For an artist hailed as an establishment in electronic music, Dosh has a lot of seemingly conventional instruments. Martin Dosh came on stage first, surrounded by his electric piano and drum kit. Mike Lewis took a place between his saxophone and bass guitar, and Jeremy Ylvisaker rounded it out with a vintage Airline guitar. But after a few songs I realized that Dosh’s electronic magic is as much a function of performance as recording. Live, Dosh masterfully stacks and loops instrumental lines and fragments and underlays them with own breakneck drumming. Whether you want to call this electronica is an open question.
Counterintuitively, Dosh’s sound is jazz-like at times, despite the songs being carefully crafted and engineered. This resemblance results not only from a similar vocabulary---rapid drums and fluid saxophone---but from the experimentation in sounds and tempo and improvisation underlying Dosh’s final product. Dosh’s sound is a distillation of years’ experimentation in just how far and fast he can take his music without devolving into incoherence or repetitiveness. The highly refined product may not produce a strong emotional reaction, but the crowd’s consensus was that Dosh succeeded in his experiment.
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Kelli Shaefer’s songs get stuck in my head non-stop. Every other day I find myself waking up with one in there. And that’s a good thing, she’s a talent!
by Siri on Thu Mar 11, 2010 at 04.37 pm from the entry: Artist Profile - Kelli Schaefer (Portland, OR; Winter, 2010)
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by fake tattoo on Wed Mar 10, 2010 at 10.03 pm from the entry: The Reverend Horton Heat + Nekromantix – Wonder Ballroom (Portland, OR; Jul. 9, 2009)
ha, yes! the photogs in the front row were drooling throughout the entire set…
by chris on Wed Mar 10, 2010 at 01.05 pm from the entry: Washed Out + Small Black - Mercury Lounge (New York, NY; Mar. 7, 2010)
nice pics Chris. Don’t you love it when the artist brings some cool light. It’s a bunch of low hanging fruit after that.
by colin on Wed Mar 10, 2010 at 12.53 pm from the entry: Washed Out + Small Black - Mercury Lounge (New York, NY; Mar. 7, 2010)
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by BASSHEAD on Tue Mar 9, 2010 at 04.02 pm from the entry: Ginuwine's "Pony" Deconstructed Through Dubstep (Remix)
James,
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Thanks!
by Jared Froiland on Tue Mar 9, 2010 at 12.37 am from the entry: State Radio - Showbox (Seattle, WA; Jan.19, 2010)
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Here is the link: http://www.backslashonline.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=317:lmfao-entrepreneurship-interview&Itemid=56
by Mike McComack on Mon Mar 8, 2010 at 10.24 pm from the entry: Photo Feature! Black Eyed Peas + Ludacris + LMFAO - TD BankNorth Garden (Boston, MA; Feb. 26, 2010)
