Space Age Bachelor Archives
The Often Beautiful Music of Richard Ashcroft
Former lead singer of the Verve, Richard Ashcroft, thinks out loud about his debut solo album, Alone With Everybody.
A Million Tiny Decisions Made By Alex Garland That Affect You and Me
"It surprises how much you can keep in your head while you're writing a book..."
Tezka Macoto's Hakuchi: Parallel Universes of the Mind
"I am powerless in the face of this pitiful reality," goes the voiceover of the main character Izawa, halfway through Hakuchi: the Innocent.
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
The swaying of Maggie Cheung's hips becomes something like a musical refrain in Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love.
After Life Directed By Kore-Eda Hirokazu -- To Die And Then Have Time
an edited version of a conversation from October 1998 with Japanese film director, Kore-eda Hirokazu, in which he talks about his 1998 film, After Life
Little Steven on Bruce Springsteen, Sun City, The Sopranos, and his friends in Bali
Jason Anderson's interview with Little Steven, a.k.a Steven Van Zandt
Palahniuk Has Entered The Produce Section … he's eating grapes
Jason Anderson talks to Chuck Palahniuk - the author of the Fight Club. His new novel, Choke, is being released in the Spring of 2001.
Scenes : One Particular Scene From The Limey directed by Stephen Soderbergh +++ some jumbled narrative techniques
Miike Takashi -- The City of Lost Souls
a Yakuza eats a blue Popsicle in the harbour, while bodies are packed into oil barrels.
The Angel : In The Realms of the Groove
It's more than likely that you haven't heard of her, but you have heard her. I could almost guarantee it.
Techno Animal Foam At The Mouth
An excerpt from an interview with Kevin Martin and Justin Broadrick - musical collaborators in the groups Techno Animal, Sidewinder, Ice, and various other side projects - all of which makes it a full-time job to keep track of them.
Junior Delgado
Funny thing about life that a skinny kid can grow up to sound so mighty and fierce, without losing any warmth and tenderness.
Lotta Continua: The Struggle Continues
I ask you to pretend with me for a moment that the Durutti Column is not the crappiest band you've ever heard. "Well, it is crappy," insists Vini Reilly.
Infinity and the Mind of Mingus
Mingus was massive. What else can I say? He was an ocean, not a man. He is the fountain not even trying to contain.
Fragments* Jerusalem
Six hours in duration and still unfinished, Fragments* Jerusalem weaves the story of one man's family through five centuries of Jerusalem's history.
Through A Medium Glass and a Few Faxes:
A Brief Exchange With Howie B
It's a hard knock life when you're one of the most sought after producers on the planet.
Massive Attack's Daddy G on singers, Bristol, dub and the conversation between white and black music.
They cast a shadow, they do. The Bristol-based trio Massive Attack has had a profound influence on British music this decade.
Pure Creation : Deconstructing DJ Vadim's Sound
Genesis Chapter One are whispered amongst the slowest beats-so sparse that intense silences fill the spaces where beats normally are-and what sounds like a Vatican address being recorded on reel-to-reel tape that is getting eaten up in the playback process.
The High Llamas : Photocopy Music
I interviewed Sean O'Hagen twice in the Fall of 1997 -- the first time, using mostly questions fed to me by Jason, and then again a few months later at a Vancouver venue, hours before a show I didn't actually get to see.
Tortoise : What's Underneath The Shell?
"About ten years from now, people who want to be left alone and read a book will go to Tortoise shows," a friend joked to me a few months ago.
Journeyman: Exiled In the Din of England
The war is over, but war time measures go on indefinitely in the land of endless petty amusements, keeping people busy like the fallen angels in Milton's Paradise Lost that invent card games to pass the time in hell.
Burger/Ink: Multiple Borderlines
Burger/Ink make connoisseur music. Immensely well crafted expansive tracks have resulted from the collaboration between Joerg Burger and Wolfgang Voigt (Mike Ink).
Space Age Bachelor interviews Simon Reynolds
Generation Ecstasy: Into The World of Techno and Rave Culture. (published by Little, Brown; the paperback is coming out on Routledge this summer)
Beyond The Limits : Third Eye Foundation
“I’ll start a track, and sometimes I just won’t sleep or eat until it’s finished. I guess a track probably takes me nearer 48 hours to make, but that could be like three or four days.”
Aphex Twin : Mad Musician or Investment Banker?
Two nine foot teddy bears -- a green one and an orange one -- bounce off each other, and roll around...
PULP! LIVE! HARDCORE! UNCUT!
To judge by its sales, This Is Hardcore proved too harsh for many of the fans who embraced "Common People," it was but a very brave move.
Trip-hop progenitors Portishead return with the same, only better
The cracked croon of the chanteuse half-mad from heartbreak. The looped, loping beats under the surface crackle of a 78.
The World Is Yours: Some Thoughts on Music in 1998 By Jason Anderson
The last concert I saw in 1998 -- a mere three days before Christmas and a long way from Berlin-was by Einsturzende Neubauten...
They Were Happy Because They Knew They Were Going To Die
I interviewed Shimizu Hiroshi this past October. His directorial debut, Ikinai ("Not to live" in English), was playing as part of the Dragons & Tigers series at the Vancouver International Film Festival. This represents the first movie to be released from Office Kitano, not directed by Takeshi Kitano himself...
Two Films Commissioned For The Millenium
A group of French television producers from La Sept ARTE commissioned ten films from ten countries to usher in the new Millenium...
Marcus Said... By Jason Anderson
A partially edited transcription of an Oct. 15, 1998 phone interview with Greil Marcus, reprinted for the pleasure of the world's rock-crit pedant types.
Goldie
Early November in the Gypsy Co-op. Goldie's perched above me on a stool. The former graffiti artist and junglist superstar talks quickly, laughs easily.
Spring
It’s always a pleasure to write an article on a group, when their songs involve four of life’s finest things – Spring, Paris, movies, and love.
Wong Kar Wai
Anguish and alienation have rarely seemed as attractive as they do in the films of Wong Kar Wai.
Coldcut
Yin and Yang at the forefront of DJ Culture
Gravediggaz
Apocalypse (MaybeBaby/Now) That (‘llBe/Is) The (Day/Hour) When We (Die/Live)
Labradford
Labradford makes the sort of music that can define a space, that can overwhelm it. This music is like experiencing the most dramatic, highest moment of your life, while you’re too wasted or too exhausted to notice.
Panasonic
Panasonic interviewed by Panasonic answering machine. Computer looks ahead and shudders.
Plug
Plug in.
Spring Heel Jack
SPRING HEEL JACK vs. SPACE AGE BACHELOR
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From the Pulp Vaults:
(Previously unavailable online)
Bird People In China
The perfect time to take a nap is where the blue of the night meets the gold of the day, within the fleeting magic hour surrounding sunset...
The Institutionalization of Violence
It's the perfect setting. Somehow, as a city, L.A. is so now...
Broken Boulevards Still Dream of Havana
"We were going to outstrip Monte Carlo... the idea was to turn Havana into the world's biggest gambling paradise...
Listen Without Prejudice With Open Ears Volume 1
It's a sunny afternoon, and I'm on way from the Düsseldorf Hauptbahnof to St. Martins Studio...
How Deep Is The Ocean?
The Sinking of the Titanic, and the Burden of Recording
An interview with Christopher Doyle
Christopher Doyle, an Australian expatriate and one-time sailor, has done the cinematography for all but the first of Wong Kar-Wai’s movies...
What used to be paper, is now just skin
An open book with blank white paper makes the same shadow in the middle as two thighs pressed together.
Playing Once Upon A Time With Mercury Rev
Deserters songs, that’s what someone called the results of the basement sessions between the Band and Bob Dylan.
Sound without vision: Do soundtrack albums need movies?
In the last few years, one sentiment I've noticed often come from the mouths of musicians...
Chances Are: Bill Laswell’s Trip into the Vaults of Bob Marley and Miles Davis
It's impossible to write an introduction for Bill Laswell. He's been involved in over three hundred records since the early '70s, so I'm not going to even try.
Designers in the Attic
From the beginning I was convinced that an article about Attik wouldn't be entirely out of place in a magazine like SAB.
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The Often Beautiful Music of Richard Ashcroft
Former lead singer of the Verve, Richard Ashcroft, thinks out loud about his debut solo album, Alone With Everybody.
A Million Tiny Decisions Made By Alex Garland That Affect You and Me
"It surprises how much you can keep in your head while you're writing a book..."
Tezka Macoto's Hakuchi: Parallel Universes of the Mind
"I am powerless in the face of this pitiful reality," goes the voiceover of the main character Izawa, halfway through Hakuchi: the Innocent.
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
The swaying of Maggie Cheung's hips becomes something like a musical refrain in Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love.
After Life Directed By Kore-Eda Hirokazu -- To Die And Then Have Time
an edited version of a conversation from October 1998 with Japanese film director, Kore-eda Hirokazu, in which he talks about his 1998 film, After Life
Little Steven on Bruce Springsteen, Sun City, The Sopranos, and his friends in Bali
Jason Anderson's interview with Little Steven, a.k.a Steven Van Zandt
Palahniuk Has Entered The Produce Section … he's eating grapes
Jason Anderson talks to Chuck Palahniuk - the author of the Fight Club. His new novel, Choke, is being released in the Spring of 2001.
Scenes : One Particular Scene From The Limey directed by Stephen Soderbergh +++ some jumbled narrative techniques
Miike Takashi -- The City of Lost Souls
a Yakuza eats a blue Popsicle in the harbour, while bodies are packed into oil barrels.
The Angel : In The Realms of the Groove
It's more than likely that you haven't heard of her, but you have heard her. I could almost guarantee it.
Techno Animal Foam At The Mouth
An excerpt from an interview with Kevin Martin and Justin Broadrick - musical collaborators in the groups Techno Animal, Sidewinder, Ice, and various other side projects - all of which makes it a full-time job to keep track of them.
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