Electronic & Dance

Portishead’s third album, "Third", has taken so long to come to fruition, you can’t help but wonder if it’s worth the wait.

What took so long? Believe it or not, the band was too happy to work on their brand of music. Portishead claim they can only write songs when the band is depressed, "in an incredibly miserable, unpleasant place". If that's the case, then I’m incredibly happy to tell you that Adrian Utley, Geoff Barrow and Beth Gibbons are miserable again.

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This week marks the release of Autechre’s ninth release, Quaristice. I never know what I’m going to get with a new release from Autechre. I’m a fan (for lack of a better word) and have been for a very long time, but first listen of a new album always gets the same response from me, “What the bloody hell is this?” The love of each release comes from trying to find out the answer to that question.

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Get on your dancing shoes......

Former rap star MC Hammer has announced that he will head up a new website dedicated to showcasing dance music videos.

Hammer, whose real name is Stanley Burrell, is co-founder and chief strategy officer of DanceJam.com, which aims to upstage YouTube for sharing and watching dance videos.

Inspired by the popularity of reality television shows like 'Dancing With The Stars', Hammer and his business partners have spent several months videotaping people dancing around the US to launch the site, reports the Associated Press.

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I was listening to a few of my finds from last year, and I have to say if there is a chill album for the discerning chill listener this is it. Call it sensuous downtempo music, electronic jaxx, or just amazing, Cinematic Orchestra came up with an album that you could like to listen to repeatedly and never tire of it. Ma Fleur may not have the surprise element one finds in Cinematics groundbreaking 2003 soundtrack Man With A Movie Camera. But its 2007 album is a beautifully crafted soundscape which creates an ambience that makes one listen a second, third, or a hundredth time.  more...

Now let me start of by saying how much I love Björk, but I don't think I'd like chance taking a photo of her. That's right, she did it again. Proving she's not only always-interesting, but also always-unpredictable, Björk ALLEGEDLY (according to the AP) accosted and attacked a photographer at New Zealand's Auckland International Airport Sunday morning. The Icelandic singer, who had arrived in New Zealand to perform later this week at the Big Day Out concert, went after a New Zealand Herald photographer, Glenn Jeffrey, after a man she'd been traveling with asked him not to take any photos.  more...