The new series "Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways" tracks Dave Grohl and his band on a musical odyssey across these United States.
"Like my previous record Wrong Headspace, it navigates different sonic terrains, tracks are inconsistent in style, and there's no clear feeling of continuity.
At 5 PM, on what feels to me like a full workday, a DJ occupies a booth on the side of the main stage and busts out club remixes of Sonic 2 tracks.
What makes this track stand out for me is the juxtaposition of rhythmic maximalism and sonic minimalism the track consists of little more than its Amen adventures and the thunderous bassline.Dillinja Ja Know Ya Big (Metalheadz, 1995)One of the more prolific producers in jungle, Dillinja made countless Amen tracks.
Desert Island Discs' archive reveals that no castaway has yet picked a Black Sabbath, Can, the Cult or Sonic Youth track, and only two (neither a novelist) have opted for Nirvana songs as potential companions for the rest of their lives.
French horn "fell by the wayside" after a bout of malaria during a trip to Tanzania and instead he pursued his interest in electronic music, creating dance tracks, "sonic art" and African music.
Berlin has had an effect, too, and the care with which she has programmed the sonic landscape of tracks such as "Drop the Other" speaks of an immersion in that city's techno scene.
ON my visit, in late April, I stopped by a Wednesday night club gig, Baba Sonic, where the tracks ranged from contemporary tunes to mop-top Beatles and Joy Division remixes, though surely no one in the crowd could have been born anytime close to Ian Curtis's death in 1980.
On an album packed with grand sonic gestures – episodic tracks that lurch from electronics to Broadway showtune to high-camp disco to balladry – there's nothing showy about Get Lucky's sound at all, just a succession of small, subtle pleasures: the way Nile Rodgers' distinctive guitar weaves intricately around the electric piano, Williams' conversational "look …" before the first bridge.
So it made me think about the districts in this city and I started to narrow down the best all of those sonic groupings of tracks that I'd made.
