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With "Autobahn", Kraftwerk ushered in the age of electronic pop music 50 years ago. To mark the anniversary, we took a closer ...

Michał Fundowicz is a tape enthusiast through and through. He runs the Molt Fluid cassette label which unites experimenters working in fields loosely adjacent to sound art and musique concrète but ...

A vocoder-enhanced voice boomed from the sound ... The visuals added plenty to the music. In the airy “Spacelab,” the audience got to watch as a UFO landed right outside Stage AE in Pitttsburgh.

On the new music front, it’s also a very busy week. I highlight 11 new albums below, and Bill tackles more in Indie Basement, including Edwyn Collins, Throwing Muses, Bambara, Étienne de Crécy (ft.

The String Cheese Incident welcomed Pigeons Playing Ping Pong and guest Shira Elias to join in on the band's return to L.A. at The Wiltern.

which featured last year in Pitchfork magazine’s 50 Most Anticipated Albums of the Year and Best Music of 2024 So Far. On the track, with a vocoder distorting his voice, Pupul reads out part of ...

In 1993, pioneering Atlanta rapper and producer Peter “MC Shy D” Jones released the upbeat “Fellas What Y’all Want,” which samples Kraftwerk’s “Tour De France.” Jones chose the sample because the song ...

Abstract: While neural vocoders have made significant progress in high-fidelity speech synthesis, their application on polyphonic music has remained underexplored. In this work, we propose DisCoder, a ...

The music is suitably dreamy ... their most contagious and their most audacious pop song, completely with a vocoder solo, ...