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Keyword results: Italians Do it Better

Good Evening / My CD / What Did He Say 12"

Article published 12th Jan 09
Release: Album
To Cure: A predictable playlist
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USA out-pop's unanimous obsession with tape recording continues unabated from coast to coast, spurred by something like Steam Punk's paradoxical love of the digitally expressed arcane. Schooled and encouraged by all-era DIY recordings countlessly available on 'sharity' blogs, by the grit-loving feel of early decade LPs by Jandek, Broadcast and Ariel Pink, studio Dub's medium-as-message learnings and in defiant reaction to somatic, Billboard-finished sounds a la Kayne West, cassette artists are now American music's newest, rapidly evolving zeitgeist.

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After Dark

Article published 30th Jan 08
Release: Compilation
To Cure: A predictable playlist
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Baby Boomers' Disco chintz returns emasculated and in altogether more sinister form with the new Italians Do It Better compilation, After Dark. Recent 12" and blog-only tracks by label artists Chromatics, Glass Candy, Farrar, Professor Genius and Mirage plunder Moroder and Studio 54 signifiers with cool and deadly intent, electro-shocking their falling synth patterns, Cabasa'n'bass rhythms, vocoder and electrolised strings to new, mercurial heights.

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