3 for the price of 1! This time, we’re looking at Anything Could Be Here, a north-eastern US (Brooklyn – Philadelphia) band / collaborative project consisting of Ryan Leahan, patchymate and abbot. All alumni of the hyperpop scene, you could describe their style as a rough-around-the-edges approach to pop music – although that description doesn’t […]
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The best solidarity in a crowd is built when you collectively, accidentally, queue at the wrong spot. Saturday evening, the 25th of May, the electronic-indie-hiphop-house-hyperpop band Food House performed in the Bovenzaal at Paradiso, Amsterdam. An amazing show with the best vibe. What else would you expect when 80 percent of the audience is queer?
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I’ve recently been in the process of finishing up some composition projects I’ve had for a while. That means adding the finishing touches, checking every part over and over and over again, and sending it to the client. With this process coming up multiple times recently, it made me reflect on the process and the
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The creative process, and the creative ability, is weird. At one point there’s nothing, then there is a thing – arguably a thing that holds intellectual value. (And They saw that it was good, etcetera etcetera.) The creative process, and with that the creative ability, is sure a chaotic one. No coherent thoughts, almost no
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Last Friday, while walking in front of Utrecht Centraal, I was approached by a representative of Doctors without Borders. Campaigning for donations, for a second mobile hospital in Ukraine (essentially a glorified sleeper train). In a very, very slow conversation he asked me if I still followed the news. He seemed surprised when I answered
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Major Hyperpop label PC Music has announced they would stop releasing new music at the end of the year. Is hyperpop officially dead?
Hyperpop is dead. A postmortem Read More »
Right – Sunday evening, listening to Tigran Hamasyan – perfect conditions to write a welcome message. New study year, new Hucbald, new website committee. And I am the new chairwoman for the siteco this year! That largely means I have more responsibilities, and I have to keep some back-end stuff in check. And, as from
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Het einde van de zomermaanden is alweer hier, met een nieuw academisch jaar in zicht. Om nog even terug te blikken: dit was de muziek die mij de afgelopen maanden heeft beziggehouden. Klik hier voor de volledige spotifylijst. ALBUM PICKS 1: torr – molecule [selfreleased] molecule is het debuutalbum van torr, uitgebracht afgelopen 27 juli. Het
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Daar zit ik dan, achter mijn computer, zoekend naar een nieuw onderwerp voor een straks veel te lange column die in totaal tien weergaven krijgt. Buiten werkt alweer de volgende shift werkers ingehuurd door T-Mobile om het internet een paar milliseconden sneller te maken. Binnen vraag ik me af of wax-strips me minder huidproblemen zouden
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Afgelopen zaterdag 1 april vond in TivoliVredenburg het Transition Jazz Festival plaats. Een bomvol programma waarvan één recensent zeker niet bij alle acts aanwezig kon zijn (dat zou dan ook een recensie van vijfduizend woorden worden). En zoals Daan (hoi Daan) na een concert al tegen me zei: je hoeft je eigenlijk niet eens in
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