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Josh Kneedler is a highly experienced interactive designer. He began working in online media in 1997 at the birth of the interactive world, a world we now take for granted, one that has become as common as the utilities we use at home. His skills consist of design, programming, and creative direction. It’s an eclectic mix, but one that is vital to pursuing new ventures where traditional broadcast media rules do not apply. Josh understands that music artists no longer need traditional record labels. A consumer in Japan may never have heard of our local Northwest music scene so local bands need a different way to promote their independently produced CDs. Josh has the necessary skills and experience that highlight innovation over imitation to tackle contemporary challenges in the world of interactive programming, design and creative marketing. Some of Josh’s work can be seen on his web site: http://www.joshkneedler.net
I last exposed Moose readers to Modeselektor when I posted a MP3 of The White Flash featuring Thom Yorke. The full-length CD, Happy Birthday!, finally arrived. Read Stylus Magazine’s review and listen below.
Modeselektor – The Dark Side of The Sun (feat. DJ Puppeteer) [MP3]
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November 24th, 2007 at 3:04 pm[...] Another year, another list. It’s always an interesting time of year for me as I get the chance to peruse other blogs’ top album choices and on that note Large Hearted Boy has started to compile everyone’s year end lists – check them out here. And there’s a twist in the tale today – I’m actually going to make this a top 11 as I have 2 titles vying for the number 1 spot and they are there for different reasons. So I decided to give Burial and Radiohead a joint number 1, here’s why. Burial dropped ‘Untrue’ late this year and in my mind (and others too it seems) it’s as close to an electronic masterpiece that we’ve had in some time. I came late to the dub step movement but I caught up fast following the blogger/blog Blackstep. Meanwhile as a Pitchfork review put it – Burial says – “Underground music should have its back turned, it needs to be gone, untrackable, unreadable, just a distant light.” Untrue is just that. It quivers like a hissing lightbulb, one that illuminates the tracks scattered around it– garage, dubstep, soul– and in doing so smears them into unique shapes. Untrue is a remarkable piece of work. Meanwhile, unless you’ve been living under a rock this year, you could not have missed the brouhaha that surrounded the Radiohead ‘In Rainbows’ album release. The publicity white noise and the resulting coverage focused on the delivery system the band used to get the music across to its fans, which was understandable, but the music itself was a strong return to form for a band that at times seemed to take their fans for granted as they dabbled in histrionic electronic squawks, scrobbles and beats on prior recordings. ‘In Rainbows’ lives up to all of the hyperbole surrounding its release, another solid piece of work from a band that continues to mature musically and strategically. In any other year, Modeselektor’s ‘Happy Birthday’ would have taken the pole position. [...]
December 11th, 2007 at 11:26 am[...] I’ve always considered The Notwist to be one of those wonderfully brainy bands – close cousins to the wonderfully brainy Radiohead. I don’t mean brainy as in the guy with horn rims and a pocket protector, I mean meaningful, thoughtful….authentic. They own their particular sound. With Radiohead as soon as you hear Thom Yorke’s high tenor you know you are on familiar and safe ground. I feel the same when I hear Markus Acher’s vocals. And their musical confidence, the twists and turns that each song’s arrangement takes, reinforces their musical maturity and integrity. Unlike their last album, Neon Golden, The Devil You and Me, takes more risks. On ‘Alphabet’ and ‘Gravity’ the band at times sounds positively post-punk; compressed electronic squalls and perhaps distorted guitars clatter across much heavier beats than they’ve offered in the past. You’ll find hints of Modeselektor and Aphex Twin offered up here but as always, wherever the arrangements take the songs, the vocals remain as airy and melodic as ever even when they are often lyrically morose. The Notwist may have spent six years getting to this but it’s been worth the wait. I’m filing this alongside Cut Copy’s ‘In Ghost Colours’ as my second must have album of 2008. [...]
March 29th, 2008 at 3:29 pm[...] across much heavier beats than they’ve offered in the past. You’ll find hints of Modeselektor and Aphex Twin offered up here but as always, wherever the arrangements take the songs, the vocals [...]
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