In Depth by Sam Cleeve
Max Richter casts a distinctive shadow on the contemporary classical landscape. Despite spending his formative years sheathed in the a world of musical academia, studying both at the Royal Academy of Music and with the likes of Luciano Berio in Florence (an influence he regards as “a genius,” describing their few meetings as “life-changing”), Richter continues to make the sort of music that's as accessible to fans of post-rock or electronica as it is to admirers of something more traditional.»
In Depth by Luke Slater
Another wonderful edition of this week's Spotifriday playlist featuring Bowie, Blake, No Age, Abe Vigoda, Dios, Max Richter, Andrew Bird...and, of course, a fair few more.»
In Depth by Jon Falcone
Max Richter’s live performances are all too seldom. As a composer who forges the work of piano and string quintet into a universe of electronic rumbles and soft white noise, tonight his compositions are perfectly matched by the art deco splendour of Cad»
In Depth by Luke Slater
The 54th edition of This Week On DiS as a playlist, featuring Animal Collective, John Cooper Clarke, The White Stripes, These New Puritans, Yeasayer, Boredoms, Deerhunter and a few more for good measure!»
In Depth by Chris Power
armchair dancefloor is a monthly look at the best electronic releases. This month: praise for the witchy doings of Demdike Stare, Macc & dgoHn's whipsmart drum & bass assault, Max Richter, Peverelist's latest conundrum, and gridskipping in Aix. »
In Depth by Rachel Cawley
Venn 2006 was three years old - the festival first brought experi(mental) joy to this corner of Bristol in 2004. Venn is based around existing venues in the Stokes Croft and St Pauls area of Bristol, many of which are literally next door to each other, making long walks non-existant. The venues are as diverse as the area housing them - Casablanca is a morrocan themed shisha bar, the Malcolm X centre is a polkda-dotted hall with jamaican lager-slash-beer, the Full Moon is a punkish pub. Diversity applied to the musical line-up too, dub-step to hip-hop to shouty girl punk; the linking factor being the high quality of everything on offer. Despite the intense sunshine and the presence of premier pie shop 'PieMinister' in Stokes Croft, DiS made it to gigs. In fact, we made it to many gigs. The musical policy at Venn was so all-encompassingly fantastic, that weather and food paled into insignificance with the excitement of bands weird and wonderful in venues small and large. Now our ears throb, our eyes squint and our legs ache from dashing from gig to gig, but we're still here to comment on our quite incredible findings.
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In Depth by Rachel Cawley
Venn Festival is three years old this year. If you follow the playground adage of “first the worst, second the best”, this will be the Venn with a hairy chest. A festival with a hairy chest is not all that much of a proposition, but to peruse the line-up, would suggest this year will be ‘third time lucky’, so delectable is the extensive list of bands, persons and machines involved.»
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