I really enjoy throwing on this album when I’m chilling in my room, looking out the window and smoking a cigarette. Mothership ‘88 is a slim-down wonky-ish sut of So Cal hip hop. There’s something amazing about american ambient that’s never cold and isolating, even when there’s no strong groove. It’s flavoured with the influence of…
The central message of Dada is the realization that reason and anti-reason, sense and nonsense, design and chance, consciousness and unconsciousness, belong together as necessary parts of a whole; a virgin microbe which penetrates with the insistence of air into all those spaces that reason has failed to fill with…
I met Polaroid Android in the CRK squat, Wroc?aw in 2008 while touring around with Tupolew (featuring members of Gestammelorchester as featured on OPN006 Primer 02), where he and the other residents cooked for and entertained us. Mid-conversation, he dragged me into his studio…
In the quest to find new music for Open Music, I often just cruise MySpace looking for artists that I can approach. Often, I don’t really pay attention to what’s on the page. It kinda goes ‘Load,,, tune,,, skip,,, tune,,, skip… ah!!!! send message’… and so on. So, having never heard of Lorn before…
I love John Cohen. His eponymous release on Net-Lab is awesome. I love his music so much, that I couldn’t think of a single thing to say about this release that didn’t sound biased (We’re in Dead Fader together) or just plain sycophantic. So instead, I’m going to paste in a badly translated paragraph from a review by…
This is my own music so I won’t go on about it…
It’s a collection of really old tracks and some recent ones, made mostly with found sounds and crap synths.
Enjoy!
The Primer compilations are an introduction to the latest Open releases. Each batch of new music will include a preview download PLUS some bonus tracks from other friends of Open.
If you’d like to contribute a track to a future Primer, get in touch!
From the SkullDisco/SlaughterMob/ItalTek corner of the dubstep universe comes this slice of crisp sheen crafting bass. From the traditional sounds spawns a heavy sub-bass complemented by scratchy percussion and eerie effects. A familar vibe of ancient Tokyo meets the mean streets of deepest East…
I first came across The Last Sound when he stayed on my couch back in Ireland a few years back. I have to admit that, at first, I didn’t really appreciate his sound. All that changed when Frieze arrived in my inbox. A huge departure from mere electronica, this …
Listening to Ben Wallace’s beats can be really confusing at times. Take Icecream Peaks, my favourite and the preview on our homepage player. The intro to is it a structural mess. In fact, pretty much the whole first half is a drunken stumble. But the deep head-nodding vibe is so strong, so psychedelic, …
Syl Kougaï is a very patient man. I have had this release in my pocket for about a year, while the beginnings of Open Music was emerging. Delays and mis-speaking meant that La Fille Verte remained unreleased, for no good reason and that was just fine with him. He must be a patient man to
The Primer compilations are an introduction to the latest Open releases. Each batch of new music will include a preview download PLUS some bonus tracks from other friends of Open.
If you’d like to contribute a track to a future Primer, get in touch!