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    The ambient tradition: Steve Roden and the world of lowercase

    by 5:4 June 25, 2008 • 21:58
    June 25, 2008 • 21:58

    If dance was the first style of music to make deep impressions on my formative mind, hot on its heels was ambient. By pure serendipity, in my early teens i stumbled on a book (the title and author of which i wish i could remember – it’s probably still lurking…

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    Scandanavian sounds, part 3: AM and the UV

    by 5:4 February 20, 2008 • 18:15
    February 20, 2008 • 18:15

    Every now and then, a band appears that seems to bring together the most engaging qualities of several other artists. A delightful example of that – and proof that not everything coming out of these remote arctic regions is quite as intense or brooding as Deathprod and Biosphere – is AM…

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    Scandanavian sounds, part 2: Deathprod

    by 5:4 February 15, 2008 • 21:50
    February 15, 2008 • 21:50

    Deathprod – it’s a name both striking and strange, which is appropriate, as his music is both of these things too. There are obvious similarities to Biosphere – both are Norwegian; both explore large soundscapes; both create music that is immediately arresting – and yet there’s something very much more going…

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    Scandanavian sounds, part 1: Biosphere

    by 5:4 February 12, 2008 • 10:41
    February 12, 2008 • 10:41

    Music emanating from the Scandanavian countries is always interesting, and often unusual. Once upon a yesteryear, it was all Abba (70s), A-ha (80s) and Aqua (90s), but they’re probably as glad as we are that that’s ancient history, and the sounds of 21st century Scandinavia are altogether more absorbing. The…

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