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Hello and welcome to the third installment of Urban Sounds! Read on for a
blow-by-blow of this issue's contents, or head straight to the source for
the full experience:
http://www.urbansounds.com/
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// In The Studio
* audioCode: data mining computer music's future/past --- >
This issue, Urban Sounds explores the impact of the personal computer on
current underground electronic music. Focusing on the overlap between
computer music's historical roots and a new generation of desktop
experimentalists, we spoke with five key artists porting post-techno to a
digital future: Atom Heart (Rather Interesting/Kk), Kim Cascone
(Rastermusic), John Bischoff (Artifact/The Hub/Mills College), Tetsu Inoue
(Tzadik/Caipirinha/Fax), and Robert Henke (Imbalance/Monolake/Chain
Reaction). Also, in an Urban Sounds exclusive, we asked each artist to
contribute a full-length track -- most from forthcoming releases or
otherwise unobtainable -- that you can download and listen to in RealAudio.
So get with it!
* Lesser, more or less --- >
Also in the studio is San Francisco indie-junglist Lesser, who speaks with
Urban Sounds' Mike Javor about the lo-fi beat-massacres of Lesser and Disc,
whether the future will really be bubble-shaped, and why it is that Markus
Popp can kiss his redneck ass.
* Disko Slique: Den Haag's I-f --- >
Finally, we feature Dutch electro-nix producer Interr-ferenc, who tore up
the underground with "Space Invaders are Smoking Grass" and his LP debut,
_Fucking Consumer_. He took time out from applying the finishing touches to
his next album, _The Man From P.A.C.K._, to chat about Dutch hip-hop, his
new Viewlexx label, and why he likes Abel Ferrara so much.
http://www.urbansounds.com/home/studio/us_instudio.html
// On The Road
* Fuse98: Beyond Typography
Fuse98 was a design conference with a mission. Put on by Touch's Jon
Wozencroft and design guru Neville Brody at San Francisco's Masonic Center
Auditorium, Fuse98 sought to push the focus of design "beyond typography"
through an interdisciplinary approach combining graphic design with film,
music, multimedia, and performance. Join Urban Sounds in trying to figure
out why this pissed so many people off, and hear from conference editor
Wozencroft on why that might've been a good thing.
http://www.urbansounds.com/home/road/us_ontheroad.html
// Reviews
Our Styles section is jam packed with a ton of recent and forthcoming
releases, an expanded jungle section, and more audio than you can shake a
compression algorithm at. Check the latest from Autechre, Pole, Atom Heart,
Underground Resistance, Decoder, Irresistible Force, DJ Q-Bert, Elementz of
Noize, Larry Heard, Mannequin Lung, I-f, Mouse On Mars, Jason Szostek,
Andrea Parker, Hat, Thomas Brinkmann, Tetsu Inoue, Makai, Herbert, Farmers
Manual, and dozens more.
http://www.urbansounds.com/home/styles/us_styles.html
// DJ Mixes
And don't forget to check out our full-length RealAudio mixes in a range of
styles, from techstep to Detroit techno to deepest dub. Contributors
include Phunckateck's DJ Sage, Justice League's Joe Rice, Stellar Trax
Sound System's DJ Ron, and a couple more you might recognize.
So peep the issue and let us know what you think. We're putting together a
mailing list to make these transmissions more manageable in the future, so
give us a shout. Also, do us the favor of passing this message along to
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budget, so every little bit helps. Thanks!
http://www.urbansounds.com/
Peace.
Sean Cooper
Urban Sounds