Month: March 2019

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Kikagaku Moyo @ the Regent on 03.06.19

Kikagaku Moyo perform at the Regent on 03.06.19.
I'm gonna end March with the Japanese psychedelic act Kikagaku Moyo, who performed earlier this month at the Regent Theatre in DTLA. Yeah, this is another one of those belated posts that have suffered from the backlog of my often unpredictable life. Nonetheless, it is here now, and it will be worth it.Kikagaku Moyo, which …

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Lane 8’s “No Captain,” featuring Poliça

Lane 8's Daniel Goldstein. Photo by Jason Siegel; sourced from artist's Facebook.
I'm going to spend tonight with a quick write-up on Lane 8, a.k.a. Daniel Goldstein. He's a Denver-based electronic musician, originally from California, who specializes in melodic excursions of progressive house. He himself refers to it as "dreamy back rub house," which I'm totally on board with. But it's not the typical over-the-top electronica that …

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Sun Dial’s “Fly Into the Sun”

Sun Dial. Photo by Clare Carnegie; sourced from their original album artwork for the 1992 album "Reflector."
Just gonna get a quick post in before I crash hard for the evening. I'm setting the time machine for 1995, with a lo-fi psychedelic rock number titled "Fly into the Sun" from British indie act Sun Dial.I haven't listened to these guys in ages. But I remember a friend "discovered" them a few months …

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“Cloud Hopping” with Alien Mutation & Indigo Egg

Alien Mutation and Indigo Egg's 1996 album "Microcosm Macrocosm," featuring the single "Cloud Hopping."
I was working late this eve, and there were some discussions about ambient electronic music. It occurred to me that I haven't really delved too deeply into this part of my past. I used to be way deep into psy-ambient, dub, and chill-out electronica. It was my go-to when things got rough or uneasy, an …

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