16 – August – 2012 – Electronic Beats

_PotD_Rick Holland_960 — Picture of the Day

Rick Holland

Rick Holland is a poet and a thinker who runs a (highly recommended) blog where he conducts interesting conversations with artists such as the legendary techhead Steven Levy. He’s also not a bad photographer. This is Dorset’s West Bexington beach, the place that inspired the song ‘West Bay’ off Brian Eno’s Panic of Looking EP. Photo: Rick Holland

Rick Holland is a poet and a thinker who runs a (highly recommended) blog where he conducts interesting conversations with artists such as the legendary techhead Steven Levy. He’s also not a bad photographer. This is Dorset’s West Bexington beach, the place that inspired the song ‘West Bay’ off Brian Eno’s *Panic of Looking* EP. Photo: Rick Holland

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On our radar

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— Moritz Gayard considers this the album of the year (…as he did already with p h i v e other LPs). Explore more on Finders Keepers — link sent by Michael Lutz
— New Lindstrøm album ‘Smalhans’ coming in November 2012, all songs food-themed on Tumblr — link sent by Hans-Peter Lindstrøm
— Hear Jessie Ware’s debut album ‘Devotion’ in full on The Guardian — link sent by Louise Brailey
— Listen to “Garten (Trimmed)” from Gudrun Gut’s new “Best Garden” (EP) on Soundcloud — link sent by Max Dax
— New limited editon book and London exhibition showcasing 45 iconic 7” Kraftwerk single covers on The Vinyl Factory — link sent by The Vinyl Factory
— This week’s adventurous music playlist on The Wire Magazine — link sent by Max Dax
— Oneman and Toddla T go head to head for FACT TV on Fact — link sent by Louise Brailey
— Squareeater: binaural beats for the psychedelic mind on Squareeater — link sent by Daniel Jones
— More teens now listen to music through YouTube than any other source on TechCrunch — link sent by Ralf Rattay
— Weird & Weirder: Pictureplane on Sewn Leather on Ad Hoc — link sent by Daniel Jones
— Renowned Kate Bush fan Big Boi suggests a collaboration may be on the cards on Pitchfork — link sent by Louise Brailey
— Pictures from ‘Nature Against Man’ on Magical and Otherwise — link sent by Moritz Gayard
— Exhibition of new work by San Francisco based artists Daniel Gibson and Mike Bertino on This, Los Angeles — link sent by Moritz Gayard
— New music: Egyptian Hip Hop – SYH on The Guardian — link sent by Moritz Gayard
— Listen to Chilly Gonzales’ upcoming ‘Solo Piano II’ album on The Hype Machine — link sent by Anthony Volodkin

“A lot of myself is very eclectic. (…) One of the quests I had was to try and make some house music which basically sounded like it was recorded in 1967.” — watch our Richard Davis video feature, taken from Slices DVD Issue 1-10. – more

The Radio Sessions – Electronic Beats On Air with Shed on FluxFM

This week’s guest in the Electronic Beats Radio Sessions studio is the inimitable Shed. Fresh from making the switch from Ostgut Ton to the Modeselektor-run 50 Weapons (which you can read about right here) the techno doyen is riding out a high right now. His third LP The Killer, released last month, has clocked up rave reviews from – more

James Blake & Wolfram join Electronic Beats Festival Vienna 2012

You might have been wondering about that ‘special guest’ we’ve been announcing two weeks ago for our upcoming Electronic Beats Festival Vienna 2012. Back then, things were already seething in the background, but unfortunately we haven’t been able to tell you (until now!) that James Blake will be joining Electronic Beats once again. – more