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Pitchfork’s SURVEILLANCE Jim Jarmusch, Bradford Cox, and No Age’s Randy Randall Cortez the Killer

Adeel Fahimullah — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:08:52 +0000

An Awesome cover of Neil Young’s Cortez the Killer.

Bat For Lashes – Two Suns Special Edition (CD+ DVD Documentary) [VIDEO]

Adeel Fahimullah — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:38:24 +0000

Bat for Lashes is releasing a special edition of the album Two Suns. The special edition will include double Disc plus a 48 minute DVD documentary called Two + Two which was shot in places including Joshua Tree, CA and New York City. The album is set to release in the UK by September 7th and a US date to be conformed very soon. Trailer of Documentary after the break.

The Union: Business Behind Getting High – Music

Aman Fahimullah — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:51:45 +0000

BC’s illegal marijuana trade industry has evolved into a business giant, dubbed by some involved as ‘The Union’. Commanding upwards of $7 billion Canadian annually, The Union?s roots stretch far and wide. With up to 85% of ‘BC Bud’ being exported to the United States, the trade has become an international issue. Who are the players, and when do their motives become questionable?

Follow filmmaker Adam Scorgie as he demystifies the underground market and brings to light how an industry can function while remaining illegal. Through growers, police officers, criminologists, economists, doctors, politicians and pop culture icons, Scorgie examines the cause and effect nature of the business behind getting high.

Nobody’s innocent in this exploration of an industry that may be profiting more by being illegal

Download Music From The Union

Gui Boratto – Acrostico

Aman Fahimullah — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:06:34 +0000

Gui Boratto (born 1974 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian electronic music producer. He started his career working in the Publicity sector in 1989.

His album Chromophobia was awarded the title of Mixmag Album of the Month. Regarding why he chose the name Chromophobia, Boratto said: “The same meaning as monochromatism in architecture, which means simplicity. That’s all. I don’t have a morbid fear of colors at all. But also, I was ironic. My music is really colorful.”

On stage, Gui uses a laptop equipped with Ableton Live, a Jazz Mutant Lemur, a monome and an Evolution Uc33e, and he sometimes even invites a guitar player to join him.

In Acrostico, Gui seems more upbeat and relaxed than his other individual songs. Take a listen and dive in

“Gui Boratto might have the ugliest cover of 2009 but that didn’t stop me from checking out his album. When the vocal comes in i’m not too fond of the song but until then it reminds me of the good old days of Kompakt where you’d go to your local vinyl shop and check what this weeks Kompakt 12″ sounded like” – iso50

Gold Panda: Quitter’s Raga

Aman Fahimullah — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:40:59 +0000

There’s something awesome about the way chopped-up vocals have come back around in the last couple of years. They were all over the place in the early part of the decade, when IDM was being taken seriously and rapidly accelerating CPU clockspeeds meant that a new way to process sounds lurked around every corner. Back then, you took a CD of a voice and made it skip and that was enough to give a track an extra twist of poignancy. Now it’s in the realm of dubstep and all of its offshoots where the most interesting vocal processing is taking place, often as a way to add tension to mean, heavy, bass-heavy beats. Terrific recent examples of the form have come from Blue Daisy and Pariah, but this powerful track from Gold Panda, recently released on a 7″ single via Make Mine, ups the ante for affecting vocal processing considerably. An undercurrent of bass flecked with vinyl crackles pushes the track along, but it’s the voices, bits of guitar and sitar, all given the sonic Cuisinart treatment, that take things to another, more achingly beautiful realm. The fragmentation gets more intense as it goes, and you start to wonder if the track is going to shake itself apart, and then it ends suddenly, less than two minutes in, so short it breaks your heart.

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Via [Pitchfork Media]

Supermarket Love Interviewed

Aman Fahimullah — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:39:12 +0000

Hasan Ahmed is best known as Supermarket Love, that practitioner of audio botany and warped soundscapes that seem to leap out of your speaker like passages from a timeless novel or folk story. Hasan’s distinct sound forces a discerning melodic language through a dense jungle of tape hiss and bend, to mesmerising effect. With a two-album career on nothing but his head , Cisumesion Lanoitazivorpmi & RainyDaysToFadeAway. Supermarket Love’s music is now an established feature in the collections of musicologists and chill-seekers alike. I chatted to Hasan about his music, recording techniques and philosophy. After the break for interview.

Aman Fahimullah: Hello Hasan, How are You?

Hasan Ahmed: I’m good.

Aman Fahimullah: So, the legend states you dropped Haznaz, and came out with a totally new taste in Music called Supermarket Love? Is That Correct? Why?

Hasan Ahmed: Yes, I was unhappy with the music I was producing under the alias Haznaz, and felt like I needed to leave him in the past in order to work in a new direction.

Aman Fahimullah: Ahh Good

Aman Fahimullah: Where are you living at the moment?

Hasan Ahmed: Santa Ana, CA

Aman Fahimullah: How has living in this cultural mix affected SuperMarket Love’s music?

Hasan Ahmed: Lets come back to that one.

Aman Fahimullah: You’ve said in the past that your cultural heroes are people like Bibio, Boards of Canada, Haushka,–artists who haven’t compromised. I think of you as coming from a tradition of soft melodies that don’t compromise artistically, either, artist like the Clark, Fennesz, Radiohead, artist that attempted to be revolutionary.

Hasan Ahmed: Thank You.

Aman Fahimullah: Is it more important to give a message or to express yourself?

Hasan Ahmed: I don’t believe one is more important than the other, art could serve multiple functions, one could be to send a message or it could just be to express ones existance. Personally I enjoy experimenting with both, as the two are not mutually exclusive.

Aman Fahimullah: So you think both have a postive and a negative?

Hasan Ahmed: No, I just feel that you can send a message and express yourself simultaneously.

Aman Fahimullah: So why the name Supermarket Love, Appealing, Has a meaning, or “Screw it, Supermarket Love it is”?

Hasan Ahmed: Initially it was a “Screw It” situation, however after being informed on what the term “Supermarket Love” refers to, I knew it was a suitable name.

Aman Fahimullah: What does it refer to?

Hasan Ahmed: Well it refers to a situation, where a man sees a woman in a supermarket and falls in love with her, a case of love at first sight, and he returns to the supermarket regularly at the same time on the same day of the week, in hopes to come accross her again. It’s obsessive.

Aman Fahimullah: Hahahaha, So your music is based on the whole situation of a man and women fall in love soon at a Supermarket? Original. “Love” it

Hasan Ahmed: Haha, not so much, however the notion of an obsessive desire, is what I’m intrigued by. What that specific desire is is irrelevant.

Aman Fahimullah: Haha, I guess it still works out then

Aman Fahimullah: Can you explain the title of your latest album “RainyDaystoFadeAway”?

Hasan Ahmed: The title “RainyDaystoFadeAway” was inspired by an image that I saw when i was listening to an instrumental i was working on. The image was of a couple lying on the floor infront of a fireplace in a cabin on a rainy day.

Aman Fahimullah: So the Title has a chill metaphor, showing how we should all just take a deep breath and relax?

Hasan Ahmed: I guess you can say that

Aman Fahimullah: In your Music right now, how many effects typically will be happening in the music during one piece?

Hasan Ahmed: Well lately I’ve been experimenting with using more effects, but it really depends on the individual piece, sometimes i will only do a little EQ and add some light reverb to the track.

Aman Fahimullah: Very Nice

Aman Fahimullah: Without removing the mystery, can you share some more about the creative and studio processes behind your music?

Hasan Ahmed: Well typically when I write a piece, I will sit in front of my piano and “noodle” with no direction in mind until something I hear clicks and I elaborate on that, as far as my studio processes are concerned I currently use Logic Pro 8 on a Mac system, I obsessive use a plugin Called Vienna Symphonic Library, and compose primarily using midi tools.

Hasan Ahmed: BRB

Aman Fahimullah: Hasan Ahmed has left the interview session and should be back soon

(20 Mins Later)

Hasan Ahmed: Haha back

Aman Fahimullah: He is Back People

Aman Fahimullah: From all the music you have written/composed, what do you think has the greatest influence on you so far as an artist?

Hasan Ahmed: Well the artists that have had the heaviest influence on me are Steve reich, Hauschka, and Bibio.

Aman Fahimullah: So your Music is shown heavily through out these artist, like when listening to your music, the listeners can tell, it sounds kinda like Hauschka, Bibio etc?

Hasan Ahmed: You can say that, however it isn’t my intention to rip Steve riech or Hauschka’s style, its just a consequence of the influence I guess.

Hasan Ahmed: I’m hoping to get to a point where you can’t tell what my influences are.

Aman Fahimullah: Ahh, Good Luck with that. Jokes Aside

Aman Fahimullah: Do you see anything in the future for Supermarket Love?

Hasan Ahmed: Well, I’m hoping to put together a live set, and start doing shows in the new future.

Aman Fahimullah: What’s next for Supermarket Love(Present)?

Hasan Ahmed: Another Album, working with a new artist, and hopefully some more good music.

Aman Fahimullah: Back to the question I asked earlier, How has living in this cultural mix affected Supermarket Love’s Music?

Hasan Ahmed: I don’t feel that Santa Ana’s Culture has Influenced me musically?

Aman Fahimullah: Aside from Supermarket Love, Are you a bit of a photography buff?

Hasan Ahmed: Well I enjoy taking photos, I wouldn’t refer to my self as a photography buff. :D

(Photo By: Hasan Ahmed)

Aman Fahimullah: Before we end this interview, would you like to tell any of our readers who are interested in becoming musicians anything?

Hasan Ahmed: Try to find rhythm and melody in the simplest of things.

Aman Fahimullah: Thanks again Hasan for doing this interview with us, See you soon.

Hasan Ahmed: No Problem. Be sure to visit my Website.

If you guys want to see more of Supermarket Love visit his website at http://www.suprluv.com

Yes, i was unhappy with the music i was producing under the alias haznaz, and felt like i needed to leave him in the past in order to work in a new direction.

Broken Social Scene Reunite [VIDEO]

Adeel Fahimullah — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:25:12 +0000

Featuring the rarely-seen-together triple threat of Feist, Metric’s Emily Haines, and Stars’ Amy Millan– along with Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning, Andrew Whiteman, Justin Peroff, and (let’s just say) more– this looks like one for the history books. Too awesome.

“Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl” [ft. Emily Haines, Feist, and Amy Millan]

“7/4 (Shoreline)” [ft. Feist]

“Safety Bricks” / “Past in Present” / “I Feel It All” [ft. Feist and Kevin Drew]

Have Media Overplayed Jackson Story?

Adeel Fahimullah — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:39:33 +0000

According to Pew research, the public believes star’s death generated too much coverage

NEW YORK Nearly two in three Americans said news organizations gave too much coverage to the sudden death of Michael Jackson in the days following his June 25 heart attack in Los Angeles, according to the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.

While 64 percent deemed media attention to the 50-year-old pop superstar excessive, 29 percent thought it was appropriate and only 3 percent thought there was not enough coverage.

As reports of Jackson’s death dominated media coverage at week’s end, 30 percent of those surveyed during June 26-29 said they followed those stories “very closely,” with that level similar to the 28 percent who said they followed the death of NBC newsman Tim Russert very closely in June 2008 and the 30 percent who followed the death of crocodile hunter Steve Irwin very closely in September 2006. Nonetheless, interest in Jackson’s death is far less than the 54 percent who said they followed the sudden deaths of John F. Kennedy Jr. in July 1999 and Princess Diana in September 1997.

Half of those surveyed said the media struck the right balance between reporting on Jackson’s musical legacy, forged over the past four decades, and his problematic personal life. Some 26 percent said the media focused too much on the scandals in Jackson’s life; 11 percent thought the coverage weighed too heavily on Jackson’s musical career.

African Americans followed the death of the singer more closely than the population as a whole. Eight in 10 African Americans said they followed news about Jackson’s death very closely, compared with 22 percent of whites. Women followed the story more closely than men; 35 percent said they very closely paid attention compared to 26 percent for men. While Jackson hadn’t released a big hit in 20 years, 38 percent of those under 40 said they followed the music icon’s death very closely, compared with 27 percent of those between 40 and 64 and 20 percent of those 65 and older.

A separate analysis of media coverage by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism showed that for the entire week of June 22-28 Jackson’s death and the bloody unrest after the disputed Iranian elections received similar levels of media coverage. The protests in Iran made up 19 percent of the news hole for the week, while the Jackson story accounted for 18 percent. But from the time the Jackson story broke Thursday afternoon, June 25, to the end of the day Friday, 60 percent of the news coverage studied was devoted to his death, life story and legacy, according to PEJ. The coverage of Iran slid to 7 percent of the news hole in that same time period.

(- Noreen O’Leary, AD Week)

Making of Sugarette by Bibio

Adeel Fahimullah — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:06:45 +0000

Stephen Wilkinson of Bibio shows how he used a sampler to put together Sugarette a track off his new album Ambivalence Avenue. Click post to watch video.

check out Bibio’s Music at http://www.myspace.com/mrbibio