Radio Massacre Int'l live on STAR'S END Radio Massacre Int'l are a trio from England following the path laid down by the "Berlin School" of cosmic music. The...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
May 14, 2004 3:28 am
STAR'S END Update 05.16.04 Ace Paradise is the musical persona of Audubon, New Jersey native Ed Aceto. His long time fascination with Electronic Music has led...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
May 21, 2004 4:13 am
For some musicians, the process of creating music itself is their personal refuge from the world - a way to release tension, a way to become fully absorbed in...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
May 28, 2004 3:52 am
As with any technology driven artform, electronic musicians are often subject to the "imitation vs inspiration" debate: is this music merely variations on...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Jun 5, 2004 4:19 am
The small hours are prime time for creativity. Late at night, when all is still and quiet, and it seems as if there is no one else in the world, electronic...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Jun 11, 2004 4:29 am
Among the world's most imaginative post-rock experimentalists is Pan*American, Mark Nelson's project outside of Labradford. QUIET CITY (45'09") is his forth...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Jun 18, 2004 4:07 am
A TEMPERAMENT FOR ANGELS (28'24") is Michael Jon Fink's fascinating study of harmony. Fink uses, for the most part, conventional acoustic instruments like...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Jun 25, 2004 2:47 am
FIRST NARROWS (53'38"), the third album by loscil (aka Scott Morgan), contains seven gritty, glitchy audio studies of rhythm and texture. Ranging from...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Jul 2, 2004 4:25 am
The opening track on the album UNOMIA (57'00") by Helios (aka Keith Kennif) does something other pieces of modern electronic music can only aspire to do... It...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Jul 10, 2004 3:12 am
Lanterna's music wanders the front line of a style known as Ambient Americana. As Lanterna, Henry Frayne connects his achievements in post-punk and shoegazer...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Jul 16, 2004 3:59 am
The meeting between New Age music and digital sampling technology begot a pile of releases whose main feature was snippets of whale songs arbitrarily mixed...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Jul 23, 2004 6:15 pm
On THE GATE by Terra Ambient, electronic musician Jeff Kowal leaves the ranks of his synthesizer absorbed brethren to relate his personal musical story through...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Jul 30, 2004 2:49 am
Energized by the classic cosmic music of the 1970s, synthesists in the USA have been making significant world-class contributions to the community for many...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Aug 6, 2004 3:00 am
Over the years, STAR'S END has hosted numerous on-air in-studio radio concerts. These live performances were often, for the artists, a culmination of many...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Aug 13, 2004 3:30 am
On INDALO (70'50"), Max Corbacho and Bruno Sanfilippo collaborate to produce a musical crosscurrent of directions and influences. This work tells of a shared...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Aug 20, 2004 3:06 am
For composers exploring indeterminacy in music, the compositional process is no doubt fascinating, but often rough going for the audience. The intellectual...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Aug 27, 2004 7:01 am
Every electronic musician is eventually advised, by helpful neighbors or well-meaning relatives, to look into doing soundtrack work. Along with being the most...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Sep 4, 2004 6:55 am
ON THE TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS by John Adams commemorates those who lost their lives on the 11 September 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. It also mourns...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Sep 10, 2004 3:44 am
Public Radio is driven by the concept of content diversity and community enrichment; ideals not well served by the commercial sector. By concentrating on...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Sep 17, 2004 4:01 am
Science remains in the dark as to the matters that make life most worth living. It has been left to music and art to express human ideas about joy, happiness...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Sep 24, 2004 3:37 am
SANCTUARY OF DREAMS (73'14") by Numina (a.k.a. Jesse Sola) comes from the same spark as many other soundworld realizations in the field of Spacemusic. Through...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Oct 1, 2004 4:04 am
Luca Formentini seems to be investigating sound for the sheer satisfaction of discovery. Described by the author as "a life from the inside", SUBTERRANEANS is...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Oct 8, 2004 3:59 am
TONE-CONE (65'39") by Mind Transport Tools (a.k.a. Cameron Akhunaton) harkens back to the early days of electronic spacemusic, a time before the inclusion of...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Oct 15, 2004 4:43 am
Murcof (a.k.a. Fernando Corona) has had a reaction to the shallow gloss of techno music. It is the album UTOPIA (75'41"). Murcof may be from the world of...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Oct 22, 2004 3:51 am
TWILIGHT IN THE OFFING (60'27"), the debut album by Chad Hoefler, deals with our inescapable encounter with Truth. The 7 tracks exist as leviathans within this...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Oct 29, 2004 5:17 am
Avid STAR'S END listeners, Scott Watkins and Terry Furber of Orbital Decay have been influenced profoundly by Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Pink Floyd and...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Nov 5, 2004 6:08 am
With the opening track on THE DEAD TEXAN (46'37"), the self titled album by Adam Wiltzie, we find a piano dreaming, slowly breathing music in and out,...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Nov 12, 2004 5:48 am
Blow Up Hollywood sidesteps the ordinary with a range of original, moody, dreamy pop songs. Their music is textured, with strings and samples throughout and is...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Nov 19, 2004 5:20 am
Powered by their passion for sound, noted touch guitarist and looper Markus Reuter along with storied electronic musician Ian Boddy, craft disparate influences...
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Chuck van Zyl
c_vanzyl
Nov 26, 2004 6:15 am
Centrozoon works with free-improvisational, free-tonal, microtonal soundscapes. Within the rich and dense layers there are subtle rhythmic and tonal shifts...
