Tag: pleasures

‘Our music didn’t build. We were anti-catharsis’: the glacial pleasures of slowcore | Music

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Damon Krukowski, Naomi Yang and Dean Wareham of Galaxie 500.

‘We were not trying to make people dance, we were not trying to ‘rock’ – we were trying to make things that were beautiful,” says Dean Wareham, who formed Galaxie 500 in Boston in 1987 […]

Lindstrøm: Everyone Else Is a Stranger review – minor variations on sleek space disco pleasures | Dance music

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The artwork for Everyone Else Is a Stranger

Hans-Peter Lindstrøm is nothing if not consistent. The Norwegian electronic producer is known for his romantic, cosmic take on disco: along with his countrymen Todd Terje and Prins Thomas, he helped popularise a sleek, euphoric […]