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Intelligent Dance Music & Quiet Performance:
January, 2024:This essay uses extracts and paragraphs from a University essay I recently completed, I felt that the topic was transferable so I have based this post on it. I’ve previously written about Boards of Canada and my love for Intelligent Dance Music [henceforth: IDM]. I continually find myself going back and listening to The…
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Skrillex, Four Tet & Fred Again..:
“Four Tet is like the uncle that’s making sure everyone has fun safely“ What the fuck is going on in the music world? Three independently gargantuan artists have come together to form a DJ [and hopefully production] supergroup. They’ve sold out Madison Square Garden, secret shows in London’s O2 Brixton Academy and stormed Time’s Square…
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Boards of Canada: Roygbiv
65 times. 155 minutes. 2.5 hours. Roygbiv is a masterpiece. It was my most listened to song in 2022, as per Spotify’s stats, and easily ranks in my top 10 of all time. Expertly produced and mixed, the song begins with a simple, yet incredibly memorable, bass-line. The song slowly progresses, adding in the percussive…
Tommy Nagle 