Sounds Like: Gotye, Salmonella Dub, Asian Dub Foundation
Dubya is a song based on George W Bush and his Presidency of the USA. The lyrics are inspired by George Bush quotes & from his actions during the time that he was President. The track is produced in a reggae / dub / dubstep style with many layers of drums, percussion, keyboards, bass and guitars. Download the FREE MP3 here.
Electronic music composer and producer, Apell is Anthony Pell a musician from Melbourne, Australia who has been creating his own unique electronica since 2000. So far Apell has produced:
Tracks for the Clan Analogue Compilations Inverted and Greatest Hits
Live performances at various venues in Melbourne
Apell produces leftfield electronic music which incorporates styles as diverse as:
Downtempo / Chill Out
Breaks / Breakbeats
Drum’n’Bass
Funk
Dub
This electronica has an organic sound using loops and samples of Apell’s own bass, guitar, keys and sax playing. Apell is influenced by not just electronic music but other styles of music such as rock, jazz, funk, classical, dub & more.
Sounds Like: Neil Young, Massive Attack, Lamb, Portishead
A cover of the Neil Young song Don’t Let it Bring You Down done in a breaks, downtempo drum n bass style. The beats create a double time feel over slower melodic music.
The song is sung by Rachael Hawkins who can also be heard on Tomorrow.
Institute of Sound:
Live Electronic Music Performance
A workshop providing a background on how electronic instruments have been used to perform in the past through to the instruments and technologies used today, including MIDI controllers, laptops, soundcards and popular music performance software such as Ableton Live and virtual synths.
Where
Horse Bazaar
397 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne When
7pm Monday June 29, 2009 Who
Anthony Pell (Apell)
Reconstituted, sees Apell introducing more vocals and song-based elements into his eclectic fusion of trip-hop, drum n bass and dubby electronics, with even a couple of covers creeping into the tracklisting...heads looking for a bit of unpredictable early hours listening should find something to like here.