tag: #ambient

P033: Dadub special

14/05/2013

Dadub, the Italian duo of Daniele Antezza and Giovanni Conti, have had a key role in the Stroboscopic Artefacts sound. Not only have they produced some of its most memorable releases, including their recent debut album “You are eternity”, but they work behind the scenes mastering the labels output and putting the final touches on the labels signature sound, forged from dark ambience, intelligent beats and a gritty finish to the digital purity. Cabeza de Vaca turns its attention to some of the duos recent releases as well as some of their contemporaries from Spain and abroad. Read more…

Audio Texture Radio Show – April 29, 2013

06/05/2013

So it’s all about locking into the long groove this week with only 11 tracks making up this show and a fair bit of 4/4 to boot but a lovely slice of nu-soul, courtesy of Kyra Simone, kicked off the show from  the nice new lovers compilation, The Heart #3, on Tokyo Dawn Records who are probably about to create a baby boom if they release any more in the series. Another Record Store Day release then followed with the ever interesting Nicolas Jaar giving Grizzly Bear a nice slo-mo deep house twist which led into the outrageously sprawling and quite frankly, epic, Larry Gus remix of Sinkane‘s, “Warm Spell” which led into another equally epic track, the soon to be reissued “Boutade” from Mugwump – look out for that on International Feel in June. Read more…

Miss Kittin Presenta Calling From The Stars

30/04/2013

Miss Kittin, una de las figuras más prominentes de la escena actual de la música electrónica, DJ, cantante y compositora presenta en directo su nuevo trabajo Calling From The Stars en la sala Razzmatazz de Barcelona el martes 30 de abril.

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P030: Ambient special

23/04/2013

Another ambient show on Cabeza de Vaca this week. We start off with two Spanish artists and labels and then turn our attention to a pair of new tracks from Belgium’s Aguirre imprint. In the final half of the show we uncover some overlooked ambient tracks from techno and house producers on some recent 12”s and album releases. Read more…

P026: Spanish electronic music Part III: Semantica and techno.

26/03/2013

For the third and final installment of our three part Spanish electronica series we turn our attention to Svreca’s iconic Semantica label from Madrid who have risen to become a landmark imprint of modern design and front-line sounds from hard and experimental techno to IDM. For the rest of the show we highlight some of the standout techno tracks from Spanish artists and labels. Read more…

P024: Spanish electronic music Part I: Héctor Sandoval and experimental music

14/03/2013

This week we start the first of three programs celebrating Spanish electronic music. First up is a primer of some of the more experimental and IDM-leaning artists from across the peninsula, highlighting in particular the work of Asturian Héctor Sandoval and his recent landmark album under his Komatssu moniker and his collaborative techno project Exium. Read more…

P022: Shoegaze techno special.

27/02/2013

To celebrate the belated release of My Bloody Valentine’s recent album MBV, Cabeza de Vaca goes digging in the archives to find the traces left by the group on electronica and the dancefloor in the intervening 20 years since “Loveless”. On our journey we unearth classics, rarities, curiosities, stepping stones, missed opportunities and dead-ends in the long and winding path to who knows to when.

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P018: Ambient and experimental music special.

31/01/2013

A wide ranging feast of ambient and experimental music this week on Cabeza de Vaca. We kick off with the elaborate constructions of Chris Madak’s Bee Mask project and the quiet tone song of Australian Oren Ambarchi before passing through some more classical coloured music from Jasper TX and the lush chamber music of Christoph Berg. Italian duo Retina.it offer a gentle and ghostly respite before the noisier climax. Brad Rose’s Charlatan alias is a cacophonous contrast whereas Damian Valles and Alex Cobb offer a track each of detailed drones and hidden emotions.

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P016: Dub techno special.

15/01/2013

This week Cabeza de Vaca takes the road less travelled through some of the world’s boutique, outsider and up-and-coming labels to find some of the many hidden treasures of the dub techno scene. Sit back and enjoy a perfect introduction and tribute to some of the specialty and community-based labels that do a lot of hard work, but don´t always get the recognition. For those about to dub, we salute you.
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P015: Long Island Electrical Systems (L.I.E.S.)

10/01/2013

Lies, damned lies and Long Island Electrical Systems. For our first program of the new year we take a look at LIES, the outsider house label founded by Ron Morelli in New York that shot to prominence in 2012 for its unexpected and ramshackle approach to electronic music. Liberated, long form tracks are the order of the day with plenty of noise as well as motoric groove.

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TNT#4: Una cucharada de post-situacionismo para explicar la mística de los noventa

21/11/2012

#TNT te propone retroceder en el tiempo a lomos del trance y del ambient típico de la época para volver a festejar que seguimos anclados en la gloriosa década de los 90 (que aún no hemos tenido tiempo de echar de menos). De cuando Barcelona era una fiesta salvaje que nunca acababa. Un viaje que además cuenta con un piloto muy especial: el poliédrico Luther Blisset. Situacionismo nostálgico para este #TNT4.

P005: Ambient special

24/10/2012

No focus on today’s all ambient show, but instead we go around the world, stopping in all the quietest places. We travel from Actress’s Garden of Eden, to the subtle IDM machinery of Singaporean Xhin, to the pastoral calm of Australia’s Kane Irkin and much more before we end in St Petersburgh and the day dreaming haze of Black Sky Chant.

 

No hay un enfoque concreto en el programa de ambient de hoy, pero en lugar de eso hacemos una vuelta al mundo, deteniéndonos en todos los lugares más tranquilos. Viajamos desde el Jardin de Edén de Actress, hasta la sutil maquinaria de IDM del artista Xhin de Singapur, a la calma pastoral del Australiano Kane Irkin y terminando en San Petersburgo y el ensueño nebuloso de Black Sky Chant. Todo ambient!

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