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Alex Zhang Hungtai – “When you are not truthful to yourself, the playing itself will suffer” (interview)

September 26 2018 , af alexanderjulin

alex zhang hungtai Interview by Alexander Julin, photo: Sean Marc Lee Alex Zhang Hungtai has been creating enormously diverse music throughout his career. In addition to the also stylistically diverse project Dirty Beaches, Hungtai has been releasing music under the moniker Last Lizard and more lately in his own name. Besides the more free jazzed collaboration with David Meranha and Gabriel Ferrandini as well as ...

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Nkisi – Psykotiske klubmutationer

Blog April 23 2017 , af alexanderjulin

Nkisi Af Alexander Julin Den belgisk-congolesiske producer Nkisi har indtil nu markeret sig med digitale udgivelser på N.A.A.FI og NON Worldwide, som hun også selv har stiftet sammen med producerne Angel-Ho og Chino Amobi. Nkisis egne produktioner er ikke nødvendigvis mindre udfordrende end labelkollegerne, står de dog i modsætning til både Angel-Hos og Chino Amobis værker, der i tiltagende grad har fået karakter af lydkollager ...

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Dedekind Cut ‘$uccessor’ – Liberating ambient music from predictability and whiteness

Kritik January 21 2017 , af passive/aggressive

ded004 Dedekind Cut “$uccessor” (NON Worldwide/Hospital Productions, 2016) – Review by Ivna Franić Having broken off with the Lee Bannon and ¬ b monikers – possibly for good – Dedekind Cut’s Fred Warmsley kicked off 2016 with an interesting although not entirely satifying collaboration with Rabit, followed by the merely solid single “Last”. It wasn’t until this past spring’s “American Zen” EP that the direction ...

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