Articles by Eric Hill

Xela

For Frosty Mornings and Summer Nights

PUBLISHED Feb 26, 2007

The four years since Type label boss John Twells initially released his debut full-length have been intriguing for the electronic music wor...

Fun From None: Live at the No Fun Fest 2004-2005

PUBLISHED Feb 25, 2007

This double DVD is a near definitive document of America’s current noise idols. Festival performances bring together the old vanguard-turne...

Alexander Tucker

Furrowed Brow

PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2007

Last year’s Old Fog introduced Alexander Tucker as a folk artist with slightly bent ears for John Fahey experiments and British traditions,...

Blops

Blops

PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2007

In the quest to excavate lost gems of world music this three-CD reissue of Chilean psychedelic folk is a mixed bag of riches. Blops was a q...

Es/Sami Sänpäkkilä

Early Filmworks 1996 to 2006

PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2007

This beguiling retrospective of short films and videos from Finnish visual artist/musician Sami Sänpäkkilä is a lesson in minimalism and si...

Steffen Basho Junghans

Late Summer Morning

PUBLISHED Feb 15, 2007

On 2004 album 7 Books, Basho-Junghans explored a more aggressive and diffident approach to his steel string acoustic guitar play. This albu...

Dead Voices on Air

From Labrador to Madagascar

PUBLISHED Feb 15, 2007

Mark Spybey is a veteran of the psychic wars that were the ’80s and ’90s industrial, post-industrial, darkwave, etc, electronic scenes. Hav...

A Post-Fordist Parade in the Strike of Events

PUBLISHED Feb 15, 2007

The acceleration of panic rushing from room to room as you frantically search for the microwave that’s melting down, the television shootin...