Madlib’s Medicine Show
Otis Jackson, Renaissance Man. Although never reported to have constructed a helicopter, Madlib’s skill-set can be said to exceed even his vast array of pseudonyms. While a comprehensive list of The Beat Konducta’s…
The Birth of Indie: 5 British Labels and Their Legacies
Damn this stupid “indie” term. No one even knows what it’s supposed to mean anymore. Yeah, it is short for “independent” but wasn’t every single post-Libertines/Strokes guitar band with flabby shirts and dirty…
Spinvis: The Dutch Astronaut
His name is Erik de Jong. His name is Spinvis, Dutch for ‘Spiderfish’. This is his alias, his nationally famous one-man band. iCrates takes a look at the life and musical career of…
Music And Space
What does “space” mean in music? Space, in its simplest and broadest terms, is crucial to the existence of music insofar as sound is a play of distances in frequencies and loudness. Space…
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…
Interview: Balkan Beat Box
Spread between New York, Vienna and Tel Aviv and just back from an extensive tour of South America, the Balkan Beat Box boys can be difficult to track down. Drawing on influences as…
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