One last Bay-centric post before I get back to international news: Ellen Allien returns to San Francisco this week for a show on Friday September 5th. If you missed her performance a few months ago, here's your chance. Even better, the brilliant Berliner shares the stage with Modeslektor!! Should be an amAzing night at Mighty in SF. Of course, this show happens at the same exact time as NI...
Queen electro-vocalist Ellen Allien is about to release a brand new album on her own BPitch Control label. Her 4th studio album, SOOL is the follow-up to 2006's Orchestra of Bubbles and is due to drop May 27th. FACT Mag reports, "It's a more straight-forward, dancefloor-aimed affair than you might have hoped for, favouring supple, subtle minimal techno rhythm over the cascading synths and dre...
I listened to this album three times before I could think of a single word to say about it. How does one review minimal techno that is built around the spaces between notes? How does one describe music that is created to emphasize silence? Known for fun, upbeat electro hits, Ellen Allien reveals a totally different side of her musical talents on her fourth solo album, Sool. Allien shares her q...
I've been on a major Ellen Allien kick lately, listening to her record with Apparat ("Orchestra Of Bubbles"), and her last solo record "Thrills", which is genius. I'm not a hardcore techno head by any stretch of the word, but it just seems like everything this woman gets involved wth is great. She runs a label, BPitch Control (http://www.bpitchcontrol.de/), plus makes her own music (http://www....
Berlin's Ellen Allien is one of the hardest-working women in the electronic music scene (she DJ's, runs her own record label, produces, and remixes). Recently, she came out with 'Sool', a brilliant album in the more 'minimal' vein. With production help from fellow Berlinette and electronic musician, AGF, Allien delivers the goods and continues to [...]~~
I listened to this album three times before I could think of a single word to say about it. How does one review minimal techno that is built around the spaces between notes? How does one describe music that is created to emphasize silence? Known for fun, upbeat electro hits, Ellen Allien reveals a totally different side of her musical talents on her fourth solo album, Sool. Allien shares her q...
Queen electro-vocalist Ellen Allien is about to release a brand new album on her own BPitch Control label. Her 4th studio album, SOOL is the follow-up to 2006's Orchestra of Bubbles and is due to drop May 27th. FACT Mag reports, "It's a more straight-forward, dancefloor-aimed affair than you might have hoped for, favouring supple, subtle minimal techno rhythm over the cascading synths and dre...
One last Bay-centric post before I get back to international news: Ellen Allien returns to San Francisco this week for a show on Friday September 5th. If you missed her performance a few months ago, here's your chance. Even better, the brilliant Berliner shares the stage with Modeslektor!! Should be an amAzing night at Mighty in SF. Of course, this show happens at the same exact time as NI...
I've been on a major Ellen Allien kick lately, listening to her record with Apparat ("Orchestra Of Bubbles"), and her last solo record "Thrills", which is genius. I'm not a hardcore techno head by any stretch of the word, but it just seems like everything this woman gets involved wth is great. She runs a label, BPitch Control (http://www.bpitchcontrol.de/), plus makes her own music (http://www....