Electronic Beats
The Radio Sessions: Robosonic
Robosonic are the guests in the FluxFM studio this week.
As Robosonic, Sacha Robotti and Cord are responsible for one of the more recognisable tunes of the summer, “Worst Love”, released through Andre Crom’s Off Recordings. They will be discussing their latest project, a track based on a 48 hour recording session in good ol’ Bar 25 called “Feldrecord im Zirkus”, as well as talking about their solo projects.
You can listen to the whole radio show tomorrow on FluxFM, starting at 10pm (GMT +1). Tune in through terrestrial radio or, if you’re outside Germany, head to the stream.
Miss it? You can catch up with the first hour through FluxFM’s on demand feature from Friday, while the DJ mix will be up on EB a few days later.
New Slices features online
Our good friends at Slices just uploaded several new features of the current Slices DVD magazine. You can watch these clips right here in our TV section or over at Electronic Beat’s youtube channel.
The shares include a label feature about tastemaking Dutch techno imprint Rush Hour filmed in Amsterdam. Moreover there are new interviews with Dorian Concept from Vienna, MMM, Kangding Ray as well as a talk with Iftah Gabbai and Olaf Hilgenfeld aka Skinnerbox, who come out of the scene surrounding the Bar 25 and the Bachstelzen Parties. All well worth seeing, so don’t miss it!
You can also order Slices at the EB Shop. Since Slices is a free DVD magazine you only have to pay postage. If you want to go for the most comfortable option choose the yearly subscription which brings you four issues of Slices straight to your mailbox.
21 SAUCES OF INSPIRATION – Nicolas Jaar
He´s barely out of his teens, but Nicolas Jaar is hardly a fresh-faced newcomer. Bursting onto the music scene in 2004 at the tender age of 14 – his musical consciousness imbued with the sounds of Erik Satie, Nico or masters of jazz – Jaar released his diffidently titled The Student EP on New York-based staple Wolf + Lamb. His idiosyncratic take on electronic music has already scored him gigs at Berlin´s Club de Visionaire, New York´s Marcy and the Mutek Festival and his debut album is perhaps the one of the most anticipated releases in 2011. No wonder Electronic Beats included the Brown University student in our Best of 2010 countdown.
We caught up with the rising star of 21st century techno to talk about Bergson, Magritte and the Beatles.
1. What gets you going in the morning?
Waking up.
2. What five records would you take to a desert island and why?
Monastic Trio – Alice Coltrane
Songs From a Room – Leonard Cohen
La llorona – Llhasa
‘Cause they’re on fire!
3. What inspires you to create?
Other things that have been created.
4. What book or piece of literature are you reading at the moment?
5. Favorite piece of literature and why?
Too many – lately things by Bergson.
6. Favorite club?
To play – Compound in SF, Trouw in Amsterdam, Fabric in London and Bar 25 in Berlin.
7. What one historical figure inspires you or would you like to meet?
Aliens
8. List five movies that you couldn’t live without?
The Comformist
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Man in Black (I still haven’t watched it but according to all my friends, I will be obsessed with it..).
9. Favorite director or actor?
Bertolucci
10. Favorite piece of architecture or building?
Leonard Cohen [SIC]
11. Favorite combination of food or recipe?
Chicken and rice
12. Favorite musical genre in the last 100 years and what would you mix it with if you could?
Ethiopian jazz from the 60s and 70s – wouldn’t mix it. (though I do sometimes).
13. Favorite Internet site?
ubu web
14. Who has had the biggest influence on you in your life?
That’s a crazy question.
15.What is one record you should never be seen dancing to in a club?
Anything made exclusively for the purpose of making a profit.
16. Favorite 5 music artists currently listening too?
The Coltranes
17. Favorite piece of art or artist?
"Socle du Monde" – Manzoni
18. Artist you’d most like to collaborate with?
Magritte
19. One obscure band you think should be more popular?
The Beatles
20. What’s your ringtone?
Old Telephone
21. Does Nicolas Jaar have a favorite sauce?
Every sauce my mother has ever made.
Nicolas Jaar´s album Space Is Only Noise is released at the end of January 2011 on Circus Company