Posts tagged with ‘electronica’

  • Offline Archive
    9 min

    Songs in the Key of F12

    Sunday night at Open Air

    Sunday night at Open Air

    The broad genre of New Age music draws from many times and places: Berlin, London, even Pune, India. But California, and especially the San Francisco Bay Area, plays an outsized role in the tale, particularly during the music’s golden age in the seventies and eighties. In those years, the Bay represented the confluence of a number of powerful cultural currents: a restless quest for new spiritualities, a DIY enthusiasm for technological experiment, and a predilection for making—and packaging—art that satisfied...
  • Quotes

    Quote 4

    It is too close, too far-out, its sacred transmissions too muddled with the scandalous grit of its concrete historical unfoldment

    It is too close, too far-out, its sacred transmissions too muddled with the scandalous grit of its concrete historical unfoldment

    The broad genre of New Age music draws from many times and places: Berlin, London, even Pune, India. But California, and especially the San Francisco Bay Area, plays an outsized role in the tale, particularly during the music’s golden age in the seventies and eighties. In those years, the Bay represented the confluence of a number of powerful cultural currents: a restless quest for new spiritualities, a DIY enthusiasm for technological experiment, and a predilection for making—and packaging—art that satisfied...
  • Music

    Pauline Anna Strom: Profile

    Pauline Anna Strom

    Pauline Anna Strom

    The broad genre of New Age music draws from many times and places: Berlin, London, even Pune, India. But California, and especially the San Francisco Bay Area, plays an outsized role in the tale, particularly during the music’s golden age in the seventies and eighties. In those years, the Bay represented the confluence of a number of powerful cultural currents: a restless quest for new spiritualities, a DIY enthusiasm for technological experiment, and a predilection for making—and packaging—art that satisfied...
  • Music

    Bluetech

    The Divine Invasion

    The Divine Invasion

    The broad genre of New Age music draws from many times and places: Berlin, London, even Pune, India. But California, and especially the San Francisco Bay Area, plays an outsized role in the tale, particularly during the music’s golden age in the seventies and eighties. In those years, the Bay represented the confluence of a number of powerful cultural currents: a restless quest for new spiritualities, a DIY enthusiasm for technological experiment, and a predilection for making—and packaging—art that satisfied...
  • Offline Archive
    3 min

    Boards of Canada

    Music has the Right to Children

    Music has the Right to Children

    The broad genre of New Age music draws from many times and places: Berlin, London, even Pune, India. But California, and especially the San Francisco Bay Area, plays an outsized role in the tale, particularly during the music’s golden age in the seventies and eighties. In those years, the Bay represented the confluence of a number of powerful cultural currents: a restless quest for new spiritualities, a DIY enthusiasm for technological experiment, and a predilection for making—and packaging—art that satisfied...
  • Music
    3 min

    Black Moth Super Rainbow

    Fellini, analog, and the new Dandelion Gum

    Fellini, analog, and the new Dandelion Gum

    The broad genre of New Age music draws from many times and places: Berlin, London, even Pune, India. But California, and especially the San Francisco Bay Area, plays an outsized role in the tale, particularly during the music’s golden age in the seventies and eighties. In those years, the Bay represented the confluence of a number of powerful cultural currents: a restless quest for new spiritualities, a DIY enthusiasm for technological experiment, and a predilection for making—and packaging—art that satisfied...
  • Esoterica
    19 min

    Dub, Scratch, and the Black Star

    Lee Perry on the Mix

    Lee Perry on the Mix

    The broad genre of New Age music draws from many times and places: Berlin, London, even Pune, India. But California, and especially the San Francisco Bay Area, plays an outsized role in the tale, particularly during the music’s golden age in the seventies and eighties. In those years, the Bay represented the confluence of a number of powerful cultural currents: a restless quest for new spiritualities, a DIY enthusiasm for technological experiment, and a predilection for making—and packaging—art that satisfied...
  • Music

    Halflife iPod

    Zombie radio

    Zombie radio

    The broad genre of New Age music draws from many times and places: Berlin, London, even Pune, India. But California, and especially the San Francisco Bay Area, plays an outsized role in the tale, particularly during the music’s golden age in the seventies and eighties. In those years, the Bay represented the confluence of a number of powerful cultural currents: a restless quest for new spiritualities, a DIY enthusiasm for technological experiment, and a predilection for making—and packaging—art that satisfied...
  • Quotes

    Quote 5

    Terminal. What other journey, you might ask, begins at the end?

    Terminal. What other journey, you might ask, begins at the end?

    The broad genre of New Age music draws from many times and places: Berlin, London, even Pune, India. But California, and especially the San Francisco Bay Area, plays an outsized role in the tale, particularly during the music’s golden age in the seventies and eighties. In those years, the Bay represented the confluence of a number of powerful cultural currents: a restless quest for new spiritualities, a DIY enthusiasm for technological experiment, and a predilection for making—and packaging—art that satisfied...
  • Subcultures
    26 min

    Hedonic Tantra of Goa

    Golden Goa's Trance Dance Transmission

    Golden Goa's Trance Dance Transmission

    The broad genre of New Age music draws from many times and places: Berlin, London, even Pune, India. But California, and especially the San Francisco Bay Area, plays an outsized role in the tale, particularly during the music’s golden age in the seventies and eighties. In those years, the Bay represented the confluence of a number of powerful cultural currents: a restless quest for new spiritualities, a DIY enthusiasm for technological experiment, and a predilection for making—and packaging—art that satisfied...
  • Music
    23 min

    Sampling Paradise

    The Technofreak Legacy of Golden Goa

    The Technofreak Legacy of Golden Goa

    The broad genre of New Age music draws from many times and places: Berlin, London, even Pune, India. But California, and especially the San Francisco Bay Area, plays an outsized role in the tale, particularly during the music’s golden age in the seventies and eighties. In those years, the Bay represented the confluence of a number of powerful cultural currents: a restless quest for new spiritualities, a DIY enthusiasm for technological experiment, and a predilection for making—and packaging—art that satisfied...
  • Offline Archive

    San Francisco Soundscapes

    Sound art at Recombinant Media Labs

    Sound art at Recombinant Media Labs

    The broad genre of New Age music draws from many times and places: Berlin, London, even Pune, India. But California, and especially the San Francisco Bay Area, plays an outsized role in the tale, particularly during the music’s golden age in the seventies and eighties. In those years, the Bay represented the confluence of a number of powerful cultural currents: a restless quest for new spiritualities, a DIY enthusiasm for technological experiment, and a predilection for making—and packaging—art that satisfied...
  • Music
    2 min

    Electromagnetic Voice Phenomena

    A review of The Ghost Orchid

    A review of The Ghost Orchid

    The broad genre of New Age music draws from many times and places: Berlin, London, even Pune, India. But California, and especially the San Francisco Bay Area, plays an outsized role in the tale, particularly during the music’s golden age in the seventies and eighties. In those years, the Bay represented the confluence of a number of powerful cultural currents: a restless quest for new spiritualities, a DIY enthusiasm for technological experiment, and a predilection for making—and packaging—art that satisfied...