Sound of the Ether: Clara Rockmore & Leon Theremin
It is remarkable how few truly ‘new’ musical instruments have come into existence over the past 100 years. Popular music, in the broadest sense, is still produced by electronically enhanced variations of guitars,…
Aussie Hip Hop – The Next Generation with The Tongue
Australia is a country which isn’t usually associated with hip hop, but with the growing popularity of a diverse range of artists out there, ‘Aussie Hip Hop’ is on its way to becoming…
Scientist and Artist: Eduard Artemiev’s Space Odyssey
Eduard Artemiev inhabits the space between science and art, between the electronic avant-garde and popular music. Known best as the composer for Russian sci-fi classic Solaris, Artemiev also pioneered one of the first…
Retro-Futurist Cover Art
Vincent Lopez – Music Out of Century 21, Released in 1962 on World’s Fair Records Retro-futurism is an artistic style influenced by portrayals of the future and of outer-space conceived of before the…
Issue #15 : The Space Issue
Welcome to the new issue of iCrates magazine. For those of you unfamiliar with the format, each month iCrates publishes articles under a theme, which brings together a diverse mixture of genres and…
Festive Floorshakers: On the Search for the Finest Christmas Cuts
As far as music is concerned, Christmas knows no boundaries. Look hard enough, and it quickly becomes clear that almost every successful artist has released a christmas album. From Phil Spector to Yellowman,…
Novi talas – New Wave and (Post-)Punk in Former Yugoslavia
While their Western contemporaries like Wire, Gang of Four, Talking Heads and Devo were stirring things up on their side of the Iron Curtain, the New Wave and Punk bands from what was…
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