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Name: m@earth
Home Page: homepage.mac.com/mhotz
Member Since: Jun 14, 2002
Rank: 329
Rated 14 releases, average: 3.86
Location: chicago
Profile: Matt a.k.a. Mostly Norwegian, a.k.a. Dexter Feng Wangjiang and the artist formerly known as Dj Earth. A former resident of the purple sky (Minneapolis) + naptown (Indianapolis) and currently resides in Chicago. A Dj/music junkie for 12+ years who cut his teeth djing and blowing large chunks of his hearing out at Depth Probe in minneapolis and playing the parties of the early days of the minneapolis (More) scene and venturing out of state into the Mid Amerikan rave scene. Matt spread the cheer for beer as a regular in the vice pages of the long dormant Massive magazine. Turntable exploits rendered by matt have met the smiles of the Hardkiss brothers, the city of Duluth, Dj DRC, djSoulslinger, Wade Randolph Hampton, Miles Maeda, Tommie Sunshine, converted gabba kids to house, have caused many instances of Perma-Grin, general hollerin' and have sent people running both to and from the room.
matt also plays in an occasional project with dj Captian Magic and ErikO in a project called Mount Hope. In making noise he plays keys, theremin, turntables, modified and hacked repurposed electronics, beat, other nonessential gear & uses fine members of the G-3 and G-4 family.
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Reviews:
Roderick Julian Modell* - The Autonomous Music Project - 29-Jun-08 03:24 PM
Depending on how you first hear this; this is a release that has potential to completely intrigue and probably blow you away. These are surfaces of sound. Musical furniture you put on either really faintly so the sounds just drift in and out like curls of smoke with whatever room ambiense is present or in your face loud so there is no way to avoid its presence. It is visual music first and foremost. Architecture in sound. You live with it and it occupies the space it is in until it is done. Yet, also ephemeral. Music like odor wafting a room. Gently blowing to and fro and lightly lapping the air. It does not require any more than passive listening to be aware of its presence as its notes accumulate like sweat on a glass or light reflected on to a wall.
Moments about standing and listening to a generator and feeding the household creaks and moans and the errant flutter of duct work into a bank of gear come to mind. Certain textures here describe that generator humming and then travel into the cables and riff with whoever else is plugged in. Other moments sound like that percussion jam you hear from several blocks away at the threshold of hearing. These are purely gentle waves of sound tho. Nothing intrusive or jarring about them except for the amount of space they occupy, which is immense.
Ricardo Villalobos - Vasco EP Part 1 - 14-Jun-08 12:23 PM
Getting back to "normal" and moving away from the groover lost in a tangent and looped for miles efforts of his Sei Es Drum releases, we find Ricardo dipping his feet in deeper territories which still come up strange, stretched and reserved only for the strong willed who have the knowledge and ability to program their sets.
Music like this can go either of two ways in session.
With a weaker dj who isn't up to the task of using such devices, they will be boring beyond imagination. In the hands of a dj who is capable and can program and knows a record has a beginning, a middle and an end. They will send you reeling and cascading off the walls in excitement.
Ironically or probably not. The shortest tracks on this release are the remixes. Shackleton provides what we've come to expect from him and the San Proper mix is the mix that weaker dj's will wind up using from this release as it's about as straight forward a mix as it can be given the source material.
Orla Wren - Butterfly Wings Make - 19-May-08 10:04 AM
Visual ephemeral music for lazy moments; mornings and days where you avoid something's in life. Tackle some others and get private.
Music for rain and sunlight on the windows and a soundtrack for staring at nothing in particular, but gazing at everything particular.
More acoustic sounding than electronic. Fuzzy and noisy in a quiet way where sound becomes parfum and the mix offers a kind of umami and warmth along the lines of a Lucky Cat dumping water on a Boy and the Tree on some Weekday after sleeping Saturday and Sunday afternoon away.
This is a quiet classic and well worth seeking out and letting in to your lazy day play list. Sure to play nicely with a wide range of songs, and around a wide range of surfaces, textures, environments and moments lending themselves to reflection.
Rhadoo - Dor Mit Oru - 14-May-08 10:03 PM
Another in the ever expanding line of Cadenza DJ tools. Functional music that lends itself to mixing, slicing, teasing and riding off the rails into ridiculously long blends and creative eqing.
Slagare is probably the weakest of the batch. It's the most sparse sounding of the lot with just enough sounds and a little hump that makes it work for people who are into such things. It's filler that with good programming and a dj who'd spend more time working it into the mix as opposed to actually playing it could render some damage.
I much prefer the other three tracks. Each is meant for a different part of the dancefloor's energy and each responds to a different form of movement and time of night (or day). Bau and Baisbe Alt Bass are the most functional for take off or bridging into those other spaces and places. Elan is the most house leaning and sounds like it is meant for landing and going into deeper territory.
Portishead - Third - 13-May-08 12:26 PM
This is the album Portishead should have made and released in place of Portishead. So many of the tricks that album employed for effect are fortunately gone. But what is in place of the grand sweeps, builds and scratchy backdrops is done with on the surface, half the effort and achieves twice the dread and melancholy that their previous two albums hinted at and deeply wanted to be, but weren't capable of. This is still Portishead with Beth Gibbons AM radio quality lost and found voice. The one that garnered so much praise with Dummy, but with a singularly more confident backdrop and none of the bells and whistles that tagged them and left them in place in time.
This is soundtrack music of the highest order.
Mean, high, lonesome, driving and very psychedelic.
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