TTI has been gone for a couple of weeks, but we’re back. Resident hacks Al and Jimmy bring you the best of this month’s music — a change in direction from drum’n’bass chopper Tim Exile and a chat and a cup of tea with hirsute rapper Scroobius Pip, whose new single is out this month.
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IDM - An oxymoronic acronym. Or not. Oly Wood discusses the genre’s canny ability to absorb the shock of change and where it might be headed next.
Aspiring song writer Simon Clancy explains the gulf that has opened between artist and audience in the era of the ubiquitous iPod, an era in which the artistic whole of the album and is dead for ever.
With Robbie Williams on strike and US CD sales down 19% in 2007 what’s going to happen to the ‘big four’ record labels? Should music lovers begin to worry? Probably not…
The Panacea, aka Mathew Mootz, styles himself ‘the digital version of Napalm Death’. It’s an apt description for his own brand of mashed up Drum and Bass, which he releases through his record label Position Chrome. You may be surprised to discover he used to be a choir boy, or perhaps that helps to explain his music…
In our unceasing quest to root out different cultures and scenes we use a specially trained bloodhound. As a puppy he was taught to make positive associations with exemplars of art and culture; pedigree chum served from a fauvist inspired bowl, squeaky toys in the shapes of Brancusi’s most influential sculptures. He now roams the collective consciousness searching for all that is new, exciting or evolving.
Hexstatic are Stuart Warren Hill and Robin Brunson. We had a chat with Robin about what Hexstatic do, and where their visuals are headed. Both men have a long history in visuals and formed Hexstatic in 1997. They are signed to Ninja Tune, and have a close association with Coldcut. They have performed at many significant art galleries and alongside David Bryne, as well as producing two AV albums of their own work.
VJ Anyone a.k.a. Oli Sorenson performs with many top DJs and is currently touring with Sander Kleinenberg. He also runs the AV Social night in London, which pretty much does what it says on the tin. He has written essays for several books as well as writing for DJ Mag on the subject of VJing.
Geoff Gamlen is one of three people who make up Eclectic Method. Of our four interviewees Eclectic Method are perhaps most straight forward in terms of characterising themselves as pure entertainment in the form of music and live visuals. They have produced visuals for U2, Fatboy Slim, MTV and Faithless.
Nicolas Boritch is part of ‘visual label’ Anti VJ and club night Cuisine. Anti VJ orchestrates visual events and recently performed at Light Up Bristol, using the city’s council building to project their works onto. The Cuisine club night offers Bristol’s clubbers the opportunity to see Europe’s finest VJs. On both projects he works closely with French artist Crustea (Joanie Lemercier) - who performed at the Light Up Bristol event - pictured left. The thing is… tracked Nicolas down to get the promoter’s perspective on club visuals.
Indie rock n roll with Hogarthian influences storming the streets from Shoreditch to Peckham? Yes please. Jimmy Tidey catches up with The Gin Riots just before their next appearance at MySpace’s unsigned heroes concert. Anyone who’s seen TTI’s languishing MySpace presence knows we don’t think much of the Evil Empire, but The Gin Riots, we like. Lots.
Barry Farrimond showcases his unique ability to control all of his fingers independently and with complete accuracy…
The legendry Detroit techno label Underground Resistance talks to the thing is… As well as being home to some of the biggest names in techno, UR is committed to the welfare of their home town. They have little truck with the mainstream music establishment and see their output as a unifying voice for the disenfranchised of Detroit.
Darren Hayman of Hefner discusses “5 tunes you should have heard but probably haven’t”.
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Everyone has been to a festival this year. If you haven’t grappled with a chemical toilet, on acid and with welly boots full of mud, then you’ve wasted your summer. the thing is… reviews two of less mentioned festivals, neither of which involve camping in a puddle or taking out a mortgage to cover the burger bill.
“We had two bags of grass, seventy two pellets of mescaline, five sheets of highly powered blotter acid…” not a sentence oft uttered at the Latitude Festival according to Al Allday.
Domino Records’ Max Tundra offers us the first sweets in his current box of musical confectionery.
Chad Fanstor, our very own middle class prattler, surveys the music of South London from an ivory tower. And then invites it round to their dinner party as a novelty guest.
Musical genres used to be about much more than grouping music that sounds the same, but does the exchangability of music online mean the end of the relationship between music and culture?
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