Soon after the advent of electronic composition — commencing with the breech birth of electric instrumentation, which came kicking and squalling into the academic world in the mid-1920s through the form of the theremin — Germany established an integral, indelible role in forwarding narrative minimalism. It was in the Fifties…
It takes a lot of work for DBJ to get his records out to the club. First he loads eight metal cases, carrying about 7000 records in all, from the back of his car onto a trolley. Then, with the help of two club employees, he rolls them into State,…
It was on an early March morning last year when I fell out of bed, threw on some clothes, and sweatily stumbled down the several blocks or so that took me from the apartment where I was staying with two friends to an imperious-looking hotel on Washington Avenue in South…
BAJOFONDO TANGO CLUB Marlin Bar, March 4 Bajofondo Tango Club co-producer Juan Campodónico, a.k.a. Campo, has an altrock past in his native Uruguay, where he recorded two albums with the band Peyote Asesino in the mid-Nineties. But in the last four years he has completely devoted himself to electronic music,…
Prices and times are subject to change (and many probably will). THURSDAY, MARCH 4 B.E.D. RE-UNION II 9:00 p.m.-5:00 a.m. DJs/Performers: E-Man, Dr. Love a.k.a. Richard Vasquez, Mike Agent ‘X’ Clark, DJ Romain, and Ron D. Lim. crobar THE SHOW 10:00 p.m.-5:00 a.m. DJs/Performers: Room One — Kid Capri. Room…
Thanks in part to his atmospheric soundtrack for Paris, Texas, guitarist Ry Cooder has gained an international reputation as a distinctive composer.
