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...epic of atonal layering, sustaining its tension even as the music fades into the gentlest of murmurings, and finally, two minutes of pure silence. In “Campfire,” BoC has yet again succeeded in adding warmth to the traditionally sterile genre of electronica. Recordings of the brothers playing ‘real instruments,’ electronicized beyond recognition, form the foundation of the tracks. Friends’ voices, birds chirping, and retro audio clips are mixed into the electronic medley. The result? An organic-electronic fusion of past and future, rural and urban, earthy...

Author: By Natasha M. Platt, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Campfire Headphase | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...English, describes Aksara as "a curator, choosing books and other things with a special appeal." It's a formula that's winning many fans. On any given day at Aksara's biggest branch in South Jakarta, you might chance upon a poetry reading or a performance from a local electronica group. The crowd is a good-natured mix of students, style mavens and young expats, while the staff - shaggy of hair and baggy of trousers - is almost entirely made up of college kids from well-off families. Previously, Jakarta's jeunesse dorée shunned service-sector jobs. Now, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cool Room | 10/30/2005 | See Source »

...formula that's winning many fans. On any given day at Aksara's biggest branch in South Jakarta, you might chance upon a poetry reading or a performance from a local electronica group. The crowd is a good-natured mix of students, style mavens and young expats, while the staff-shaggy of hair and baggy of trousers-is almost entirely made up of college kids from well-off families. Previously, Jakarta's jeunesse dorée shunned service-sector jobs. Now, they're clamoring for a foot in the door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cool Room | 10/30/2005 | See Source »

...followed by their genre-bending breakthrough “Blazing Arrow” in 2002. On “The Craft,” the two have branched out even further, leaving the straightforward hip-hop vibes of earlier work for the marshy turf somewhere between hip-hop, jazz, electronica, and funk, where Outkast’s Andre 3000 has built his secret lab. “The Craft” is laced with swirling atmospheric washes, funkified melodic loops, ethereal crooning, snappy drumlines, and even P-Funk sensei George Clinton, who lends an extra punch...

Author: By Sam D. G. Jacoby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Review of the Week: The Craft | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

...should not faze the guitarless; according to Hufstedler, it is meant to be a “catch-all,” including “all the kids that are currently excluded, that don’t have groups” dedicated to their styles of music, like electronica and rap.Although the organization’s name may be grandiose, its goals are comparatively grounded. “Right now, the campus lacks adequate practice space and equipment for beginning bands,” says Hufstedler, describing their primary focus. Their answer to this dilemma is communication. According...

Author: By Eric L. Fritz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Does Harvard Have an Appetite for Rock and Roll? | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

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