CHROME — HALF MACHINE LIP MOVES
A mighty industrial metal scraping noize devolves into a 1973 Stooges riff that sounds like it was recorded in a tin shack in 1957, cheapo drums start crashing away like The Trashmen. The only lyric you can make out is the sneered “I dunno whyyy!” at the end of every [...]
“Drawing from traditions of 20th century instrumental synthesizer music, Jonas Reinhardt represents a love affair between analog electronics, sweeping atmospherics, and driving motorik beats. Combined together, these elements bring the album’s 13 pieces into focus as the soundtrack for an inner-eyelid space epic that never was.
Inspired in equal measure by the natural beauty of his [...]
“Ralf und Florian is a 1973 album created and produced by the German music group Kraftwerk. It was also released under the English name of Ralf and Florian. Unlike Kraftwerk’s later albums, which featured language-specific lyrics, only the titles differ between the English and German editions.
Along with Kraftwerk’s first two albums, Ralf und Florian [...]
“Electromagnetic interference (or EMI, also called radio frequency interference or RFI) is an unwanted disturbance that affects an electrical circuit due to either electromagnetic conduction or electromagnetic radiation emitted from an external source. The disturbance may interrupt, obstruct, or otherwise degrade or limit the effective performance of the circuit. The source may be any object, [...]
“In physics, the geometrical design that results when a set of straight or curved lines is superposed onto another set; the name derives from a French word for “watered.” The effect may be seen by looking through the folds of a nylon curtain of small mesh, or two sheets of graph paper twisted 20 or [...]
Two Source Sound Interference
“Wave interference is a phenomenon which occurs when two waves meet while traveling along the same medium. Wave interference can be constructive or destructive. Constructive interference occurs at locations where the two interfering waves are displaced in the same direction - either both up or both down. When constructive interference occurs at [...]
The Wire: Issue #303 (May 09)
MM: I mean, The Germs definitely had something of interest to them. But I think The Screamers are the ones that deserved recognition as what could have been the most important band from that era. Their music was excellent. Yeah, they were good, we saw them when we were like, [...]