| Rogers, Derek / Open Windows |
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| Album: | Open Windows | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Rogers, Derek | Added: | Dec 2013 | |
| Label: | Hobo Cult | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2013-12-12 | Pull Date: | 2014-02-21 | Charts: | Classical/Experimental |
| Week Ending: | Feb 23 | Feb 9 | Jan 26 | Jan 19 | Jan 12 | Jan 5 | Dec 29 | Dec 15 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Feb 19, 2014: | Meow After Midnight Continuous: I Lost My Fucking Phone | 4. | Jan 15, 2014: | minimum entropy Silverlake Cove | |
| 2. | Feb 06, 2014: | Aporeia? Beautiful Could Ever | 5. | Jan 12, 2014: | The Sunset Life Mental Images | |
| 3. | Jan 25, 2014: | Space House Open Windows | 6. | Jan 09, 2014: | Ranch... or Cool Ranch? Mental Images |
| Album Review |
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| Lestrygonian Reviewed 2013-12-06 | ||
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BRILLIANT, AMAZING SOUNDSCAPES. LA-based electronic musician Derek Rogers is a genius when it comes to balancing minimalism with dense, pensive layering (see also his Circuit Rider collab with Lee Noble). Haunting shrouds of synth oscillations warp and drone in a non-Euclidean ether, crafting a perfect soundtrack for your impending alien abduction. RIYL Hobo Cubes, Fennesz, Goldtimers tapes 1. *(12:52) whoa, this is fucking epic, so simple yet I can’t describe it in words. Henceforth this shall be the standard definition for “bladerunnercore” 2. (4:16) relatively brief, wistful melody, almost song-like, some throbbing laser beams emerge and conclude 3. ***(7:33)glacial meditations. Minimum entropy flavored. 4. (1:46) “street sweepers at noon” describes it all 5. (7:33) lonely high-pitched drone grows shrill, frayed at the edges, relentlessly melancholy 6. (7:45)** gentle drone gives way to undulating layers of Terry Riley-esque arpeggiating bliss 7. (9:19) bleak and foreboding guitar drones, almost industrial windy static at first gives way to dreamy snowdrifts 8. (5:04) starts “pretty” but soon descends into chaotic labyrinths of noise, grating rusty chainsaws, pretty ambience concludes | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Mental Images | 5. | Open Windows | |||
| 2. | Thirty Minute Incline | 6. | Silverlake Cove | |||
| 3. | Beautiful Could Ever | 7. | Three Point Turnaround | |||
| 4. | Street Sweepers At Noon | 8. | Peak Ascension |