This article would not be complete without mentioning the Godfathers of electro: Kraftwerk. The influence that Kraftwerk has had on music is reaching monolithic proportions at this stage in history, not only are they not diminishing in stature over time, in fact it seems their influence continues to grow.
Celebrated Chilean filmmaker of the occult, Alejandro Jodorowsky–known primarily for his twisted vision of mystic enchantment in El Topo and The Holy Mountain–seems to have more cards up his sleeve. For the past 60 years Jodorowsky has reportedly studied practices of divination and self-transformation through the therapeutic art of tarot. He has focused his
Here at Hydra, we've now had 60 encounters with you, our audience, and after 60 meetings we are surely quite in love and ready for 60 more (and 60 after that, and so forth). But before we get ahead of ourselves, we think a look at the stuff of our magazine (our
Hip-hop is rich with history. The hip-hop producer's method of sampling pre-recorded sounds from old records and then interweaving them into a new pattern establishes the basic framework for the music's sonic aesthetic. This allows hip-hop to simultaneously reference the past while attaining a forward thinking perspective. The producer can take advantage of using
In putting together a list for the last decade in music one reflects on the vast changes that have altered the media landscape as we see it today. It is due to these shifts and and ruptures that my interest in the music of the last ten years has not been one of hierarchical
