As an unabashed New Order fan being able to write about them is not only a great personal and professional thrill, it constantly reminds me that first and foremost I’m an obsessive fan — and it’s my […]
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New Audio: New Order’s Latest Single Gently Modernizes Their Beloved Sound
I have to admit that I’m an unabashed New Order fan and being able to write about them at any point is a great thrill. Now as you already know, in the 35 years or so since […]
Born and raised in Paris, the currently Los Angeles-based keyboardist, singer/songwriter and electronic music artist Morgane Lhote has had quite an impressive musical career, which includes stints in several different locales throughout the years. When Lhote was 20, she moved to London where she spent 12 — and during that period in the UK, between 1995-2001, Lhote was a member of Stereolab contributing on several of the band’s most beloved and critically applauded efforts, including Dots and Loops and Emperor Tomato Ketchup. From 2002-2004, Lhote was a member of The Projects and she followed that project with a Garden, a side project featuring members of Simian Mobile Disco, before she started her own solo recording project, Hologram Teen.
Citing an incredibly diverse array of influences including MF DOOM, Francois De Roubaix, The GZA, Judee Sill, ABBA, John Carpenter, Goblin, Gene Clark, E.L.O., Harpers Bizarre, King Tubby, Michel Legrand, Hot Chip, Supertramp, Luke Vibert, Martha and the Muffins, Soft Machine, Suzanne Ciani, Greg Kurstin and Chic, Lhote has described her latest project, Hologram Teen as “electronic music that’s playful and groovy (mostly influenced by disco and Italian horror soundtracks) with loads of diverse samples. This is a soundtrack to a movie where John Carpenter and Boris Karloff hang out at Studio 54 with German zombies dancing to ‘Thriller’ in the background.” She’s also jokingly described her sound as being “. . . like Fabio Frizzi meets Grandmaster Flash.”
Small, renowned label Deep Distance Records, a sister imprint of The Great Pop Supplement Records released Lhote’s most recent 7 inch “Post-Apocalyptecakes”/”Tracksuit Minotaur” earlier this month. “Tracksuit Minotaur” pairs layers of glimmering, undulating synths reminiscent of Giorgio Moroder, Kraftwerk‘s “Trans Europe Express” and John Carpenter soundtracks, skittering and stuttering drum programming, ominously swirling electronics and horror movie samples to craft a song that’s tense, danceable and sweepingly cinematic — while evoking dancing your cares away in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic world. “Post-Apocalypteacakes,” featuring Buddy Cop pairs a sinuous bass line reminiscent of Chic, skittering drum programming, layers of undulating synths and horror movie samples and industrial clang and clatter to craft a song that sounds equally inspired by Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, LCD Soundsystem‘s 45:33, and Snap!‘s “Rhythm Is A Dancer.”
Lhote specializes in what may arguably be some of the most unique electronic music I’ve heard in some time — it’s relentlessly difficult to pigeonhole into any particular subgenre and it meshes different genres and periods in an effortless and seamless fashion.
EP Stream: Edu Imbernon and DROOG’s Forward-Thinking Yet Accessible Spectral
Edu Imbernon is a Valencia, Spain-based songwriter, producer, remixer, DJ and head of renowned indie electronica label Eklektisch Records. Imbernon has received international attention for a sound that possesses of electronica, house music, and pop — […]
London UK-based Mike Green, best known as Fort Romeau received international attention for the deep groove-based house music sound of his 2012 full-length debut, Kingdoms. Naturally, in the years that followed, Greene’s sound evolved as […]
With the release of his debut, full-length effort, Kingdoms three years ago, the London, UK-based producer and electronic music artist Mike Greene, best known to fans as Fort Romeau has received international attention for a […]
Although Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs (vocals) and Max Foreman (vocals and keyboards) formed their latest project Bouquet within the last couple of years, both members have had extensive histories as musicians and artists – Pennypacker Riggs […]
Palm Beach is a Manchester, UK-based electronic music artist, and although there is little known about the artist, what I can tell you is that the Palm Beach specializes in a melodic, downtempo, synth-based electronica that […]
Richie Hawtin is a man of many titles as he’s known as a renowned DJ, head of the electronica label, M_Nus, for collaborations with the British sculptor Anish Kapour in an installation which appeared in Paris, and perhaps most important […]
Released a few months ago through renowned electronica label, Ghostly International. Ultima II Massage, the latest effort from the mysterious, Pennsylvania-based electronic artist and producer Tobacco has the artist taking a different approach from his previous […]
As the London-based quintet, the Horrors were set to write and record new material, they were determined to create material that was much brighter, more positive and take on more of an electronic sound. Interestingly, Tom […]
The founding members of Kraftwerk, Florian Schneider and Ralf Hutler met as students Robert Schumann Hochschule in Dusseldorf in the late 1960s and had taken part of the German experimental music art scene that has […]