Are you addicted? How many of you dare to take a cold hard look in the mirror and answer this official questionnaire put together by (VAA) Vinyl Addicts Anonymous?
Everything music related dwells here… From staff reviews of new releases (and some old classics) to general music news via recommendations. We will also be featuring exclusive interviews with some key players behind the scenes and synths. Every now and then we stumble upon some music videos that we think you should see – they live here too.
“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.” ― John Lennon
“More soul than a sock with a hole!” – MF Doom
It is with great pleasure and honour that we share with you an interview with Matt Hillier, no doubt the most psychedelic and creative electronic ambient producer working today.
We were thrilled to be able to grab some time with Sandrine Gryson, DJ, Arranger, Publisher, Co-Founder and Label Owner of Ultimae Records. Sandrine very kindly also directed some questions out to other members of the Ultimae team, which also feature here.
Be prepared to lose yourself in the maze of Smith's 'cosmic' mind, as he takes you on a journey to far off lands, distant planetary systems and to future possible worlds. Ready yourself to smile at the preposterous, to be panicked by the bizarre, to be fearful of the terrifying, to wonder at the order and chaos of Smith's poetic form, a cure all for the world weary and jaded heart. There is more here than found in the dreams of mortals, so play your copy of 'The Muse of Hyperborea'.
This is the 5th release by Cadabra Records, and the second album by Cadabra devoted to the short fiction of Howard Philips Lovecraft. In the gloom of your living room, intermittently illuminated by splinters of lightning revealing momentarily the hell behind nights dormant peeling epidermis, place the stylus in the groove of your copy of 'The Lurking Fear', then drape yourself across the green velvet couch, bedecked in your white marbled gown and prepare for the forbidden pleasures contained within.
Pino Donaggio's [Born 1941] first work for film. As the story goes, one of the film's Italian producers Ugo Mariotti spotted Donaggio on a Vaporetto on the Grand Canal in Venice and took it for a "sign", contacted him, reluctant at first because he had no experience in the field, he decided to accept. The London based producers didn't want an inexperienced composer but they were overruled by the films financiers. Not a particularly good pianist by his own admission he plays 'Laura's Theme' on the soundtrack with childlike naivety, Donaggio also plays flute on the love scene, and is an accomplished flautist, the results are stunning
