d_rradio
Here's a real exclusive, delivered just a few days ago to scissorkick by Chris of d_rradio himself. This promising English group -- which includes Chris Tate, Michael Todd, Ian Smith and Paul Patterson -- successfully avoids many of the cliches that currently plague bands who share an affection of both electronics and live instrumentation. Like Boom Bip or Four Tet, they navigate the somewhat overpopulated waters of the style with significant skill, moving between minimal electronic sterility and layered organic textures with seemingly without effort.
"Bag of Lovely" is an unreleased track made specially available to scissorkick readers, so make sure to download this one because it is a real nugget of inspired playing/programming. An initial listen induced imagery of Tortoise's rendition of a Zimbabwean Jit as remixed by Looper. Yeah, it's happy music. Check out d_rradio's trio of 7"s and "Underscore", a superb 7 track mini-album that had I known about it earlier, would have surely made scissorkick's list of 2004's best records.
Get more information about d_rradio here
Read this nice piece on d_rradio at Absorb.org
d_rradio :: "Bag of Lovely"
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