“Beautiful atmospheres between deep techno and electronica-IDM, dreams and nightmares, ecology and technology“. It’s quite a good start to try to describe the sound of one of the most brilliant electronic music composer who comes out of the shadows for this interview on Boing Poum Tchak!. With Sworn and Melt, his two new albums released simultaneously, swedish artist Anders Ilar grows up once more in the deep hearts of electronic music lovers, and here, he helps us to find out some clues to elucidate his emotional but not always easy-to-access music. Read the rest of this entry »
David Brown is one of the two guys (with James Taylor) who’s running Swayzak since ten years now. After fantastic albums as the incredible minimal dubby tech-house Snowboarding in argentina (1998), the 80’s vocal-pop Himawari (2000), the big electroclashed Dirty dancing (in tribute to Patrick Swayze’s Dirty Dancing movie ;-), and the last one Some other country, David Brown is launching a new label with the dj and friend Roger 23 named Serieculture. We know all that the Swayzak’s lives are always amazing and improvised, but we know less about the dj-side, even if they have released two fantastic cd-mixes for Fabric and Goovetechnology in the past few years. So, here we go for a dj interview. Read the rest of this entry »
Ah, voilà un disque qui sent le summer time (au sens du noble du terme bien sûr, ne voyons pas ici une allusion à ce que nous imposent les chaines de télé et leurs “inoubliables” tubes de l’été sponsorisés, comme ce drame que prépare M6 : le fameux Papillon de lumière par l’immense Cindy Sanders, une bonne raison for turning the radio and the tv off, une fois de plus). Non ici il faut plutôt simplement parler d’une bonne compilation que nous livre l’un des meilleurs labels estampillé new deep-house du moment (avec Drumpoet Community) : la subdivision de Compost (label plutôt orienté jazz et soul) : Compost Blacklabel. Read the rest of this entry »
Voilà de la techno comme on aimerait en entendre plus souvent !
Après ses mésaventures avec F Communications (lire l’article ici), on ne sait pas encore chez qui sortira le nouvel album de Vince Watson. Pour le moment c’est Delsin qui prend la relève en nous présentant un incroyable maxi naviguant entre deep-techno magistrale (Ethereal en face a) et musique répétitive à la Steve Reich (Spores en face b). Read the rest of this entry »
23 ans après sa première forme (rebricolée au fil des années), sort enfin l’album de Pure Sound alias Vince Hunt, ancien compositeur et bassiste du groupe A Witness, qui avait notamment enregistré 4 sessions à la BBC pour John Peel. Read the rest of this entry »
Boing Poum Tchak! is an online electronic music magazine based in Paris since January 2005.
Boing Poum Tchak! is not an audioblog.
There is no illegal music to download here. Only mp3s from free netlabels are available and mixes. Audio samples are marked and / or in low-fi quality (80kbps / 45 sec max) or streamed from online record-shops.
Since February 2009, we organize small parties in bars named Party Poum Tchak!. Roger 23, Jacques from the Parisian Smallville shop, Break SL, and Leo Le Loup have already played with us.
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