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Pictureplane
Travis Egedy (born May 1, 1985), better known by his stage name Pictureplane, is an American electronic musician, visual artist and fashion designer based in Brooklyn, New York. He first appeared in the music scene of Denver, Colorado, making a name for himself at Rhinoceropolis, the DIY space where he also lived. He has been credited for coining the term " witch house". He is also a founder of the fashion brand Alien Body. Biography Born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Travis Egedy grew up a fan of hip hop. In 2001, he started making music, using the Magix Music Maker software. He was a member of the hip hop group Thinking in Circles. He moved to Denver, Colorado to attend the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. While at RMCAD, he became interested in noise and experimental music. In 2004, he started using the pseudonym Pictureplane. In 2006, he moved into Rhinoceropolis, the DIY space in Denver. In 2009, Pictureplane released a studio album, ''Dark Rift'', on Lovepump United R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thee Physical
''Thee Physical'' is a studio album by American electronic musician Pictureplane. It was released by Lovepump United Records on July 19, 2011. Music videos were created for "Real Is a Feeling", "Post Physical", "Black Nails", and "Negative Slave". Critical reception At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, ''Thee Physical'' received an average score of 73, based on 11 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Kate Shapiro of CMJ said, "Pictureplane's Travis Egedy has always been one for fist-pumping, electronic opuses, but ''Thee Physical'', with its exploration of gender and sexuality, marks a departure from the big, electronic sound and a move to, well, damn good pop songs." Matt James of ''PopMatters'' gave the album 7 stars out of 10, saying: "despite some desperately un-sexy, clumsy faux-pas in the introduction, ''Thee Physical'' does ultimately deliver a gratifyingly memorable evening and is ripe for the pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Technomancer (album)
''Technomancer'' is a studio album by American electronic musician Pictureplane. It was released by Anticon on October 30, 2015. Music videos were created for "Self Control", "Technomancer", "Death Condition", and "Joyrider". Production Most of the album was created using the Access Virus synthesizer. Pictureplane also used an old desktop computer. Brad Hoss, Dre Skull, D Gookin, and Lars Stafford helped engineer the album. "Self Control" and "Live Forever" featured guest vocalist Grace Hall. Pictureplane described it as "an album about our current relationship with technology and how it is defining our existence right now." The title of the album refers to "someone who uses technology for magical purposes." Critical reception Derek Staples of ''Spectrum Culture'' gave the album a 2.75 out of 5, calling it "an amalgam of androgynous lyricism, shoegaze electronics, second-wave acid techno and downtempo darkwave." Matt James of ''PopMatters'' gave the album 7 stars out of 10, sayin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Rift (album)
''Dark Rift'' is a studio album by American electronic musician Pictureplane. It was released by Lovepump United Records on August 4, 2009. Music videos were created for "Trance Doll" and "Goth Star". Critical reception Zach Kelly of ''Pitchfork'' gave the album a 7.3 out of 10, saying, "the propulsive, strobe-streaked allegiance to the mainstream dance music of days gone by is ultimately the most admirable thing about ''Dark Rift''." Shawn Reynaldo of ''XLR8R'' gave the album an 8.5 out of 10, saying, "''Dark Rift'' proves that even DIY warehouse kids can make some first-rate dance music." Matthew Collins of ''PopMatters'' gave the album 8 stars out of 10, saying: "No song on ''Dark Rift'' may be especially fantastic, but no song on the album is anything less than great, either." "Goth Star" was placed at number 79 on ''Pitchfork''s "Top 100 Tracks of 2009" list. Track listing Personnel Credits adapted from liner notes. * Pictureplane Travis Egedy (born May 1, 1985), bett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lovepump United Records
Lovepump United is an independent record label founded in 2004 by Vassar College students Jake Friedman and Mookie Singerman in Poughkeepsie, New York. The label is based in New York City. Friedman and Singerman were the only members of a duo Glitter Pals whose EP was Lovepump's first release; the band has disbanded. Singerman is also the vocalist for Philadelphia-based "cybergrind" band Genghis Tron whose ''Cloak of Love'' EP was the second Lovepump release. Lovepump first gained attention in indie music circles by releasing the debut album by the much buzzed about Montreal based noise rock band AIDS Wolf in January 2006. Discography * LPU 001 - Glitter Pals, ''Unleash The Compassion'' CD EP (January 10, 2005) * LPU 002 - Genghis Tron, '' Cloak of Love'' 10" picture EP (March 29, 2005) * LPU 003 - Pre (band), Pre / AIDS Wolf / Demonstrations (band), Demonstrations / Crack Und Ultra Eczema, 2 x 7" Split (November 2005) * LPU 004 - Doesn't exist * LPU 005 - AIDS Wolf, ''The Lov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noah23
Noah Raymond Brickley (born February 10, 1978), better known by his stage name Noah23, is a Canadian-American hip hop artist from Guelph, Ontario. He is co-founder of the Plague Language collective and record label, and has been described as "one of Canada's best, most underrated MCs". Career Noah Raymond Brickley was born in 1978 in Natchez, Mississippi and moved to Guelph, Ontario at the age of 4. He began rapping in the early 1990s and released his first album, originally titled ''Plague Language'', in 1999. This album, initially released on cassette, was remastered and released on CD in 2006 under the name ''Cytoplasm Pixel''. In the late 1990s, Noah23 started the record label Plague Language with producer Orphan (real name Kingston Maguire, who went on to become one half of production duo Blue Sky Black Death). In the early 2000s the Plague Language label released music from artists such as Baracuda, Livestock, Orko the Sycotik Alien, Penny, The Main, and Madadam. In 2004 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antwon
Antonio Williams (born October 25, 1986), better known by his stage name Antwon, is an American rapper based in San Jose, California. In 2013, he was included on ''Complex''s "15 Unsigned Rappers Who Should Get a Deal After SXSW" list. He was also included on ''Complex''s "25 New Rappers to Watch Out For in 2014" list. Biography Born in Key West, Florida, to an African-American father and a Filipino mother, Antwon grew up in Sunnyvale, California. He was a member of the Philadelphia-based hardcore band Leather, as well as the pop punk bands Sour Patch and How to: Summer. Antwon's first mixtape, ''Fantasy Beds'', was released in 2011. In that year, he also released ''My Westside Horizon''. In 2012, Antwon released a mixtape, ''End of Earth''. ''SF Weekly'' included it on the "10 Best Bay Area Hip-Hop Records of 2012" list. In 2013, he released a mixtape, ''In Dark Denim''. It was listed as ''Spin''s "Rap Release of the Week". His first official studio album, ''Heavy Hearted in D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anticon
Anticon (often styled as anticon.) is an independent record label based in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1998 by seven musicians and manager Baillie Parker. It is now collectively owned among six musicians, co-founder Parker, and manager Shaun Koplow. The original musicians signed to Anticon were once referred to as the Anticon collective. History The label's roster of artists has been described as "the hip-hop equivalent of post-rock" and "avant-garde hip-hop". Releases feature material created by its members, affiliates, and extended musical family. Although Anticon cohered originally within alternative hip hop circles, Anticon's founders have become only tangentially related to hip hop, and the label has begun releasing music in the indie rock and electronica genres. Artists signed to Anticon are based in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The artists within the collective have been known to perform and release music in solo and group form. Arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Witch House (genre)
Witch house is a microgenre of electronic music characterized by dark occult themes and visual aesthetics that emerged in the late 2000s and early 2010s. The style is heavily influenced by chopped and screwed hip hop, as well as industrial music, ethereal wave and dream pop. Witch house incorporates synths, drum machines, obscure samples, droning repetition, and vocals that are heavily altered, ethereal, and/or indiscernible. The witch house visual aesthetic includes occult, witchcraft, shamanism, terror and horror-inspired artworks, collages and photographs as well as significant use of hidden messages and typographic elements such as Unicode symbols. Artworks by witch house visual artists have incorporated imagery from horror films such as ''The Blair Witch Project'', the television series ''Twin Peaks'', horror-inspired dark web videos and mainstream pop culture celebrities of the 2000s. Common typographic elements in titles, such as by Salem and White Ring, include tri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Witch House (genre)
Witch house is a microgenre of electronic music characterized by dark occult themes and visual aesthetics that emerged in the late 2000s and early 2010s. The style is heavily influenced by chopped and screwed hip hop, as well as industrial music, ethereal wave and dream pop. Witch house incorporates synths, drum machines, obscure samples, droning repetition, and vocals that are heavily altered, ethereal, and/or indiscernible. The witch house visual aesthetic includes occult, witchcraft, shamanism, terror and horror-inspired artworks, collages and photographs as well as significant use of hidden messages and typographic elements such as Unicode symbols. Artworks by witch house visual artists have incorporated imagery from horror films such as ''The Blair Witch Project'', the television series ''Twin Peaks'', horror-inspired dark web videos and mainstream pop culture celebrities of the 2000s. Common typographic elements in titles, such as by Salem and White Ring, include tri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PopMatters
''PopMatters'' is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers aspects of popular culture. ''PopMatters'' publishes reviews, interviews, and essays on cultural products and expressions in areas such as music, television, films, books, video games, comics, sports, theater, visual arts, travel, and the Internet. History ''PopMatters'' was founded by Sarah Zupko, who had previously established the cultural studies academic resource site PopCultures. ''PopMatters'' launched in late 1999 as a sister site providing original essays, reviews and criticism of various media products. Over time, the site went from a weekly publication schedule to a five-day-a-week magazine format, expanding into regular reviews, features, and columns. In the fall of 2005, monthly readership exceeded one million. From 2006 onward, ''PopMatters'' produced several syndicated newspaper columns for McClatchy-Tribune News Service. By 2009 there were four different pop culture related col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fader
''The Fader'' (stylized as ''FADER'') is a magazine based in New York City that was launched in 1999 by Rob Stone and Jon Cohen. The magazine covers music, style and culture. It was the first print publication to be released on iTunes. It is owned by The Fader Media group, which also includes its website, thefader.com, as well as Fader films, Fader Label and Fader TV. The Fader Fort The Fader Fort is an annual invitation-only event at Austin, Texas's South by Southwest (SXSW) founded in 2001. The four-day party features live performances. Fader Fort NYC is a party produced during the annual CMJ Music Marathon. Anthony Fantano controversy In October 2017, ''The Fader'' published an article by Ezra Marcus about YouTube music critic Anthony Fantano of ''The Needle Drop'' which accused his now-defunct second channel, ''thatistheplan'', of catering to an alt-right audience, while scrutinizing Fantano's past associations with right-wing and anti-SJW provocateurs such as Sam Hyd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magix Music Maker
Magix Music Maker is a commercial digital audio workstation (DAW) designed by the company Magix Software GmbH, Magix for the consumer sector. The program's attributes originate from MAGIX Samplitude, Samplitude, Magix's professional digital audio workstation. The first version of Music Maker was published in 1994. With more than a million copies sold, Music Maker has become one of Europe, Europe’s most successful music editing programs. A CD version for PlayStation 2 was released in 2003, followed by a Deluxe Edition on DVD in 2005. In 2013, Music Maker Jam was released in the Microsoft Store (digital), Microsoft Store. A version for Android (operating system), Android was released later that year. Features Music Maker is designed to allow users with little experience in music production to make songs in various genres. The Premium version allows users to export digital music in surround sound formats. * Sound pool * Sound import (digital music files, real instruments or vocal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |