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Backstroke (album)
''Backstroke'' is the second studio album by Matthew Dear. It was released on Spectral Sound, a sub-label of Ghostly International, in 2004. Critical reception Andy Kellman of AllMusic AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Mus ... gave the album 3.5 stars out of 5, saying, "Whatever its designation, ''Backstroke'' is a marked turn away from '' Leave Luck to Heaven'', if scarcely a stylistic changeup." He added, "Several cuts will indeed serve adequately in the clubs, but the album as a whole is tailored for a more personal setting." Track listing References External links * {{Authority control 2004 albums Matthew Dear albums Ghostly International albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Dear
Matthew Dear (born April 4, 1979) is an American electronic music producer and DJ. History Texas-born Dear moved to Michigan as a teenager, where he was inspired by the sound of Detroit techno. Dear met Sam Valenti IV at a party while attending the University of Michigan, after which the two started the record label, Ghostly International, based on a shared love of electronic music. Dear's first single was 1999's "Hands Up For Detroit" (co-produced by ghettotech pioneer Disco D, who performed under the name Daisha). Successive singles, such as "Stealing Moves" and the chart-topping "Mouth to Mouth" (as Audion) were issued on Spectral Sound, Ghostly's offshoot that focuses on dancefloor music. Dear's first album ''Leave Luck to Heaven'' appeared in 2003 and was praised widely as a seminal fusion of pop and minimal techno. The album's single "Dog Days" became one of Spectral's best sellers and a favorite of international DJs like Richie Hawtin. Dear followed the album with ''Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microhouse
Microhouse, buftech or sometimes just minimal, is a subgenre of house music strongly influenced by minimalism and 1990s techno. History Microhouse has its roots in the minimal techno, bitpop (both developed in the early 1990s), and house (developed in the early 1980s) genres of music. Its first echoes appeared in a glitch album by German experimental artist Oval, in 1993. Like many contemporary electronic genres, Microhouse has many influences, most notably techno and the "click and pop" garage house that has emerged from Yorkshire Bleeps and Bass (or "Bleep"), bitpop and minimal techno. Contrasting with tech house, which is often thought of as 'house music with elements of techno in its arrangement and instrumentation', microhouse is more aptly described as 'housey minimal techno' – a marriage of the funky and groovy backroom house elements with bitpop and the driving, repetitive sound of techno. Emphasis tended to fall on cushiony kick-drum thumps and the accompanying h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spectral Sound
Ghostly International is an American independent record label founded in 1999 by Samuel Valenti IV and currently headquartered in Brooklyn, New York City with team in Los Angeles, and London. Artists include Matthew Dear, Dabrye (a.k.a. Tadd Mullinix), Com Truise, Tycho, Gold Panda, School of Seven Bells, Kate Bollinger, Brijean, C418, crushed, Julie Byrne, dreamcastmoe, Dua Saleh, Ginger Root, Hana Vu, Helios, Goya Gumbani, Mary Lattimore, quickly quickly, Shigeto and Loraine James (as Whatever The Weather). History Ghostly International was founded in Ann Arbor, Michigan by Sam Valenti IV in 1999.Ghostly International: The Q&A The Journal of Murketing He grew up in suburban , where, havin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leave Luck To Heaven
''Leave Luck to Heaven'' is the first studio album by Matthew Dear. It was released on Spectral Sound, a sub-label of Ghostly International, in 2003. Critical reception Andy Kellman of AllMusic gave the album 4.5 stars out of 5, saying, "Formatted like a pop record intended for home listening, with most tracks falling somewhere in the four- to five-minute range, ''Leave Luck to Heaven'' has a flow unlike any other single-artist microhouse album to date." Scott Plagenhoef of ''Pitchfork'' gave the album a 7.8 out of 10, calling it "his most satisfying release to date" and "(along with Ricardo Villalobos' '' Alcachofa'') another techno-dub record that deftly straddles the line between home listening and the dancefloor." Track listing Personnel Credits adapted from liner notes. * Matthew Dear Matthew Dear (born April 4, 1979) is an American electronic music producer and DJ. History Texas-born Dear moved to Michigan as a teenager, where he was inspired by the sound of Detroi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asa Breed
''Asa Breed'' is the third studio album by American music producer Matthew Dear. It was released via Ghostly International in 2007. It peaked at number 20 on the ''Billboard'' Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart. The title of the album comes from a character in the Kurt Vonnegut novel, ''Cat's Cradle''. Critical reception At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, ''Asa Breed'' received an average score of 73, based on 15 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". ''Resident Advisor'' named it the 39th-best album of the decade. Track listing Personnel Credits adapted from liner notes. * Matthew Dear Matthew Dear (born April 4, 1979) is an American electronic music producer and DJ. History Texas-born Dear moved to Michigan as a teenager, where he was inspired by the sound of Detroit techno. Dear met Sam Valenti IV at a party while attendin ... – production * Mobius Band – guitar (5), bass guitar (5) * C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghostly International
Ghostly International is an American independent record label founded in 1999 by Samuel Valenti IV and currently headquartered in Brooklyn, New York City with team in Los Angeles, and London. Artists include Matthew Dear, Dabrye (a.k.a. Tadd Mullinix), Com Truise, Tycho, Gold Panda, School of Seven Bells, Kate Bollinger, Brijean, C418, crushed, Julie Byrne, dreamcastmoe, Dua Saleh, Ginger Root, Hana Vu, Helios, Goya Gumbani, Mary Lattimore, quickly quickly, Shigeto and Loraine James (as Whatever The Weather). History Ghostly International was founded in Ann Arbor, Michigan by Sam Valenti IV in 1999.Ghostly International: The Q&A The Journal of Murketing He grew up in suburban , where, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Musical ensemble, bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All-Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar, and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as compact discs (CDs) replaced LP record, LPs and cassette (format), cassettes as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blender (magazine)
''Blender'' was an American music magazine published from 1994 to 2009 that billed itself as "the ultimate guide to pop culture". It was also known for sometimes steamy pictorials of celebrities. It compiled lists of albums, artists, and songs, including both "best of" and "worst of" lists. In each issue, there was a review of an artist's entire discography, with each album being analyzed in turn. ''Blender'' was published by Dennis Publishing. The magazine was created by founding Editor-in-Chief Regina Joseph as the first digital magazine, delivered entirely on CD-ROM disc and before the development of graphical browsers required to view the web. She brought in co-founders Jason Pearson and David Cherry, and Blender's original publisher, Felix Dennis/Dennis Publishing, UK. Joseph's CD-ROM editions of Blender also featured the first forms of digital advertising. Felix Dennis published 15 digital CD issues, and launched a web version in 1996. The final CD-ROM issue was published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pitchfork (website)
''Pitchfork'' (formerly ''Pitchfork Media'') is an American online music magazine founded in 1996 by Ryan Schreiber in Minneapolis. It originally covered alternative and independent music, and expanded to cover genres including pop, hip-hop, jazz and metal. ''Pitchfork'' is one of the most influential music publications to have emerged in the internet age. In the 2000s, ''Pitchfork'' distinguished itself from print media through its unusual editorial style, frequent updates and coverage of emerging acts. It was praised as passionate, authentic and unique, but criticized as pretentious, mean-spirited and elitist, playing into stereotypes of the cynical hipster. It is credited with popularizing acts such as Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Bon Iver and Sufjan Stevens. ''Pitchfork'' relocated to Chicago in 1999 and Brooklyn, New York, in 2011. It expanded with projects including the annual Pitchfork Music Festival (launched in Chicago in 2006), the video site ''Pitchf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Albums
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Matthew Dear Albums
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