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December 29, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Michael Rother: Dreaming

Michael Rother Dreaming Groenland Records Michael Rother is, just casually, a superstar. Founding member of Neu! And in some people’s world that alone is enough. Add in his work as part of Harmonia, the fact he was in an early version of Kraftwerk and his 10 solo albums over the last 40 years – including […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Dreaming, Electronica, Eno, Harmonia, Kraftwerk, Krautrock, Michael Rother, Michael Rother: Dreaming, Neu!, Sophie Joiner, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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July 23, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Yu Su: Roll With The Punches (ep)

Yu Su  Roll With The Punches (ep)  /  泉出通川为谷  Second Circle  Vancouver-based composer Yu Su returns with her first full EP under her name since 2016 – there had been a split release in-between. Here she teams with fellow Vancouver musician Michelle Helene Mackenzie Little Birds, Moonbath – the opening track. It’s also the standout. Weird and wonderful bubbles of ambient house sit beneath Mackenzie’s indecipherable vocals […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged A Journey Into Ambient Groove, Album Review, Ambient-House, Cave Circles, China, EP, Instrumental, Kraftwerk, Little Birds, Moonbath, Moves in Motion, Roll With The Punches, Roll With The Punches (ep), Roll With The Punches (ep)  /  泉出通川为谷, S-Tone, Second Circle, Vancouver, Yu Su, Yu Su: Roll With The Punches (ep), Zion Train, 泉出通川为谷 ·

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March 1, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Royksopp’s Melody A.M. and their Late Night Tales: Late Night Driving Favourites

I forgot all about Royksopp. I loved their debut, Melody A.M. – I was working in a music store at the time and new music was arriving, daily. (Obviously). It was a good time to be working in music retail – for a start there were still customers. And though, very swiftly, the various taglines […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Autobahn, chillout, Driving, Kraftwerk, Late Night Driving, Late Night Driving Favourites, Late Night Tales, Melody A.M., Nostalgia, Radio-Activity, Road, Road Trip, Royksopp, Royksopp’s Melody A.M. and their Late Night Tales: Late Night Driving Favourites, Trip-Hop ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2013, 3D, Australia, Autobahn, Classic Album, Classic Albums, Kraftwerk, Live, Live Gig, Opera House, Radio-Activity, Radioactivity, Review, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: #148 – Kraftwerk – Radio-Activity, Sydney, Sydney Opera House, Vivid Festival ·

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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, […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2013, 3D, Aussie, Australia, Autobahn, Best Gig Ever, Gig Review, Kraftwerk, Stub, Stubs, Stubs: #132 – Kraftwerk - Autobahn, Sydney, Sydney Opera House ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged America, Author, Authors I Admire, Authors I Admire # 5, Authors I Admire: #5 Sylvie Simmons, Interview, Journalist, Kraftwerk, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, Music Journalism, Music Writing, Neil Young, On Song, Phantom Billstickers, Serge Gainsbourg, Simon Sweetman, SS, Sylvie Simmons, Vivid Festival ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Air, Album Review, Ambient, Aphex Twin, Brian Eno, Exclusive, Kraftwerk, Limited Edition, Music For Museum, Vinyl, Vinyl Only ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Can, Danilo Plessow, Eno, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, House, Innervisions collective, Kraftwerk, Krautrock, Marcus Worgull, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Vermont ·

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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, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Brian Eno, Do It Again, Eno, EP, Jamie xx, Kraftwerk, Mini-Album, Robyn, Royksopp, Royksopp & Robyn ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Brian Eno, Conrad Wedde, EP, Jean Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk, Mike Oldfield, Space World, The Phoenix Foundation ·

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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. […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 3D, Australia, Best Gig, It Was The Best Gig Ever, It Was The Best Gig Ever # 11, Kraftwerk, Live, Phantom Billstickers, Sydney, Sylvie Simmons, Vivid Festival ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Aphex Twin, Border, Daniel Lopatin, Kraftwerk, Oneohtrix Point Never, R Plus Seven, Warp ·
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