Articles by Alan Ranta

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  Simian Mobile Disco

  Delicacies

  PUBLISHED Nov 29, 2010

  When reviewing an album of dance-oriented electronic music, critics often compare the release either favourably or contrastingly to "a coll...

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  Blonde Redhead / Ólöf Arnalds

  Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver BC November 21

  PUBLISHED Nov 22, 2010

  All it takes is one song to fall in love with "löf Arnalds. Her syrupy vocals meld perfectly with her nimble picking, alternately on an aco...

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  The Vegetable Orchestra

  Onionoise

  PUBLISHED Nov 22, 2010

  This 12-piece Vienna ensemble are not necessarily classified as avant-garde because of their song structures, which are based on, more or l...

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  Junip / Sharon Van Etten

  Venue, Vancouver BC November 11

  PUBLISHED Nov 12, 2010

  New Jersey via Brooklyn, NY's Sharon Van Etten is not a menacing figure on stage. Armed only with an electric guitar, she isn't the tallest...

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  Hauschka

  Foreign Landscapes

  PUBLISHED Oct 19, 2010

  Volker Bertelmann is a rare breed of composer, full of remarkable contrasts. His early albums as Hauschka were swollen with the sound of pr...

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  Macc & dgoHn

  Some Shit Saaink

  PUBLISHED Oct 19, 2010

  Live drummer Robert "Macc" Macciochi and audio engineer John (otherwise spelled "dgoHn") Cunnane have been twiddling knobs and releasing vi...

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  DMX Krew

  Wave Funk/Prolapse Of The Wave Function

  PUBLISHED Oct 19, 2010

  Ed DMX is old school, for real, and not just because he's been releasing vinyl on Aphex Twin's Rephlex and similarly respected labels since...

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  Radio Massacre International

  Time & Motion

  PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2010

  Despite notation, music naturally exists in linear time. The trio of drummer Steve Dinsdale, bassist Duncan Goddard and guitarist Gary Houg...