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October 2, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: #148 – Kraftwerk – Radio-Activity, Sydney, 2013
It can’t be often you get to see two of the best gigs you could ever see in one night – well it happened to me once. Same band too – Kraftwerk playing their classic albums through one by one. Eight albums across four nights, two shows a night and I got to hear the […]Archive
August 24, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: #132 – Kraftwerk – Autobahn, Sydney, 2013
Nothing this good ever happens to me! I got an email out of the blue one day, I was invited to Sydney – to pick a weekend to attend as much as I could of their Vivid Festival. So I picked the opening weekend, Kraftwerk was to perform its series of 8 shows, 8 albums, […]Archive
September 11, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Authors I Admire: # 5 Sylvie Simmons
I started reading about music when I was 10. That’s about when I started really obsessively listening to music too – buying tapes and reading music magazines. Then it was to bios – I read about The Stones and The Beatles and some of it went over my head but that was okay, I would […]Archive
August 5, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Air: Music for Museum
Air Music for Museum The Vinyl Factory Air’s first music since 2012 is the vinyl-only limited edition album, Music for Museum. It’s a set of chilled, ambient washes – and if that album title instantly has you thinking of Eno’s ambient albums from the 1970s the content within completes that picture. Reverse Bubble has shades […]Archive
July 15, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Vermont: Vermont
Vermont Vermont Kompakt Germany You might know Danilo Plessow from his Motor City Drum Ensemble moniker. You might know , both are talented house music producers. Together they are Vermont – and this self-titled album project is a calming and lovely late-night/early-early-morning set of ambient ideas that has very little to do with house music […]Archive
May 29, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Royksopp & Robyn: Do It Again
Royksopp & Robyn Do It Again Wall of Sound/Dog Triumph/Cooking Vinyl These sorts of things are always stopgaps – the collaborative mini-album/EP – here we have Do It Again by Royksopp and Robyn, they’ve worked together before – it’s a marriage made in heaven and it’s mutually beneficial. The last Robyn album really nailed it, […]Archive
April 9, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Conrad Wedde: Space World
Conrad Wedde Space World (Independent) Recorded “in a small room in Dunedin, New Zealand” we’re told from the Bandcamp page, where you can hear/buy this – the latest solo EP from Conrad Wedde of The Phoenix Foundation. And as with his previous solo outing, Bronze (2008) it is wholly apparent what he brings to the […]Archive
January 7, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
It Was The Best Gig Ever # 11: Kraftwerk, Sydney 2013
Here’s something that never happens – well, has never happened before – EVER – for me. I was flown over to Sydney to see Kraftwerk. Earlier this year. Man! It was the best. I’d have to think of the first Kraftwerk gig as the best of the year in 2013. One of the best ever. […]Archive
September 26, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Oneohtrix Point Never: R Plus Seven
Oneohtrix Point Never R Plus Seven Warp Records/Border Daniel Lopatin’s latest as Oneohtrix Point Never won’t surprise people already enticed to his sound – a strange new world of non-dance music or head-music constructed and created from elements that might otherwise make dance music; he’s Aphex Twin as art gallery soundscape curator. This time around […]Archive
July 9, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1339
Kraftwerk, Radio-Activity (1975) A strange album for some, but I really like this. I wasn’t going to pick up the new vinyl version – until I scored a trip to Sydney recently and saw the album performed in its entirety. As part of the build-up for that trip I bought this album – it’s now […]Archive
June 21, 2013 by Simon Sweetman