008 – 9:18 PM
Welcome to the ninth edition of our series of short interviews affectionately titled Talking Shop. The majority of media and fan attention gets showered on the artists who create the music we love to listen to/DJ with/dance to, and for good reasons. But without the hard work, keen ears and business savvy of label staff, […]
LWE Interviews Thomas Melchior
August 28, 2008 – 6:52 PM
Ease is in. At every turn there’s a new opportunity to make work easier, more convenient, more portable, more inviting, whether through gadgets, software, formats or attitudes. In that regard, Thomas Melchior, a seasoned craftsman of electronic music, has always swam upstream. Diving deeper and more intimately involved with his music over the course of […]
Talking Shop with Philpot
August 7, 2008 – 6:15 PM
Lawrence Philpot in action Welcome to the seventh edition of our series of short interviews affectionately titled Talking Shop. The majority of media and fan attention gets showered on the artists who create the music we love to listen to/DJ with/dance to, and for good reasons. But without the hard work, keen ears and business […]
Little White Earbuds Interviews Tobias Freund
July 17, 2008 – 9:27 PM
Whether as a studio hand, engineer, remixer, producer, collaborator, or source of inspiration, Tobias Freund has been deeply involved in the music business for nearly 25 years. And where other veteran musicians might have been content to rest on their laurels, Freund is hungrier than ever, pursuing the depths of aural experimentation as one half […]
Talking Shop with Buzzin’ Fly
July 3, 2008 – 8:14 PM
Welcome to the sixth edition of our series of short interviews affectionately titled Talking Shop. The majority of media and fan attention gets showered on the artists who create the music we love to listen to/DJ with/dance to, and for good reasons. But without the hard work, keen ears and business savvy of label staff, […]
Little White Earbuds Interviews Osborne
June 19, 2008 – 9:09 PM
We talked to Todd Osborn until he was blue in the face. Artistic curiosity is a volatile force which can lead to stunning new sounds or, more often, regrettable messes. But to get to the former, artists need the courage to endure the inevitable latter and soldier on. Todd Osborn is fully equipped with both, […]
Talking Shop with Ghostly/Spectral Sound
May 30, 2008 – 7:12 AM
Welcome to the fifth edition of our series of short interviews affectionately titled Talking Shop. The majority of media and fan attention gets showered on the artists who create the music we love to listen to/DJ with/dance to, and for good reasons. But without the hard work, keen ears and business savvy of label staff, […]
Little White Earbuds Interviews MyMy
May 22, 2008 – 10:01 PM
Three cool cats: (L-R) Lee Jones, Carsten Klemann and Nick Höppner. Photo by Katja Jaruge My My approach house and techno with artisians’ flair, crafting aural mosaics from hundreds of little sounds glued atop engaging melodies. You can listen closely and admire all the details slipped into every crevice or step back into the crowd […]
LWE Podcast 02: dOP
May 1, 2008 – 10:12 PM
Theirs for the taking: dOP hangs out. Photo by Myqua. Parisian trio dOP doesn’t DJ, rarely spends time in clubs, prefers physical instruments to VSTs, and writes “songs,” not “tracks.” Perhaps their outsiders’ instincts are exactly why Damien Vandesande, Jonathan “Jo” Illel and Clement Zemstov are poised on the cutting edge of house/techno, though their […]
Talking Shop with Moodmusic
April 17, 2008 – 10:16 PM
Welcome to the fourth edition of our series of short interviews affectionately titled Talking Shop. The majority of media and fan attention gets showered on the artists who create the music we love to listen to/DJ with/dance to, and for good reasons. But without the hard work, keen ears and business savvy of label staff, […]
LWE Interviews Brendon Moeller
March 21, 2008 – 9:25 AM
Many musicians end up moving to New York City to boost their career and get closer the signature sounds which prodded them to play music in the first place. But it’s a bit rarer to find an artist whose love for the feedback-laden outlook of the No Wave scene leads them to switch continents and […]
Talking Shop with Modern Love
March 7, 2008 – 12:49 AM
Welcome to the third edition of our series of short interviews affectionately titled Talking Shop. The majority of media and fan attention gets showered on the artists who create the music we love to listen to/DJ with/dance to, and for good reasons. But without the hard work, keen ears and business savvy of label staff, […]
Talking Shop with Brontosaurus
February 20, 2008 – 12:25 AM
Welcome to the second edition of our series of short interviews, affectionately titled Talking Shop. The majority of media and fan attention gets showered on the artists who create the music we love to listen to/DJ with/dance to, and for good reasons. But without the hard work, keen ears and business savvy of label staff, […]
LWE Interviews Simian Mobile Disco
December 11, 2007 – 8:16 PM
Photos by Sanchez and Kitahara Simian Mobile Disco truly lived up to their middle name in 2007 by relentlessly touring the world, bringing the better portion of their studio and face-burning light rigs on the road to fully indoctrinate audiences. The duo also released their debut album, Attack Decay Sustain Release, which managed to be […]
LWE Interviews Matthew Dear
December 2, 2007 – 6:23 PM
A couple months ago I was watching television and suddenly, the loping beat of “Don & Sherri,” a single by Matthew Dear, bounded from my set. Before I knew it, I was on my feet and wiggling to one of my favorite tunes… as H3 Hummers zoomed around urban landscapes and tackled rugged terrain. But why was I elated to find Dear’s music in a Hummer commercial? In a consumer culture where record sales are constantly eaten away by illicit downloading, an artist as talented as Matthew Dear doesn’t wait for the masses to catch on in order to make a living. As it is, he’s been releasing records for nearly a decade, having contributed to the first Ghostly International and Spectral Sound releases around the turn of the century. Within that time, Dear spawned three fruitful and separate careers as False (his minimal house and techno guise recording for Plus 8 and M_nus), Audion (a harder, more aggressive techno persona recording for Spectral Sound) and as himself.
LWE Interviews Mark August
September 7, 2007 – 4:55 AM
Download: Mark August’s exclusive LWE mix What was your first techno/house record? Mark August: That was Leftism by Leftfield. I was a typical grunge-kid at the time: Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Helmet, NIN, Pearl Jam; I had also long hair in a ponytail and was wearing yellow Doc Martens. Somehow Underworld made it in our friends’ […]