William Emmanuel Bevan, who releases work under the name Burial, is an electronic musician from South London whose 2007 album “Untrue” is regarded as one of the most important electronic albums of this century ( Reynolds. S, 2017). His experimental production techniques resulted in the album having a futuristic, new age tone; he often used…

For my essay I’m going to write an in depth analysis of Marvin Gaye 1971 album ‘What’s Going On”. I feel this is a good choice there’s a lot of social and political influences for the album, which has a strong concept and aesthetic.  I’m planning to research how the effects of the Vietnam way…

Robin Rimbaud is an ambient/electronic musician who works under the alias Scanner. The name comes from his field recordings taken from police scanners and mobile phones, which make up the bulk of his work.  Rimbaud began releasing his material in the early 90s, alongside performing sets at his London club The Electronic Lounge. His songs…

I think what makes Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark side of the Moon’ such a fascinating and iconic album is the many different influences the band used to create an eclectic, powerful sound. It almost seems like each song was written in a completely different genre, yet somehow the album as a whole is completely cohesive and…

This week I read Pauline Oliveros’s 1974 book ‘Sonic Meditations’ as well as listening to her material. Oliveros’ made a significant attempt to erase the performer/audience relationship that is highly present in todays industry, I found this fascinating and admirable as we’re currently living in a society that is unnecessarily obsessed with spectacle and observation.…

Before 2003, Belle and Sebastian were well-known as a lo-fi, soft spoken band, with a seemingly simple workflow; Stuart Murdoch, the bands front man, would record his acoustic guitar and vocals first, and have the band work around what he’d already created. So it seemed unusual to fans that Trevor Horn was to produce their…

The Orb are an electronic music group founded by Alex Patterson and Jimmy Cauty in 1988. They were best known for being the pioneers of the ambient house movement in the early 90s. Through analysing their 1991 album ‘The Orb’s Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld’ and more specifically the track “Little Fluffy Clouds’ I gained a…

In 1983, Bryn Jones began his career under the alias Muslimgauze in response to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Even though he was neither religiously, nor culturally tied to the Middle East, he held a deep passion and strong political view on the happenings in that region. For 17 years he worked on creating a…

The first carbon microphone was developed independently by David Edward-Hughes in England and Thomas Edison and Emile Berliner in the U.S during the 1870s with Edison gaining the patent for it in 1877. As Stated in ‘How the Microphone Transformed Popular Singing’ by David Guion: ‘Experiments with carbon microphones, crystal microphones, capacitor microphones, and electromagnetic…

This week, I chose to analyse Moog music. I’d previously heard one or two tracks and was fascinated by the almost space-agey sound of the genre. So this exercise gave me an excuse to dive deeper into that and learn more.  I began my research by listening to artists such as Raymond Scott and the…