electronica Archives

Gearing Up For Moogfest 2012

Every year, the mountainous city of Asheville, North Carolina houses the electronic/post-rock powerhouse festival Moogfest. Named after Robert Moog, a pioneer of electronic instruments, the festival primarily brings across many of the leading contemporary artists of electronic music, but also branches into the realms of experimental rock, hip-hop and more. This is the third year that Asheville is hosting the festival, with the first five editions having been held in Manhattan and elsewhere in New…

AIR – NEW ALBUM ‘Love 2’ OUT Tomorrow!!

Album name: Love 2 Artist name: AIR Genre: Electronica/Pop/Experimental Released: October 5th 2009 Label: Astralwerks (US) / Virgin (ROW) ZME Rating: 10/10 Website: http://en.aircheology.com ; http://www.myspace.com/intairnet ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… We all know this band, we all appreciate its uniqueness and most incredible talent. And they’ve done it again. they will release tomorrow what in my opinion is they’re best work – a new material called “Love 2” ! The French electronic pop duo AIR – Jean-Benoit Dunckel…

Interview with Alcoholic Faith Mission

ZME: Let’s get to know you guys a little better. Please describe yourselves with no longer than 10 words each. What words best represent your characters, your way of life etc.? Sune Sølund – opinionated know-it-all kind a guy with flair for morel mushrooms Thorben Seierø Jensen – selfcentered, egotistic and insecure hypocondriac with a crush on B. Spears Kristine Permild – anthropologist with lots of undetermined phobias Laurids Smedegaard – the undisputed dog lover…

Alcoholic Faith Mission – “421 Wythe Avenue” (2009)

Album name: 421 Wythe Avenue Artist name: Alcoholic Faith Mission Genre: Indie Released: July 24, 2009 Label: PonyRec ZME Rating: N/A Website: myspace.com/alcoholicfaithmission Alcoholic Faith Mission are an indie pop/electronica alternative band from Copenhagen, Denmark. The band includes five members: Sune Sølund, Thorben Seierø Jensen, Kristine Permild, Laurids Smedegaard and Gustav Rasmussen. They’re only three years old as a band, yet have already released two albums, their music was used in a Canadian indie film…

Fever Ray: ‘Fever Ray’

Album name: Fever Ray Artist name: Fever Ray Genre: Electronica Released: March 24 2009 Label: Mute ZME Rating: 7/10 Website: feverray.com I’ll admit that I was probably not the obvious choice to review this album. Not only is the world of electronic music a distant, confusing galaxy to my feeble, earth-bound, two-guitars-and-the-truth brain, but I’m also overcome by an unhealthy amount of uncontrollable hate when confronted by the vast array of commericial “chillout” electronica, all…