meta-reviews
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Meta-Review: Metrical Enigmas In Jlin’s “Black Origami”
Within the borders of electronic dance music as well as beyond it, Jlin’s Black Origami is one of the most rhythmically compelling recordings to come along in a while. Jlin (Jerilynn Patton) is a 20-year producer from Indiana whose music is influenced by footwork, the kinetic dance and music style from Chicago. Footwork evolved from the fast rhythms of Continue reading
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Meta-Review: Considerations Of Musical Invention In Aphex Twin’s “Syro”
In an interview some years ago, the electronic musician Richard James, aka Aphex Twin, once said that he didn’t care much for the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen. James pointed out two things: Stockhausen’s music had no groove and no basslines. I remembered both the irreverence and pointedness of that comment recently as I have been Continue reading

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