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Hippos In Tanks
Hippos in Tanks was a record label founded in 2010 by Barron Machat and Travis Woolsey. The label specialized in electronic music. It was named the best label of 2011 by ''FACT (United Kingdom magazine), FACT''. Following the death of Machat in 2015, ''The Fader'' praised the label for "laying the groundwork to an alternative template for the avant-garde." The label is no longer active. History In 2009, Machat and Woolsey—who met while working at an online company in Los Angeles—were asked to host a radio show on KXLU called Hippos in Tanks. It was named after the novel by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs ''And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks ''. After leaving the company to work on their label full-time, HIT released their first EP from Von Haze in June 2010. In 2011 Woolsey left the label with Machat staying on as CEO. According to Dean Blunt in 2014, Hippos in Tanks sued him for $10,000 over contract disputes. The dispute was resolved when his label at the time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sony
is a Japanese multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered at Sony City in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The Sony Group encompasses various businesses, including Sony Corporation (electronics), Sony Semiconductor Solutions (imaging and sensing), Sony Entertainment (including Sony Pictures and Sony Music Group), Sony Interactive Entertainment (video games), Sony Financial Group, and others. Sony was founded in 1946 as by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita. In 1958, the company adopted the name Initially an electronics firm, it gained early recognition for products such as the TR-55 transistor radio and the CV-2000 home video tape recorder, contributing significantly to Japan's Japanese economic miracle, post-war economic recovery. After Ibuka's retirement in the 1970s, Morita served as chairman until 1994, overseeing Sony's rise as a global brand recognized for innovation in consumer electronics. Landmark products included the Trinitron color television, the Walkma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noise Music
Noise music is a genre of music that is characterised by the expressive use of noise. This type of music tends to challenge the distinction that is made in conventional musical practices between musical and non-musical sound. Noise music includes a wide range of music genre, musical styles and sound art, sound-based creative practices that feature noise as a primary aspect of music, aspect. Noise music can feature acoustically or electronically generated noise, and both traditional and unconventional musical instruments. It may incorporate live machine sounds, non-musical Vocals#Vocal technique, vocal techniques, physically manipulated audio media, Sound effect, processed sound recordings, field recording, Computer music, computer-generated noise, stochastic process, and other randomly produced electronic signals such as Distortion (music), distortion, Audio feedback, feedback, Noise (radio), static, hiss and hum. There may also be emphasis on high volume levels and lengthy, cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grimes (musician)
Claire Elise Boucher (; born March 17, 1988), known professionally as Grimes, is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Her lyrics often touch on science fiction and Feminism, feminist themes. The visuals in her videos are elaborate and sometimes have fantasy themes. She has released five studio albums. Born and raised in Vancouver, Grimes began releasing music independently after moving to Montreal in 2006. She released two albums, ''Geidi Primes'' and ''Halfaxa'', in 2010 on Arbutus Records, before signing with 4AD and rising to prominence with the release of her 2012 album, ''Visions (Grimes album), Visions''. The album received the Canadian music industry Juno Award for Electronic Album of the Year, and yielded two singles: "Genesis (Grimes song), Genesis" and "Oblivion (Grimes song), Oblivion". Following this, her fourth studio album, ''Art Angels'', was released in 2015, and several publications named it the best album of the year. Her fifth studio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Kray
Timothy O'Neal Mills (born February 23, 1994), better known by his stage names Black Kray and Sickboyrari, is an American rapper, producer, and songwriter known for his influence on the cloud rap, emo rap, and tread genres. He is a founding member of the hip-hop collective and label Goth Money Records and an early member of Raider Klan. Mills has collaborated with many similar artists, including SpaceGhostPurrp, Working on Dying, Lil Yachty, Bladee, Yung Lean, TeamSESH, Thraxxhouse, City Morgue, G59 Records, Chxpo, DJ Kenn, and DJ Smokey. His music has been described as melodic, hazy, and ethereal. He is widely known as one of the most influential underground rappers. Early life Mills was born on February 23, 1994, in Richmond, Virginia, before moving to Ashland, sometime during his childhood. He began skateboarding in 2006 which played a vital role in his development, claiming he would skate at a local skatepark "all day, every day". His father owned many CDs and DVDs, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ford & Lopatin
Ford & Lopatin (formerly known as Games) is an American electronic duo composed of musicians Daniel Lopatin (better known as Oneohtrix Point Never) and Joel Ford (of the group Tigercity). The group's sound draws on disparate genres such as 1980s synthpop and MIDI-funk, chopped and screwed production, 1970s fusion, and techno. They have released a number of original recordings and remix mixtapes, including the 2011 album '' Channel Pressure''. History Background First meeting each other in the sixth grade at a science class in a Wayland, Massachusetts school, Daniel Lopatin and Joel Ford listened to music from British artist Goldie, Boston campus radio, and jazz fusion albums owned by Lopatin's father during their teen years. While in the sixth grade, Lopatin had tried out for being a bassist in Ford's grunge band, The Grainers, but was rejected. However, the band started to create and perform funkier, weirder and more prog-fusion material, and by the time they were in their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
D'Eon (musician)
Chris d'Eon (born 1985), mononymously known as d'Eon, is a Canadian electronic musician, singer-songwriter, producer, and composer based in Montreal, Quebec. He is known for his musical eclectism, which encompasses various elements of electronica, pop, avant-garde music, and world music. Early life Chris d'Eon began making music at four years old after receiving synthesizers and a sequencer from his parents. He took professional music courses as a teenager before dropping out of his studies entirely. In 2008, d'Eon travelled to the Himalayas and was taught how to play the dramyin by a Tibetan musician. During this trip, he moved to the Dip Tse Chok Ling monastery and didn't speak for months. This trip greatly influenced his musical eclecticism, as upon returning to Canada, d'Eon began incorporating dramyin and other elements of Eastern music into his music. Career 2009-2010: ''Wa Al-'Asr'', ''Æon'', and ''Palinopsia'' d'Eon's first music released was the second half of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arca (producer)
Alejandra Ghersi Rodríguez (born October 14, 1989), known professionally as Arca, is a Venezuelan musician and record producer based in Barcelona, Spain. She initially began releasing music under the name of Nuuro. After attending the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, Ghersi first released the EP ''Baron Libre'' (2012) under the name Arca and subsequently released the EPs ''Stretch 1'' and '' Stretch 2''; the latter experimented with hip hop and brought her attention from prominent music publications. She released her first two albums, ''Xen'' and ''Mutant'', in 2014 and 2015 respectively. Her eponymous third album, '' Arca'' (2017), became the first to prominently feature her vocals. From 2020 to 2021, Ghersi released the ''Kick'' quintet, starting with the album '' Kick I'' (2020) and ending with ''Kick IIIII'' (2021); these recordings drew from styles such as IDM, reggaeton, avant-pop, techno, and ambient. Ghersi has frequently incorporated themes related to gende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hype Williams (band)
Hype Williams is a music and art group best known for consisting of UK-born artist Dean Blunt and Russian-born artist Inga Copeland (aka Lolina) between 2007 and 2012. Supposedly founded in 2005 as a "relay" project passed between artists every five years, the group has given few interviews, leaving music journalists and the media in doubt as to the exact nature of the project. Background, style and career The group's work encompasses widely experimental music releases marked by a lo-fi sound, including their 2011 album '' One Nation'' on Hippos in Tanks, and distinctive video pieces, including the defunct YouTube channel ''pollyjacobsen,'' which featured a bizarrely cryptic range of content. Their work has drawn irreverently on popular culture and incorporated opaque imagery and contexts, as well as an idiosyncratic online presence. In 2011, they were signed to Hyperdub __NOTOC__ Hyperdub is a British electronic music record label and former webzine based in London, f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurel Halo
Laurel Anne Chartow (born June 3, 1985), known professionally as Laurel Halo, is an American electronic musician currently based in Los Angeles, California. She released her debut album '' Quarantine'' on Hyperdub in 2012 to critical acclaim; it was named album of the year by ''The Wire''. Biography Laurel Anne Chartow was born on June 3, 1985, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she also grew up and learned to play the piano, guitar and violin. She draws influences from the music of Detroit, London and Berlin, as well as from her time in free jazz ensembles and as a college radio DJ. She moved to New York City in 2009, to Berlin in 2013, and to Los Angeles in 2023. Career Halo's debut album, '' Quarantine'', was released on the London-based label Hyperdub in June 2012. The album was named Album of the Year in 2012 by ''The Wire''. Halo also released the ''Behind the Green Door'' EP, as well her second album, '' Chance of Rain'', on Hyperdub in 2013. In 2015, Halo released ''In Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autre Ne Veut
Arthur Ashin (born 20 April 1982), known professionally as Autre Ne Veut, is an American singer-songwriter and musician from New York City. The name Autre Ne Veut is taken from an inscription in French on a 15th-century British dress ornament that is stored at The Cloisters and is translated to English as "I want no other." Early life and education Ashin was born on 20 April 1982 in Raleigh, North Carolina. They earned their undergraduate degree at Hampshire College, where they lived with Daniel Lopatin (later of Oneohtrix Point Never). After college, Ashin lived briefly in New York City and Chicago before establishing their home in Brooklyn. They briefly enrolled in a master's program in clinical psychology but dropped out in order to focus on their music. Career Ashin's debut album and the subsequent "Body EP" were recorded at home. Additionally, although it was never heard by the public before a one-time performance in 2016, Ashin recorded a “lost” album. Written during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Ferraro
James Ferraro (born November 7, 1986) is an American experimental musician, producer, composer, and contemporary artist. He has been credited as a pioneer of the 21st century genres hypnagogic pop and vaporwave, with his work exploring themes related to hyperreality and consumer culture. His music has drawn on diverse styles such as 1980s electronic music, new age, drone, lo-fi, sound collage, and R&B. Ferraro began his career in the early 2000s as a member of the Californian noise duo The Skaters, after which he began recording solo work under his name and a wide variety of aliases. He released music on labels such as Hippos in Tanks and New Age Tapes. Ferraro received wider recognition when his polarizing 2011 album '' Far Side Virtual'' was chosen as Album of the Year by ''The Wire''. He has since pivoted to releasing projects independently. Biography Early life and The Skaters Ferraro was born in Rochester, New York, to Italian and African-American parents. He came from a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
