Beware stereo salesmen everywhere. Be on the lookout for customers appearing with a reference album bearing the audio trademark of one 'Joe Barresi', for then your knowledge of signal-to-noise ratios, wattage, ohms, oversampling, woofers and tweeters will truly be tested to...
Interviews | No. 23
Matmos
By Donald Bell
If I told you Matmos made audio cut-up, experimental, electronic music that closely parallels conceptual art, you'd probably write them off as some snobby, avant garde, artsy-fartsy, black turtleneck and a goatee noise group. If I informed you that their latest CD on Matador...
Interviews
Octant: On Hotrodding Playskool toys
By Danny Murphy, Brad Bordine, Leigh Marble
Last summer, a friend was all excited about an upcoming show by a "keyboard duo" from Seattle. They played some kind of experimental electronic pop. Octant? Never heard of them, I shrugged. How exciting is a keyboard duo? "Well," he said, "they build their own...