selvehealing mat

Juliaan Lampens

If you have a thing for rough, unfinished concrete like I do, Lampens is for you.

Long Live Sten Egil Dahl

Stop whatever it is you're doing and watch Reprise.

spreadin' love is the brooklyn way

Inside Roman & Williams

A visually stunning look into the NYC design firm Roman & Williams, responsible for the incredible Ace Hotel and The Standard. Have a look and be wowed.

iamwhoami

No one knows who you are. However, if you watch these in sequence, it's pretty awesome. Turning out to be an impressive project. Who are you?

Brickskellar has a beer list that puts the Pitchfork 500 to shame and a bartender that knows all of them. The Dubliner was full of Congressmen and weren't too happy that we were there. Capitol City Brewing has a $9 sampler where you can try everything that they brew there. All in all, a pretty solid night, for starting at 6 and ending around 11.

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Live Event

The term "live" is deceiving. Pittsburgh has two speeds; "normal," and "raining." One of them is the speed of a snail; the other is that of a brain-dead three-legged Greyhound. You can figure out which one is which.

Here's a live event that I absolutely encourage you to play with.

Review: Autechre - Oversteps

Autechre, formed in 1991, has enjoyed a long career of critical success and wide alternative audiences. Yorkshire, England duo Sean Booth and Rob Brown, influenced by the dark, abstract proto-jazz of Coil, the primal, Dadaist terror of Cabaret Voltaire and the plastic-snapping crisp percussion of European club music, amassed an impressive amount of gear before they even graduated from high school. Rather than creating music that dripped with emotive affectation, opted to create sharply digitally textured collages of rhythmic, hyper-processed sound that ebbs and flows with a distinct pulse.

Their latest, Oversteps, is a more album-centric effort than 2008’s Quaristice. This time around, Autechre sounds like a more analog, jazzier Gridlock, mixing overdriven bass fuzz hits with skittering drum machine patches. Square wave blips and saw wave bass lines thud and collide with MIDI General Instrument-sounding intervals in a kind of foreign parroting. Oversteps, crafted of artfully-sliced Odyssian passages of moods, push the edges of electronic rock like the thin walls of a slowly blown-out latex balloon, hearkening to early 2000’s digitally-sourced electronica, around the time when we were figuring out what Google was and Napster was still a good idea. (Some of us were there, man.)

Enjoy a Warp-provided album sampler below. Pick it up from Warpmart if you like what you hear. (The packaging is beautiful.)