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I found on my old computer a mini-interview I did with Jason Fine few months ago (and never published), when he was releasing his second album Future thought on the Swedish quality label Kontra Musik. I think it’s the right moment to upload it to know a bit more about this secret artist, with the output March 17th of the Future thought remixed ep by Ben Klock and the amazing Oni Ayhun. Read the rest of this entry »

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Nouvelle cargaison mensuelle de b² (beats & bits) orientée techno, electronica, ambiant, K7 et RSS. Go !
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Microniks est une nouvelle rubrique en lien avec les actualités de Boing Poum Tchak! sur Twitter, car désormais, vous pouvez retrouver sur http://twitter.com/boingpoumtchak des news exclusives et de courtes chroniques en anglais (environ un post par jour). Puis à la fin de chaque mois, redécouvrez ici ces reviews, agrémentées de commentaires en français (un peu moins expéditifs :-) ainsi que les pochettes des disques mentionnés et des liens audio. Janvier ouvre le bal avec une sélection matinée de house moderne ou retro, electronica, italo-disco, dark-ambiant, dubstep, abstract techno et post-techno. C’est (re)parti ! Read the rest of this entry »

Everyone at the moment is thinking these are good things (the ability to make music so easily with a lot of virtual sources). Especially at the moment with labels disappearing and all of the people that once helped decide whether a record is coming out or not not—the label manager, the friend of the label, the designer—are going away. People are finding it easy to publish something without any controls. And this is the problem with the internet in general. There is so much information, and no one knows if it’s true or not. It’s just there. It’s an information monster.

Ricardo Villalobos,
on Resident Advisor

I gathered some old songs that i liked that seemed like they would  work well for remixing/playing around… along with some  of my own  from the Future thought album, and threw together a set in ableton.

Jason Fine

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There is a division between the rich and the poor. And these technologies are usually controlled by the people that have the ressources to fund them. The technologies which become obsolete are no longer useful for this powerful group, and eventually trickle down to what we see today. A lot of outdated military technology is now in use with the common people, the general public. Take a radar, for example, which was invented in the Second World War. Now you can use the same technology in your vehicule to ward off police.

You can find new uses for any kind of technology.

People are still using nets to catch fish, people are still using knives in the kitchen. And those technologies have been around for thousands of years. They don’t become obsolete, they become refined over time.

Gerald Donald,
part of Dopplereffekt with Michaela To Nhan Le Thi,
interviewed in The Wire – October 2009

Computer games don’t affect kids. I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

Marcus Brigstocke,
English comedian and satirist.

Dark star from the underground, ambiant / acid / delicate techno dreamer (and singer) Tin Man takes time to speak with Boing Poum Tchak! while he’s releasing his last and excellent 12″ : Cool waves EP, including the amazing song Constant confusion. Find out who really is behind the shadow, now. Read the rest of this entry »

Who could imagine that one of the best innovative house / detroit-house sound of the moment comes from East-Europe ? After Russian Anton Zap, let me introduce you Vakula, Ukrainian electronic artist who has signed some experimental warm & groovy underground-house tracks on Uzuri, then Quintessentials, Meakusma, before releasing a record on Firecracker in 2009. Find out more about him, his thoughts on electronic music in Ukraine while listening the mix he did for Boing Poum Tchak! with only unreleased material from him. Vashe zdo´rovye ! Read the rest of this entry »

Two years ago, during my trip, I drove into a small place named Putivl, near the town of Konotop. There I realized how much I love Ukraine. Too many things in this land about history, secret past… And I wanted to create national hero Vakula, as in the old Ukrainian fairy tales.

Vakula

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